Meet the editors

Dr. Suvanjan Bhattacharyya is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India. Dr. Bhattacharyya completed his post-doctoral research from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, under the supervision of Prof. Josua P Meyer. Dr. Bhattacharyya completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur Universi-

ty, Kolkata, India and with the collaboration of Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He received his Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, India (formerly known as Bengal Engineering and Science University), on Heat-Power Engineering. His research interests are in computational fluid dynamics in fluid flow and heat transfer, specializing in laminar, turbulent, steady, unsteady separated flows and convective heat transfer, experimental heat transfer enhancement, solar energy and renewable energy. He is the author and co-author of 85 papers in high ranked journals and prestigious conference proceedings. He has been awarded the best paper award in a number of international conferences. He is also on the editorial boards of 11 journals and is a reviewer of more than 25 prestigious journals.

Currently, Dr. Moghimi Ardekani is working in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His professional experience includes several roles in academics and industries since 2007. He has more than three years of industrial experience in design of heat exchangers and pressure vessels for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. In addition, he is also interested in solar thermal

plants. He is the author and co-author of 42 papers in high ranked journals and prestigious conference proceedings as well as a book on design of heat exchangers. He is on the editorial boards of 4 international journals and a reviewer of 10 ISI journals. In addition, his research findings gained him the international prize of Green Talent from the German Ministry of Research and Education in 2015. He has done several collaborations and consultations with different research institutes and companies around the world. To name a few: DLR (Germany), SOLASTOR (Australia), University of Nottingham (UK), University of Clarkson (USA), Concordia university (Canada).

Dr. Ranjib Biswas completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College in 1999. Later on he did his Masters and Ph.D. (Engineering) from Jadavpur University. His area of interest includes additively manufactured, 3D printed heat exchangers, layer-by-layer line welding, process intensification, laser beam machining, micromachining etc. He has published several research papers in international journals

of repute. Dr. Biswas joined the MCKV Institute of Engineering (MCKVIE) in 2003 as Lecturer and is presently working as Associate Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He is deeply involved in the assessment and accreditation (A&A) process of different programs of the institute as Coordinator of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of MCKVIE. Dr. Biswas has also organized several national and internal conferences, workshops, seminars, FDPs etc.

R. C. Mehta obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has worked as the Head of Aerodynamics Division of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre/Indian Space Research Organization. He has participated in the design of launch and reentry vehicles. He has served as a Senior Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the recipient of the Life Time

Contents

**Section 1**

A State-of-the-Art Review

for Enhanced Heat Transfer

Concentration Process

*Mohamed Razak Jeday*

**Section 2**

Fouling in Heat Exchangers

*by Sergio García and Alfredo Trueba*

*by Animesh Talapatra and Debasis Datta*

**Preface XI**

Heat Exchanger **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 89**

Inverse Problem **103**

**Chapter 6 105**

Applications of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques:

*Sanghati Roy, Ranjib Biswas and Mohammad Moghimi Ardekani*

Applications of Compound Nanotechnology and Twisted Inserts

*by Hussain H. Al-Kayiem, Muna S. Kassim and Saud T. Taher*

Molecular Dynamics Simulation-Based Study on Enhancing Thermal Properties of Graphene-Reinforced Thermoplastic Polyurethane Nanocomposite for Heat Exchanger Materials

A Numerical Approach to Solving an Inverse Heat Conduction

Problem Using the Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm *by Tao Min, Xing Chen, Yao Sun and Qiang Huang*

Tubular Heat Exchanger Fouling in Phosphoric Acid

*by Rania Jradi, Ali Fguiri, Christophe Marvillet and*

*by Suvanjan Bhattacharyya, Devendra K. Vishwakarma,*

Achievement Award from the Flow Physics Society of India. He is a senior member of AIAA. He has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has published five chapters and co-authored two books. He is a reviewer for many international journals. He is presently Dean in the Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, India.
