Bantwal Rabindranath Baliga
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Ph.D. University of Minnesota M.Sc. Case Western Reserve University B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Research Interest
Current research activities mainly involve numerical and experimental investigations of fluid flow and heat transfer, with applications to the design and optimization of energy exchange, storage, and conversion systems. Particular applications include compact and ultra-compact heat exchangers, thermal energy storage in rock beds and solid-liquid phase-change systems, heat transfer in slurries of suspended micro encapsulated solid-liquid phase-change materials in liquids, loop heat pipes, predictions and mitigation of spotting phenomena in forest fires, gas-solid-particle flows with and without combustion, heat transfer in notebook computers, heat transfer enhancement using porous media, and internally finned ducts.
Publications
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Duplain, E. and Baliga. B.R., 2009. Computational optimization of the thermal performance of internally finned ducts, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, pp. 3929-3942, 2009
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Sivov, T.G., Palacios-Gamez, R., and Baliga, B.R., 2010. Computational modeling of thermal energy storage in rock beds, Proc. ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Paper # FEDSM-ICNMM2010-31130, pp. 1-12, Montreal, Canada, August 1-5.
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Jesuthasan, N. and Baliga, B.R., 2010. Modeling laminar fluid flows in rectangular vapour grooves of evaporators used in loop heat pipes, Proc. ASME 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Paper # FEDSM-ICNMM2010-31129, pp. 1-10, Montreal, Canada, August 1-5.
