National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

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BIOGRAPHY

Manoj Kumar Moharana is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2012. His research interests include battery thermal management, microscale fluid flow and heat transfer, flow boiling heat transfer, multiphase flow, heat pipe, computational fluid dynamics, and cryogenic heat transfer.

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Thermo-Fluid Flow: [Thermal Engineering Division]
Areas of Interest
  • Fluid flow, Heat transfer

Manoj Kumar Moharana Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

moharanam@nitrkl.ac.in

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PUBLICATIONS

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SPONSORED PROJECTS

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

11

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Manoj Kumar Moharana

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Room Number: ME-118

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2012

Ph.D.
Microscale heat transfer
IIT Kanpur

2006

M.Tech
Heat conduction-Analytical, semi-analytical and approximate techniques
IIT Kharagpur

Teaching Experience
  • Thermal engineering,  NIT Rourkela,   30 Apr 2012 - Present
Laboratory Development
  • Thermal Systems Laboratory,  National Institute of Technology Rourkela,   This is a research based laboratory developed which involves experimental, numerical as well as analytical research work involving fluid flow and/or heat transfer. Currently students are working on pulsating/oscillating heat pipe, micro heat-exchangers, heat transfer enhancement techniques, two-phase flow etc.

Flow boiling of binary mixture in mini/microchannels: Thermo-hydrodynamic study from conjugate heat transfer perspective. SERB
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Design and development of novel two and three dimensional oscillating heat pipes with connected headers for space applications SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Ultrasonic vibration assisted turning of difficult to cut materials:design and development of a tool holding system & parametric analysis of the process SERB
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
ULTRASONIC VIBRATION ASSISTED TURNING OF DIFFICULT TO CUT MATERIALS:DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL HOLDING SYSTEM & PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESS SERB
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

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GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX 7
GOOGLE SCHOLAR I10-INDEX 0
SCOPUS H-INDEX
Total Publications: 59
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N. Tiwari and M. K. Moharana,"Conjugate heat transfer analysis of liquid-vapor two phase flow in a microtube: a numerical investigation", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol.142, pp.118427, Elsevier, October 2019, 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.07.077       Article

N. Tiwari and M. K. Moharana,"Conjugate effect on flow boiling instability in wavy microchannel", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol.166, pp.120791 (22 s), Elsevier, February 2021, 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120791       Article

S. J. A, S. K. Samal, and M. K. Moharana,"Taylor bubble flow distribution in multi cross-branched microchannels: a numerical investigation", Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, vol.44, no.296 (2022), pp.1-24, Springer, June 2022, 10.1007/s40430-022-03593-w       Article

R. Paswan, N. Suman, V. Soni, Ram. T. Sankar, S. Saini, M. Kumar, J. Antony, R. Kumar, R. Sharma, M. K. Moharana, T. S. Datta, and S. Kar,"Helium Re-condenser for 1.5T Zero-Boil-Off (ZBO) MRI cryostat", Indian Journal of Cryogenics, vol.45, no.1, pp.25-29, Indian Cryogenics Council, January 2020, 10.5958/2349-2120.2020.00003.5       Article

S. K. Samal, S. K. Saha, and M. K. Moharana,"Flow boiling performance evaluation of recharging microchannel", Heat Transfer Engineering, Taylor & Francis 2023, 10.1080/01457632.2023.2234765       Article

LEARNING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS WITH ANSYS FLUENT Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EV) AND ITS MODELING WITH HANDS-ON PRACTICE Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
Electric Vehicle Technology Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS IN ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 09 Jan 2023 - 13 Jan 2023
  • Brochure
Research Methodology in Engineering: A Practical Insight for Researchers Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences [ICITFES - 2020] Mechanical Engineering (Conference)
  • Co-Coordinator
  • 10 Feb 2020 - 12 Feb 2020
  • Brochure
Research Methodology in Engineering: A Practical Insight for Researchers Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
TEQIP-III sponsored short term course on FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
Short Term Course On Fundamentals Of Computational Fluid Dynamics:A Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
A Two Day Short Term Training Program On Research Methodology In Engineering (RME-2013) Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)

  • EA1270 : Value Education and Ethics {Theory}
  • ME2301 : Engineering Thermodynamics {Theory}
  • ME2303 : Engineering Thermodynamics {Theory}
  • ME3301 : Heat Transfer {Theory}
  • ME350 : Power Plant Engineering {Theory}
  • ME4336 : Electric Vehicle Technology {Theory}
  • ME450 : Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer {Theory}
  • ME451 : Heat Transfer {Theory}
  • ME451 : Power Plant Engineering {Theory}
  • ME6304 : Computational Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • ME6332 : Computational Methods in Thermal Engineering {Theory}
  • ME650 : Heat Transfer – I: Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer {Theory}
  • ME653 : Computational Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • ME372 : Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME4373 : Heat Transfer and Refrigeration Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME471 : Heat Transfer and Refrigeration Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME6372 : Computational Heat Transfer Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME676 : Computational Heat Transfer Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME677 : Computational Fluid Flow Laboratory {Practical}
  • ME774 : Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [8]
Conjugate Heat Transfer in Single-Phase and Two-Phase Flow Boiling in Mini/Microchannels
Nishant Tiwari
Enrolled: Jan 2013
Graduated :  Aug 2019
Supervisor
Investigations of Blast Furnace Cooling Staves and Intelligent Prediction using Artificial Neural Network
Tapas Ranjan Mohanty
Enrolled: Jul 2012
Graduated :  Jun 2020
Co-Supervisor
Thermo-Hydrodynamics of Single-Phase and Two-Phase Flow Boiling in a Novel Design Recharging Microchannel Heat Sink
Sangram Kumar Samal
Enrolled: Jan 2016
Graduated :  Oct 2021
Supervisor
Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Turning of Inconel 825: Tool Design, Experimental Investigations and Numerical Modelling
Ananda Kumar Sahoo
Enrolled: Aug 2016
Thesis Submitted
Co-Supervisor
Thermal and fluid sciences
Sabyasachi Mohapatra
Enrolled: Jul 2019
Continuing
Supervisor
Heat transfer and fluid flow
Basanta Kumar Mahapatro
Enrolled: Jul 2019
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Fluid Flow and Heat transfer
Mogalipuri Vamsi
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Heat Transfer Enhancement, Transport Phenomena, Microchannel
Jyoti Ranjan Mohapatra
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [1]
Heat Transfer
Santosh Kumar Behera
Enrolled: Jul 2024
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • International travel grant from Department of Science and Technology, GOI to visit Chicago , USA,   2014
  • International travel grant from CSIR, New Delhi to visit Heidelberg, Germany,   2012
  • Shastri Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant Award 2010 - 11 to visit University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,   2011
  • DAAD fellowship to carryout research at IKE, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany,   2009
  • International travel grant from Department of Science and Technology, GOI to visit Xi’an, China,   2009
  • International travel grant offer from CSIR, New Delhi to visit Xi’an, China,   2009
  • J. B. Benu Memorial Award 1992,   1992
Memberships / Fellowships
  • The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME),   2018
  • Member, Indian Sociery of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE),   2017
  • Life member, International Association for Engineers (IAENG),   2016
  • Life member, The IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering,   2016
  • Life member, National Society of Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power, India (FMFP),   2011
  • Life member, Indian Society for Heat and Madd Transfer (ISHMT),   2010
  • Associate Member, The Institution of Engineers (India),   2003
  • Life member, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE),   2003