Advances in Thermofluids and Renewable Energy

Bio-heat transfer analysis for laser based therapeutic applications.- Perturbation and MAPLE quadrature computation of thermo-solutal dissipative reactive convective flow in a geothermal duct with robin boundary conditions.- Fluid structure interaction analysis in an atherosclerosis carotid artery.- Effect of substrate inclination on post impact dynamics of droplets.- Modelling and analysis of dusty fluid flow past a vertical surface with exothermic and endothermic kind of chemical reactions.- Entropy generation analysis and slip effects on nanofluid flow with heat and mass transfer.- Influence of isothermal cylinders at different shape and separation angle in a rectangular channel on mixed convection flows.- Rheology of power- law nano-fluid flow past a stretching sheet.

Prof. Pinakeswar Mahanta is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College Rourkela. He has completed his master degree (M.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience in the field of conjugate radiation, renewable energy (biodiesel, biomass gasification and biogas technology), circulating fluidized bed technology, energy conservation, combustion and gasification of solid fuel, refrigeration and air conditioning besides 12 years of industry experience. He has published more than 130 research papers in various reputed journals and conferences, and 10 book chapters. He is a recipient of India Distinguished Visiting Fellow awarded by the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, in the year 2010. He is also awarded JSPS Fellowship by invitation by Gifu University, Japan, in December 2017. He has also visited several times to Hof University of Applied Sciences, Germany, as resource person. He has guided twenty PhD students and number of master's students. Currently, he is a Director of National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh.
 
Dr. Pankaj Kalita is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has graduated from Jorhat Engineering College (Under Dibrugarh University, Assam) in Mechanical Engineering. He has completed his master degree (M.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering (specialization: Fluids and Thermal Engineering) and PhD in Energy from IIT Guwahati. He worked at Tezpur University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy before joining at IIT Guwahati. He has more than 6 years of teaching and 16 years of research experience in the field of renewable energy (solar energy, thermochemical and