(Heat Transfer Enhancement, Energy storage, Solar Energy, Pool Boiling, Heat sink, CFD, Data-driven Turbulence Modelling, Machine Learning and Microfluidics).
Supervisors: Dr. Manoj Kumar, Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Bipin Kumar, Dr. Rajeev Pandey, Dr. Ravi Kumar.
The Thermal research group of Mechanical Engineering Department is working on areas of cutting edge research and development. The focus of group is on scientific innovation in areas related to improving efficiency and compactness of the thermal systems. The research topics are closely linked to our teaching groups, with both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes shaped to reflect the research strengths of our faculty. The brief description on notable research works pursuing in the department are follows: (a) Enhancement of Thermal performance of heat exchanger using passive techniques (b) Performance assessment of roughened Solar air heater (c) Study of Plate fin and pin fin heat sink under forced and natural convection (d) Study of boiling heat transfer over modified surfaces
(Vibrations, Flexible manipulator, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration Energy Harvesting, Bearing diagnostics, Signal processing and AI, Robotics & Automation, Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems)
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. R Rajan. Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta & Dr. Nalin Somani
Research in Design Engineering
The research in design engineering is focused on various areas like Analysis of mechanical vibrations in different machine components, diagnosing raceway defects and misalignment in a self-aligning rolling-element bearing, Nonlinear dynamics of various mechanical components, Applications of artificial intelligence in different mechanical systems, Position & Modal analysis of flexible manipulators and Nonlinear vibration of flexible manipulators.
(Self-healing & composite materials, Advanced Machining, Sustainable Machining, Advanced Coatings, Nano fluid, Cryogenic treatment, Optimization and Modelling, Welding Engineering, Welding Metallurgy, Corrosion of Weldments and Non-Conventional Manufacturing Processes, Tribology and Non-Conventional Machining)
Supervisor: Dr. Y. K. Tyagi, Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta, Dr. Subodh Kumar, Dr. Nalin Somani, Dr. Pankaj Singh Chandel, Dr. R. Rajan, Mr. Jai Prakash Agrawal
Research in Materials & manufacturing Engineering
The research in materials & manufacturing engineering is focused on various areas like Advanced & Sustainable Machining of hard and difficult to cut materials, Machining using advanced coated cutting inserts, Applications of different nano fluids in machining, Cryogenic treatment of cutting inserts for hard machining, Optimization and Modelling of manufacturing processes., Mechanical, metallurgical and microstructural assessment of various types welded joints, Fabrication of various types of composites, Study the thermal, mechanical and tribological characteristics of various composites, Development of self-healing materials and Non-conventional machining of various materials.
Department of mechanical engineering are having advanced setup for fabrication and testing in the area of Thermal engineering and manufacturing, materials developments.
Heat transfer and friction in a rectangular duct having V-down baffle blocks with staggered race track-shaped openings.
Electric Discharge Machining Laboratory caters to the need of experimentation for the B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD students to understand the need of unconventional machining process, working mechanism of the EDM process and the applications of the process. This lab provides the research facility for modern engineering materials that are deployed in extreme conditions are often shaped or manufactured by EDM process with accuracy of 0.001 mm.
CNC Turning centre understand the need of conventional machining process, working mechanism of longitudinal turning process and the applications of the process. This lab provides the research facility for the machining of various advanced materials such as heat resistant alloys, hard materials, composites, high entropy alloys, aluminium alloys etc. These materials are employed in various industries such as, aerospace, marine, automobiles, medical, tool and die making industries. This machine is capable to handle both solid and hollow thin cylindrical objects. Intricate machine parts such as cylindrical flange, nozzles, hydraulic fittings and hub adapter can be easily manufactured with good accuracy using this machine tool. Moreover, machining of various materials can be accomplished in different machining environments using this machine.
The literature concerning energy storage by sensible energy storage systems shows several distinct geometries and materials employed for different applications. The energy storage/release strongly depends on the penetration of heat in the entire volume of the bed which is affected by the fluid supply and flow characteristics in the storage system. Multiple cylindrical passages embedded in the concrete bed appear to be an effective design for achieving a faster thermal response. Based on this observation, the present study experimentally investigates the thermal characteristics of sensible energy storage having cylinder-shaped multiple passages for charging and discharging cycles.
Specification: Description (unit of measure)
| Sr.No | Name of Journal | Publishers | Impact factor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews | Elsevier | 14.98 |
| 2 | Renewable Energy | Elsevier | 8 |
| An International Journal | |||
| 3 | Solar Energy | Elsevier | 5.742 |
| 4 | Applied Thermal Engineering | Elsevier | 5.295 |
| 5 | Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification | Elsevier | 4.237 |
| 6 | Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science | Elsevier | 3.232 |
| 7 | Vacuum | Elsevier | 2.427 |
| 8 | Journal of Heat Transfer | ASME | 2.021 |
| 9 | Materials | MDPI | 3.623 |
| 10 | Polymer composite | Wiley | 3.172 |
| 11 | Metals | MDPI | 2.351 |
| Name of the Faculty | Research Area |
|---|---|
| Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta | Robotics & Industrial Automation, Artificial intelligence, Self-healing materials |
| Dr. Manoj Kumar | Heat Transfer Enhancement, Energy storage, Solar Energy, Pool Boiling. |
| Dr. Yogesh Kumar Tyagi | Hybrid and Laminated composites Fabrication and their Mechanical, Thermal and SEM study. |
| Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | Heat transfer enhancement techniques in heat exchangers, heat sink, pool boiling, solar air heater, Thermal energy storage systems. |
| Dr. Subodh Kumar | Welding Engineering, Welding Metallurgy, Corrosion of Weldments and Non-Conventional Manufacturing Processes. |
| Dr. Rajan Raman | Product design, Composite material |
| Dr. Rajeev Pandey | Solar Thermal System |
| Dr. Ravi Kumar | Sensible energy storage system |
| Dr. Pankaj Singh Chandel | Composite Material, fluid engineering |
| Dr. Bipin Kumar | Heat Transfer |
| Dr. Nalin Somani | Composite Materials, Tribology, Non-Conventional Machining |
| Mr. Jai Prakash Agrawal | Production and industrial engineering, Advanced Manufacturing |
| Name of the faculty | Research Group |
|---|---|
| Dr. Manoj Kumar, Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Bipin Kumar, Dr. Rajeev Pandey & Dr. Ravi Kumar. | Thermal engineering |
| Dr. Y. K. Tyagi, Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta, Dr. Subodh Kumar, Dr. Nalin Somani, Dr. Pankaj Singh Chandel, Dr. R. Rajan & Mr. Jai Prakash Agrawal. | Materials & Manufacturing |
| Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta, Dr. Nalin Somani & Dr. R Rajan | Robotics and Industrial Automation |
| Sl.No. | Title of Project | Funding Agency | Duration From To | PI/CO PI | Total approved cost of the project (in Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analytical and Experimental study of thermoelectric application for localized cooling | AICTE | October 2007 to September 2009 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | 6,50000/- |
| 2 | Heat transfer enhancement in a heat exchanger tube with protruded surface | DIT University | January 2015 to December 2015 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Sunil Chamoli | 1,63500/- |
| 3 | Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of heat exchanger tube with circular perforated disc inserts | DIT University | January 2015 to December 2015 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Sunil Chamoli | 1,41600/- |
| 4 | Experimental Investigations on the Key Machinability Aspects of metal 3D printed maraging steel with and without heat treatment in Different Machining Regimes using various coated carbide inserts. | DIT University | July 2022 to July 2023 | Dr. Anshuman Das | 3, 26000/- |
| S.No. | Name of research scholar | Title of thesis | Supervisor(s) | University | Year of award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanishka Jha | Enhancement of Mechanical, Thermal and Morphological Properties of Green Composites by Matrix Modification | Dr. Y. K. Tyagi | DIT University | 2018 |
| 2 | Nitin Kumar Gupta | Development of self-healing materials and their tribological studies | Dr. G. D. Thakre (principal scientist CSIR Indian institute of petroleum Dehradun & Dr. Manoj Kumar DIT University | DIT University | 2020 |
| 3 | Amar Kumar Jain (Chief scientist- CSIR IIP Dehradun) | Tribological Investigations of Piston Ring - Liner System | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. G. D. Thakre (principal scientist CSIR Indian institute of petroleum Dehradun) | DIT University | 2021 |
| 4 | Bipin Kumar | Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of Circular Tube with Perforated Inserts | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | Uttarakhand Technical University | 2021 |
| 5 | Ravi Kumar | Experimental investigation of sensible heat energy storage system with multiple cylindrical passages | Dr. Manoj Kumar & Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | DIT University | 2021 |
| 6 | Nalin Somani | Fabrication and tribological study of copper based sintered electrodes for electro-discharge machining (EDM) applications | Dr. Y. K. Tyagi | DIT University | 2021 |
| 7 | Gaurav P. Srivastava | An experimental investigation of heat transfer and pressure drop in a circular tube with perforated conical inserts | Dr. Manoj Kumar & Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | DIT University | 2021 |
| 8 | Rajeev Pandey | Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a solar air heater duct having racetrack-shaped perforated V baffle blocks with staggered openings | Dr. Manoj Kumar | DIT University | 2022 |
| S.No. | Name of Student | Roll No. | Batch | Title of Dissertation | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anshul Kunwar | 1551061001 | 2015-17 | Experimental investigation on performance of packed bed solar energy storage system having large size cylindrical element with perforation | Dr.Manoj Kumar |
| 2 | Amit Bartwal | 1551061002 | 2015-17 | Experimental investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in a heat exchanger tube with circular ring combined with metal wire net | Dr.Manoj Kumar,Dr.Sunil Chamoli |
| 3 | Ravi Kumar | 1551061003 | 2015-17 | Heat transfer and friction characteristics of artificially dimple faced absorber plate with jet impingement on a solar air heater | Dr.Manoj Kumar,Dr.Rajesh Maithani |
| 4 | Vinay Maurya | 1551061006 | 2015-17 | Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of jet impingement on spherical protrusion on a solar air heater absorber plate | Dr.Rajesh Maithani |
| 5 | Aditya Verma | 1551061005 | 2015-17 | Experimental Investigation of Heat transfer and Fluid flow characteristics in Heat Exchanger tube with helical coiled and Modified helical coiled inserts | Dr.Manoj Kumar,Dr.Anil Kumar Patil |
| 6 | Vishwjeet Choudhary | 165128001 | 2016-18 | Experimental investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of pin fin heat sink with wings under forced convection | Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
| 7 | Ayush Gupta | 165128002 | 2016-18 | Thermal performance of a plate fin heat sink with dimples under forced convection | Dr.Manoj Kumar, Dr. Anil Kumar Patil |
| 8 | Amir Khan | 165128003 | 2016-18 | Experimental investigation of jet impingement on a smooth absober plate of a solar air heater | Dr.Rajesh Maithani, Mr.Mohit Nagpal |
| 9 | Ankit Choudhary | 165128004 | 2016-18 | Experimental investigation of heat transfer and friction factor characteristics in cross flow tube bank with integral splitter plate | Dr. Manoj Kumar, Dr. Sunil Chamoli |
| 10 | Taniya | 165128005 | 2016-18 | Design analysis of parabolic solar trough collector | Dr.Rajesh Maithani, Mr. Mohit Nagpal |
| 11 | Anuroop Priyadarshi | 175128001 | 2017-19 | Thermal performance of rectangular duct roughened with multi V shaped perforated baffles | Dr.Rajesh Maithani, Mr. Mohit Nagpal |
| 12 | Parimesh Joshi | 175128002 | 2017-19 | Pool boiling enhancement by surface modification | Dr. Manoj Kumar, Dr. Anil Kumar Patil |
| 13 | Ankit Pathak | 175128003 | 2017-19 | Thermal performance of porous medium based multi-tubular sensible heat energy storage system | Mr. Ravi Kumar, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
| 14 | Vidushi Chauhan | 175128004 | 2017-19 | Effect of surface roughness on pool boiling | Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
| 15 | Rohit Raina | 175128005 | 2017-19 | Experimental investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of circular tube with perforated winglet twisted tape inserts | Dr.Rajesh Maithani, Mr. Bipin Kumar |
| 16 | Nidhi | 185128001 | 2018-20 | Experimental analysis of the thermal characteristics of a cylindrical heat pipe | Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
| 17 | Alen Mathew Jose | 185128002 | 2018-20 | Thermal performance of heat sink under forced convection | Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
| 18 | Saurabh Singh | 185128003 | 2018-20 | Pool boiling heat transfer enhancement | Dr. Manoj Kumar, Dr.Anil Kumar Patil |
| 19 | Shishir Bisht | 185136001 | 2018-20 | Design of Electromagnetic Bearing for Machine Tool Applications. | Dr Nitin Kumar Gupta (DIT University) and Dr. G. D. Thakre (Principal scientist CSIR-IIP Dehradun) |
| 20 | Abhay Mishra | 195136003 | 2019-2021 | Impact of fused deposition modeling (FDM) process parameters on strength of built parts | Dr. Vivek Srivastava , Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta |
| 21 | Debojit Bhattacharjee | 195136001 | 2019-2021 | Study of Parametric Optimization of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) process. | Dr. Vivek Srivastava , Dr. Nitin Kumar Gupta |
| 22 | Alpana Naidu | 195136002 | 2019-2022 | Dynamics and Vibration Control of Flexible Manipulator with Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators. | Dr Pravesh Kumar |
| 23 | Ayush Tiwari | 205136001 | 2020-22 | Thermal performance of solid and hollow pin fin heat sinks. | Dr. Manoj Kumar,Dr. Anil Kumar Patil |
| S.No. | Title of Project | Funding Agency | Duration From To | PI/CO PI | Total approved cost of the project (in Rs.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analytical and Experimental study of thermoelectric application for localized cooling | AICTE | October 2007 to September 2009 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Anil Kumar Patil | 6,50000/- |
| 2 | Heat transfer enhancement in a heat exchanger tube with protruded surface | DIT University | January 2015 to December 2015 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Sunil Chamoli | 1,63500/- |
| 3 | Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of heat exchanger tube with circular perforated disc inserts | DIT University | January 2015 to December 2015 | Dr. Manoj Kumar and Dr. Sunil Chamoli | 1,41600/- |
| S.No. | Title of Project | Order No. and date | Name of Organization | Project Cost | Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Development of a hybrid thermal energy storage system for water heating | UCS&T/R&D-27/23-24/24558 and Date 22/09/2023 | DIT University, Dehradun | Rs. 6 Lakh | Dr. Ravi Kumar | Dr. Anil Kumar Patil, Dr. Manoj Kumar |
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