Recent Trends in Thermal and Fluid Sciences: Select Proceedings of Income 2023

Dr. Achhaibar Singh is a visiting faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi, India. He obtained graduate degree in engineering from Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur; postgraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has worked 18 years in industry as an engineering manager and the R&D head. His areas of research are refrigeration and air-conditioning, rotating flows in turbo machines, and computational fluid dynamics. He has published 7 research papers in the reputed peer-reviewed international journals and several papers in conferences. Currently, he is working in the areas of flow in rotor stator system and CFD of rotating flow using finite element method.

Dr. Debi Prasad Mishra is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Design Program, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), Kanpur, India, and is currently working as the director of National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), Kolkata. He is also an adjunct professor in the Centre for Indian Knowledge System, IIT, Guwahati. His major areas of research interests are combustion, propulsion, and atomization. He had held Indian Oil Golden Jubilee Professional Chair in IIT Kanpur. He has been conferred with several awards and recognitions. He has authored five textbooks and nine edited books in the field of combustion and propulsion. He has published more than 260 research papers in international/national journals and six patents to his credit. He has undertaken several research and consultancy projects from various agencies, research laboratories, and industries. He has developed eight online courses under Swayam Platform, and also involved in a national initiative of department of Education, Government of India, New Delhi.

Dr. Ganapathi Bhat is an adjunct faculty at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. He received his postgraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He has rich industry experience. He has worked in Compton Greeves and TATA Consultancy Services, Mumbai, for a decade as a senior researcher in the area of CFD. His areas of research are heat transfer and fluid flow applied to industrial equipment, thermal systems modeling, and thermal management of electrical and electronic systems. He has published several research papers in the reputed peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Currently he is working in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.