Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Analysis of Hybrid Green Fuel Blended With Diesel as Fuel for Conventional Engine.- Experimental Investigation of Direct Evaporative Cooler with sisal, Hemp and Abaca Cooling Pad Material.- Mitigation of carbon dioxide gas from a DI diesel engine fuelled with honge biodiesel for agriculture.- Reduction of greenhouse gases from a coated diesel engine fuelled with honge biodiesel for sustainable environment.- Thermal Barrier Coating on IC Engines; A Review.- Modeling and analysis of compression ignition engine performance and emissions of biodiesel.- Performance, emission and combustion characteristics of a dual fuelled C.I engine with pine oil and hydrogen as fuels.- Simulation of Performance of Boiler System for a bagasse unit using LabVIEW.- Experimental study of the effect of Nano additive (CeO2) on performance and emission characteristics of a CI engine using diesel - LGO blend.- Experimental Investigation Of Engine Characteristics Using Bio Medical Wastes Pyrolytic Oil At DifferentInjection Pressures.- Experimental Investigation of Performance, Emission and Combustion Characteristics of a DI-Diesel Engine Fuelled with Aqueous Cerium Oxide and Aqueous Aluminium Oxide Nanoparticle Additives.- Emission Characteristics of CSOME in CRDI Diesel Engine with Multiple Injection Strategy. 

Dr. G.S.V.L Narasimham is Chief Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M. Tech. from IIT, Madras, and Ph.D. from IISc, Bangalore, both in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include Solar Thermal Engineering, HVAC, Refrigeration, Cryogenics, Heat and Mass Transfer, CFD, and Simulation of thermal systems. He has about three decades of experience in teaching, academic and sponsored research and guidance to masters and research students. He worked as an investigator in the projects sponsored by the Departments of non-conventional energy sources, atomic energy, space, power, science and technology and planning commission, as well as industrial research projects sponsored by IMI, GE, Mahindra and Mahindra. He also works as a consultant from IISc for various organizations and is a life member of professional bodies related to heat and mass transfer and cryogenics.

Dr. A. Veeresh Babu received B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and M.Tech in Heat Power Refrigeration from JNTU, Andhra Pradesh in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He obtained Ph.D. from Andhra University in 2013. He had an experience of refrigerator design, clean room technology, cold room/freezer room design and construction while he was working with the industry. He erected and commissioned clean rooms at DRDE, Gwalior, RCI, Hyderabad and CRDI, Lucknow. He is having research experience of more than 12 years ever since he joined NIT Warangal as an Assistant Professor in the year 2006. At present, He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Warangal. He has published more than 15 papers in SCI/SCOPUS/peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented his works in 10 international conferences. He has produced one Ph.D. student, and nearly seven students are working under him for the Ph.D. At present, he completed two minor research projects and two major projects are under review. He has also been