Recent Advances in Thermofluids and Manufacturing Engineering

Part 1: Fluid Dynamics.- Chapter 1. Numerical analysis of gas entrainment in the viscous liquid pool developed by a counter rotating pair of fully submerged rollers.- Chapter 2. MHD Flow Measurements of Automatic Control Valve of Gas Turbine Engine Subject To Inclined Magnetic Field.- Chapter 3. Study of Laminar Flow Stagnation Problem for a Viscous Fluid with Transverse Magnetic Effect in Axial and Radial directions.- Chapter 4. Analysis of Dufour and Soret effect on unsteady MHD Prandtl fluid flow past an expanding/shrinking surface.- Chapter 5. A numerical method to analyze the steady conjugate heat transfer around a slab suspended in air.- Chapter 6. Low Reynolds Number Flow Past Array of Staggered Cylinders.- Chapter 7. Optimization in fluid mixing in microchannels: A Review.- Chapter 8. A Simple Solution of Third Grade Fluid Fluid Flow Problem: Cascade-Forward type ANN Approach.- Part 2: Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Chapter 9. Effect of nanoparticle volume fraction on natural convection within a nanofluid filled square enclosure.- Chapter 10. Formation and development of cusp induced air entrainment caused by fully submerged rotary solid roller: A numerical investigation.- Chapter 11. A Study on Stability Condition for an Inconsistent Formulation in High Density Ratio Flow.- Chapter 12. Computational modelling for cyclone separators performance evaluation.- Chapter 13. Computational modeling of a gas-fired walking beam reheat furnace for billet heating and scale formation prediction.- Part 3: Aerodynamics.- Chapter 14. Computational Study of Combustion Process in a Gas Turbine Engine.- Chapter 15. Effect of diffuser, rake and slant angles on the aerodynamics of a simple Ahmed body.

Dr. Shripad Revankar is Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director of Multiphase and Fuel Cell Research Laboratory in the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is serving the SNE since 1987. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. all in Physics from Karnatak University, India, and M.Eng. in Nuclear Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He also serves as BK21 Plus Visiting Professor in the Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea. He has done pioneering work in many niche technical areas that includes advanced reactor systems, reactor safety, reactor thermal hydraulics, composite fuel for advanced nuclear reactors, instrumentation, multi-phase flow and heat transfer, microgravity multiphase flow, direct energy conversion, hybrid power systems, nuclear hydrogen generation, solar energy storage, packed bed reactor, renewable energy, and fuel cell technology. He haspublished more than 400 peer reviewed technical articles in archival scientific journals and conference proceedings and author/co-author of three books: Advances in Nuclear Fuels, InTech publisher 2012, Fuel Cells-Principles, Design and Analysis, CRC Press 2014, and Storage and Hybridization of Nuclear Energy: Techno-economic Integration of Renewable and Nuclear Energy, Academic Press, 2018. 

He has served as the research and educational consultant to academia, national laboratories and industries in Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, and USA. He is Chief Editor of Frontier in Energy-Nuclear Energy and Chief Editor of International Journal of Magnetism & Nuclear Science. He is Life Member of American Nuclear Society (ANS), American Society of Mechanical Engineer (ASME), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Korean Nuclear Society, (KNS), and Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT). He is also a member of American Society for Engineering