Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation

Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation publishes papers of high quality through critical reviews and is intended to become a quality international journal in the field of mechanical engineering and automation. The journal features a mix of experimental, numerical, and theoretical articles dealing with all aspects of the field.

Manabendra Pathak

Editorial Board Member of Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Automation

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

Research Areas

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Turbulence and Turbulence Modeling, Two-Phase Flow, Microfluidics

Education

2007Ph.DIIT Guwhati

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]   M. Pathak, 2011, Numerical analysis of droplet dynamics under different temperature and cross-flow velocity conditions (under review)
[2]   M. Pathak, 2011, Numerical simulation of membrane emulsification: effect of flow properties in the transition from dripping to jetting (under review)
[3]   M. A. Hassan, M. Pathak and M.K. Khan, 2011, Analysis of viscoplastic fluid Flow in certain geometries: A Review (under review)
[4]   T. Alam, M.K.Khan, M. Pathak, K. Ravi, R. Singh and S.K. Gupta, 2011, A review on the clad failure studies (under review)
[5]   A. Sharan and M. Pathak, 2011, Global warming and its effect on flow in Ganga river (under review)
[6]   M. Pathak, 2011, Computational Investigations of Solid-liquid Particle Interaction in a Two-phase Flow Around a Ducted Obstruction, Journal of Hydraulic Research Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 96-104.
[7]   I. Smagin, M. Pathak, O. M. Lavrenteva and A. Nir, 2010, Motion and Shape of an Axisymmetric Viscoplastic Drop Slowly Falling Through Viscous Liquid, Rheologica Acta, DOI 10.1007/s00397-010-0478-1
[8]   M. Pathak, N. Sahoo and A. Dewan, 2008, Experimental Investigation of Pressure Gradient Characteristics in a Mass Flow Rate Controlled Pulsating Pipe Flow, Journal of Institution of Engineers Vol. 89, pp. 11-15.
[9]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A. K. Dass, 2008, Distribution of Temperature as a passive Scalar in the Flow Field of a Heated Turbulent Jet in Crossflow, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 54, pp 67-92.
[10]   M. Pathak, A.K. Dass, and A. Dewan, 2008, An Investigation of Turbulent Rectangular Jet Discharged into a Narrow Channel Weak Crossflow, Journal of Hydrodynamics, Vol. 21, No 2, pp 154-163.
[11]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A. K. Dass, 2007, Effect of Streamline Curvature on Flow Field of a Turbulent Plane Jet in Cross-flow, Mechanics Research, Communication, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 241-248.
[12]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A. K. Dass, 2006, Computational prediction of a slightly heated turbulent rectangular jet discharged in to a narrow channel cross-flow using two different turbulence models, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 21-22, No.49, pp. 39214-3928.
[13]   A. Dewan, M. Pathak and A. K. Dass, 2006, A Survey of Selected Literature on Important Flow Properties and Computational Fluid Dynamics Treatments of Incompressible Turbulent Plane and Round Jets in Quiescent Ambient, Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 180-194.
[14]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A. K. Dass, 2005 An assessment of Streamline Curvature Effects on the Mixing Region of a Turbulent Plane Jet in Crossflow, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Vol. 29, No 8, pp. 711-725.
[15]   M. Pathak, P. Suresh Kumar and U. K. Saha, 2005, Prediction of Off-Design Performance Characteristics of a Gas Turbine Cycle using Matching Technique, International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engine, Vol. 22, No 2, pp. 103-119.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]   M. Pathak, 2011, Computational investigation of microdroplet formation in a crossflow membrane emulisification process, ASME 2011 9th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (ICNMM2011) Edmonton, Canada.
[2]   M. Raghavendra and M. Pathak, 2011, Computational study of flow characteristics and the conjugate film cooling temperature distributions of a cylindrical turbine rotor blade, 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2011), Denver, Colarado.
[3]   B.K. Chaitanya Reddy, K. S. Veer Reddy and M. Pathak, 2011, Computation of energy loss in a T-junction flow with large area ratio, 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Madras, India.
[4]   M. Pathak, 2010, Computational Investigation of Particulate Slurry Flow around a Square Shaped Obstruction in a Rectangular Duct, 20th National and 9th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Mumbai, India.
[5]   M. Pathak, 2010, Simulation of a Micro-fluidic Membrane Emulsification Process, SMART ANSYS India 2010 Conference, Bangalore, India.
[6]   Sampath Kumar Chinige, N. Sahoo, A. Dewan and M. Pathak, 2008, An Experimental Study of Pulsating Flow in a Pipe, Proc. 19th National and 8th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Hyderabad, India.
[7]   A. Dewan, M. Pathak and A.K. Dass, 2006, Heated Turbulent Rectangular Jet Discharged Into a Narrow Channel Cross flow, Proc. International Conference on Recent Advances in Heat Transfer, Coimbatore, India, pp. 73-83.
[8]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A.K. Dass, 2006, Computational Fluid Dynamics of Flow Field of a Heated Turbulent Plane Jet in Cross-flow using Reynolds-stress Transport Model, Proc. 18th National and 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Guwahati, India (Paper No. HMT-2006-C125)
[9]   A. Dewan, M. Pathak, A.K. Dass and P. Sardar, 2006, Prediction of Turbulent Round Jet in a Co-flowing Ambient using the k-ε Model of Turbulence, Proc. 18th National and 7th ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Guwahati, India (Paper No. HMT-2006-C120)
[10]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A.K. Dass, 2005, A Computational Study of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flow Due to Interaction of a Slot Jet and Cross-flow Using Reynolds-Stress Transport Model, Proc. 8th Annual Computational Fluid Dynamics Symposium of Aeronautical Society of India, Bangalore.
[11]   M. Pathak, A. Dewan and A. K. Dass, 2004, A Review of Effect of Streamline Curvature on Turbulence and a Case Study of Turbulent Plane Jet in Crossflow, Proc. 7th annual CFD Symposium, of Aeronautical Society of India, Bangalore
[12]   M. Pathak and P. Mahanta, 2003, Exact Solutions to the Radiative Heat Transfer Problems in Cylindrical Enclosure involving Participating medium, Proc. 6th ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Hawaii, USA
[13]   M. Pathak, P. Kalita and K. Kalita, 2002, An advanced Generic Type Dual Fuel Conversion System for Diesel Engine Vehicle, Proc., All India Seminar on Application of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as an Automotive Fuel, Guwahati
[14]   S. C. Mishra and M. Pathak, 2002, Collapsing Coefficients Used in the Collapsed Dimension Method for the Study of Radiative Heat Transfer Problems, Proc. International Symposium on Recent Trends in Heat and Mass Transfer, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India