Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings from the International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Engineering (ICIME 2019). The volume covers current research in almost all major areas of mechanical engineering, and is divided into six parts: (i) automobile and thermal engineering, (ii) design and optimization, (iii) production and industrial engineering, (iv) material science and metallurgy, (v) nanoscience and nanotechnology, and (vi) renewable energy sources and CAD/CAM/CFD. The topics provide insights into different aspects of designing, modeling, manufacturing, optimizing, and processing with wide ranging applications. The contents of this book can be of interest to researchers and professionals alike.

Dr. G. S. V. L. Narasimham is a Chief Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He received his M. Tech. from IIT Madras and his Ph.D. from IISc Bangalore, both in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include solar thermal engineering, HVAC, refrigeration, cryogenics, heat and mass transfer, CFD, and simulation of thermal systems. He has almost three decades of experience in teaching, academic and sponsored research and guiding masters and research students. He worked as an investigator in the projects sponsored by the departments of non-conventional energy sources, atomic energy, space, power, science and technology and planning commission, as well as industrial research projects sponsored by IMI, GE, Mahindra and Mahindra. He also works as a consultant from IISc for various organizations and is a Life Member of professional bodies related to heat and mass transfer and cryogenics. Dr. A. Veeresh Babu received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and M.Tech. in Heat Power Refrigeration from JNTU, Andhra Pradesh in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from Andhra University in 2013. He worked in refrigerator design, clean room technology, cold room/freezer room design and construction while he was associated with the Industry. He erected and commissioned clean rooms at DRDE, Gwalior, RCI, Hyderabad and CRDI, Lucknow. He has a research experience of more than 12 years since he joined NIT Warangal as an Assistant Professor in the year 2006. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at NIT Warangal. He has published more than 15 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented his research in 10 international conferences. He has completed two minor research projects and two major projects are under review. He was also appointed as a course writer for certificate in Power Plant Engineering offered by IGNOU, India.Dr.S. Sreenatha Reddy presently is working as Principal and Professor at Guru Nanak Institute of Technology under JNTUH, Hyderabad.  He obtained his B. Tech. (Mechanical Engineering), M. Tech.  and Ph.D. from JNTUA. He held various administrative posts and developed the Institution with his projects and activities. He has received several awards like the National award for best  research publication i.e. Jawaharlal Nehru memorial prize issued by Institution of Engineers on the occasion of inauguration 27th Indian Engineering Congress at New Delhi in 2012 and "Bharat Vidya Shiromani Award" and a "Certificate of Education Excellence" for Outstanding Achievements in the field of Education given by International Institute of Education & Management on 22nd December 2014 at New Delhi & Glory of Education of Excellence Award is issued by   IIEM on 4th March 2015 at New Delhi. He received the Best Academic Administrator award from Centre for Advanced Research and Designunder Venus International Foundation on 5th July, 2015. He also received National Award as Eminent Educationists issued by the INDUS FOUNDATION on the occasion of Indo-American Education Summit 2016 at Hyderabad.  He has an experience of almost 20 years teaching in Mechanical and Aeronautical areas and spent 3 years in the industry in thermal power plants. He has published 141 papers in reputed journals and 26 papers in international and national conferences. He also served as Expert Committee Member of AICTE for scrutinizing project reports, and as a member in the Board of Reviewers for the Institution of Engineers journal. Dr. Rajagopal Dhanasekaran received his BE in Mechanical and Production Engineering from the Annamalai University in 2002, M.E, and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He has been working as a Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India since November 2015. He published more than 40 research papers and 7 patent publications. He is a member of ISTE and Tribology Society of India. His major research interests include Tribology, Engineering Failure, Wear Characterization and Production Engineering.