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NameDr Rajesh Patel
DesignationProfessor
DepartmentMechanical, School of Technology
EmailRajesh.Patel@sot.pdpu.ac.in
Educational Qualifications
  • B.E. (Mechanical Engineering, BVM Engineering College, S. P. University, Vallabh Vidhya Nagar, Gujarat ), 1999
  • M.E (Thermal Science, M S University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India), 2002
  • Ph.D (Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark University, New Jersey, USA), 2011
    Professional Affiliation
    New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA
    Awards
    Publications / Articles / Conference
    Research based or onographs/Textbooks published
  • 'Advances in Thermal-Fluid Engineering (ATFE 2021)', Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency, Apr 2001
    Articles/Chapters Published in the books
  • 'Thermal Simulation of Li-Ion Battery Pack Using ANSYS Fluent', Springer Nature, May 2021
  • 'An Overview on the Prominence of Phase Change Material Based Battery Cooling and Role of Novel Composite Phase Change Material in Future Battery Thermal Management System', , Nov 2020
  • 'Exploring the Effect of Passing Vehicle Search (PVS) for the Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem', , May 2020
  • 'An Unrestricted Placement of Wind Turbines Toward Maximizing the Energy Output Using Teacher-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm', , Jan 2018
  • 'Vitality of Robotics in Healthcare 2 Industry: An Internet of Things 3 (IoT) Perspective', , Nov 2016
    Published Papers in Journals
  • 'Experimental investigation of thermal characteristics of a 12S1P Li-ion NMC-21700 battery module under different environments for EV applications', International Journal of Thermofluids, pp. 1-15, Mar 2025, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijft.2025.101084
  • 'A Liquid Desiccant-Assisted Dehumidification and VCR-Based Air Conditioning (LDVC) System Using Calcium Chloride Solution: An Experimental Investigation, Exergy Analysis, and Economic Assessment', Heat Transfer, pp. 1-20, Mar 2025, DOI : https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.23334
  • 'Thermal analysis of high specific energy NCM-21700 Li-ion battery cell under hybrid battery thermal management system for EV applications', Journal of Energy Storage, pp. 1-12, May 2024, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.111567
  • 'CFD Simulation of Dehumidification of Air in Humidification-Dehumidification based Water Desalination System', Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Mechanical Engineering, pp. 449-463, Sep 2022, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s40997-021-00454-0
  • 'Performance and Economic Analysis of Bubble Column Humidification and Thermoelectric Cooler Dehumidification Water Desalination System', J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl., pp. 1-12, Oct 2021, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052346
  • 'Techno-economic analysis of district cooling system: A case study', Journal of Cleaner Production, pp. 1-15, Sep 2021, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127812
  • 'Numerical investigations of phase change material (PCM) based thermal control module (TCM) under the influence of low gravity environment', International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Mar 2021
  • 'Performance improvement of the sanitary centrifugal pump through an integrated approach based on response surface methodology, multi-objective optimization and CFD', Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering volume, Jan 2021
  • 'Theoretical and experimental investigation of bubble column humidification and thermoelectric cooler dehumidification water desalination system', International Journal of Energy Research, Nov 2019
  • 'Experimental and theoretical evaluation of bubbler humidifier for humidification-dehumidification water desalination system', Heat and Mass Transfer, May 2019
  • 'Effective search technique in teaching and learning phase of TLBO algorithm for numerical function optimisation', International Journal of Swarm Intelligence, Apr 2018
  • 'A novel geometric pattern-based approach to maximize power output of a wind farm', Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, Aug 2017
  • 'Layout optimization of a wind farm to maximize the power output using enhanced teaching learning based optimization technique', Journal of Cleaner Production, Apr 2017
  • 'Hydrodynamic Model of Gas-Solids Risers Flow with Continuous Axial and Radial Flow Structure', 2014 ASME FEDSM Conference and 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels & Minichannels (FEDSM2014/ICNMM12), Aug 2014
  • 'Transport of interacting and evaporating liquid sprays in a gas-solid riser reactor', Chemical Engineering Science, Aug 2013
  • 'Effect of Cracking in the Feed Injection Zone on Fluid Catalytic Cracking', AIChE, Sep 2012
  • 'Interactions of Flow and Reaction in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Risers', AIChE, Feb 2011
  • 'Role of Inter-particle Collision on Solids Acceleration in Risers', Particuology, Feb 2010
    Full Papers in Conference Proceedings
  • 'Theoretical Modelling of Heat Generation in Batteries of Electric Vehicles for Various Operating Environments', Conference on Advances in Thermal-Fluids Engineering (ATFE 2021), May 2021
  • 'Exergy Analysis—A Useful Concept of Sustainability for Air Source Heat Pump System', First International Conference on Renewable Energy and Climate Change (REC 2019), Sep 2019
  • 'Theoretical And Experimental Study on the Influence of Thermo-Electric Cooling Dehumidifier On Humidification-Dehumidification Water Desalination System ', ICTEA 2019: 12th International Conference on Thermal Engineering, May 2019
  • 'Layout optimization of a wind farm using geometric pattern-based approach', 10th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2018; Hong Kong; China, Aug 2018
  • 'MAXIMIZING ENERGY OUTPUT OF A WIND FARM USING TEACHING–LEARNINGBASED OPTIMIZATION', Proceedings of the ASME 2015 9th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Jun 2015
  • 'Novel heat exchanger design with rectangular shell geometry', 14th International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov 2014
  • 'Transport of interacting and evaporating liquid sprays in a gas-solid riser reactor', 11th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering, Aug 2013
  • 'Transport of interacting and evaporating liquid sprays in a gas-solid riser reactor', 11th International Conference on Gas-Liquid & Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering, Aug 2013
  • 'Coupling of Hydrodynamics, Vaporization and Reaction with Liquid Spray Injection into a High-Temperature Gas-Solid Reactor', Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Mar 2011
  • 'Flushing of Non-Condensable Gases by Saturated Steam', Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Mar 2011
  • 'Cooling-Induced Depressurization of a Steam-Filled Chamber', Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Mar 2011
  • 'Modeling On Coupled Hydrodynamics and Catalytic Reaction in Core Region of Gas-Solids Riser Reactors', AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, USA, Nov 2009
  • 'Hydrodynamic Modeling of Gas-solids Riser Flows', AIChE Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA,USA, Nov 2008
    Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia

  • 'Exergy Analysis—A Useful Concept of Sustainability for Air Source Heat Pump System', 1st International Conference on Renewable Energy and Climate Changes, REC 2019, Sep 2019
  • 'Challenges in Multiphase simulation of condensation of vapor in presence of non-condensable gases in compact heat exchangers', 12th International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications (ICTEA 2019) , Feb 2019
  • 'A theoretical study on the Influence of thermo-electric cooling module on the performance of water distillation system', Twelve International Conference on Thermal Engineering: Theory and Applications, Feb 2019
  • 'Multi-objective optimization of ammonia heat pipe', COS 2018 - 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, Jun 2018
  • 'Transport of Interacting and Evaporating Liquid Sprays in a Gas-Solid Riser Reactor', 11th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-11), Aug 2013