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Areas of Interest: Advanced Welding Processes, Friction Stir Welding, Friction Stir Processing- surface composite, super-plasticity, Friction Surfacing, BT-FSW, Hybrid FSW, FSW of dissimilar metals, Narrow Gap-GMAW/FCAW/MCAW. A-TIG welding of P91,RAFM steels, Hybrid Welding and Wear of surface composites.

Brief Profile: Dr Badheka, studied metallurgy at The M.S.University of Baroda, received Bachelor, Master and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering. Presently he working as Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering as well as Heading the Nuclear Engineering Dept.

Areas of Interest: Heat transfer applications of renewable energy for cooling, water desalination and other sustainable environmental issues

Brief Profile: Dr Anurag Mudgal has pursued a distinguished career path as an industrial engineer, academic researcher and teacher in higher education. After completing B Tech from Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology he joined paper industry as a GET and then project engineer for four years before returning to academia. He completed his M Tech and then PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Before joining PDPU in January 2014 he worked in many prestigious Engineering Institutes and University of Uttar Pradesh. He was invited to work on a collaborative project with Aston University, UK by Royal Academy of Engineering in the year 2015 for three months. He his handling many projects including DST on application of renewable energy for cooling and water desalination purposes.

Areas of Interest: CFD applications to IC engines and alternative fuels

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Areas of Interest: Solar Desalination, Solar Drying, Solar Cooling, Solar Water Heating

Brief Profile: Dr. Jatin Patel is serving as an Assistant Professor at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University since last six years. He is graduated form SVNIT, Surat and Ph. D. from HemChandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat. At present, he is associated with Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Technology, PDPU. He has total 11 years of teaching experience in reputed technical institutions and taught various subjects like Engineering Drawing, Non Conventional Energy Sources, Thermodynamics, Turbo-machines and Solar thermal Systems at UG and PG level. He has guided more than 5 post graduated students for their dissertation work. Presently he is involved in the research work towards solar parabolic trough collector for different applications.

Areas of Interest: Advanced Welding technology, Welding metallurgy, Advanced manufacturing processes

Brief Profile: Dr. Jaykumar Vora completed his Ph.D. in the field of advanced welding technology at PDPU. His Ph.D. research project was pivoted to A-TIG welding of RAFM steel. He completed his Masters in welding technology from MSU Baroda. He also worked as a visiting faculty and research scholar at Lamar university, USA. He has extensive industrial experience and completed his masters research project at M/s Larsen & Toubro Limited. He is currently working on techniques to incorporate nanotechnology in welding processes for improving the performance. He is also currently working on multiple projects funded by BRNS, ORSP and other funding bodies.

Areas of Interest: Friction stir welding, Dissimilar Materials Joining, Advance Welding Technology

Brief Profile: Dr. Kush Mehta is mechanical engineer and completed his doctorate degree (PhD) from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar in Jan-2017. Presently, he is associated as faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Technology (SOT), PDPU, Gandhinagar. Prior to join SOT, he worked for The Anup Engineering Ltd as Welding Engineer. His current research activities cover areas of Advance Welding Technology, Dissimilar Materials (Copper to Aluminum) joining and Friction Stir Welding. His research programs are supported by different research agencies such as Board of Research in Fusion Science and Technology (BRFST), Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP)- PDPU through research grants. Teaching Interest: Manufacturing Processes, Welding Technology, Material Science, Production Technology Research Interest: FSW, Welding Technologies, Dissimilar materials joining

Areas of Interest: NUMERICAL MODELING OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, RAILWAY ENGINEERING

Brief Profile: Dr. Manikanta Ravindra obtained his Masters and PhD degrees from IIT Kharagpur in manufacturing science and engineering specialization. He had taken a real life challenging problem (locomotive wheel failure from excessive wheel gauge change, sponsored by Indian Railways) as a part of his PhD research and identified root causes of problems and submitted solutions for same to Indian Railways. He is specialized in numerical modeling of manufacturing processes, worked for several years on modelling of manufacturing processes such as (i) Sheet metal forming (sheet bending and deep drawing), (ii) Modeling of hot rolling, (iii) Heat treatment of railway wheels, and (iv) friction stir welding processes.

Areas of Interest: Stress Analysis, Design Optimization, Finite element analysis, Composites, Computational mechanics, Impact Analysis

Brief Profile: Dr. Nirav Patel completed his B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidhyala Engineering College, Vidhyanagar, Gujarat, India in 2009. He did his M.Tech. in CAD/CAM (2011) and Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics (2015) from Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Gujarat, India. Presently he is working as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India since December 2013. Dr. Patel has a teaching experience of more than 6 years in the field of Mechanical Engineering at under graduate and post graduate level. He worked 3 years at Gandhinagar Institute of Technology, Gujarat Technological University, India. Dr. Patel has published number of research articles in reputed journals and in international/national conferences in the field of computational mechanics. Recently, he has started exploring new areas of research, in stress analysis of plates weakened by complex shaped cut-outs, dynamic stress concentration, impact analysis of plates and optimization of composite materials.

Areas of Interest: Solar Thermal Systems, Process Integration, Waste Heat Recovery, Organic Rankine Cycle based Systems

Brief Profile: Dr. Nishith Desai joined PDPU on 1st March 2016. He has over 14 years of professional experience in academia and as an active researcher. He is also a developer in the Solar Thermal Simulator, which is developed a part of the project "Development of a Megawatt-scale Solar Thermal Power Testing, Simulation and Research Facility". The project is sponsored by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. His research involves energy systems modeling and optimization, solar thermal plant design and optimization, waste heat recovery, and software development.

Areas of Interest: Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing, Bio-Printing.

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Areas of Interest: -Soft computing techniques for mechanical design -Structure and topology optimization -Automobile suspension design and optimization -Wind farm layout optimization -Offshore wind energy -Water network analysis and optimization

Brief Profile: Dr. Vimal Savsani has obtained his PhD from SV National Institute of Technology, Surat with the specialization in advanced meta-heuristics and its applications to mechanical design problems. He was also a post-doctoral fellow at Thompson Rivers University, BC, Canada. He has developed an effective optimization technique called 'Teaching -learning based optimization (TLBO)' during his doctoral research. He has also developed two more optimization techniques called 'Heat transfer search (HTS) and 'Passing vehicle search (PVS)' along with his research team. He has published one book in springer and many reputed International Journal papers in Elsevier, IEEE, Springer and Taylor and Francis.

Areas of Interest: Fault Diagnosis,Rotary Machinery Components,Signal Processing Techniques,Pattern Recognition.

Brief Profile: Dr.Vinay Vakharia completed his Ph.D. from IIITDM Jabalpur in year 2015 in the area of Fault diagnosis.His Thesis title was Diagnosis of Bearing Faults Using Vibration Signatures and Machine Learning Techniques.He has applied Signal Processing techniques such as wavelets and artificial intelligence techniques to diagnose various bearing faults.He did his M.Tech in CAD/CAM from VIT Vellore and B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from RGPV Bhopal.

Areas of Interest: Thermal system design, Advanced optimization algorithm

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Areas of Interest: Friction stir welding and processing of aluminum and magnesium alloys. The recent area includes hard machining using a hybrid approach.Currently, working in the field of Friction stir processing for grain refinement and consequently superplasticity enhancement for high strength aluminum alloy. He is also working in the area of Friction Stir Spot Welding (FSSW). Future work involves for fabrication of surface composites using friction stir processing and friction stir surfacing for improving tribological properties.

Brief Profile: Vivek Patel obtained the Ph.D. degree in the are of material processing. He has completed Master degree in Production engineering (Gold Medalist, 2012) from GTU and Bachelor degree in Mechanical engineering (2004) from Nirma Institute of Technology. He is having industrial experience of 1 year and teaching experience of 9 years.

Areas of Interest: Advanced abrasive finishing processes.

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Areas of Interest: wind resource assessment, GIS-based analysis of Wind farm development, Finite element analysis, Machine design, Fracture mechanics

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Areas of Interest: -CFD,Fluent -Fluid mechanics -Thermodynamics

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Areas of Interest: Surface Composites, Wear Characterization

Brief Profile: Mr. Krunal Mehta completed his M. E. in Mechanical Engineering (CAD/CAM) from L. D. College of Engineering in the year 2014. He completed his B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from Indus Institute of Technology and Engineering in the year 2012. Mr. Krunal Mehta did his M. E. Dissertation at Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, wherein he was supposed to perform a Structural Analysis of 'Plasma Wakefield Accelerator' Equipment. Mr. Krunal is also associated with student activities like 'SAE SUPRA' (Racing Vehicle) and 'Shell Eco-Marathon' (Electric Vehicle Prototype)

Areas of Interest: Design of deployment mechanisms, Acitve Control and Alignment of Reflectors

Brief Profile: He has completed his M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Sardar VallabhBhai National Institute of Technology, Surat and B.E in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Surat. He has worked at Indian Space Research Organization as a Project Trainee for one year during his dissertation of M.Tech.

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Areas of Interest: Heat and Mass transfer, Computational Fluid dynamics, Thermodynamics

Brief Profile: Masters in Thermal Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK). One year Project Trainee at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. (BARC) Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.

Areas of Interest: convective heat transfer and heat exchangers

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