This book presents selected extended papers from the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOM 2024), describing recent advances in thermo-fluids engineering research. Various topics covered in this book are design and analysis of thermal systems, dynamics and control of thermal systems and processes, fluid mechanics, fluid–structure interaction, heat transfer, internal combustion engines and gas turbines, multiphase flow, and heat transfer. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals working in the fields of mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and power engineering and also for a number of interdisciplinary areas like materials processing, electronic, and energy storage systems where thermal management is a key design issue.
Impact of Conducting Block and System Inclination on
Magneto-hydrodynamic Heat Transport.- MHD Convection in an Adiabatic Cylinder
embedded Circular Grooved Channel with Bottom Heating.- Influence of Reynolds
number on extraction of magnetic microspheres in stratified magnetic
liquid-liquid microextraction system.- Impact of Impinging Jet on MHD Mixed
Convection in a Bottom-Heated Semi-circular Channel.- Magnetohydrodynamic
Convective Heat Transport in Pentagonal Thermal Annuli.- Estimation of clear
water flow induced maximum scour depth using random forest and XGBoost.- PID
Controlled Linear Motion of Low Cost Electric Actuator for Angular Motion
Generation of a Vertical Arm.- Position Control of Electrohydraulic
Positioning System using PID and Fuzzy-PID Controller.- Predicting Heat
Transfer Coefficient Using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory.- Artificial
Neural Network Code for Friction Factor Prediction in Smooth Pipe Bends.-
Modelling and Control of Yaw Motion Dynamics of an Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle.- Analyzing Velocity Profiles around Three Eccentric Inline Submerged
Vanes like Sediment Control Structure.- Performance of Plate Heat Exchanger
with Tapered Channels.- Mathematical and computational modeling of monoclinal
wave induced by sluice gate closure in non-prismatic trapezoidal channel.-
Investigation of Combustion Behaviour in Co-flow and Cross-flow Hydrogen-Air
Microcombustors: A Comparative Study.- An approach to improve water quality
by increasing aeration efficiency through hydraulic jumps.- Performance
Assessment of a Variable Displacement Axial Piston Pump with HMPC: An
Experimental Approach.- Transition between Compensation Modes in a Variable
Displacement Pump with a Double-Spool Valve.- CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A LOW COST
UNDERWATER GLIDER FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.- On the applicability of different
energy transport models in analysing mixed convection in a vented enclosure
containing a heat-generating porous body.- Impact of Magnetic Field on
Buoyancy-Driven Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in an Enclosure Filled with
Porous Media.- Enhancing Mixed Convection in Semicircular Channel with Twin
Flexible Baffles.- Natural Convection in Bottom-heated Semicircular Channel
in Presence of Elastic Thin Baffles.- Influence of Central Restriction Height
on Average Static Pressure in Dump Diffusers.- Examining Flow Patterns
Around a Two-Dimensional Triangular Obstacle at Varying Reynolds Numbers.- A
Computational Simulation of Fluid Flow Around a Square Two Dimensional
Object.- Performance Analysis of Sudden Expansion and Dump Diffuser
Geometries across three Reynolds number Regime.- Analysis of hydrothermal
performance in backward facing step for fluids with distinct Prandtl number.-
Pressure Drop and Velocity Dynamics of Turbulent Flow Across a U-Bend Pipe: A
Numerical Analysis.- FLOW SEPARATION ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-PHASE TURBULENT FLOW
THROUGH BEND PIPE: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH.- Implication of Prandtl number
on the hydro-thermal characteristics in a triangular corrugated duct.- Free
convective heat transfer of nanofluid flow in an elliptic annulus.-
ELECTROOSMOTIC FLOW IN A NANOCHANNEL WITH WEAK EDL OVERLAPPING AND THE
INFLUENCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD WITH HALL CURRENT EFFECT.- Rheological
Characteristics of Al2O3-TiO2 Composite Inks for Direct Ink Writing.- Heat
Transfer Characteristics of Hybrid Nanofluids in Rectangular Ducts with
Constant Heat Flux: A Numerical Study.- Convective Heat Transfer in a Series
of Polygonal Thermal Systems using Common and Nano Fluids.- Effect of
Micromixer Size on Performance of Electroosmotic Micromixers.- CFD
investigation in a multi-segmented heated porous square cavity filled with
hybrid nanofluid induced by multi-segmented magnetizing field.- Modeling and
Simulation of Solidification Time in Casting.- Numerical analysis of melt
flow behavior during pulse laser micro-drilling of SS-304 alloy.- Impact of
Wavy Wall Cooling on Enhancement of Thermal Performance.- Investigation of
Impinging Water Jet using Volume of Fluid Multiphase Method.- Improvement in
the Convective Heat Transfer in Laminar Pipe Flow by Inserting Twisted Tape.
Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He also served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He also held visiting positions at Technical University of Munich where he was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and University of Illinois at Chicago. His teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flows, and thermal management of energy systems. He has over 350 research publications including 140 international journal publications. He is Associate Editor of Sadhana, the Engineering journal of the Indian Academy of Sciences and published by Springer. He is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Recipient of INSA Teachers Award from Indian National Science Academy, and Life Member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer and Indian section of the Combustion Institute.
Dr. Koushik Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He received his Masters degree from Jadavpur University, and worked in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India. He did Ph.D. at Jadavpur University. He worked as Post-doctoral Researcher in Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France. His teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, boiling and condensation, multiphase flow, transport in porous media, and nuclear thermal hydraulics. He has published more than 50 research papers in various international journals in the area of heat and mass transfer and thermal engineering. He has also published several book chapters and more than 70 conference papers. He is Life Member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer.
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