RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

 

With the advent of technology, the increased demand but lesser and lesser supply of natural and conventional resources has put us in a critical situation, which needs immediate attention. Additionally, the increased global demand of energy has led to cascading effects of increased green-house gases, depleted ozone layer, water and soil pollution, and global warming. These effects have got adverse influences on the ecology and environment. As solutions to the dual problem of limited natural resources and environmental hazards, extensive research is required to develop alternate resources, improve efficiency of system, optimize use of the available resources, better design of the systems for longer life, and develop green sources of energy. In this direction, the mechanical engineering has a major role to play in the current high-throughput technological era. Accordingly, the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Tezpur University has identified the following thrust areas for carrying out research in the next 05 years:

1. Thermodynamic Modelling and Optimization of
   (i) solar thermal power and cooling systems
   (ii) Gas turbine based combined power systems with steam Rankine, organic Rankine and Kalina as bottoming cycles
   (iii) vapour absorption cooling systems
2. Evolutionary Optimization of Mechanical Systems
3. Solar Thermal Energy and Storage, Drying Technology, Biomass Energy Conversion
4. Computational fluid Dynamics
5. Fracture Mechanics and Finite Element Methods
6. 3D printing technology and Precision Manufacturing
7. Mechatronics
8. Artificial Intelligence based System Design
9. CAD-CAM
10. Micro alloying, Thermo Mechanical Processing, Micro structural Characterization
11. Mechanical Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Tribology, Creep and High Temperature Deformation Behavior, Computational Material Science
12. Carbon nanotubes-based composites, Fiber and Graphene-reinforced composites
13. Magneto-Hydrodynamic Power Generation Systems

The faculty is currently involved in the following major research areas:

1

Optimization

2

Fluid And Thermal Sciences (Including Energy Technology)

3

Machine Design

4

Materials and Manufacturing

5

Mechatronics