Advances in Fluid and Thermal 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.

Numerical Investigation of Swirl and Tumble Motion in the cylinder and Their Effect on Combustion of Gasoline - Methanol Blends in SI Engine.- An Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Performance of Solar Air Heater (SAH) Having Two Different Absorber Plate Along With (PCM)-Based Energy Storage.- Performance Investigation of Atmospheric Water Generating Device for Hot and Humid Conditions.- Numerical Study of Gas-Turbine Type Continuous Combustion Unit Burning LPG Mixture.- Soot Formation Characteristics of Homogeneous Supercritical Fuel Spray of Dieseline Blend.- Evaluation of emission characteristics of diesel engine fuelled with blends of biodiesel Obtained from waste sesame oil and its blends with pure menthe oil.- Liquid Film Thickness Measurement: A Critical Review.- Modeling and Simulation of HVAC System.- Effect of ageing on emission levels of a gasoline vehicle: A case study in Indian context.- Generation of Temperature Profile by Artificial Neural Network in Flow of Non-Newtonian Third Grade Fluid through two Parallel Plates under Noisy Data.- Impact of thermal contact resistance on thermal-hydraulic characteristics of double fin-and-tube heat exchanger.- Heat Dissipation Characteristics of a FSAE Racecar Radiator.- Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of Parabolic Solar Cooker in Tropical Environment of India.- Computational analysis of EMHD flow of nanofluid over a rotating disk with convective boundary conditions: Buongiorno’s Model.- Effect of strip orientations and geometry on the critical heat flux in pool boiling.- Methanol Gasoline Fuel blends: A fuel for two-wheeler bike.- Modelling and Simulation of Load Governing System of Steam Turbine.- Biomass Thermochemical Processing in Fixed Bed Downdraft Gasifier: A Review.- Development of Pneumatic Compressed Air Car.- Fuzzy Grey Relational based Risk Analysis of Steam Generating Unit.- Waste Heat Management in Hybrid Vehicles for Cabin Cooling.- Experimental Investigation of Combustion Instability inSyngas Turbulent Combustor.