Advances in Mechanical Processing and Design

Comparative study of analytical and simulation method in determination of fuel centerline and Clad Surface temperature of metallic nuclear fuel.- CFD analysis of two-phase cavitating flow in a centrifugal pump with an inducer.- Influence of Mass flow rate and concentration of Al2O3 Nano-fluid on thermal performance of a double pipe heat exchanger.- Impact of inlet angle on cooling of a Continuously Variable Transmission in a BAJA SAE vehicle.- Coaxial Thermal Probe as a Heat Flux Sensor: An Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Approach.

Dr. Prita Pant received her MS and PhD degrees from the Materials Science and Engineering department at Cornell University (USA) in 2001 and 2004 respectively. After postdoctoral research at Cornell and Harvard Universities, she joined IIT Bombay as Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay in 2006. She is currently Professor in the same department, and Associate Dean of Academic Programmes. Her research interests are in the general area of microstructure changes that occur during deformation, and their effect on the mechanical behaviour of materials. Her group carried out experiments on bulk and micro-scale deformation, along with optical and electron microscopy to investigate the evolution in microstructure. In addition, they work extensively on simulations such dislocation dynamics (DD) and molecular dynamics (MD) to study the nucleation of defects such as dislocations, and their interactions with each otheras well as with grain and twin boundaries. These interactions play a significant role in determining the strength and ductility of metals and alloys. She has guided 6 PhD students, and several Masters students at IIT Bombay. She teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on mechanical behaviour, computational methods, and scientific communication.

Dr. Sushil Mishra is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay. Prior to this, he worked as Senior Manager in Aditya Birla Science and Technology Center, Mumbai and as senior researcher at General Motors Global R&D, Bangalore. He obtained his doctorate from IIT Bombay in 2008 and M. Tech. from IIT Madras in 2002. He has more than four years of postdoctoral research experience in corporate R&D. The focus of his research is multiscale physics based formability studies of metallic alloys. Currently he is heading Micro-Forming lab (www.microforming.in) in IIT Bombay,