Advances in Thermo-Fluid Engineering

Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He also served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He also held visiting positions at Technical University of Munich where he was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flows, and thermal management of energy systems. He has over 350 research publications including 140 international journal publications. He is Associate Editor of Sadhana, the Engineering journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences and published by Springer. He is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Recipient of INSA Teachers Award from Indian National Science Academy, and Life Member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer and Indian section of the Combustion Institute.Dr. Koushik Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He received his Master’s degree from Jadavpur University, and worked in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India. He did Ph.D. at Jadavpur University. He worked as Post-doctoral Researcher in Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France. His teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, boiling and condensation, multiphase flow, transport in porous media, and nuclear thermal hydraulics. He has published more than 50 research papers in various international journals in the area of heat and mass transfer and thermal engineering. He has also published several book chapters and more than 70 conference papers. He is Life Member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer.

• Impact of Conducting Block and System Inclination on Magneto-hydrodynamic Heat Transport.- MHD Convection in an Adiabatic Cylinder embedded Circular Grooved Channel with Bottom Heating.- Influence of Reynolds number on extraction of magnetic microspheres in  stratified magnetic liquid-liquid microextraction system.- Impact of Impinging Jet on MHD Mixed Convection in a Bottom-Heated Semi-circular Channel.- Magnetohydrodynamic Convective Heat Transport in Pentagonal Thermal Annuli.- Estimation of clear water flow induced maximum scour depth using random forest and XGBoost.- PID Controlled Linear Motion of Low Cost Electric Actuator for Angular Motion Generation of a Vertical Arm.- Position Control of Electrohydraulic Positioning System using PID and Fuzzy-PID Controller.- Predicting Heat Transfer Coefficient Using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory.- Artificial Neural Network Code for Friction Factor Prediction in Smooth Pipe Bends.- Modelling and Control of Yaw Motion Dynamics of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Analyzing Velocity Profiles around Three Eccentric Inline Submerged Vanes like Sediment Control Structure.- Performance of Plate Heat Exchanger with Tapered Channels.- Mathematical and computational modeling of monoclinal wave induced by sluice gate closure in non-prismatic trapezoidal channel.- Investigation of Combustion Behaviour in Co-flow and Cross-flow Hydrogen-Air Microcombustors: A Comparative Study.- An approach to improve water quality by increasing aeration efficiency through hydraulic jumps.- Performance Assessment of a Variable Displacement Axial Piston Pump with HMPC: An Experimental Approach.- Transition between Compensation Modes in a Variable Displacement Pump with a Double-Spool Valve.- CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A LOW COST UNDERWATER GLIDER FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.- On the applicability of different energy transport models in analysing mixed convection in a vented enclosure containing a heat-generating porous body.- Impact of Magnetic Field on Buoyancy-Driven Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in an Enclosure Filled with Porous Media.- Enhancing Mixed Convection in Semicircular Channel with Twin Flexible Baffles.- Natural Convection in Bottom-heated Semicircular Channel in Presence of Elastic Thin Baffles.- Influence of Central Restriction Height on Average Static  Pressure in Dump Diffusers.- Examining Flow Patterns Around a Two-Dimensional Triangular Obstacle at Varying Reynolds Numbers.- A Computational Simulation  of Fluid Flow Around a Square Two Dimensional Object.- Performance Analysis of Sudden Expansion and Dump  Diffuser Geometries across three Reynolds number  Regime.- Analysis of hydrothermal performance in backward facing step for fluids with distinct Prandtl number.- Pressure Drop and Velocity Dynamics of Turbulent Flow Across a U-Bend Pipe: A Numerical Analysis.- FLOW SEPARATION ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-PHASE TURBULENT FLOW THROUGH BEND PIPE: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH.- Implication of Prandtl number on the hydro-thermal characteristics in a triangular corrugated duct.- Free convective heat transfer of nanofluid flow in an elliptic annulus.- ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW IN A NANOCHANNEL WITH WEAK EDL OVERLAPPING AND THE INFLUENCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD WITH HALL CURRENT EFFECT.- Rheological Characteristics of Al2O3-TiO2 Composite Inks for Direct Ink Writing.- Heat Transfer Characteristics of Hybrid Nanofluids in Rectangular Ducts with Constant Heat Flux: A Numerical Study.- Convective Heat Transfer in a Series of Polygonal Thermal Systems using Common and Nano Fluids.- Effect of Micromixer Size on Performance of Electroosmotic Micromixers.- CFD investigation in a multi-segmented heated porous square cavity filled with hybrid nanofluid induced by multi-segmented magnetizing field.- Modeling and Simulation of Solidification Time in Casting.- Numerical analysis of melt flow behavior during pulse laser micro-drilling of SS-304 alloy.- Impact of Wavy Wall Cooling on Enhancement of Thermal Performance.- Investigation of Impinging Water Jet using Volume of Fluid Multiphase Method.- Improvement in the Convective Heat Transfer in Laminar Pipe Flow by Inserting Twisted Tape.