Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering

Performance of a single turn pulsating heat pipe at varying gravity.- Free convection from isothermally heated hollow tube with annular fins.- Chaotic dynamics of fluid conveying pipe.- Study of Flow Distribution in the Falling Film Evaporator Manifold.- Effect of core geometrical characteristics on performance and pressure drop of rotary regenerator.- CFD Analysis of Heat Transfer Coefficient and Pressure Drop in a Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger for Various Baffle Angles.- A study on indoor air quality of air-conditioning system using duct insulation and filters for industrial applications.- Maximization of Compressive Strength of Fused Deposition Modeled Antibacterial Polylactic Acid by Taguchi Method.- Analysis of drivers and barriers in green supply chain management using fuzzy AHP and fuzzy TOPSIS approach.- Parametric Optimization of LPG Refrigeration System using Artificial Bee Colony algorithm.- A Generalized Oppositional Differential Evolution Algorithm for parameter extractionof different Photovoltaic models.- Analysis of Community Engagement on Social Networking Site during Kerala Floods 2018.- Optimization of Performance Characteristic of Electrical Discharge Machining of Beryllium Copper Alloy by Hybrid Optimization Method.

Dr. Sasmeeta Tripathy is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University, India. She obtained her B.Tech. (Mechanical) from Utkal University and M.Tech. (Production) from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. She had her Ph.D. from Siksha "O" Anusandhan, Deemed to be University. Her major areas of research interests include manufacturing, non-traditional machining, optimization and soft computing. She has published more than 18 papers in scholarly, peer-reviewed indexed international journals & conferences and authored a number of chapters in edited books besides an edited book to her credit. She has been a reviewer in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. She is a life member of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering. Currently, she is the honorary secretary of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, Odisha Chapter. She is the recipient of Brundaban Sahu Memorial Award and Bipin Behari Mohanty Memorial Award from the Institution of Engineers, India, and conferred with Fellowship Award from Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE).
Dr. Sikata Samantaray is currently an associate professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University, India. She obtained her B.E. from Utkal University (Mechanical), M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (Thermal) and Ph.D from Jadavpur University. Her research interests include computational methods in thermal Engineering, numerical analysis of bio-heat transfer, experimental analysis of thermal systems using nanofluids, numerical and experimental analysis of non-conventional machining process of ceramic matrix composite. She has published more than 18 research papers in various national and