Meet the editor

Dr. Manish K. Rathod is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India. He received a Ph.D. from SVNIT in 2014. He has published more than seventy journal articles and has four design patents to his credit. He has presented numerous research papers at international conferences. In 2020 and 2021, he was ranked among the top 2% of world scien-

tists in the subject of energy by Stanford University, USA. His areas of interest are thermal energy storage using phase change material (PCMs), thermal management by PCMs, passive cooling in buildings, energy and exergy analysis of thermal systems, and design and augmentation of heat exchangers.
