Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Volume 5

Prof. Krishna Mohan Singh is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests include the areas of computational mechanics, development of novel parallel algorithms, meshfree methods, shape and topology optimization, fluid dynamics, DNS/LES of turbulent flows, CAE, computer-aided analysis and design of thermo-fluid and multi-physics systems, computational fluid dynamics, modeling and simulation of flow and heat transfer in turbomachines, transport and energy systems. Prof. Sushanta Dutta is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests are in the areas of experimental fluid mechanics, experimental heat transfer, optical measurement techniques, active and passive control of flow field, wake dynamics, turbulence study, Schlieren, HWA, PIV, LCT, PSP, microfluidics and heat transfer augmentationusing phase change material. Prof. Sudhakar Subudhi is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests are in the area of experimental heat transfer and fluid mechanics, heat transfer enhancement of natural and forced convection in water/nanofluids, natural ventilation and unconventional energy systems. Dr. Nikhil Kumar Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His broad research interests include direct numerical simulations of two-phase flows and phase change, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, numerical methods and turbulent flows.

Chapter 1. Comparative CmFD Study on Geometric and Algebraic Coupled Level Set & Volume of Fluid Methods.- Chapter 2. Numerical modeling of a binary droplet on solid surface.- Chapter 3. Characterization of the spray flow field at the exit of a pintle injector.- Chapter 4. Experimental investigation of vapour bubble condensation in subcooled water using different nozzles.- Chapter 5. VOF Simulations of Evaporation and Condensation Phenomenon inside a Closed-loop Thermosyphon.- Chapter 6. Hydrodynamics of droplet generation under squeezing regime in a T-junction cylindrical microfluidic system.- Chapter 7. Coalescence of Disc-Shaped Falling Droplets Inside Quiescent Liquid Media.- Chapter 8. Effects of power law fluid characteristics on core-annular flow in a horizontal pipe.- Chapter 9. Evaporation dynamics of bidispersed colloidal suspension droplets on hydrophilic substrates under different relative humidity and ambient temperature.- Chapter 10. Comparative CFD analysis of heat transfer and melting characteristics of the PCM in enclosures with different fin configurations.- Chapter 11. Influence of Contact Line Velocity Implementation in Dynamic Contact Angle Modelsfor Droplet Bouncing and Nonbouncing Dynamics on a Solid Substrate.- Chapter 12. Droplet impact and wetting on a micropillared surface.- Chapter 13. Multiphase Modelling of Thin Film Flow over the Vertical Plate under Gravity in Pseudo-laminar Region.- Chapter 14. Evolution of Marangoni thermo-hydrodynamics within evaporating sessile droplets.- Chapter 15. Investigation of liquid vaporisation characteristics at low pressure conditions Sarvjeet. etc.