Recent Trends in Thermal Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICCEMME 2021 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering) - Tapa dura

Dr. L. M. Das is a retired Professor from IIT Delhi. He holds a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Delhi. Dr Das has got a teaching/research experience of more than forty four years to his credit. His areas of research interest centres around development of alternative-fuelled low emission engines/vehicles. He has supervised 34 PhD theses and seventy-seven MTech Projects. He has published more than 80 research papers in various international/national journals. He had several international research assignments. He was a Visiting Professor in University of California, Riverside (Centre for Environment Research and Technology) in USA; researcher in INRETS, France; Consultant to Shell (Thornton Research Centre, Chester, England); and researcher in Lisbon Technical University (Portugal.) He had delivered invited lectures in India as well as in USA, Canada, England, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Belgium Netherlands, Thailand, Moscow, Turkey, Philippines, Nepal and Sri Lanka. He has been a member of several research/technical and scientific advisory committees of Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Indian Institute of Petroleum, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Departmnet of Biotechnology, Indian Oil Research Lab, etc. He was a Member of Core group of Automotive Research, (CAR) and a member of the Expert Committee for Auto-Fuel Vision and Policy 2025. He was the Convener of Technical Committee of World Hydrogen Technology Convention held in August 2009 at New Delhi. Presently he is also the Chairman of Sectional Committee of PCD 3 of Bureau of Indian Standards. Professor  Das had been the principal investigator of several sponsored projects funded by MNRE, DST, General Motors (USA), European Union, UNIDO, Shell (England). He has been awarded “Rajiv Gandhi Samman” by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Orissa (2005). In 2012, he has been awarded Lockheed Martin award for his R&D achievements. International Association of Hydrogen Energy has given him the ‘Outstanding Service Award” for his “Altruistic Contribution” to the “cause of Hydrogen Economy”. He has also been awarded T.N. Veziroglu award by Hydrogen Association of India (2013) and Biju Patnaik award by Odisha Science Academy for scientific excellence “in recognition of his original and creative contribution” (2014). 

This book presents select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Experimental Methods in Mechanical Engineering (ICCEMME 2021). It gives an overview of recent developments in the field of fluid dynamics and thermal engineering. Topics covered include case studies in thermal engineering, combustion engines, computational fluid dynamics (cfd), cooling systems, energy conservation, energy conversion, renewable energy, bio fuels, gas turbines, heat exchangers and heat transfer systems, heat pipes and pumps, heat transfer augmentation, refrigeration and HVAC systems, fluids engineering, energy and process, and thermal power plants. The book will be useful for researchers and professionals working in the area of thermal engineering and allied fields.