Advances in Mechanical and Materials Technology

Prof. Kannan Govindan is currently a Professor and head of the Center for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. He received 2018, 2019 highly cited researcher award from Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics (“one of only 204 researchers to be listed in the engineering category”). He received the Fyens Stiftstidende research award for 2019. He received the High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent to Tianjin award (Under 1000 talents program for High-Level Overseas Innovative Talent experts of Tianjin Province) from Tianjin Province, China. His research interests include digital supply chain, industry 4.0 on supply chain, sustainable development goals, reverse logistics, closed loop supply chain, digitalized sustainable circular economy, green supply chain management, and sustainable supply chain management.  He has published more than 250 international journal articles (with total 21400 + citations and H-index of 82) in leading journals such as Nature, Omega, Journal of the Operational Research Society,  Journal of Environmental management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews,  European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Ecological Indicators, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans, European Management Journal, Computers and OR, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Production Research. Dr. Harish Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in National Institute of Technology Delhi. He has more than 15 years of research and academic experience and served as Scientist at different grades in CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, India (NPLI). He has been an active researcher in the area of mechanical measurement and metrology. He has worked as Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA in 2016. He has been instrumental in ongoing redefinition of kilogram in India. He has authored more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as Guest Editors of different journals and conference proceedings volumes including Mapan - Journal of Metrology Society of India.Dr Sanjay Yadav is a Senior Principal Scientist & Head of the Pressure, Vacuum and Ultrasonic Metrology Section and Prof. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Meerut University in 1990. He has published more than 270 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “MAPAN -Journal of Metrology Society of India,” published by Springer. He is reviewer of many reputed journals including Measurement Science and Technology, Metrologia, Measurement, Review of Scientific Instruments etc.

• A Mini State of Art Survey on Photovoltaic – Thermal Desalination Systems.- Mathematical Modeling and Performance Analysis of Single Slope Solar Desalination System.- Analysis and comparison of various high performance folded cascode OTA topologies.- Simplification of Governing Equation for Fluid Flow Between Two Concentric Cylinders.- Optimization Techniques used to Optimize Process Parameters of Submerged Arc Welding: A Review.- Vibratino analysis of FGM conical shell.- Feasibility and performance analysis of earth tube heat Exchanger.- Combined objective optimization of FMS scheduling by a hybrid genetic algorithm.- A Preliminary Assessment of Solar Industrial Process Heating For Cement Industry.- Design and Simulation of Structural Components of Affordable, Automated Solar Panel Cleaning Mechanism.- Performance Assessment of Parabolic Trough Collectors with Variable Mass Flow Rates.- Effect of Block Location in a Suddenly Expanded Micro Combustor.- Study of the degradation in a unitized regenerative fuel cell.- Energy and Exergy Analysis of Poovan Banana under Single Slope Forced and Natural Convection Solar Drying.- Integrated Approach for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Using Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm.- Prediction of Angular Distortion in MIG Welding of Stainless Steel 202 Plates.- Emission analysis of compression ignition engine with induced chemical reaction between engine exhaust and slaked calcium hydroxide solution .- Development of Mathematical Models to Predict the Effect of Welding Parameters on Bead Geometry and Shape Relationships of MIG Welded Stainless Steel 202 Plates.- Emission Reduction from Diesel Engine using Alkali Solution, and Carbon Black in Union with Catalytic Convertor.