Energy Systems and Nanotechnology

This book presents a very useful and readable collection of chapters in nanotechnologies for energy conversion, storage, and utilization, offering new results which are sure to be of interest to researchers, students, and engineers in the field of nanotechnologies and energy. Readers will find energy systems and nanotechnology very useful in many ways such as generation of energy policy, waste management, nanofluid preparation and numerical modelling, energy storage, and many other energy-related areas. It is also useful as reference book for many energy and nanofluid-related courses being taken up by graduate and undergraduate students. In particular, this book provides insights into various forms of renewable energy, such as biogas, solar energy, photovoltaic, solar cells, and solar thermal energy storage. Also, it deals with the CFD simulations of various aspects of nanofluids/hybrid nanofluids.

 

Dr Dharmendra Tripathi has been working as Associate Professor in Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand. Prior to joining NIT Uttarakhand, he has worked more than 10 years as faculty member (Associate Professor, Assistant Professor) in various reputed institutions like Manipal University Jaipur, NIT Delhi, IIT Ropar and BITS Pilani Hyderabad. He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Modelling of Physiological flows) in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology BHU and MSc in Mathematics from Banaras Hindu University.  

He has supervised 04 PhD students and 04 are working under his supervision. He has also guided 20 B.Tech projects. He has published more than 130 papers in reputed international journals, 05 book chapters and presented more than 30 papers in International and National Conferences. His research h-index is 39 and i-10 index is 111 and his papers have more than 4000 citations. He has recently achieved World rank 375 & Indian Rank 6 in top 2% researchers/scientist across the World as per Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in field of Mechanical Engineering and Transport published on October 16, 2020. He has been recognized by the Head of Institution for excellent work and contribution for the NIT Uttarakhand. 

He was awarded some prestigious fellowships INAE fellowship in 2015 & 2016, 2017 and 2018, postdoctoral fellowships (NBHM, Dr. D.S. Kothari and Indo-EU) in 2010 etc. He has delivered more than 40 invited talks in National and International conferences, STC/STTP/FDP/Workshop. He has also organized various events like National and International conferences/STC/STTP/FDP/Workshops/Winter School. 

He is lifetime member of various professional bodies, member of editorial board of two journals, and reviewer of more than 50 International Journals and reviewed more than 100 articles. 

His research work is focused on the mathematical modelling and simulation of biological flows in deformable domains, Peristaltic flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, microfluidics; CFD, Biomechanics; Numerical methods and biomechanics. 

Dr. Ravi Kumar Sharma has been working with Manipal University Jaipur as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has total of 15 years of teaching and research experience in various reputed Indian and foreign universities. He earned his Ph.D. in Thermal Engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2016, and masters from BITS Pilani, India. He has published 25 research papers in international journals of repute and presented his research work in many international conferences in India and abroad. He has also written 4 book chapters and been a reviewer of many international journals. He has also delivered many invited/keynote speeches in FDP/STTP/Workshop and conferences. His current area of research is renewable energy and thermal energy storage, in particular solar energy. His primary research is focused on the development of phase change materials or rapid heat transfer by enhancing their thermal conductivity. He is also working on the development of carbon-based materials. His research is being cited globally, and one of his papers has been in the top downloaded articles and most cited in the journal for more than a year.