Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Volume 2

Part 1: Instability, Transition and Turbulence.- Chapter 1. Flux Enhancement due to the Modification of the Large Scales in an Axially Homogeneous Turbulent Convection.- Chapter 2. Comparative Study of Turbulent Heat Transfer in Plane Wall Jet Using Different k- RANS Models.- Chapter 3. Linear instability analysis of natural convection in a heated vertical porous annulus.- Chapter 4. Response of a Partially Submerged Pendulum Under Gravity Waves.- Chapter 5. The Nature of Probability Density Functions in Turbulent Channel Flow.- Chapter 6. Optimal perturbations of flat-plate boundary layer with suction and injection.- Chapter 7. Linear stability analysis of two-dimensional mixed convective flow past a square cylinder.- Chapter 8. Characteristics of Transitional Separation Bubble Formed Over Negative and Positively Skewed Anisotropic Rough Surface.- Chapter 9. Numerical Study on Effect of Inclination of a Plane on Flow and Heat Transfer by Turbulent Wall Jet.- Chapter 10. Patternformation and evolution of viscous and non-viscous liquids on a vertical vibrating surface: An experimental investigation.- Chapter 11. Activity induced mixing in a stratified binary passive system.- Chapter 12. Spatio-temporal stability analysis of falling film down heated inclined plane.- Chapter 13. Thermal Gradient Mediated Instability in a Bilayer Flow over a Porous Medium.- Chapter 14. Compound matrix method for linear stability analysis of compressible flow over a flat plate.- Chapter 15. Wavy dynamics of confined and inclined falling liquid films. etc.

Prof. Krishna Mohan Singh is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests include the areas of computational mechanics, development of novel parallel algorithms, meshfree methods, shape and topology optimization, fluid dynamics, DNS/LES of turbulent flows, CAE, computer-aided analysis and design of thermo-fluid and multi-physics systems, computational fluid dynamics, modeling and simulation of flow and heat transfer in turbomachines, transport and energy systems.

Prof. Sushanta Dutta is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests are in the areas of experimental fluid mechanics, experimental heat transfer, optical measurement techniques, active and passive control of flow field, wake dynamics, turbulence study, Schlieren, HWA, PIV, LCT, PSP, microfluidics and heat transfer augmentationusing phase change material.

Prof. Sudhakar Subudhi is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His research interests are in the area of experimental heat transfer and fluid mechanics, heat transfer enhancement of natural and forced convection in water/nanofluids, natural ventilation and unconventional energy systems.

Dr. Nikhil Kumar Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. His broad research interests include direct numerical simulations of two-phase flows and phase change, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, numerical methods and turbulent flows.