Dr Abhijit Guha - Résumé and Research
Publication List, PDF files and details of research findings
are available below. Please scroll down.

Calendar 2018 of American Institute of Physics (AIP) features research of Prof Abhijit Guha

The name of Prof. Abhijit Guha appears within
top 1% of world researchers compiled by leading scientists of
Stanford University (Oct
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).

The celebrated journal Physics of Fluids
showcases research of the group 2016

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  2012-2017 IIT Kharagpur

Dr R S Pandey Distinguished Lecture 2017  IIT Kanpur
Physics of Fluids honours again  2017
Physics of Fluids honours again  2019
MTech/MEng students publish in top journals
Paper of Prof Guha is still 3rd most downloaded
48 months after publication in Jan 2013

aeronautical-journal-abhijit-guha-small   Aircraft Propulsion
  Aeronautical Journal Cover Article  2001
  based on research carried out at University of Bristol
physics-of-fluids-abhijit-guha-small   Bio Fluid Dynamics
  Physics of Fluids Cover Article  2016 
  based on research carried out at IIT Kharagpur
annual-review-fluid-mechanics-abhijit-guha-small   Turbulent Multiphase Flow
  Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 2008
  based on research carried out at University of Cambridge


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Abhijit Guha obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Jadavpur University and a Master of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore). He then went to Trinity College, University of Cambridge, holding the Prince of Wales Scholarship (one scholarship across all disciplines awarded to the best candidate of all Commonwealth countries including U.K.) and an Honorary Nehru Scholarship (India), and received his PhD from the Engineering department of University of Cambridge. He was a Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity College during 1989-90. In 1990 a number of top Cambridge colleges simultaneously offered him the rare distinguished opportunity of becoming a Fellow at those colleges; he accepted the offer from  Gonville & Caius College and became a Fellow there. While at Cambridge, his research was based at the Whittle Laboratory. In 1995 he became a permanent Faculty member at the Aerospace Engineering department of the University of Bristol (the city of Bristol hosting the largest concentration of aerospace and related industries in Europe, including Airbus, Rolls Royce, AgustaWestland Helicopter, BAE Systems). He joined the Mechanical Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Kharagpur) as a Professor in 2009. Professor Guha has been accorded the Honorary status of Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Engineering at University of Bristol in 2012  (2012-2015).
    His research interests lie in the areas of thermo-fluid-dynamics of two-phase flow, transport and deposition of particles, heat and mass transfer, gas turbine & energy, environment, fluid dynamics, biological fluid dynamics and computational fluid dynamics. In 1993 and 1994 he delivered short courses at the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he delivered the prestigious VKI Lecture Series at the von Karman Institute in Belgium. In 2000 he was elected to the Editorial Board of Journal of Aerosol Science. In 2008 he was invited to contribute to the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. He has delivered Keynote Lectures at International conferences, including the 2002 ASME/ISHMT international conference on Heat and Mass Transfer. He is a regular reviewer for several international journals. The name of Abhijit Guha appears within top 1% of world researchers compiled by leading scientists of Stanford University and published in October 2020.
     He is the recipient of the first-ever
Teaching Excellence Award 2003 for the whole of  Faculty of Engineering (containing several departments) at University of Bristol. University of Bristol introduced this scheme in 2003 and awards this prize to one member in each Faculty each year. 
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  John Young, the Hopkinson Prof. at University of Cambridge,
    on Abhijit Guha's research on Non-equilibrium Condensation

  Prof. GFC Rogers - the famous Bristol author of two legendary 
    textbooks on Guha's paper on propulsion

  Acknowledgement from  Sir John Horlock  FRS, FREng

  Principal Performance Engineer of Rolls-Royce
    on Guha's work on Gas Turbine Performance and Optimization

  Lecture Series at von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

  Article in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

 Guha's work on Shock Waves is used as benchmark solutions
    and mentioned
38 times in a 2015 paper of a

    leading scientist 
(hI=64) of Stanford University

  Guha's work on Turbulent Motion of Particles
    is a compulsory element of a doctoral course at EPFL

Thermo-fluid Dynamics Research

List of Impact Factors of Journals in which Abhijit Guha has published (click here)
MULTIPHASE FLOW  (CFD and Analysis)

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ARFL 2008
Annual Review of
Fluid Mechanics 2008
Springer Book 2007
Springer Book 2007
VKI Lecture 1995
VKI Lecture 1995

Keynote Speech 2002
ISHMT/ASME Int Conf

Keynote Speech 1995
IISc Golden Jubilee Int Conf

Short Courses 1993, 1994
Czech Academy of Sciences

    Previous successful projects covered diverse topics of engineering as well as of fundamental importance. The outcome of these projects has appeared in seminal Journals and major conferences. 
    The research work involves modelling the flow of multiphase mixtures - either solid-particle-laden-gases or  vapour-droplet mixtures, e.g. moist air, - through a combination of numerical calculations (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and theoretical analysis. This is an interdisciplinary research area requiring synthesis of ideas from several fields such as fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and, heat and mass transfer. Currently experiments are being conducted on condensation in microchannels and direct contact condensation.

Examples of previous successful projects include : 

  • Formulation of a unified theory and an extremely efficient calculation method of particle deposition in a turbulent flow field
  • Fundamental studies on non-equilibrium homogeneous condensation (with addition of energy in transonic flow)
  • Fundamental studies on interphase transport of mass, momentum and energy
  • Application of CFD for predicting oscillating and moving shock waves in two-phase mixtures
  • Development of CFD codes for predicting the flow of wet steam
  • Fundamental studies of relaxation gas dynamics and structure of shock waves in vapour-droplet flow
  • Development of a theory and tools for interpreting total pressure and total temperature in multiphase flow
  • Development of a new theory (based on Monte-Carlo simulation) of nucleation of water droplets in large, multistage steam turbines responsible for 80% of world-wide electricity generation. 
 
Guha's Generalized Equations for Particle Transport and Deposition
The equations are valid for laminar to turbulent flow, and, for wide range of particle size (nanoparticles to large millimeter-sized particles). The theory includes the effects of inertia, Brownian diffusion, thermophoresis, turbophoresis, electrical and other body forces, gravity, shear-induced lift, surface roughness, and corrections due to Knudsen effect or finite slip Reynolds number. These equations reduce to the well known relations in the appropriate limits. Thus, for example, Fick's law of diffusion or the currently popular equations for the motion of nanoparticles can be viewed as subsets of the unified advection-diffusion theory derived. Experiments show that the deposition velocity varies differently with the size of particle in different ranges of particle size and it can vary by several orders of magnitude as particle size is altered. In the past, separate theories were needed in different particle size ranges and it would have been difficult to apply the theories to flow situations that are different from the situations for which the parameters of the theories were tuned. The unified advection-diffusion theory thus settles the quest over previous fifty years in the field for a physics-based explanation for the observed complex behaviour of particle transport.     J. Aerosol Science        Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

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J. Aerosol Science
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Unified Theory of Turbulent Transport by Abhijit Guha


A New (Stochastic) Theory of Nucleation of Water Droplets in Multistage Steam Turbine Used Globally for Electricity Generation
Non-equilibrium Condensation with  Stochastic Fluctuation due to Wake Segmentation in a Multistage Machine
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
The essence of the theory is that large-scale static temperature fluctuations caused by the segmentation of blade-wakes by successive blade-rows have a dominating influence on nucleation and droplet growth in turbines.  "True" turbulent fluctuations (due to shear-layer unsteadiness, etc.) are probably less important and are ignored.  A Lagrangian frame of reference is adopted and attention is focussed on a large number of individual fluid particles during their passage through the turbine.  Homogeneous nucleation and growth of droplets in each fluid particle is assumed to be governed by classical theories.  All fluid particles are assumed to experience the same pressure variation but those particles passing close to the blade surfaces suffer greater entropy production and therefore have higher static temperatures than those which pursue near-isentropic paths through the central portions of the blade passages.  Particles which suffer high loss therefore nucleate later in the turbine than those which experience little dissipation.  Condensation is thus viewed as an essentially random and unsteady phenomenon as the dissipation experienced by a fluid particle in one blade-row is assumed to be uncorrelated with its previous history.  On a time-averaged basis, the condensation zone is spread over a much greater distance in the flow direction than a simple steady-flow analysis would indicate and may encompass several blade-rows depending on the number of stages in the machine.  Predicted droplet size spectra show broad, highly-skewed distributions with large mean diameters and sometimes slight bimodality.  These are all characteristics of experimentally measured spectra in real turbines.  Conventional, steady-flow calculation methods, which predict a fixed Wilson point in a specific blade-row and a near-monodispersed droplet population, cannot reproduce any of these characteristics.
Wake segmentation model

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Computation of non-equilibrium condensation with wake segmentation model


Relaxation Processes, and Steady and Moving Shock Wave Structure in Two-Phase Vapour-Droplet Flow
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CFD prediction of moving wet shock waves Abhijit GuhaThe structures of stationary and moving fully and partly dispersed shock waves in vapour-droplet, two-phase flow are studied. The relaxation processes corresponding to the interphase transfer of mass, momentum and energy are analyzed. Pure substances only are considered, but, unlike most previous work, the droplet population is allowed to be polydispersed. It is shown how the effects of thermal relaxation for such a mixture can be elegantly incorporated into the analysis.
    Three types of fully dispersed wave are identified. Type I waves are dominated by thermal relaxation and an approximate analytical solution is presented which gives results in close agreement with  accurate numerical solutions of the governing equations. The analysis predicts some unexpected behaviour of the thermodynamic variables and demonstrates the correct scaling parameters for such flows. An approximate analysis is also presented for Type II waves, dominated by both velocity and thermal relaxation. Type III waves, where all three relaxation processes are important, are of little practical significance and are only briefly discussed. Partly dispersed waves are also considered and the results of a numerical simulation of the relaxation zone are presented. A linearised solution of this problem is possible but, unlike other relaxing gas flows, does not give good agreement with the more exact numerical calculations.
    The apparent discontinuity in the speed of sound in a vapour-droplet mixture as the wetness fraction tends to zero has been responsible for some confusion in the literature. This problem is resolved and it is shown that the transition from the two-phase equilibrium to the single-phase frozen speed of sound is continuous.
    Rankine-Hugoniot relations for wet vapour giving jump conditions across shock waves have been derived. Different types of transition have been identified (JFM1992, PhysFluids1994). Mechanisms of entropy production inside a shock wave in wet vapour have been discussed. The unsteady processes through which a partly-dispersed shock wave or a fully-dispersed wave attains its stable, steady structure have been computed.
   
CFD solutions include:
  • Structure of fully dispersed wave (These waves are automatically generated by numerical integration of appropriate equations. The mathematical theory of the growth of instability, showing why such waves exist in reality and why such numerical solutions work, has been developed.)
  • Structure of partly dispersed waves (aerodynamic shock wave followed by a relaxation zone)
  • Moving shock waves with relaxation gas dynamics effects arising from interphase transport of mass, momentum and energy.
Analytical theories include:
  • Derivation of the appropriate time scales involved in interphase transport of mass, momentum and energy.
  • Derivation of the various speeds of sound in a two-phase vapour-droplet mixture.
  • Analytical solutions for the structure of three types of fully dispersed waves.
  • The mathematical theory of the growth of instability, showing why fully-dispersed waves exist in reality.
  • Analytical solution for the structure of partly dispersed shock waves.
  • Jump conditions and comprehensive flow map for various types of shock waves, including novel solutions involving complete evaporation of the dispersed phase.
  • Mathematical theory showing a continuous transition between frozen and equilibrium speeds of sound.
  • Analytical relations for the unsteady developent of structure of shock waves.
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Time-Marching Computation of Steady and Unsteady Wet Steam Flow (Nonequilibrium Condensation Shock)

An unsteady time-marching technique has been developed that can be employed for any type of wet steam flow: nucleating or non-nucleating, subcritical or supercritical, steady or unsteady. It is robust, accurate, simple and fast. The scheme uses a novel technique that performs the integration of the droplet growth equations along the fluid path lines rather than the more usual method which involves freezing the gas dynamic flowfield instantaneously in order to perform the integration. This allows simultaneous solution of all the relevant equations and thus the correct coupling between the vapour-phase gasdynamics and the relaxation effects due to the droplets is maintained. The scheme maintains a polydispersed droplet spectrum which is essential for modelling the nucleation zone accurately. Calculations based on the present scheme show good agreement with experimental measurements, steady and unsteady, reported in the literature.
    It is also shown how the unsteady condensation process due to supercritical heat addition may give rise to a polydispersed droplet spectrum. This has a direct bearing on a possible explanation of the poly-dispersity measured in steam turbines: a polydispersity which cannot be predicted with existing steady flow calculation methods.
Time-marching prediction of unsteady condensation phenomena due to supercritical heat addition
In Turbomachinery  : Latest Developments in a Changing Scene,  London, IMechE, 1991, p. 167-177. (ISBN 0852987617)
Time Evolution of Unsteady Condensation Shock Pressure Profiles


A Unified Theory for the Interpretation of Total Pressure and Total Temperature in Two-Phase Flow
Proceedings of Royal Society         ASME J Fluids Engineering
A unified theory on the interpretation of total pressure and total temperature in multiphase flows has been developed. The present approach applies to both vapour-droplet mixtures and solid particle laden gases, and at subsonic as well as supersonic velocities. It is shown here that the non-equilibrium processes occurring in the vicinity of a stagnation point are important. These processes may be responsible for the generation of entropy and affect the pressure and temperature at the stagnation point. They should be properly considered while inferring, say, flow velocity or entropy generation from Pitot measurements. By proper non-dimensionalization of the relevant parameters, it is possible to find a single (theoretically obtained) calibration curve for the total pressure as a function of the particle size, which is almost independent of the constituents of the multiphase mixture and of the flow conditions. The calibration curve is a plot of a pressure recovery factor versus Stokes number and specifies the total pressure under different nonequilibrium conditions. The total pressure, predicted by the present theory, varies monotonically between the two limiting values : the frozen total pressure (when there is no interphase mass, momentum and energy transfer in the decelerating flow towards the stagnation point) and the equilibrium total pressure (when the dispersed phase, either the liquid droplets or the solid particles, is always at inertial and thermodynamic equilibrium with the continuous vapour phase). The equilibrium total pressure is always higher than the frozen total pressure. It is shown that the equilibrium total temperature, on the other hand, may be higher or lower than the frozen total temperature. In addition, unlike the case of total pressure, the calibration curve for total temperature is not so universal, and the total temperature under nonequilibrium conditions is not necessarily bounded between the frozen and equilibrium values. It is further shown that the entropy of a multiphase mixture has to be carefully interpreted and is not unequivocally related to the total pressure even in steady, adiabatic flow.
    An explicit analytical theory as well as comprehensive numerical solutions of the governing equations are available.
A Unified Theory for the Interpretation of Total Pressure and Total Temperature in Two-Phase Flow
Proceedings of Royal Society         ASME J Fluids Engineering


Thermal Choking due to Nonequilibrium Condensation
ASME J Fluids Engineering
A theory of thermal choking due to non-equilibrium condensation in a nozzle is presented. An explicit equation for the critical quantity of heat in condensing flow has been derived. The equation is of general validity and applies to vapour-droplet flow with or without a carrier gas. It has been usually assumed in the literature that the classical gas dynamics result for the critical quantity of heat applies in condensing flow as well. The classical result is, however, obtained by considering external heat addition to an ideal gas in a constant area duct. In this paper it is shown that the area variation across the condensation zone (although small) and the depletion in the mass of vapour as a result of condensation have profound effects on the critical quantity of heat. The present equation (derived from an integral, control-volume approach) agrees very well with results from full time-marching solution of the non-equilibrium, differential gas dynamic equations. The classical gas dynamics result, on the other hand, seriously underpredicts the critical heat for condensing flow in nozzles (by a factor of three in the example calculation presented).
ASME J Fluids Engineering
Thermal Choking due to Nonequilibrium Condensation

Topics of continuing interest
 
CFD application of the theory of turbulent transport of particles
Computation (CFD) of turbulent deposition on turbine blades
Development of a Navier-Stokes solver for two-phase flow


Publication List and PDF reprints
VKI Lecture
Two-phase Overview
Turbulent Transport
Effects of Thermophoresis on the Motion of Micro-Nano Particles
in Natural Convective Flow
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 68, January 2014, p. 42-50.
J. Aerosol Science, vol 77, 2014, p. 85-101.

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Topics of Current Interest :
Condensation in Microchannel
Direct Condensation Particle transport in human lung

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Non-equilibrium Condensation
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Self Adaptive Grid
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COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

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 Topics of Current Interest :
Natural convection of regular fluids, nanofluids, non-Newtonian fluids

Natural Convection of regular fluids, nanofluids, non-Newtonian fluids
Computational Biology
with Fluid-Structure interaction


computational biology
Computation of particle transport
in human lung

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CFD of rotating fluid flow in a
Tesla disc turbine
(computed contours of tangential velocity,
radial velocity, pressure and pathlines)
CFD of rotating flow in Tesla disc turbine
Computation of fluid dynamics and performance of a microturbine
(First CFD simulation of a microturbine, a concept developed at MIT.)
CFD simulation of microturbine
CFD of interacting wall and offset
turbulent jets

CFD of interacting jets
Computation of indoor air quality
(The figure shows computed CO concentration inside a large kitchen in the campus)
CFD of Indoor Air Quality in a community kitchen
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Mach Contour
Non-equilibrium Condensation
Mach Contour
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Wetness Contour
Non-equilibrium Condensation
Wetness Fraction Contour
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Self Adaptive Grid
Non-equilibrium Condensation
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Effects of finitenes on natural convection

CFD prediction of moving wet shock waves Abhijit Guha
CFD (unsteady time-marching) prediction of moving shock waves in two-phase wet vapour in piston-and-cylinder arrangement showing the effects of relaxation gas dynamics.
Unsteady computation of wake segmentation in multistage turbine
Wake Segmentation Nucleation Theory Abhijit Guha

The effect of flow unsteadiness on the homogeneous nucleation of water droplets in steam turbines, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, 1994, 349: 445-472.

Unsteady Nonequilibrium condensation

Unsteady nonequilibrium condensation
Monte Carlo Simulation of Homogeneous Condensation
Monte Carlo Simulation of Homogeneous Condensation

Physics of Fluids
vol 28(1), 2016, p. 013601-1:30.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4937590  (30 pages)
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Physics of Fluids, vol 28(10), 2016, p.103601 - 1:19
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The power of similitude and dimensional analysis is combined here with the power of computational fluid dynamics to achieve a generalized physical understanding from a large set of accurate numerical simulations.

Physics of Fluids, vol 29(9), 2017, p.093604 - 1:13
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Physics of Fluids, vol 28(12), 2016, p.123602: 1-32.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4971315  (32 pages)
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Physics of Fluids, vol 29(6), 2017, p.063602: 1-24.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4984919  (24 pages).
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Physics of Fluids, vol 31(6), 2019, p.063601: 1-29.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5093724  (29 pages).
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One uniqueness of the present study is that it does not simply determine the final solution in a complex geometry by the application of CFD as a black-box tool, instead it seeks to attribute the final solution to more elemental aspects of the specified problem thereby enhancing understanding.
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HEAT and MASS TRANSFER

Topics of Current Interest :

   Mass Transfer
A generalized theory of mass transfer.

   Natural Convection
Effects of finiteness on the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection.
A similarity theory for natural convection above horizontal plates.
Closed-form analytical solutions for laminar natural convection on horizontal and vertical plates.
Effect of thermophoresis on the motion of micro and nano particles in natural convection.
Magnetohydrodynamic natural convection.
Natural convection in nanofluids.
Natural convection in non-Newtonian fluids.
Natural convection in porous media.
Development of an analytical theory for natural convection on inclined plates.

   Forced Convection

A similarity theory for forced convection from horizontal plates with suction/blowing.

   Mixed Convection
Thermo-fluid-dynamics of mixed convection on a rotating disc.

   Interphase Transport

Analysis of mass, momentum and energy transfers between particles or droplets
and the surrounding vapour (or gas)

   Bio-inspired Heat Exchanger

Design and analysis of novel heat exchangers with radically improved energy transfer rate

   Turbine Blade Cooling

Analysis of the cooling of turbine blades in aero gas turbines.
(This work is being conducted in collaboration with Rolls-Royce.)
HeatExchanger-1 HeatExchanger-2 BladeCooling

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ASME J. Heat Transfer, vol. 135, October 2013, 102501: 1-9
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Deduced Mathematical Relations for Natural Convection


Physics of Fluids, vol 28(6), 2016, p.063603: 1-29.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4953382  (29 pages).
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Physics of Fluids
, vol 29(10), 2017, p.103607: 1-17.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4990279  (17 pages).

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Int. J. Thermal Sciences, vol 111, 2017 January, p 475-490.
A Unified Theory  for Natural Convection on Surfaces at Arbitrary Inclination from the Vertical to the Horizontal
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Computation and physical explanation of the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection around heated inclined plates
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International Journal of Thermal Sciences Vol 148 (2020) 106062
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GAS TURBINE AND ENERGY
(Gas Turbine, Tesla Turbine, Solar Energy, Biofuel)
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Gas Turbine Performance and Optimisation

A systematic methodology for the thermodynamic optimisation of civil bypass engines (turbofan or advanced propulsors) has been developed.
Guha's Methodology: Computation of performance of a given gas turbine engine is well established. The research work of A Guha addresses the complementary question - how to design the best gas turbine engine for a specified task. A new systematic methodology for optimisation of civil turbofan engines has been developed. The work addresses the importance of non-perfect gas properties. Analytical formulae have been derived for determining optimum fan pressure ratio, optimum ratio of cold and hot jet velocities, optimum ratio of mean jet velocity and aircraft speed, etc. The work establishes new concepts such as the existence of true thermodynamic optimum values of the bypass ratio and the maximum temperature in the cycle. The work is interdisciplinary in nature, including economics. As an example, it is shown how to determine the optimum specific thrust (for a given mission) from a direct engine cost (DEC) analysis.
    In the new methodology, the optimum combination of overall parameters (FPR, OPR, TET, B) is determined concurrently that maximizes the overall efficiency while maintaining the specific thrust at a predetermined value established from a direct operating cost (DOC) analysis.  This is very different from the parametric studies (available in the literature) where the effects of the variation of a single variable are calculated numerically while all other variables are kept fixed - therefore at their non-optimum levels. The parametric studies are thus not capable of finding the true optimum combination.  Moreover, often such parametric studies may involve a large excursion in the value of the specific thrust which is unacceptable for a particular mission. So, even with the availability of a computational package, the present methodology offers a more logical approach.  Additionally, several, simple and explicit, new analytical relations have been derived here that accelerate the optimisation process and offer physical insight.  With these, the optimisation can be undertaken with hand calculations at the initial phase of a real design process and can also be treated realistically in a textbook.

Work in progress: Analysis of the cooling of turbine blades in aero gas turbines. (This work is being conducted in collaboration with Rolls-Royce.)

Optimum_turbofan_gas_turbine_design_abhijit_guha
Optimisation of aero gas turbine engines, Aeronautical Journal, vol. 105, no. 1049, July 2001, p.  345-358.

Design Space of Optimised Turbofan Gas Turbine Engines: Past, Present, Future

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Optimisation of aero gas turbine engines, Aeronautical Journal, vol. 105, no. 1049, July 2001, p.  345-358.
Optimisation of aero gas turbine engines

Turbofan emission

Discovery of a new concept - the existence of optimum turbine entry temperature
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 215, no A4, 2001, p. 507-512
Optimization_Gas_Turbine_Real_Gas_IMechE_JPE_Guha_2001.jpg
Deduced explicit analytical formulae
AIAA J Propulsion and Power, vol 17, no. 5, Sept-Oct 2001, p.1117-1122.
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IMechE Proc., Part C, J. Mechanical Engineering Science, vol 217, no A4, 2003, p. 1085-1099
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IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol. 215, no. A3, 2001, p. 375-387.
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TESLA TURBOMACHINE
Topics of Current Interest :

Development of a flexible test facility for Tesla turbines and compressors.
Systematic study of performance and efficiency.
Development of a theoretical model
Computational Fluid Dynamics Solutions
Fundamental study of the fluid dynamics of rotating flow
(This work is supported by a grant from Rolls-Royce.)

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IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 223 (A4), 2009,
p451-465.  (15 pages)
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Guha-Smiley-IMechE-Power-Energy-2010-1
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 224, no. A2, 2010, p.261-277.  (17 pages)

Schematic of Tesla Turbine Abhijit Guha IIT-KGP
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 226 (5),
2012
, p650-663.  (14 pages)

Fluid Dynamics of Rotating Flow Abhijit Guha
European J. of Mechanics B/Fluids, vol. 37, 2013,
p.112-123.  (12 pages)


IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 228(4), 2014, p. 429-439.  (11 pages)

Physics of Fluids, vol 26, 2014, 033601-1:27. (27 pages)

Physics of Fluids, vol 26, 2014, 033601-1:27. (27 pages)
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 231(8) , 2017, p. 721-738 (18 pages).
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IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 232, 2018, p.  (21 pages).
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Solar Energy

Modelling of time-dependent performance of a solar pond for a whole year.

Study of the effect of bottom reflectivity and slope of side walls on the performance of a small solar pond.

Study of double-diffusive convection.


Solar Energy, vol. 39, no. 4, 1987, p 361-367.

Solar Energy, vol. 38, no. 2, 1987, p 135-136.
Research on Solar Energy Modelling of Solar Pond

ENVIRONMENT
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Topics of Current Interest :  
Experiments on the performance and emission of an IC engine with various
biofuels


Performance and emission of engine with biofuels
Experiments and computations of indoor air quality
Building and Environment, vol 52, 2012, p.177-190.
The example figure shows the measured contours of CO2 in a large kitchen in the campus.
Experiment Indoor Air Quality in a large kitchen

The example figure shows the measured concentration of CO in four large kitchens in the campus.
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Prediction of NOx emission in turbofan engines
Optimisation and design synthesis of turbofan engines.
Design and optimization of a new turbofan engine with alternative fuel (hydrogen) to meet ACARE 2020 goals.

Turbofan emission

AIAA
J. Propulsion and Power, vol 28, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2012, p.170-180.

IMechE Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719.

IMechE Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, Issue 3, March 2013, p. 502-527.
Solar Energy

Modelling of time-dependent performance of a solar pond for a whole year.
Study of the effect of bottom reflectivity and slope of side walls on the performance of a small solar pond.
Study of double-diffusive convection.
Research on Solar Energy

Solar Energy, vol. 39, no. 4, 1987, p 361-367.

Solar Energy, vol. 38, no. 2, 1987, p 135-136.

Sustainable Aero-Engine with Alternative Fuel (Hydrogen)
Development and optimization of a sustainable turbofan aeroengine
for improved performance and emissions
,
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering,
vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719.
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Following Guha's optimisation method [Aeronautical Journal, 2001],
an optimisation scheme is devised for the sustainable turbofan concept
to minimize the fuel consumption.
The optimisation results shown in
Figure 4 represent the possible design space of an aero-engine based
on the sustainable turbofan cycle developed here, the four specific thrusts
chosen representing broadly the past, present, near-future and distant-future.

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TOPICS WITH REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS OF A GUHA
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Topics
Representative Publications
Turbulent Transport of Particles

(Fickian diffusion, thermophoresis, turbophoresis, electrical force, gravity, surface roughness)
A unified Eulerian theory of turbulent deposition to smooth and rough surfaces
J. Aerosol Science, vol. 28, no. 8, 1997, p. 1517-1537. (21 pages)
Transport and deposition of particles in turbulent and laminar flow,
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol 40, 2008, p. 311-341. (31 pages)
A paper in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is considered a top accolade in the field.
Thermophoresis Effect of thermophoresis and its mathematical models on the transport and deposition of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on vertical and horizontal plates
J. Aerosol Science
, vol 77, 2014, p. 85-101 . DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2014.06.005 (17 pages)
Effect of thermophoresis on the motion of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on horizontal plates,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 68, January 2014, p. 42-50DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.08.046 (9 pages)
A unified Eulerian theory of turbulent deposition to smooth and rough surfaces
J. Aerosol Science, vol. 28, no. 8, 1997, p. 1517-1537. (21 pages)
Novel Theory of Nucleation (with CFD)

Non-equilibrium Condensation

Wet Steam
The effect of flow unsteadiness on the homogeneous nucleation of water droplets in steam turbines
Philosophical Transactions  A of  The Royal Society, vol. 349, 1994, p. 445-472.  (28 pages)
Time-marching prediction of unsteady condensation phenomena due to supercritical heat addition
In Turbomachinery  : Latest Developments in a Changing Scene,  London, IMechE, 1991, p. 167-177. (ISBN 0852987617)
Thermal choking due to non-equilibrium condensation
ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 116, 1994, p 599-604.
A unified theory of aerodynamic and condensation shock waves in vapour-droplet flows with or without a carrier gas
Physics of Fluids, vol 6, no 5, 1994, p 1893-1913. (21 pages)
Two-Phase Flows with Phase Transition
In VKI Lecture Series 1995-06, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, 1995, p 1-110.  (ISSN 0377-8312)
Computation, analysis and theory of two-phase flows
The Aeronautical Journal, vol. 102, No. 1012, 1998, p. 71-82.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001924000065556 (12 pages).
Fluid Dynamics in Branching Network

Bio-Fluid-Dynamics
Finding order in complexity: A study of the fluid dynamics in a three-dimensional branching network,
Physics of Fluids, vol 28(12), 2016, p.123602: 1-32.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4971315  (32 pages)
This Paper was showcased by Physics of Fluids as "FEATURED ARTICLE".
The COVER PAGE of the December 2016 Issue of Physics of Fluids is based on this Paper.
This is the FIRST TIME the celebrated journal has changed its Cover Page since 1994.
Secondary motion in three-dimensional branching networks,
Physics of Fluids, vol 29(6), 2017, p.063602: 1-24.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4984919  (24 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".
Fluid dynamics of oscillatory flow in three-dimensional branching networks,
Physics of Fluids, vol 31(6), 2019, p.063601 - 1:29.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5093724  (29 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".
Fluid dynamics of a bifurcation,
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flowvol 80, December Issue, 2019, Paper 108483, p.1-29  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2019.108483  (29 pages).
A systematic study of blockage in three-dimensional branching networks with an application to model human bronchial tree,
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamicsvol 34, 2020, p. 301-332,  DOI: 10.1007/s00162-020-00523-1  (32 pages).
Optimisation and Performance
of Gas Turbine Engines
Determination of optimum specific thrust for civil aero gas turbine engines: a multidisciplinary design synthesis and optimisation,
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, Issue 3, March 2013, p. 502-527.  DOI: 10.1177/0954410011435623.
(26 pages)
Optimisation of aero gas turbine engines,
Aeronautical Journal, vol. 105, no. 1049, July 2001, p.  345-358.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001924000012264  (14 pages)
The COVER PAGE of the July 2001 Issue of Aeronautical Journal is based on this Paper.
Performance and optimisation of gas turbines with real gas effects
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 215, no A4, 2001, p. 507-512.
An efficient generic method for calculating the properties of combustion products,
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol. 215, no. A3, 2001, p. 375-387. (13 pages)
Optimum fan pressure ratio for bypass engines with separate or mixed exhaust streams,
AIAA J Propulsion and Power, vol 17, no. 5, Sept-Oct 2001, p.1117-1122.
Effects of internal combustion and non-perfect gas properties on the optimum performance of gas turbines
IMechE Proc., Part C, J. Mechanical Engineering Science, vol 217, no A4, 2003, p. 1085-1099. (15 pages)
Development and optimization of a sustainable turbofan aeroengine for improved performance and emissions,
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719.  DOI: 10.1177/0954410012462183.
(19 pages
Performance of Tesla Disc Turbine   The fluid dynamics of work transfer in the non-uniform viscous rotating flow within a Tesla disc turbomachine
Physics of Fluids, vol 26(3), 2014, 033601-1:27.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4866263 (27 pages).
The fluid dynamics of the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine,
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, vol. 37 (January_February), 2013, p.112-123. DOI:10.1016/j.euromechflu.2012.08.001. (12 pages)        
The Paper is 3rd most downloaded even 48 months after its publication!
Inflow-Rotor interaction in Tesla Disc Turbines: Effects of discrete inflows, finite disc thickness and radial clearance on the fluid dynamics and performance of the turbine,
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 232(8), 2018, p. 971-991. DOI: 10.1177/0957650918764156 (21 pages).
A non-dimensional study of the flow through co-rotating discs and performance optimization of a Tesla disc turbine,
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 231(8), 2017, p. 721-738. DOI: 10.1177/0957650917715148 (18 pages). 
Flow of a nanofluid in the microspacing within co-rotating discs of a Tesla turbine,
Applied Mathematical Modellingvol 40, 2016, p. 485-499.  DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2015.05.012  (15 pages).
A theory of Tesla disc turbines
,
IMechE
Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol. 226(5), 2012, p.650–663. DOI: 10.1177/0957650912446402  (14 pages).
Similitude and scaling laws for the rotating flow between concentric discs,
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 228(4), 2014, p. 429-439. DOI: 10.1177/0957650914523947 (11 pages)
Experiment and analysis for an improved design of the inlet and nozzle in Tesla disc turbines
,
IMechE
Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 224, no. A2, 2010, p.261-277.  DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE818. (17 pages)
Design of a test rig and study of the performance and efficiency of a Tesla disc turbine
.
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 223, no. A4, 2009, p.451-465.  DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE664. (15 pages)
Analytical and computational solutions for three-dimensional flow-field and relative pathlines for the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine,
Computers and Fluids, vol 88, 2013, p.344-353.  DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.09.008  (10 pages)
The fluid dynamics of symmetry and momentum transfer in microchannels within corotating discs with discrete multiple inflows,
Physics of Fluids, vol 29(9), 2017, p.093604 - 1:13.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5001252  (13 pages). 
Nanofluid Flow of a nanofluid in the microspacing within co-rotating discs of a Tesla turbine,
Applied Mathematical Modellingvol 40, 2016, p. 485-499.  DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2015.05.012  (15 pages).
Natural convective boundary layer flow of nanofluids above an isothermal horizontal plate,
ASME J. Heat Transfervol. 136, October 2014, 102501-1 : 102501-8DOI: 10.1115/1.4027909 (8 pages).
Natural convection above a horizontal plate in a nanofluid saturated porous medium with or without a magnetic field,
J. Porous Media, vol 18 (6), 2015, p. 613-628DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v18.i6.50 (16 pages)
Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow Analysis of von Kármán’s swirling flow on a rotating disc in Bingham fluids,
Physics of Fluidsvol 28(1), 2016, p. 013601-1:30.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4937590  (30 pages).
Natural convection of non-Newtonian power-law fluids on a horizontal plate,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 70, March 2014, p. 930-938DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.11.001 (9 pages).
Environment, Emission, Indoor Air Development and optimization of a sustainable turbofan aeroengine for improved performance and emissions,
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719.
DOI: 10.1177/0954410012462183
. (19 pages)
Experimental and computational investigation of indoor air quality inside several community kitchens in a large campus
,
Building and Environment, vol 52, 2012, p.177-190.   DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.10.015 . (14 pages)
Study of prediction methods for NOx emission from turbofan engines
,
AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, vol 28, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2012, p.170-180, DOI: 10.2514/1.B34245. (11 pages)
Alternative Fuel
Bio-Fuel, Hydrogen
Development and optimization of a sustainable turbofan aeroengine for improved performance and emissions,
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719
DOI: 10.1177/0954410012462183. (19 pages)
Natural Convection

Forced Convection

Mixed Convection
Effects of finiteness on the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection above horizontal plates,
Physics of Fluidsvol 28(6), 2016, p. 063603 - 1:29.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4953382 (29 pages).
The thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection around a heated a vertical plate
with a critical assessment of the standard similarity theory
,
Physics of Fluidsvol 29(10), 2017, p. 103607 - 1:17.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4990279 (17 pages).
Computation and physical explanation of the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection around heated inclined plates with inclination varying from horizontal to vertical,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 135, June 2019, p. 1130-1151DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.01.054 (22 pages).
Correction for semi-infinite assumption in the theories of natural convection and determination of average Nusselt number for finite inclined plates,
Int. J. Thermal Sciencesvol 148, February Issue, 2020, Paper 106062, p.1-18  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.106062  (18 pages).
A unified integral theory of laminar natural convection over surfaces at arbitrary inclination from horizontal to vertical,
Int. J. Thermal Sciences, vol 111, 2017 January, p.475-490.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2016.08.011  (16 pages).
Non-linear interaction of buoyancy with von Kármán’s swirling flow in mixed convection above a heated rotating disc,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 108, May 2017, p. 402-416DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.11.082 (15 pages).
Closed-form analytical solutions for laminar natural convection on horizontal plates,
ASME J. Heat Transfer, vol. 135, October 2013, 102501-1 : 102501-9. DOI: 10.1115/1.4024430 (9 pages)
Effect of thermophoresis and its mathematical models on the transport and deposition of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on vertical and horizontal plates
J. Aerosol Science
, vol 77, 2014, p. 85-101 . DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2014.06.005 (17 pages)
A similarity theory for natural convection from a horizontal plate for prescribed heat flux or wall temperature,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 55, Issues 13-14, June 2012, p. 3857-3868.   DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.02.031. (12 pages)
A similarity theory for forced convection over horizontal plates,
AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol 27, no. 3, July-September 2013, p. 506-514. DOI: 10.2514/1.T4033 (9 pages)
Magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow over a horizontal isothermal flat plate,
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol 18, December 2013, p. 3407-3422,. DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.04.023. (16 pages)
Analysis of heat transfer and stability of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection above a horizontal plate with heat flux boundary condition
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 70, March 2014, p. 793-802DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.10.049 (10 pages)
Natural convection above a horizontal plate in a nanofluid saturated porous medium with or without a magnetic field",
J. Porous Media, vol 18 (6), 2015, p. 613-628DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v18.i6.50  (16 pages)
CFD solutions for magnetohydrodynamic natural convection over horizontal and vertical surfaces,
J. Molecular Liquids, vol 236, 2017, p. 465-476DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.03.110 (12 pages).
Natural convection of non-Newtonian power-law fluids on a horizontal plate,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 70, March 2014, p. 930-938DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.11.001 (9 pages).
Effect of thermophoresis on the motion of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on horizontal plates,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 68, January 2014, p. 42-50DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.08.046 (9 pages)
Fluid Dynamics of Rotating Flow The physics of pressure variation in microchannels within corotating or static discs,
Physics of Fluids, vol 28(10), 2016, p.103601 - 1:19.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4963370  (19 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".
Analysis of von Kármán’s swirling flow on a rotating disc in Bingham fluids
,
Physics of Fluidsvol 28(1), 2016, p. 013601-1:30.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4937590  (30 pages).
The fluid dynamics of symmetry and momentum transfer in microchannels within corotating discs with discrete multiple inflows,
Physics of Fluids, vol 29(9), 2017, p.093604 - 1:13.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5001252  (13 pages).
The fluid dynamics of work transfer in the non-uniform viscous rotating flow within a Tesla disc turbomachine
Physics of Fluids, vol 26(3), 2014, 033601-1:27.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4866263 (27 pages).
The fluid dynamics of the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine,
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, vol. 37 (January_February), 2013, p.112-123.  DOI:10.1016/j.euromechflu.2012.08.001. (12 pages)
Similitude and scaling laws for the rotating flow between concentric discs,
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 228(4), 2014, p. 429-439. DOI: 10.1177/0957650914523947 (11 pages)
Non-linear interaction of buoyancy with von Kármán’s swirling flow in mixed convection above a heated rotating disc,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 108, May 2017, p. 402-416DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.11.082 (15 pages).
Mass Transfer A generalized mass transfer law unifying various particle transport mechanisms, 
Heat Mass Transfer, vol 44, 2008, p. 1289-1303. DOI:10.1007/s00231-008-0369-5 (15 pages)
CFD of Unsteady Interaction of Two Turbulent Jets Numerical  investigation of steady and periodically unsteady flow for various separation distances between a wall jet and an offset jet,
J. Fluids and Structures, vol 50, 2014, p. 528-546 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2014.07.009 (19 pages).
Periodic vortex shedding phenomenon for various separation distances between two plane turbulent parallel jets,
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 99, 2016, p. 576-588,  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.03.095  (13 pages).
Transition of a steady to a periodically unsteady flow for various jet widths of a combined wall jet and offset jet,
ASME J. Fluids Engineeringvol 138(7), 2016, 071206:1-11,  DOI: 10.1115/1.4032750  ( 11 pages).
Analysis of conjugate heat transfer for combined wall jet and offset jet,
ASME J. Heat Transfervol 138(5), 2016, 051701-1:13.  DOI: 10.1115/1.4032287  ( 13 pages).
CFD of Two-phase Flow Two-Phase Flows with Phase Transition, In
VKI Lecture Series 1995-06, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, 1995, p 1-110.  (ISSN 0377-8312)
Time-marching prediction of unsteady condensation phenomena due to supercritical heat addition
In Turbomachinery  : Latest Developments in a Changing Scene,  London, IMechE, 1991, p. 167-177. (ISBN 0852987617)
CFD of Moving Shock Waves Stationary and moving normal shock  waves in wet steam,  In
Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, (ed. G.E.A. Meier and P.A. Thompson), Springer Verlag, 1990, p 159-170.
(ISBN 3540502033  Invited IUTAM Symposium.)
CFD of Transonic Single-Phase Flow Implicit numerical simulation of transonic flow through turbine cascades on unstructured grids
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 219, no A1, 2005, p. 35-47. (13 pages)
Interphase Transport of Mass,
Momentum and Energy

Relaxation Processes &
Structure of Shock Waves
A unified theory of aerodynamic and condensation shock waves in vapour-droplet flows with or without a carrier gas
Physics of Fluids, vol 6, no 5, 1994, p 1893-1913. (21 pages)
Normal shock wave structure in two-phase vapour-droplet flows,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 228, 1991, p 243-274. (32 pages)
The physics of relaxation processes and of stationary and non-stationary shock waves in vapour-droplet flows, In
Transport Phenomena in Heat and Mass Transfer (ed. J.A. Reizes), Elsevier, 1992, p 1404-1417.  (ISBN 0444898514)
Stationary and moving normal shock  waves in wet steam,  In
Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, (ed. G.E.A. Meier and P.A. Thompson), Springer Verlag, 1990, p 159-170.
(ISBN 3540502033  Invited IUTAM Symposium.)

Structure of partly dispersed normal shock waves in vapour-droplet flows
Physics of Fluids A, vol 4, no 7, 1992, p 1566-1578. (13 pages)
Shock waves in fluids with interphase transport of mass, momentum and energy (vapour-droplet mixtures and solid-particle-laden gases),
In
Shock Waves Science and Technology Reference Library, Volume 1: Multiphase Flows, (Edited by MEH van Dongen), Springer, Berlin, 2007, pp. 135-186.     (ISBN: 3540358455)   (52 pages)
Rankine Hugoniot Relations Jump conditions across normal shock waves in pure vapour-droplet flows
Journal  of  Fluid Mechanics, vol 241,1992, p 349-369. (21 pages)
A unified theory of aerodynamic and condensation shock waves in vapour-droplet flows with or without a carrier gas
Physics of Fluids, vol 6, no 5, 1994, p 1893-1913. (21 pages)
Total Pressure and Temperature
in Two-phase Flows
A unified theory for the interpretation of total pressure and temperature in two-phase flows at subsonic and supersonic speeds
Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 454, 1998, p. 671-695. (25 pages)
A simple, analytical theory for interpreting measured total pressure in multiphase flows
ASME J. Fluids Engg., vol. 120, June  1998, p 385-389.
Thermal Choking Thermal choking due to non-equilibrium condensation
ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 116, 1994, p 599-604.
Bio-inspired Heat Exchangers Overview of the Development of Heat Exchangers for Use in Air-Breathing Propulsion Pre-Coolers
Acta  Astronautica, vol. 41, no. 11, 1997, p. 723-729
Solar Energy The effect of bottom reflectivity on the performance of a solar pond
Solar Energy, vol. 39, no. 4, 1987, p 361-367.
Concentration profile in the gradient zone of small solar ponds,
Solar Energy, vol. 38, no. 2, 1987, p 135-136.



INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS of  A. Guhatop
(Academic Journals,   Edited Books, Refereed Conference,   Invited Lectures)
 

ACADEMIC JOURNALS 

K Pradhan and A Guha, "A systematic study of blockage in three-dimensional branching networks with an application to model human bronchial tree",
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamicsvol 34, 2020, p. 301-332,  DOI: 10.1007/s00162-020-00523-1  (32 pages).
K Pradhan , A Guha and PK Halder, "Characteristics of pressure drop, mass flow distribution and flow asymmetry in branching networks based on model human bronchial tree",
ZAMM (Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics)vol 100, 2020, Paper e201900022, p. 1-25,  DOI: 10.1002/zamm.201900022  (25 pages).
A Guha, K Pradhan and A Jain, "Correction for semi-infinite assumption in the theories of natural convection and determination of average Nusselt number for finite inclined plates",
Int. J. Thermal Sciences, vol 148, February Issue, 2020, Paper 106062, p.1-18  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.106062  (18 pages).
K Pradhan and A Guha, "Fluid dynamics of a bifurcation",
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, vol 80, December Issue, 2019, Paper 108483, p.1-29  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2019.108483  (29 pages).
K Pradhan and A Guha, "Fluid dynamics of oscillatory flow in three-dimensional branching networks",
Physics of Fluids, vol 31(6), 2019, p.063601 - 1:29.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5093724  (29 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".
A Guha, A Jain and K Pradhan,
"Computation and physical explanation of the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection around heated inclined plates with inclination varying from horizontal to vertical"
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Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 135, June 2019, p. 1130-1151DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.01.054 (22 pages).
S Sengupta and A Guha, "Inflow-Rotor interaction in Tesla Disc Turbines: Effects of discrete inflows, finite disc thickness and radial clearance on the fluid dynamics and performance of the turbine",
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 232(8), 2018, p. 971-991. DOI: 10.1177/0957650918764156 (21 pages).

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A Guha and S Nayek, "The thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection around a heated a vertical plate with a critical assessment of the standard similarity theory",
Physics of Fluidsvol 29(10), 2017, p.103607 - 1:17.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4990279 (17 pages).

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Sengupta and A Guha, "The fluid dynamics of symmetry and momentum transfer in microchannels within corotating discs with discrete multiple inflows",
Physics of Fluids, vol 29(9), 2017, p.093604 - 1:13.  DOI: 10.1063/1.5001252  (13 pages).

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A Guha and K Pradhan, "Secondary motion in three-dimensional branching networks",
Physics of Fluids, vol 29(6), 2017, p.063602: 1-24.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4984919  (24 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".

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A Guha and S Sengupta, "A non-dimensional study of the flow through co-rotating discs and performance optimization of a Tesla disc turbine",
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 231(8), 2017, p. 721-738. DOI: 10.1177/0957650917715148 (18 pages).

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K Pradhan and A Guha, "CFD solutions for magnetohydrodynamic natural convection over horizontal and vertical surfaces",
J. Molecular Liquids, vol 236, 2017, p. 465-476DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.03.110 (12 pages).

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A Guha and S Sengupta, "Non-linear interaction of buoyancy with von Kármán’s swirling flow in mixed convection above a heated rotating disc",
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 108, May 2017, p. 402-416DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.11.082 (15 pages).

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A Guha and K Pradhan, "A unified integral theory of laminar natural convection over surfaces at arbitrary inclination from horizontal to vertical",
Int. J. Thermal Sciences, vol 111, 2017 January, p.475-490.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2016.08.011  (16 pages)

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A Guha, K Pradhan and P Halder, "Finding order in complexity: A study of the fluid dynamics in a three-dimensional branching network",
Physics of Fluids, vol 28(12), 2016, p.123602: 1-32.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4971315  (32 pages)
This Paper was showcased by Physics of Fluids as "FEATURED ARTICLE".
The COVER PAGE of the December 2016 Issue of Physics of Fluids is based on this Paper.
This is the FIRST TIME the celebrated journal has changed its Cover Page since 1994.

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A Guha and Sengupta, "The physics of pressure variation in microchannels within corotating or static discs",
Physics of Fluids, vol 28(10), 2016, p.103601 - 1:19.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4963370  (19 pages).
This Paper was highlighted by Physics of Fluids as "Editor's Pick".

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A Guha and Sengupta, "Effects of finiteness on the thermo-fluid-dynamics of natural convection above horizontal plates",
Physics of Fluids, vol 28(6), 2016, p. 063603 - 1:29 .  DOI: 10.1063/1.4953382  (29 pages).

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A Guha and Sengupta, "Analysis of von Kármán’s swirling flow on a rotating disc in Bingham fluids",
Physics of Fluidsvol 28(1), 2016, p. 013601-1:30.  DOI: 10.1063/1.4937590  (30 pages).

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Sengupta and A Guha, "Flow of a nanofluid in the microspacing within co-rotating discs of a Tesla turbine",
Applied Mathematical Modellingvol 40, 2016, p. 485-499.  DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2015.05.012  (15 pages).
T Mondal, MK Das, and A Guha, "Periodic vortex shedding phenomenon for various separation distances between two plane turbulent parallel jets",
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 99, 2016, p. 576-588,  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.03.095  (13 pages).
T Mondal, A Guha and MK Das, "Effect of bottom wall proximity on the unsteady flow structures of a combined turbulent wall jet and offset jet flow",
European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluidsvol 57, 2016, p.101-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2015.12.003  ( 14 pages).
T Mondal, MK Das, and A Guha, "Transition of a steady to a periodically unsteady flow for various jet widths of a combined wall jet and offset jet",
ASME J. Fluids Engineeringvol 138(7), 2016, 071206:1-11,  DOI: 10.1115/1.4032750  ( 11 pages).
T Mondal, A Guha and MK Das, "Analysis of conjugate heat transfer for a combined turbulent wall jet and offset jet",
ASME J. Heat Transfervol 138(5), 2016, p. 051701-1:13.  DOI: 10.1115/1.4032287  ( 13 pages). 
T Mondal, A Guha and MK Das, "Computational study of periodically unsteady interaction between a wall jet and an offset jet for various velocity ratios",
Computers and Fluidsvol 123, 2015, p.146-161.  DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.09.015  (16 pages).
K Pradhan and A. Guha, "Natural convection above a horizontal plate in a nanofluid saturated porous medium with or without a magnetic field",
J. Porous Media, vol 18 (6), 2015, p. 613-628DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v18.i6.50 (16 pages
AK Barik, SK Dash and A Guha, "Entrainment of air into an infrared supression (IRS) device using circular and non-circular multiple nozzles",
Computers and Fluids, vol 114, 2015, p. 26-38DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.02.016 (13 pages).
AK Barik, SK Dash and A Guha, "Experimental and numerical investigation of air entrainment into an infrared supression device",
Applied Thermal Engg., vol 75, 22 January 2015, p. 33-44DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.05.042 (12 pages). 

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A Guha and S Sengupta, "The fluid dynamics of work transfer in the non-uniform viscous rotating flow within a Tesla disc turbomachine"
Physics of Fluids, vol 26 (3), 2014, 033601-1:27. DOI: 10.1063/1.4866263 (27 pages). 

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A Guha and S Samanta, "Effect of thermophoresis and its mathematical models on the transport and deposition of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on vertical and horizontal plates"
J. Aerosol Science
, vol 77, 2014, p. 85-101. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2014.06.005 (17 pages
K Pradhan, S Samanta and A Guha, "Natural convective boundary layer flow of nanofluids above an isothermal horizontal plate",
ASME J. Heat Transfervol. 136, October 2014, 102501-1 : 102501-8DOI: 10.1115/1.4027909 (8 pages). 
T Mondal, MK Das and A Guha, "Numerical  investigation of steady and periodically unsteady flow for various separation distances between a wall jet and an offset jet",
J. Fluids and Structures, vol 50, 2014, p. 528-546DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2014.07.009 (19 pages).

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A Guha and S Sengupta, "Similitude and scaling laws for the rotating flow between concentric discs",
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 228(4), 2014, p. 429-439. DOI: 10.1177/0957650914523947 (11 pages).

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A Guha and K Pradhan, "Natural convection of non-Newtonian power-law fluids on a horizontal plate",
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 70, March 2014, p. 930-938DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.11.001 (9 pages).
AK Barik, SK Dash and A Guha, "New correlation for prediction of air entrainment into an infrared suppression  (IRS) device",
Applied Ocean Research, vol 47, 2014, p. 303-312 DOI: 110.1016/j.apor.2014.06.007 (10 pages)
SK Dash and A Guha, "A theoretical study of the thermodynamics of gas expansion from a high pressure to a low pressure tank",
Int. J. Mechanical Engineering Education, vol 42, no 2, April 2014, p.156-165DOI: 10.7227/IJMEE.0009 (10 pages) 
S Samanta and A Guha, "Analysis of heat transfer and stability of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection above a horizontal plate with heat flux boundary condition"
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 70, March 2014, p. 793-802DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.10.049 (10 pages).

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A Guha and S Samanta, "Effect of thermophoresis on the motion of aerosol particles in natural convective flow on horizontal plates",
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfervol 68, January 2014, p. 42-50DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2013.08.046 (9 pages)

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N Chandrasekaran and A Guha, "Development and optimization of a sustainable turbofan aeroengine for improved performance and emissions",
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, November 2013, p. 1701-1719.  DOI: 10.1177/0954410012462183 (19 pages).

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Sengupta and A Guha, "Analytical and computational solutions for three-dimensional flow-field and relative pathlines for the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine",
Computers and Fluidsvol 88, 2013, p.344-353.  DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.09.008  (10 pages).

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A Guha and S Samanta, "Closed-form analytical solutions for laminar natural convection on horizontal plates",
ASME J. Heat Transfervol. 135, October 2013, 102501-1 : 102501-9DOI: 10.1115/1.4024430 (9 pages).
S Samanta and A Guha, "Magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow over a horizontal isothermal flat plate",
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulationvol 18, December 2013, p. 3407-3422,. DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2013.04.023 (16 pages).
S Samanta and A Guha, "A similarity theory for forced convection over horizontal plates",
AIAA J. Thermophysics and Heat Transfervol 27, no. 3, July-September 2013, p. 506-514. DOI: 10.2514/1.T4033 (9 pages).

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A Guha and S Sengupta, "The fluid dynamics of the rotating flow in a Tesla disc turbine",
European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, vol. 37 (January_February), 2013, p.112-123.  DOI:10.1016/j.euromechflu.2012.08.001 (12 pages).
The Paper is 3rd most downloaded even 48 months after its publication!

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A Guha, D Boylan and P Gallagher, "Determination of optimum specific thrust for civil aero gas turbine engines: a multidisciplinary design synthesis and optimisation",
IMechE
Proc., Part G, J. Aerospace Engineering, vol 227, Issue 3, March 2013, p. 502-527.  DOI: 10.1177/0954410011435623 (26 pages).

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S Sengupta and A Guha, "A theory of Tesla disc turbines",
IMechE
Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol. 226(5), 2012, p.650–663.  DOI: 10.1177/0957650912446402 (14 pages).

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S Samanta and A Guha, "A similarity theory for natural convection from a horizontal plate for prescribed heat flux or wall temperature",
Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol 55, Issues 13-14, June 2012, p. 3857-3868.   DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.02.031. (12 pages).


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S Saha, A Guha, S Roy, "Experimental and computational investigation of indoor air quality inside several community kitchens in a large campus",
Building and Environment, vol 52, 2012, p.177-190.   DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.10.015 . (14 pages).


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N Chandrasekaran and A Guha,  "Study of prediction methods for NOx emission from turbofan engines",
AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, vol 28, no. 1, Jan-Feb 2012, p.170-180, DOI: 10.2514/1.B34245. (11 pages).


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A Guha and B Smiley, "Experiment and analysis for an improved design of the inlet and nozzle in Tesla disc turbines ",
IMechE
Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 224, no. A2, 2010, p.261-277.   DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE818. (17 pages).

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GP Hoya and A Guha, "Design of a test rig and study of the performance and efficiency of a Tesla disc turbine".
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 223, no. A4, 2009, p.451-465.  DOI: 10.1243/09576509JPE664. (15 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha, "A generalized mass transfer law unifying various particle transport mechanisms", 
Heat Mass Transfer, vol 44, 2008, p. 1289-1303. DOI:10.1007/s00231-008-0369-5 (15 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha, "Transport and deposition of particles in turbulent and laminar flow",
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 40, 2008, p. 311-341. (31 pages).
A paper in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is considered a top accolade in the field.

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Y Mei & A Guha, "Modification of the upwind schemes for the computation of condensing two-phase flow",
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy,  vol. 220, 2006, p. 809-814

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Y Mei & A Guha, "Implicit numerical simulation of transonic flow through turbine cascades on unstructured grids", 
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 219, no A1, 2005, p. 35-47. (13 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "Effects of internal combustion and non-perfect gas properties on the optimum performance of gas turbines", 
IMechE Proc., Part C, J. Mechanical Engineering Science, vol 217, no A4, 2003, p. 1085-1099. (15 pages). 

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Single-authored, A Guha, "Optimisation of aero gas turbine engines", 
The Aeronautical Journal, vol.105 , No. 1049 , July 2001, p. 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001924000012264 (14 pages).
The COVER PAGE of the July 2001 Issue of Aeronautical Journal is based on this Paper.

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "Optimum fan pressure ratio for bypass engines with separate or mixed exhaust streams",
AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, vol 17, no. 5, Sept-Oct 2001, p.1117-1122.

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Single-authored, A Guha, "Performance and optimisation of gas turbines with real gas effects", 
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol 215, no A4, 2001, p. 507-512.

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "An efficient generic method for calculating the properties of combustion products", 
IMechE Proc., Part A, J. Power and Energy, vol. 215 , No. A3 , 2001, p. 375-387. (13 pages). 

Erratum on “Determination of the optimum performance of gas turbines” by JH Horlock,
IMechE Proc., Part C, J. Mechanical Engineering Science , vol. 215,  2001, p. 1378. (Errors found and communicated by A Guha.)

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "Computation, analysis and theory of two-phase flows", 
The Aeronautical Journal, vol. 102, No. 1012, 1998, p. 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001924000065556  (12 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "A simple, analytical theory for interpreting measured total pressure in multiphase flows", 
ASME J. Fluids Engg., vol. 120, June  1998, p 385-389.

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "A unified theory for the interpretation of total pressure and temperature in two-phase flows at subsonic and supersonic speeds",
Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 454, 1998, p. 671-695. (25 pages).

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 J. Murray, A. Guha & A. Bond,   "Overview of the Development of Heat Exchangers for Use in Air-Breathing Propulsion Pre-Coolers", 
Acta  Astronautica, vol. 41, no. 11, 1997, p. 723-729

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Single-authored, A Guha,   "A unified Eulerian theory of turbulent deposition to smooth and rough surfaces", 
J. Aerosol Science, vol. 28, no. 8, 1997, p. 1517-1537. (21 pages). 

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Single-authored, A Guha,   "Analysis and computation of non-equilibrium two-phase flow",
Sadhana (J. Indian Academy of Sciences), vol. 22, part 3, June  1997, p 295-321. (27 pages). 

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Single-authored, A Guha,   "Thermal choking due to non-equilibrium condensation", 
ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 116, 1994, p 599-604.

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A. Guha and S.K. Biswas,  "On Leonardo da Vinci’s cat and mouse problem", 
Bulletin of Institute of Mathematics & Its Applications, Jan/Feb, vol. 30, 1994, p. 12-15.

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A Guha and J.B. Young,  "The effect of flow unsteadiness on the homogeneous nucleation of water droplets in steam turbines", 
Philosophical Transactions  A of  The Royal Society, vol. 349, 1994, p. 445-472.  (28 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha,   "A unified theory of aerodynamic and condensation shock waves in vapour-droplet flows with or without a carrier gas", 
Physics of Fluids, vol 6, no 5, 1994, p 1893-1913. (21 pages).

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Single-authored, A Guha,   "Jump conditions across normal shock waves in pure vapour-droplet flows", 
Journal  of  Fluid Mechanics, vol 241,1992, p 349-369. (21 pages). 

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "Structure of partly dispersed normal shock waves in vapour-droplet flows",
Physics of Fluids A, vol 4, no 7, 1992, p 1566-1578. (13 pages). 

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J.B. Young and A Guha,   "Normal shock wave structure in two-phase vapour-droplet flows",
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 228, 1991, p 243-274. (32 pages). 

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J. Srinivasan and A Guha,   "Concentration profile in the gradient zone of small solar ponds",
Solar Energy, vol. 38, no. 2, 1987, p 135-136.

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J. Srinivasan and A Guha,  "The effect of bottom reflectivity on the performance of a solar pond", 
Solar Energy, vol. 39, no. 4, 1987, p 361-367.



Springer2007
Springer 2007
ISBN: 3540358455
HeatMass2002
TataMcGrawHill2002
ISBN: 0070474435
VKI Lecture 1995
VKI 1995
ISSN 0377-8312
ISTP1992
ELSEVIER1992
ISBN 0444898514
IMechE1991
IMechE 1991
ISBN 0852987617
IUTAM1990
Springer 1990
ISBN 3540502033

 

EDITED BOOKS

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A Guha and  J.B. Young,   "Stationary and moving normal shock  waves in wet steam",  In
Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, (ed. G.E.A. Meier and P.A. Thompson), 
Springer Verlag, 1990, p 159-170. (ISBN 3540502033) (12 pages)

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A Guha and  J.B. Young,   "Time-marching prediction of unsteady condensation phenomena due to supercritical heat addition", 
In Turbomachinery  : Latest Developments in a Changing Scene,  London, IMechE, 1991, p. 167-177. (ISBN 0852987617)

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "The physics of relaxation processes and of stationary and non-stationary shock waves in vapour-droplet flows", In
Transport Phenomena in Heat and Mass Transfer (ed. J.A. Reizes), Elsevier, 1992, p 1404-1417. 
(ISBN 0444898514)   (14 pages) 
Single-authored, A Guha,   "Relaxation and shock wave structures in two-phase vapour-droplet  flows", Lectures in a short course on  Non-equilibrium Flow with Droplets and Bubbles  organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 3 - 8 April, 1993.
Single-authored, A Guha,   "Non-equilibrium multiphase flow", Lectures in a short course on Metastable Behaviour of Fluids and Critical Phenomena organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, October 30- November 2, 1994.

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(110 pages)
Single-authored, A Guha,  "Two-phase Flows with Phase Transition", In 
VKI Lecture Series 1995-06, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, 1995, p 1-110. 
(110 pages) 
Single-authored, A Guha, "Turbulent transport of particles and a generalized mass transfer law", pp. 29-38, In 
Heat and Mass Transfer 2002, (Edited by SK Saha, SP Venkateshan, BVSSS Prasad and SS Sadhal), Tata-McGrawHill, New Delhi, p 1446, 2002. (ISBN: 0070474435)
(52 pages)
Single-authored, A Guha, “Shock waves in fluids with interphase transport of mass, momentum and energy (vapour-droplet mixtures and solid-particle-laden gases)”,
Combined chapters, In
Shock Waves Science and Technology Reference Library, Volume 1: Multiphase Flows, (Edited by MEH van Dongen), Springer, Berlin, 2007, pp. 135-186.     (ISBN: 3540358455)


 

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTION (REFEREED)
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A Guha and J. B. Young,  "Time-marching prediction of unsteady condensation phenomena due to supercritical heat addition", 
Proc. conf. on Turbomachinery  : Latest Developments in a Changing Scene,  London, IMechE, 1991, 
p. 167-177. (11 pages.) 
A Guha and J.B. Young,   "Stationary and moving normal shock waves in wet steam", (12 pages)
IUTAM Symposium on Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, Gottingen, 1989.
INVITED Paper.
Single-authored, A Guha, "The physics of relaxation processes and of stationary and non-stationary shock waves in vapour-droplet flows",  (14 pages) 
Int. Symposium in Transport Phenomena (ISTP-IV), University of New South Wales, Sydney, 14-18 July, 1991. 
Single-authored, A Guha,  "Analysis and Computation of Non-equilibrium Two-phase Flow", 
KEYNOTE Lecture at International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Golden Jubilee celebration of Mechanical Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 20 - 22 December, 1995, Supplement, p 35 - 53. (19 pages)
A Guha, J. Murray & A. Bond,  "Overview of the Development of Heat Exchangers for Use in Air-Breathing Propulsion Pre-Coolers", Paper  IAF-96-S.5.02, 
47th International Astronautical Congress, Beijing, China, October 7-11, 1996.

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Single-authored, A Guha,  "On the formation of Droplet Spectra as Measured in Power-Plant Steam Turbines", 
Proc. International Conference on Fluid Engineering
JSME Centennial Grand Congress, Tokyo, 13 - 16  July, 1997, p 1395 - 1400.
Single-authored, A Guha,  "Turbulent transport of particles and a generalized mass transfer law",
KEYNOTE Lecture at  ASME/ISHMT International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer, India, 3-5 January, 2002.
M.J. Tierney, A. Guha,   A. Foster“Fast barriers – their use in civil defence and energy conservation”,
World Renewable Energy Congress IX and Exhibition, Florence, Italy, 19-25 August 2006, Paper LEA107.


 

KEYNOTE LECTURES / INVITED SHORT COURSES
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Invited Paper at IUTAM Symposium on Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, Gottingen, 1989.
Published as:
A Guha and  J.B. Young,   "Stationary and moving normal shock  waves in wet steam",  In
Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapour Systems, (ed. G.E.A. Meier and P.A. Thompson), 
Springer Verlag, 1990, p 159-170. (ISBN 3540502033)
Short Course on  Non-equilibrium Flow with Droplets and Bubbles  organized by 
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 3 - 8 April, 1993.
Short Course on Metastable Behaviour of Fluids and Critical Phenomena organized by 
The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, October 30 - November 2, 1994.
VKI LECTURE SERIES 1995 - 06 on “Two-phase Flows with Phase Transition”, 
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, 29 May - 1 June, 1995.
Keynote Lecture at International Conference on Advances in  Mechanical Engineering
Golden Jubilee of Mechanical Engineering Department,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 20 - 22 December, 1995.

Re-published as:  A Guha,   "Analysis and computation of non-equilibrium two-phase flow",

Sadhana (J. Indian Academy of Sciences), vol. 22, part 3, June  1997, p 295-321. (27 pages)
Invited Lecture (2 hours) at 
Toshiba Corporation, Yokohama, Japan, 17 July, 1997.
Invited Lecture (2 hours) at Takasago Research & Development Center, 
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan, 18 July, 1997.
Keynote Lecture at the 5th bi-annual ASME/ISHMT International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer
(American Society of Mechanical Engg & Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer) 3-5 January, 2002.

Published as:  A Guha, "Turbulent transport of particles and a generalized mass transfer law", pp. 29-38, In 
Heat and Mass Transfer 2002, (Edited by SK Saha, SP Venkateshan, BVSSS Prasad and SS Sadhal), Tata-McGrawHill, New Delhi, p 1446, 2002. (ISBN: 0070474435)

Invited to give a Keynote Lecture at the 15 th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering ISME2007, Iran, May 2007. This was a fully-paid invitation; Guha was the only Keynote Speaker invited from UK, there are 2 Keynote Speakers from the US and 1 from Canada. This is the biggest international conference in the middle-east, this year more than 1800 papers were submitted, 500 have been selected for presentation at ISME2007. Dr Guha could not attend in the end.   http://www.isme2007.ir 

Invited by the prestigious journal Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics from Palo Alto USA to write an article on Turbulent Deposition of Particles to be published in its Volume 40 (2008). Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, which has an impact factor of 12.5 and cited half life of >10, typically invites about 15 people worldwide each year for its single annual volume that contains about 15 articles.
One of the invited 25 delegates from all over India at the 3rd Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2010 at Agra, organized by the Indo-US Forum
(Similarly, 25 delegates were handpicked from the USA.).
Delivered the Dr R.S. Pandey Distinguished Lecture 2017 at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur on 2 April 2017.


Presented numerous lectures /seminars at various places in the world.

Quick Access to a few Reprints for personal reading only.  Please CITE the articles if you benefit by reading them.
Interphase Transport Processes
J. Fluid Mechanics 1991
Non-equilibrium Condensation
Phil Trans Royal Society 1994
Total Pressure in Multiphase Flow
Proc. Royal Society 1998
Shock Wave in Multiphase Flow
J. Fluid Mechanics  1992
Unsteady Condensation Shock
IMechE ISBN 0852987617  1991
Turbulent Transport and Deposition
J Aerosol Science 1997
Rankine-Hugoniot for Multiphase
Physics of Fluids 1994
Thermal Choking
ASME J Fluids Engg 1994
Analytical Theory of Total Pressure
ASME J Fluids Engg 1998
Turbulent Multiphase Flow
Annual Review Fluid Mech  2008
Mixed Convection on Rotating Disc
Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2017
Natural Convection on Inclined Plate
Int J Thermal Sciences 2017
Natural Convection on Finite Plate
Physics of Fluids 2016
Natural Convection on Vertical Plate
Physics of Fluids 2017
Natural Convection non-Newtonian Fluid
Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2014
Thermophoresis in Natural Convection
J Aerosol Science 2014
MHD Natural Convection
J Molecular Liquids 2017
Thermophoresis Natural Convection
Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2014
Similarity Theory Natural Convection
Int J Heat Mass Transfer 2012
Integral Theory Natural Convection
ASME J Heat Transfer 2013
Fluid Dynamics Branched Network
Physics of Fluids 2016
Secondary Flow 3D Branched Network
Physics of Fluids 2017
Fluid Dynamics of Symmetry
Physics of Fluids 2017
Fluid Dynamics of Rotating Flow
Eur J Mechanics B Fluids 2013
von Karman Flow in Bingham Fluid
Physics of Fluids 2016
Pressure Variation in Microchannel
Physics of Fluids 2016
Work Transfer in Microchannel
Physics of Fluids 2014
Nanofluid in Microchannel
Applied Math Modelling 2015
A Theory of Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2012
Pathline in Tesla Turbine
Computers & Fluids 2013
Experiments on Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2009
Nozzle Design for Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2010
Scaling Laws for Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2014
Optimization of Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2017
Inflow-Rotor Interaction Tesla Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2018
Optimization of Aero Engine
Aeronautical J. 2001
Real Gas Effects in Gas Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2001
Optimization of Turbofan Engine
IMechE J Aerospace Eng 2013
NOx Prediction in Turbofan Engine
AIAA J Propulsion Power 2012
Sustainable Turbofan Engine (H2)
IMechE J Aerospace Eng 2013
Optimum Fan Pressure Turbofan
AIAA J Propulsion Power 2001
Combustion Effects in Gas Turbine
IMechE Mech Engg Sc 2003
Unsteady Analysis of Solar Pond
Solar Energy 1987a
Concentration Profile in Solar Pond
Solar Energy 1987b
Bio-inspired Heat Exchanger
Acta Astronautica 1997
Transonic CFD of Turbine
IMechE J Power Energy 2005
CFD Moving Shock Multiphase
IUTAM ISBN 3540502033 1990
Theory, Computation Multiphase
Aeronautical J. 1998
Generalized Mass Transfer Law
Heat Mass Transfer 2008
Environment in Large Kitchens
Building & Environment 2012




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