Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Volume 3

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 augmentation using phase change material. Prof. Sudhakar Subudhi is 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. CFD Analysis for the study of Automotive Underhood Aerodynamics and Thermal Management.- Chapter 2. Numerical Study of Nozzle Exhaust Plume Impingement on Flat Plate under Low Pressure Environment.- Chapter 3. Effect of Confinement in Coaxial Swirling Jets: Numerical study.- Chapter 4. Influence of Cryogenic Temperature on degradation of step graded scaffold: A CFD Study.- Chapter 5. Improved MLPG Method for Potential Flow Problem.- Chapter 6. Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations Using Characteristic-based Off-Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Chapter 7. Sensitivity mapping of TBL wall-pressure spectra with CFD turbulence models for wind tunnel test result prediction.-Chapter 8. Numerical Predictions of Two-Phase Natural Circulation Loop Transients using DFM and HEM based Models.- Chapter 9. Implementation of the Accurate Conservative Phase Field Method for two-phase incompressible flows in a finite volume framework.- Chapter 10. Numerical Investigation of Inertance type Pulse TubeCryocooler for Space Applications.- Chapter 11. CFD Modelling of High Pressure Subcooled Flow Boiling in Vertical Pipes.- Chapter 12. Potential flow around square cylinder with rounded corners.- Chapter 13. Numerical Simulation and Validation of NACA0012 Airfoil to Predict its Performance during the Stalling Condition.- Chapter 14. Effect of Vent Position on Temperature Inhomogeneity inside Apple Storage Package: A Numerical Study.- Chapter 15. RANS simulations of ground effects on flow past airfoils with increasing camber. etc.