Springer Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering: Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2020). This volume focuses on current research in fluid and thermal engineering and covers topics such as heat transfer enhancement and heat transfer equipment, heat transfer in nuclear applications, microscale and nanoscale transport, multiphase transport and phase change, multi-mode heat transfer, numerical methods in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, thermodynamics, space heat transfer, transport phenomena in porous media, turbulent transport, theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, flow measurement techniques and instrumentation, computational fluid dynamics, fluid machinery, turbo machinery and fluid power. Given the scope of its contents, this book will be interesting for students, researchers as well as industry professionals. From the Back Cover This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2020). This volume focuses on current research in fluid and thermal engineering and covers topics such as heat transfer enhancement and heat transfer equipment, heat transfer in nuclear applications, microscale and nanoscale transport, multiphase transport and phase change, multi-mode heat transfer, numerical methods in fluid mechanics and heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, thermodynamics, space heat transfer, transport phenomena in porous media, turbulent transport, theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, flow measurement techniques and instrumentation, computational fluid dynamics, fluid machinery, turbo machinery and fluid power. Given the scope of its contents, this book will be interesting for students, researchers as well as industry professionals. About the Author Dr. Basant Singh Sikarwar completed his Post Doctorate from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA) and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He did his Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Sikarwar is heading the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. His research interest involves thermal energy storage, energy systems, condensation, boiling, two-phase heat transfer, bioengineering, biological fluid flow, modeling of blood flow, and flow visualization. He is having 15 years of working experience in teaching UG and PG courses in mechanical engineering. He is working as Principal Investigator (PI) in three projects funded by the Government of India, Science Engineering Research Board (SERB) India, MSME, and Department of Atomic Energy through IPR, Ahmedabad. He has industry consultancies from Advance Valve Pvt. Ltd, Noida; Amber Pvt. Ltd., Rajpur; and Tex Pvt. Ltd, Gurugram, India. He has published 50 research articles in refereed international journals and 70 articles in conference proceedings. He edited the book titled “Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering.” Dr. Sikarwar has guided 3 PhDs and currently supervising 7 PhD candidates. He has delivered many guest lectures in national/international conferences and workshops. He has also been the author/ co-author of 2 books, and he has obtained 10 Indian Invent Patents. Dr. Bengt Sunden received his M.Sc. in 1973, Ph.D. in 1979 and became Docent in 1980, all from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He was appointed Professor of Heat Transfer at Lund University, Lund, Sweden in 1992 and served as Head of the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University for 21 years, 1995-2016. He has served as Professor Emeritus and Senior Professor since 2016. The research activities mainly include various heat transfer enhancement techniques, gas turbine heat transfer, computational modeling and analysis of multiphysics and m