Springer Proceedings of 16th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

This book includes select papers presented during the 16th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, held in JNCASR, Bangalore, and presents the latest developments in computational, experimental and theoretical research as well as industrial and technological advances. This book is of interest to researchers working in the field of fluid mechanics. From the Back Cover This book includes select papers presented during the 16th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, held in JNCASR, Bangalore, and presents the latest developments in computational, experimental and theoretical research as well as industrial and technological advances. This book is of interest to researchers working in the field of fluid mechanics. About the Author Dr. L. Venkatakrishnan completed his Master’s in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1991 and obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in 1997, before joining the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory (FMRL) at Florida State University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Venkatakrishnan joined the National Aerospace Laboratories in June 2000 and is currently Chief Scientist and Head of the Experimental Aerodynamics Division and concurrently Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). His main interests are in flow diagnostics, fluid mechanics and aeroacoustics, and he has developed new measurement methodologies as well as techniques for launch vehicle noise suppression. He has about 80 publications in international refereed journals and conferences in addition to numerous invited lectures in international conferences. He is a Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society, UK Fellow, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Elected 2010) and has been awarded the Prof. Satish Dhawan Award for Young Engineers in 2011 in addition to the Best Innovation Award from CSIR-NAL in 2013. Prof. G. S. Bhat obtained his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, Master’s of Engineering from IISc and Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc. His fields of interest include turbulent flows, tropical convection, cloud physics and dynamics, atmospheric boundary layer, laboratory modelling of atmospheric phenomena and ocean-atmosphere coupling. He has carried out laboratory simulation of cloud-like flows and field experiments over land and ocean. He was the Principal Investigator for the atmospheric component in the three Indian national observational monsoon experiments under the Indian Climate Research Program (ICRP), viz. the Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX) carried out in 1999, the Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX, 2002–05), the Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) experiment (2009–2015) and presently the Indian Principal Investigator of Indo-UK collaborative research program titled INCOMPASS.  Dr. Sekhar Majumdar served the National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR) as a Senior Scientist from 1989 till January 2008 and retired as the Head of the Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Division at NAL. He now serves as a Senior Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering, NMIT Bangalore, and as the Head of CFD Centre of Excellence, NMIT Bangalore. Prof. Majumdar received his B.E. and M.E. both in Mechanical Engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Calcutta University, in 1968 and 1970, respectively. He then joined the CSIR, Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute Durgapur to work with the Fluid Mechanics Section and later with the Power Division of CMERI where he continued to work till 1983. Dr. Majumdar received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1981. He has more than 40 years of research experience in the country and abroad. He has published more than 100 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of I