Special Sessions

Session - 1: Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap and Knowledge Management

Scope: The aim of this special session is to gives an insight on bridging the gap between academia-industry interaction for a better way to look the industry scenario. It includes, the discussion on

Need of industry-academia collaboration
Barriers of industry-academia interaction (from Government, Academia and Industry)
Towards the integration of Industry and Academia
Increasing Complexity
Growing skill gap, Stiff competition
High expectations of the industry
Outdated Syllabus
Migration of students
Problems with the personnel (Lack of motivation, qualifications, desired qualities and compassion to deal with the problem)
Lack the insight to understand the benefits of such a collaboration
Problems with the system (Delay in funding, Undue control and external influence)
Traditional methods of learning and teaching
Lack of infrastructural support, proper laboratories, R&D facilities and many more..

Coordinators:

Mr. Gautam Dutta, Siemens India, Chair
Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Amity University
Dr. Ambrish Maurya, Amity University

Session - 2: New and Renewable Energy Resources: Challenges and Issues

Scope: This session presents energy sources that are continually replenished by nature—the sun, the wind, water, the Earth’s heat, and plants. Renewable energy technologies turn these fuels into usable forms of energy—most often electricity, but also heat, chemicals, or mechanical power. It covers following topics (but not limited to):

Hydropower
Bioenergy
Geothermal Energy
Solar Energy
Wind Energy
Ocean Energy
Hydrogen
Waste to Energy

Coordinators:

Prof. K. Muralidhar, IIT Kanpur, Chair
Prof. Bengt Sunden, Lund University Sweden
Prof. Quiwang Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Prof. Basant Singh Sikarwar, Amity University
Prof. R K Tyagi, Amity University
Dr. Preeti Joshi, Amity University

Session - 3: Industry 4.0 – Impact on Mechanical Engineering Designs

Scope: The combination of digital processes has a disruptive impact on mechanical engineering design. Not only do engineers need to redesign processes and operations to accommodate these new advances, Industry 4.0 impacts how they design products for increasingly smart manufacturing facilities. This session is dedicated to discuss about the following topics of I4.0:

Autonomous Robots
Engineering Simulation
Horizontal and Vertical System Integration
The Industrial Internet of Things
Cybersecurity
The Cloud
Additive Manufacturing
Augmented Reality
Big Data and Analytics

Coordinators:

Prof. Satyendra Kumar Gupta, University of Southern California, LA, USA
Prof. Basant Singh Sikarwar, Amity University
Prof. R K Tyagi, Amity University
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Phanden, Amity University

Session - 4: Advances on Multi Phase Flow and Heat Transfer: Analytical and Experimental Studies

Scope: Almost every processing technology must deal with Multi-Phase Flow (MPF), from activating pumps and turbines to electro photographic processes. The capability to predict the fluid flow behavior of these processes is central to the efficiency and effectiveness of those processes. For instance, the effective flow of toner is a major factor in the quality and speed of electro-photographic printers. MPF is widespread aspect of our environment such as rain, fog, snow, avalanches, sediment transport, mud slides, debris flows and many other natural phenomena. Also, the medical and biological flows embrace MPF. This session includes analytical, numerical and experimental articles of lasting interest in MPF. The scope of the session covers all aspects of mass, momentum and energy exchange phenomena among different phases such as occur in disperse flows, gas–liquid and liquid–liquid flows, flows in porous media, boiling, condensation, granular flows and others.

This session discusses the followings topics (but not limited to):

Boiling and Condensation
Case Studies for Composite Fluid
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Concurrent Multiscale Modeling
Discrete Element Method
Disperse Flow and Phase Model
Droplet Simulation
Empirical Correlations
Energy Systems
Fluid Surface Interaction (FSI)
Fluidized Bed Animation
Free Surface Flow
Homogeneous & Inhomogeneous Multiphase Flow
Heat Pipes
Hydrodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Dense Gases
Laminar Versus Turbulent in Multiphase flow

Micro/Meso/Macro‐Micro/Meso‐Micro Approach in Multiphase Flow
Modeling of Multiphase Flow: Fluid and Thermal
Multiphase Coupling, Multiscale Analysis, Models and Algorithms
Nanoparticle-Laden Flows, Poly-Dispersed Flow and Population Balance Equation
Porous Bed Model
Temporal and Spatial Discretization Methods
Two-phase flow Theory: Void Fraction Pressure Drops and Volume Averaging Formulation
Volume of Fluid (VOF) Model and Volume of Fraction

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