Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, 1st ed. 2021 Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020 Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Series

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2020). This volume focuses on current research in fluid and thermal engineering and covers topics such as heat transfer enhancement and heat transfer equipment, heat transfer in nuclear applications, microscale and nanoscale transport, multiphase transport and phase change, multi-mode heat transfer, numerical methods in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, thermodynamics, space heat transfer, transport phenomena in porous media, turbulent transport, theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, flow measurement techniques and instrumentation, computational fluid dynamics, fluid machinery, turbo machinery and fluid power. Given the scope of its contents, this book will be interesting for students, researchers as well as industry professionals.

Numerical Investigation of Swirl and Tumble Motion in the cylinder and Their Effect on Combustion of Gasoline - Methanol Blends in SI Engine.- An Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Performance of Solar Air Heater (SAH) Having Two Different Absorber Plate Along With (PCM)-Based Energy Storage.- Performance Investigation of Atmospheric Water Generating Device for Hot and Humid Conditions.- Numerical Study of Gas-Turbine Type Continuous Combustion Unit Burning LPG Mixture.- Soot Formation Characteristics of Homogeneous Supercritical Fuel Spray of Dieseline Blend.- Evaluation of emission characteristics of diesel engine fuelled with blends of biodiesel Obtained from waste sesame oil and its blends with pure menthe oil.- Liquid Film Thickness Measurement: A Critical Review.- Modeling and Simulation of HVAC System.- Effect of ageing on emission levels of a gasoline vehicle: A case study in Indian context.- Generation of Temperature Profile by Artificial Neural Network in Flow of Non-Newtonian Third Grade Fluid through two Parallel Plates under Noisy Data.- Impact of thermal contact resistance on thermal-hydraulic characteristics of double fin-and-tube heat exchanger.- Heat Dissipation Characteristics of a FSAE Racecar Radiator.- Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of Parabolic Solar Cooker in Tropical Environment of India.- Computational analysis of EMHD flow of nanofluid over a rotating disk with convective boundary conditions: Buongiorno’s Model.- Effect of strip orientations and geometry on the critical heat flux in pool boiling.- Methanol Gasoline Fuel blends: A fuel for two-wheeler bike.- Modelling and Simulation of Load Governing System of Steam Turbine.- Biomass Thermochemical Processing in Fixed Bed Downdraft Gasifier: A Review.- Development of Pneumatic Compressed Air Car.- Fuzzy Grey Relational based Risk Analysis of Steam Generating Unit.- Waste Heat Management in Hybrid Vehicles for Cabin Cooling.- Experimental Investigation of Combustion Instability in Syngas Turbulent Combustor.

Dr. Basant Singh Sikarwar completed his Post Doctorate from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He did his Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Sikarwar is heading the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. His research interest involves thermal energy storage, energy systems, condensation, boiling, two-phase heat transfer, bioengineering, biological fluid flow, modeling of blood flow, and flow visualization. He is having 15 years of working experience in teaching UG and PG courses in mechanical engineering. He is working as Principal Investigator (PI) in three projects funded by the Government of India, Science Engineering Research Board (SERB) India, MSME, and Department of Atomic Energy through IPR, Ahmedabad. He has industry consultancies from Advance Valve Pvt. Ltd, Noida; Amber Pvt. Ltd., Rajpur; and Tex Pvt. Ltd, Gurugram, India. He has published 50 research articles in refereed international journals and 70 articles in conference proceedings. He edited the book titled “Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering.” Dr. Sikarwar has guided 3 PhDs and currently supervising 7 PhD candidates. He has delivered many guest lectures in national/international conferences and workshops. He has also been the author/ co-author of 2 books, and he has obtained 10 Indian Invent Patents.

Covers applications of theoretical, experimental and computational fluid dynamics

Discusses different modes of heat transfer and multiphase transport

Includes studies in emerging HVAC applications