Autore: Ahmad Arabkoohsar

Dr. Anoop Kumar Shukla is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University Noida. He completed his B.Tech. from Institute of Engineering & Rural Technology, India and M.Tech. with distinction from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI) India. Dr. Shukla received his Ph.D. degree in 2017 from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, India. He has over 10 years of teaching and research experience. His area of research is energy conversion and thermal management, combined power cycles, biofuels, gas turbine cooling, and advanced thermodynamics. He has published fifty research papers in peer-reviewed SCI and Scopus indexed journals and conferences. He has presented more than twenty research papers at international and national conferences. Presently he is guiding three Ph.D. and four postgraduate dissertations. Dr. Shukla is an active reviewer for various highly reputed national and international journals. Dr. Bhupendra Prakash Sharma is presently working as Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, India. He completed his Ph.D. from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, India in 2013 and Master of Engineering in Automated Manufacturing Systems from Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Mesra, Ranchi in 2007. He has over 12 years of teaching and research experience at private and government institutes and universities. He has contributed more than 30 papers at the national/international levels with two best paper awards and filed four patents as well. His current areas of interest include manufacturing systems, analysis, and processing of composite materials, recyclability, circular economy and knowledge management. Dr. Ahmad Arabkoohsar did both his master”s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering, associated with Energy Conversion and Sustainability. He did two postdocs at Aarhus University of Denmark and Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. He started his permanent academic career as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy of Aalborg University, Denmark in 2018, followed by a promotion to Associate Professor in 2019. His main field of research includes thermodynamic modelling and optimization of thermal energy systems and energy storage technologies. He has published over 150 articles in top-ranked international journals, several book chapters, and articles in proceedings. He is acting as an editorial board member and reviewer of several international journals and conferences. Dr. Pradeep Kumar is currently Assistant Professor in School of Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) since 2015. After completing his Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in 2009, he worked with ANSYS Fluent India Pvt Ltd in the development department for six and half years. He is currently working in the area of radiative heat transfer, fluid mechanics, solardevices, etc., and uses computational tools for his research purposes. He is extremely interested in exploring and developing open-source software. His team is currently developing various features of radiative heat transfer like, collimated beam radiation, non-gray radiation model, etc. in Open FOAM – an open-source CFD software for the applications of solar receiver cavity, combustion, thermal load on the rocket base plate, etc.