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Dattaguru Ananthapadmanaban1 \* and Arun Vasantha Geethan<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Josephs Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

\*Address all correspondence to: ananthapadmanaban.dattaguru@gmail.com

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