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Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Solutions to Thermo-Fluid Systems

Select Proceedings of ICITFES 2020

  • Covers the topics of theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics
  • Includes the study of numerical methods in heat transfer and fluid dynamics
  • Presents the select proceedings of ICITFES 2020

Conference proceedings info: IC2SV 2019, ICITFES 2020.

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Experimental Analysis of a Crossflow Heat Exchanger Using Elliptical Shape Tube for Air Side Heat Recovery

    • Amruta Sonawane, Neelam S. Gohel, R. S. Jha, Digvijay Shelar
    Pages 35-42
  3. Earth Air Tube Heat Exchanger—A Parametric Study

    • Saif Nawaz Ahmad, Om Prakash
    Pages 53-62
  4. Natural Convection in a Square Porous Enclosure with a Pair of Fluid-Pockets

    • Jayesh Subhash Chordiya, Ram Vinoy Sharma
    Pages 63-72
  5. Simulation Studies of Heat Transfer by Natural Convection from an Isothermal Rectangular Cylinder Using ANSYS Fluent

    • M. Naveen, B. Venkata Sai Raghu Vamsi, M. R. Ch. Sastry, T. Siva Krishna
    Pages 81-92
  6. Electro-thermal Convection in a Rectangular Enclosure

    • Nirmalendu Biswas, Aparesh Datta, Nirmal Kumar Manna
    Pages 103-113
  7. A Numerical Study on the Flapping Dynamics of a Heaving Flexible Foil in a Uniform Flow

    • Kuntal Patel, K. Supradeepan, P. S. Gurugubelli
    Pages 149-158
  8. Influence of Geometric and Operating Parameters on the Heat Transfer Enhancement of Synthetic Jet

    • Aswini Kumar Khuntia, Pandaba Patro, Sanjoy Ghoshal
    Pages 171-181
  9. Atomization Characteristics of a Porous Injector

    • M. Jegan, M. Vadivukkarasan
    Pages 195-206

About this book

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences (ICITFES 2020). It covers topics in theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics, numerical methods in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, different modes of heat transfer, multiphase flow, fluid machinery, fluid power, refrigeration and air conditioning, and cryogenics. The book will be helpful to the researchers, scientists, and professionals working in the field of fluid mechanics and machinery, and thermal engineering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

    Muthukumar Palanisamy

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India

    Velraj Ramalingam

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India

    Murugan Sivalingam

About the editors

Dr. Muthukumar Palanisamy is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He received PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras during 2005. He received DAAD research fellowships during September–December 2000, June–July 2008, and June–July 2010. He is the recipient of IEI Young Engineer Award - 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineers (India). He received Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy Fellowship (BASE Fellowship) from Indo - U.S. Science and Technology Forum (USIEF), Jan 2014 and also received Er. M.P. Baya National Award 2015 by the Institution of Engineers (India), Udaipur. He served as visiting Professor in many Universities in the USA and Germany and also having research collaborations with over 20 International Universities. He has published over 250 research articles in various International Journals and conference proceedings. He is having seven national patents for his credit. Hehas supervised 15 PhD and 45 M.Tech student’s theses. He has successfully completed 5 sponsored research projects worth of 192 lakhs and five consultancy projects worth of 35 lakhs. Currently he is handling seven research projects worth of 760 lakhs. His area of research includes hydrogen energy storage, metal hydride based thermal machines, coupled heat and mass transfer in porous medium, porous medium combustion, sorption heating and cooling systems, etc.


Dr. Velraj Ramalingam is a Professor, Institute for Energy Studies, and specialized in Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Energy Storage. As a part of his doctoral work he carried out his research in Solar institute, Juelich, Germany, for a period of 20 months (1995–1997) under DAAD Fellowship by Germany. He has 30 years of teaching experience, and held additional responsibilities as Deputy Director, Centre for Affiliation of Institutions, for 6 years from 2004 to 2010; Director, AU – FRG CAD/CAM for 3 years from 2010 to 2013; and Director, Institute for Energy Studies for 5 years from 2013 to 2018. He has to his credit, 33 consultancy projects as principal coordinator, and 15 sponsored research projects as Principal Investigator which includes collaborative projects with Germany and UK. Under his Guidance 40 candidates have completed and 12 scholars are pursuing their Ph.D. research. He has published over 175 research papers in international journals of repute. His H - Index is 41 as per Google scholar citations. He has received Tamil Nadu Scientist Award – 2014 by TANSA in the year 2017, Active consultant award in the year 2011, Best innovation award in 2013 by Anna University, and Achiever Award by Appadurai Chair for contribution to TANGEDCO, Tamil Nadu in the year 2017. He is an expert member in various international and national forums in his field of research, reviewer for several international journals of repute, and member of governing council/academic council/boardof studies for various universities and autonomous institutions.


Dr. Murugan Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He obtained his master and PhD degree from Anna University, Chennai. His areas of research are in energy/renewable energy, waste management, refrigeration and air conditioning. He has 25 years of teaching experience. He was also a visiting researcher at Cranfield University, the UK. He has carried out his postdoctoral research work at VSB Technical University, Ostrava, The Czech Republic, in 2014–15. He was a Principal Investigator for two major sponsored research projects sponsored by the Government of India, and a sponsored research project funded by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 75 research articles in reputed peer-reviewed international journals scoring his h-index 30 in google scholar citations. He has guided 8 PhD research scholars and 25 postgraduate and more than 50 undergraduate engineering students.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Solutions to Thermo-Fluid Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of ICITFES 2020

  • Editors: Muthukumar Palanisamy, Velraj Ramalingam, Murugan Sivalingam

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4165-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4164-7Published: 10 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4165-4Published: 09 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2195-4356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-4364

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 505

  • Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 269 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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