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This book presents recent advances in dynamics and control of different types of energy systems. It covers research on dynamics and control in energy systems from different aspects, namely, combustion, multiphase flow, nuclear, chemical and thermal. The chapters start from the basic concepts so that this book can be useful even for researchers with very little background in the area. A dedicated chapter provides an overview on the fundamental aspects of the dynamical systems approach. The book will be of use to researchers and professionals alike.
Prof Achintya Mukhopadhyay is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He also served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Prof Mukhopadhyay also held visiting positions at Technical University of Munich where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and University of Illinois at Chicago. Prof Mukhopadhyay's teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flows and design and analysis of thermal systems. Prof Mukhopadhyay has over 270 research publications including over 100 international journal publications. Prof. Mukhopadhyay is a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, recipient of INSA Teachers Award from Indian National Science Academy and life member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer and Indian section of the Combustion Institute. Dr.Sirshendu Mondal is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. He graduated with B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College (KGEC) in 2006. He received M.E. (2008) and Ph.D. (2015) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Dr. Mondal carried out research for his Ph.D. thesis at Jadavpur University, India as a CSIR-SRF (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Senior Research Fellow) and partly at Technical University of Munich, Germany as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Sandwich Fellow. He then worked as an Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (IPDF) at IIT Madras for three years (2015-2018).He also served as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala. His teaching and research interests include thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, I.C. Engine, dynamical systems theory, time series analysis, etc. Dr.Mondal has over 30 research publications including 13 international journal publications and 3 book chapters. Heis a recipient of Young Scientist Award of the International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ISEES) and a life member of ISEES. Dr. Dipankar N. Basu is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He received his undergraduate and postgraduate degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011. He served as an Assistant Professor at IIEST Shibpur for four years before joining IIT Guwahati. His principal research interest is in the field of nuclear thermalhydraulics, supercritical heat transfer, microchannel dynamics and fluid-structure interaction. He has co-authored more than 80 referred journal and conference publications. He is a regular reviewer of many reputed international journals and also associated with several sponsored projects. Prof Swarnendu Sen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He also held visiting positions in University of Illinois at Chicago and Virginia Tech. He is a recipient of DAAD fellowship, with which he was associated with Technical University of Munich. His teaching and research areas are reacting and Multiphase flow, heat transfer and nanotechnology. Prof Sen is a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. He is a life member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer and Indian section of the Combustion Institute. He authored about 300 research papers in various international journals and conferences.
