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Dr. Mukesh Kumar Awasthi has done his Ph.D. on the topic “Viscous Correction for the Potential Flow Analysis of Capillary and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability”. He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. Dr. Awasthi is specialized in the mathematical modeling of flow problems. He has taught courses of Fluid Mechanics, Discrete Mathematics, Partial differential equations, Abstract Algebra, Mathematical Methods, and Measure theory to postgraduate students. He has acquired excellent knowledge in the mathematical modeling of flow problems, and he can solve these problems analytically as well as numerically. He has a good grasp of the subjects like viscous potential flow, electro-hydrodynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, heat, and mass transfer. He has excellent communication skills and leadership qualities. He is self-motivated and responds to suggestions in a more convincing manner. Dr. Awasthi has qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted on all India level in the year 2008 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and got Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) for doing research. He has published 115 plus research publications (journal articles/books/book chapters/conference articles) in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, World Scientific, and many other national and international journals and conferences. Also, he has published 8 books. He has attended many symposia, workshops, and conferences in mathematics as well as fluid mechanics. He has got the “Research Awards” consecutively four times from 2013-2016 by the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has also received the start-up research fund for his project “Nonlinear study of the interface in multilayer fluid system” from UGC, New Delhi.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar received Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) in the area of Mechanical Vibration and Design. He is currently working as Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering (Gazetted Officer Group B) at Technical Education Department Uttar Pradesh (under Government of Uttar Pradesh) Kanpur, India since December 2013. He has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era University Dehradun India (NIRF Ranking 55) from July 2010 to November 2013. He has more than 13 years of research, academic and administrative experience including Coordinator for AICTE-Extension of Approval, Nodal officer for PMKVY-TI Scheme (Government of India), internal coordinator-CDTP scheme (Government of Uttar Pradesh), Industry Academia relation officer, Assistant Centre Superintendent (ACS)-Institute Examination Cell, Zonal Officer to conduct Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Diploma), Sector Magistrate for Lok Sabha- Vidhan Sabha Election etc. Being an academician and researcher, he is Series Editor of 4 book series Advances in Manufacturing, Design and Computational Intelligence Techniques1/ Renewable and Sustainable Energy Developments2/ Smart Innovations and Technological Advancements in Mechanical and Materials Engineering3/ Computational Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering4 published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis USA)1-3 and Wiley Scrivener Publishing4 USA. He is guest editor of three special issues titled as Sustainable Buildings, Resilient Cities and Infrastructure Systems (Buildings ISSN: 2075-5309, I.F. 3.8), Thermal Energy Systems: Smart Design, Control and Optimisation (Energies ISSN: 1996-1073, I.F. 3.2), and Bioresorbable Composites for drug-Eluting Devices and Emerging Biomedical Applications (Bioengineering ISSN: 2306-5354, I.F. 4.6). He is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies (IJMMST, ISSN: 2583-6625), and Editor of International Journal of Energy Resources Applications (IJERA, ISSN: 2583-6617). He is guest editor & editorial board member of 8 international journals and acts as review board member of 20 prestigious (Indexed in SCI/SCIE/Scopus) international journals with high impact factor i.e. Applied Acoustics, Measurement, JESTEC, AJSE, SV-JME, and LAJSS. In addition he has published 100+ research articles in journals, book chapters and conferences. He has authored/co-authored cum edited 30+ books of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering. He has published 2 patents. He is associated with International Conferences as Invited Speaker/Session Chair/ Advisory Board/Review Board member/Program Committee Member. He has delivered many invited talks in webinar, FDP and Workshops. He has been awarded as Best Teacher for excellence in academic and research. He has successfully guided 15 B.Tech., M.Tech and Ph.D. thesis. He is external doctoral committee member of S.R.M. University, New Delhi. He is currently involved in the research area of AI & ML in Mechanical Engineering, Smart Materials & Manufacturing Techniques, Thermal Energy Storage, Building Efficiency, Renewable Energy Harvesting, Sustainable Transportation and Heavy Vehicle Dynamics. His ORCID ID is 0000-0003-4099-935X, Google Scholar web link is https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=KOILpEkAAAAJ and research gate web link is https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashwani-Kumar-45.

Dr. Nitesh Dutt is working as Head of Department & Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, COER University Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He has more than 7 years of teaching experience. He has done his bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, Masters and PhD from IIT Roorkee. He has published more than 11 research articles in international journals and conferences. His main area of research is Renewable Energy, Green Energy Harvesting, Nuclear Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Dr. Satyvir Singh is currently working as a postdoc research associate in Applied and Computational Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Prior to this position, he worked as a Research Fellow in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He completed his Ph.D. in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. He also obtained his M.Tech. in Department of Mathematics from IIT Madras, India. Dr. Singh has a vast research area, including computational Fluid dynamics, high-order numerical methods, multi-component flows, kinetic theory of gases and quantum physics, and computational biology. He has qualified for the CSIR-NET-JRF exam with A.I.R.-38. He has published 30 plus research publications (journal articles/book chapters/conference articles) in Elsevier, AIP, APS, Springer, and many other international journals. He has also attended many international conferences and presented his research work in USA, UK, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, China, Japan and India.