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Dr Subhash Chander

Name : Dr Subhash Chander
Designation : Professor
Department : Mechanical Engineering
Qualification : PhD Thermal Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Master of Engineering Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Rotodynamic Machines (Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh)
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering (Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana)
Address : A-102, NIT Campus
Dr. BRA National Institute of Technology,
Jalandhar (Punjab) - 144011
Phone : 0181-3082000
Email ID : chanders@nitj.ac.in
Fax : 0181-2690320

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Research Interests : Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Combustion, Renewable Energy, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Sub Areas of Research: Experimental and computational studies on direct flame impingement heat transfer, Experimental and computational investigations on swirling impinging iso-thermal jets and flames, Experimental and computational studies on heat transfer enhancement in solar air heater with artificial rib roughness, Experimental and computational studies on spray impingement cooling, Experimental and computational studies on electronic component cooling.
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Journal Publications

Year Journal Publication
2022 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 139, December 2022, 106474 Parampreet Singh, Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander, "Effect of Obliquity on Impingement Heating Characteristics of Co-axial Swirling Flame Jet - An Experimental and Numerical Investigation"
2022 Heat and Mass Transfer (Accepted on: 24/10/2022) Dinesh Kadali, Parampreet Singh, Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander, “Impingement Heating Characteristics of Domestic Gas Burner Flames"
2022 Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 47, March 2022, 103619 Geeta Verma, Satyender Singh, Subhash Chander and Prashant Dhiman, "Numerical investigation on transient thermal performance predictions of phase change material embedded solar air heater"
2022 Heat and Mass Transfer, 58, pages 1507–1531 (2022) Ravinder Kumar, Dwesh K. Singh and Subhash Chander, "A critical review on the effect of nanorefrigerant and nanolubricant on the performance of heat transfer cycles"
2021 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 127, October 2021, 105576 Parampreet Singh, Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander, "Effect of Interactions on Impingement Heat Transfer in Odd and Even Element Linear Arrays of Co-axial flames"
2021 Journal Fuel, Volume 295, Pages 120598 (14 pages) Girish Sapra and Subhash Chander, "Lean blow-off characteristics of a tangential entry type dual swirling free and impinging flame"
2021 Heat and Mass Transfer (2021) 57:1011–1023 Girish Sapra and Subhash Chander, "Effect of Enclosure on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Dual Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface" 
2020 Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 031021-1-12 / Vol. 12, June 2020 Parampreet Singh,Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander,"A Numerical Investigation on Fluid Dynamics and Heating Characteristics of Co-and-Counter Rotating Multiple Swirling Impinging Flames Arranged in 3 x 3 Inline Array"
2020 Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 192, NO. 4, 701–727, 2020 Parampreet Singh and Subhash Chander, Effect of Interactions on Flow Field and Heat Transfer Characteristics for Three Co-Rotating Dual Swirling Flames Impinging on a Flat Surface
2020 Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 56, pages 2303–2311 (2020) Dwesh K. Singh, Ravinder Kumar and Subhash Chander. "An experimental approach to study thermal and tribology behavior of LPG refrigerant and MO lubricant appended with ZnO nanoparticles in domestic refrigeration cycle”
2020 Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 181 (2020) 115936, 1-13 Girish Sapra and Subhash Chander, "Effect of Operating and Geometrical Parameters of Tangential Entry Type Dual Swirling Flame burner on Impingement Heat Transfer" 
2020 Renewable Energy, Volume 154, July 2020, Pages 1327-1345 Satyender Singh, Shailendra Kumar Chaurasiya, Bharat Singh Negi, Subhash Chander, Magdalena Nem and Sushant Negi, "Utilizing circular jet impingement to enhance thermal performance of solar air heater"
2020 Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Heat Transfer, AUGUST 2020, Vol. 142 / 081301-1-15 Parampreet Singh,Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander,"CFD Analysis of Aerodynamics and Impingement Heat Transfer from Hexagonal Arrays of Multiple Dual-Swirling Impinging Flame Jets"
2020 Heat and Mass Transfer, 56:365–384, 2020 Parampreet Singh,Ratna Kishore Velamati and Subhash Chander,"Experimental and Computational Analysis of a Row of Three Co-Swirling Impinging Flames"
2019 Journal of Energy Storage, 21 (2019), 713–723 Satyender Singh,Laxmikant Dhruw, Subhash Chander: Experimental investigation of a double pass converging finned wire mesh packed bed solar air heater
2019 Journal of Energy Storage, 25 (2019),100896 Satyender Singh, Ankit Singh and Subhash Chander, “Thermal Performance of a Fully Developed Serpentine Wavy Channel Solar Air Heater”
2019 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 144 (2019)118657, pp:1-16 Parampreet Singh, Ratna Kishore Velamati, Prathap C, M Akram and Subhash Chander,"Study of Flow Patterns and Impingement Heat Transfer for an Annular Array of Eight Co-rotating Dual-Swirling Flames"
2019 International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 144 (2019), 191-211 Parampreet Singh and Subhash Chander, "Study of flow field and heat transfer characteristics for an interacting pair of counter-rotating dual-swirling impinging flames"
2018 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.: 124, pp.:90–108 Parampreet Singh and Subhash Chander, "Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of a pair of interacting dual swirling flame jets impinging on a flat surface"
2017 Fuel (Elsevier), Volume: 210, Pages: 15-22, 2017 Akash Deep, Sarbjot Singh Sandhu, Subhash Chander, “Experimental Investigations on the Influence of Fuel Injection Timing and Pressure on Single Cylinder CI Engine Fueled With 20% Blend of Castor Biodiesel in Diesel”,
2017 Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 36 (4), 1139-1150, 2017 Akash Deep, Sarbjot Singh Sandhu, Subhash Chander, “Experimental Investigations on Castor Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel for Single Cylinder Compression Ignition Engine”
2017 Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Vol. 76, February 2017, page 116-118 Akash Deep, Sarbjot Singh Sandhu, Subhash Chander, “Optimization of Reaction Parameters of Transesterification of Castor Oil"
2016 Renewable Energy , Vol. 91, June 2016, pp.484-500. Narinderpal Singh Deo, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Performance Analysis of Solar Air Heater Duct Roughened with Multigap V-Down Ribs Combined with Staggered Ribs”
2016 SAE Technical Paper, Issue: 2016-01-1340. Vikram Dang, Subhash Chander, “Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Methane/air Swirling Turbulent Flame impinging on Flat Surface”
2016 American Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2016) Vol. 3 No. 4 pp. 259-279. Narinderpal Singh Deo, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Effect of Alterations in V-down Rib on the Performance of an Artificially Roughened Solar Air Heater Duct”
2015 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 43 (2015), pp.1159-1166. Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Thermo-Hydraulic Performance Due to Relative Roughness Pitch Iin V-Down Rib With Gap in Solar Air Heater Duct—Comparison With Similar Rib Roughness Geometries”
2015 Open Journal of Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, 2015, 3(1), pp. 1-13. Satpal Singh and Subhash Chander, “Evaluation of Heating Capabilities of Dual Swirling Flame under Fuel Lean Conditions”
2015 International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 89 (2015), pp. 1-12. Satpal Singh and Subhash Chander, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Dual Swirling Flame Impinging On a Flat Surface”
2015 International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 10(78):213-219, July 2015 Vikram Dang, Subhash Chander, “Computational Study on Flow Structure and Combustion of Open Methane/air Swirling Flame”
2014 BioChip J. (2014), pp. 1-11. Harish Palani Naga Surya, Sajeesh Parayil, Utsab Banerjee, Subhash Chander and Ashis Kumar Sen, “Alternating and Merged Droplets in a Double T-junction Microchannel”
2014 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 77 (2014), pp. 995-1007. Satpal Singh and Subhash Chander, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Dual Flame with Outer Swirling and Inner Non-Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2014 International Journal of Mathematical, Computational, Physical and Quantum Engineering, Vol. 8 (2) 2014, pp: 340-343. Jyoti Bharj, Sarabjit Singh, Subhash Chander, Rabinder Singh, “Role of dispersion of multiwalled carbon nanotubes on compressive strength of cement paste”
2014 Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, Vol. 52 2014, pp: 35-38. Jyoti Bharj, Sarabjit Singh, Subhash Chander, Rabinder Singh, “Experimental study on compressive strength of cement-CNT composite paste”
2012 Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Volume 41, September 2012, Pages 165-176. Gurpreet Singh, Subhash Chander, Anjan Ray, "Heat transfer characteristics of natural gas/air swirling flame impinging on a flat surface"
2012 Applied Energy, Volume 97, September 2012, Pages 907-912. Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Investigations on thermo-hydraulic performance due to flow-attack-angle in V-down rib with gap in a rectangular duct of solar air heater”
2012 Energy, Volume 37, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 749-758. Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Exergy based analysis of solar air heater having discrete V-down rib roughness on absorber plate”
2011 Energy, Volume 36, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 5053-5064. Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander and J.S. Saini, “Heat Transfer and Friction Factor Correlations of Solar air Heater Ducts Artificially Roughened with Discrete V-down Ribs”
2011 Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 3, 023107 (2011). Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander, J.S. Saini, “Thermal and Effective Efficiency Based Analysis of Discrete V-Down Rib Roughened Solar Air Heaters”
2011 Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 3, 013108 (2011). Sukhmeet Singh, Subhash Chander, J.S. Saini, “Heat Transfer and Friction Factor of Discrete V-Down Rib Roughened Solar Air Heater Ducts”
2011 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 54, Issues 5-6, February 2011, Pages 1179-1186. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Experimental and Numerical Study on the Occurrence of Off-Stagnation Peak in Heat Flux for Laminar Methane/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2008 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 51, Issues 13-14, 1 July 2008, Pages 3595-3607. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “An Experimental and Numerical Study of Stagnation Point Heat Transfer for Methane/Air Laminar Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2007 Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Volume 32, Issue 2, November 2007, Pages 707-721. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Methane/Air Flame Impinging Normally to a Cylindrical Surface”
2007 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 50, Issues 3-4, February 2007, Pages 640-653. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Three Interacting Flame Jets Impinging on Flat Surface”
2006 Annals of the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conference 13, Volume 13 - IHTC-13, Begell House Inc., 2006 Subhash Chander, Abhineesh Das, Arpit Jain and Anjan Ray, “Effect Of Slot Burner Aspect Ratio on Heat Transfer Characteristics For Methane/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2006 Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Volume 47, Issue 2, March 2006, Page 107. Chander, S. and Ray A., Flame impingement heat transfer: a review,
2006 Experimental Heat Transfer, Vol. 19(1), pp. 15-38, 2006. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Influence of Burner Geometry on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Methane/air Flame Impinging on Flat Surface”
2005 Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 46(18-19), pp. 2803-2837, 2005. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Flame Impingement Heat Transfer – A Review”
2005 IE (I) Journal-MC, Vol.85, pp.169-178, 2005. Subhash Chander and Raman Bedi, “A Simplified Optimum Design of Axial Flow Compressor Stage”

Conference Publications

Year Conference Publication
2013 ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition(IMECE13) November 15-21, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA (Paper Number: IMECE2013-63968). Subhash Chander and Gurpreet Singh, “Effect of Helical Vane Swirler Geometry on Heat Transfer Characteristics for Compressed Natural Gas/Air Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2013 ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition San Diego, California, USA, November 15–21, 2013, Volume 8A: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering, Paper No. IMECE2013-64178, pp. V08AT09A021; 11 pages doi:10.1115/IMECE2013-64178. Gurpreet Singh and Subhash Chander, “Effect of Swirl Intensity on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2010 14th International Heat transfer Conference, August 8-13, 2010, Washington, DC, USA. Arun Kaushal, Gurpreet Singh, Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Low Reynolds Number Turbulent Swirling LPG/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2010 International Conference on Methods and Models in Science And Technology (ICM2ST-10), AIP Conf. Proc. November 6, 2010 Volume 1324, pp. 389-393. Jyoti Bharj, Sarabjit Singh, Subhash Chander, and Rabinder Singh, “Flame Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes using Domestic LPG”
2010 Proceedings of the 4th International & 37th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power FMFP2010 December 16-18, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Anubhav Sinha and Subhash Chander, “Numerical Investigation of Flame Jet Impingement on a Flat Plate”
2010 National Conference on Advancements and Futuristic Trends in Mechanical and Materials Engineering (February 19-20, 2010), Yadavindra College of Engineering, Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus, Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, INDIA. Gurpreet Singh and Subhash Chander, “Flow Structure And Heat Transfer Of Impinging Swirling Isothermal Gas Jets - A Review”
2010 Proceedings of National Conference on Futuristic Trends in Mechanical Engineering, 29th-30th Oct, 2010, GNDEC Ludhiana (Punjab) INDIA Sateesh Pagoti, Gurpreet Singh and Subhash Chander, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Intermittent Laminar CNG/Air Premixed Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2010 Proceedings of ISME National Conference on “Mechanical Engineering for Sustainable Development” from 2nd to 4th December, 2010 at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Gurpreet Singh, Subhash Chander, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Turbulent Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2009 Proceedings of 2009 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 19-23, 2009, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, California USA. Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009, HT2009 3, pp. 63-71. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Investigation of Flame Structure for Laminar Methane/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2008 Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, HT 2008, 3, pp. 235-242, August 10-14, 2008, Hyatt Regency Riverfront Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “A Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Characteristics for Methane/Air Flame Impinging Normally on a Flat Surface”
2007 Proceedings of the 24th ASM Heat Treating Society Conference, September 17-19, 2007 COBO Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA, pp. 23 - 32. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Heat Transfer Characteristics of Laminar Methane/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2006 Proceedings of 18th National and 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, January 4-6, 2006, at IIT Guwahati pp. 126 -134. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Effect of Inter-Jet Spacing On Heat Transfer Characteristics for Three Methane/Air Jets Impinging On a Flat Surface”
2006 13th International Heat transfer Conference at Sydney, Australia, 13-18 August, 2006. Subhash Chander, Abhineesh Das, Arpit Jain and Anjan Ray, “Effect Of Slot Burner Aspect Ratio On Heat Transfer Characteristics For Methane/Air Flame Impinging On A Flat Surface”
2005 2005 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, July 17-22, 2005, Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, CA, USA HT 2005, 2005, p 213-220. Subhash Chander and Anjan Ray, “Investigation of Effect of Burner Diameter on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Methane/ Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface”
2004 Proceedings of National Conference on Air Breathing Engines and Propulsion (NCABE-2004), at IIT, Kanpur, November, 5-7,2004, pp. 367-377. Ankush, G., Subhash, C. and Ray, A., “An Experimental Study of Flame Impingement Heat Transfer Impinging Normally to the Flat Surface”
2001 Proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, JNTU Anantapur, 2001, pp. 1-7. Subhash Chander and Dinesh Shukla, “Recent Advances in Gas Turbine Blade Cooling”

Book/Chapter Publications

Type Title Publisher Authors ISBN/ISSN No. Year
Heating,- energy- and power station technology Flame Jet Impingement On A Plane Surface - A Numerical Study LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2012-08-15 ) Anubhav Sinha
Subhash Chander		 ISBN-13: 978-3-659-20253-7 2012

Research Projects

Role Project Type Title Funding Agency From To Amount Status Co-Investigator
Principle Investigator Research Project (S-TIC_AC-0134) Improving the Conductive Heat Transfer Efficiency of Thermal Base Plate inside a Thermal Vacuum Chamber ISRO 01/03/2020 01/03/2022 30 Lacs Ongoing Dr. Satyender Singh and Dr. Dwesh Kumar Singh
Investigator Consultancy Project CFD simulation of Flow of water at the Intake Section and CFD simulation of Desilting basin M/s VERTEX INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LIMITED, Delhi 11006 (India) 21/02/2019 21/05/2019 04 Lacs + GST Complete Dr. Satyender Singh

Events Organized

Category Type Title Venue From To Designation
STC National IC Engine Fuels & Combustion Technologies, Sponsored by TEQIP II IT Park, NIT, Jalandhar 14-12-13 18-12-13 Chief Coordinator

Professional Affilation

Designation Organization
Life Member Combustion Institute (India)
Life Member Indian Society of Technical Education
Life Member Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers

PhD Supervised

Scholar Name Research Topic Status Year Co-Supervisor
Neeraj Kumar Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques (Broad Topic) PhD in Progress 2022 NA
Girish Sapra Stability and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Tangential Entry Dual Swirling Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface under Different Burner Configurations PhD Complete 2022 NA
Akashdeep Study on Performance, Emissions and Combustion Characteristics of Single Cylinder C.I. Engine Using Optimized Castor Biodiesel and Diesel Blend PhD Complete 2018 Dr. SS Sandhu (NIT Jalandhar)
Ravinder Kumar Flow Condensation Heat Transfer Characteristics of Refrigerants using Nanoparticles in Horizontal Smooth Tube PhD in Progress 2018 Dr. Dwesh K Singh
Subbarao Chamarthi Thermohydraulic Performance Investigation of Curved Channel Solar Air Heaters PhD in Progress 2018 Dr. Satyender Singh
Narinderpal Singh Deo Performance Analysis of a Solar Air Heater Roughened With Multi-Gap V- Down Ribs Combined With Staggered Ribs PhD Complete 2017 NA
Parampreet Singh Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Arrays of Dual Swirling Impinging Flames PhD Complete 2016 NA
Satpal Singh Stability and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Dual Swirling Flames Impinging on a Flat Surface PhD Complete 2015 NA
Gurpreet Singh Heat Transfer Characteristics of Swirling Impinging Premixed Flame Jets using Helical Vane Swirlers PhD Complete 2012 NA
Sukhmeet Singh Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of Artificially Roughened Solar Air Heater with Circular V-Down Rib having Gap PhD Complete 2011 Prof. JS Saini (Ex-Prof, IITR)
Rabinder Singh Bharj Performance Optimization of Spark Ignition Hybrid Fuel Vehicle Using Gasoline and LPG PhD Complete 2009 Dr. Nirmal Singh (BCET Gurdaspur)

PG Dissertation Guided

Student Name Dissertation Title Status Year Co-Supervisor

Patents

Name Reg./Ref. No. Date of Award/Filling Organization Status

Admin. Responsiblities

Position Held Organization From To
Hostel Warden NIT Jalandhar 03/10/2006 28/10/2010
Chief Warden NIT Jalandhar 29/10/2010 02/09/2012
Head (Department of Mechanical Engineering) NIT Jalandhar 03/09/2012 04/09/2014
Associate Dean (Students Welfare) NIT Jalandhar 31/01/2015 24/01/2017
Associate Dean (Students Welfare) NIT Jalandhar 24/01/2018 03/02/2021
Dean (Students Welfare) NIT Jalandhar 04/02/2021 17/05/2022
Dean (Planning & Development) NIT Jalandhar 18/05/2022 Till Date

Award and Honours

Title Activity Given by Year