Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering: Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811601585 ISBN 13: 9789811601583

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Dr. Bengt Sunden received his M.Sc. in 1973, Ph.D. in 1979 and became Docent in 1980, all from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He was appointed Professor of Heat Transfer at Lund University, Lund, Sweden in 1992 and served as Head of the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University for 21 years, 1995-2016. He has served as Professor Emeritus and Senior Professor since 2016. The research activities mainly include various heat transfer enhancement techniques, gas turbine heat transfer, computational modeling and analysis of multiphysics and multiscale transport phenomena for fuel cells, nano-and microscale heat transfer, boiling and condensation, aerospace heat transfer, thermal management of batteries. He has supervised 51 PhD students and many post docs as well hosted many visiting scholars and PhD students. He serves as Guest or Honorary Professor of several prestigious universities. He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a regional editor for Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer since 2007, an associate editor of Heat Transfer Research since 2011, ASME Journal of Thermal Science, Engineering and Applications in 2010-2016 and ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 2017-2023. He was a recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award 2011 and Donald Q. Kern Award 2016. He received the ASME HTD 75th Anniversary Medal 2013. He has edited more than 30 books and authored three major textbooks. He has published more than 500 papers in well-established and highly ranked journals. The h-index is 47 and the number of citations is more than 10000.

Dr. Qiuwang Wang is a full Professor of School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is also the executive director of International Joint Research Lab of Thermal Science and Engineering, MOE of China. He is a recipient of National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists by NSF of China (2010), the Changjiang Scholarship Chair Professor by Ministry of Education of China (2013), the Leader of Innovation Team in Key Areas of Ministry of Science and Technology (2016), the Director of National International Joint Research Center (2017), and the People Plan of Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents (2018). His research team obtained the 2nd Grade National Award for Technological Invention of China (2015) and National Science and Technology Progress Award of China (Innovation Team, 2017). Dr. Wang is now a Fellow of ASME, the China Delegate of Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences (AIHTC), a member of Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), an Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering Journal, and Editorial Board Members for several international journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy etc. In China, he is a vice president of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermo-physics in Heat and Mass Transfer. Dr. Wang’s research interests include heat transfer enhancement and its applications to engineering problems, high temperature/high-pressure heat transfer and fluid flow, transport phenomena in porous media, numerical simulation, prediction & optimization, etc. He has delivered more than 40 Plenary/Keynote/Invited lecturesin international conferences or foreign universities. He has also been authors or co-authors of 4 books and more than 200 international journal papers. He has obtained more than 30 China Invent Patents and 3 US Patents.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811601585
• ISBN 13: 9789811601583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 924
• Editor: Sikarwar Basant Singh, Sundén Bengt, Wang Qiuwang