Mechanical Engineering Department

New Books & Reports

A report titled "Fuel Economy of Indian Passenger Vehicles - Status of Technology and Potential FE Improvements" by Dr. B. P. Pundir for Greenpeace India Society, Banglore November 2008.
A book titled "Modeling of Metal Forming and Machining Processes by Finite Element and Soft Computing Methods" by Dr. P. M. Dixit (coauthor: Dr. U.S. Dixit, ME Dept, IIT Guwahati)
has been published by Springer-Verlag London Limited in June 2008.
A new SAE publication SP-2067 entitled 'Alternative Fuels and CI Engine Performance' edited by Avinash Kumar Agarwal and G. J. Thompson is now in print.
The book entitled "Czochralski Growth of Oxide Crystals: Numerical Simulation and Experiments," by Jyotirmay Banerjee and K. Muralidhar,published by Techscience Press, Georgia (USA) is now in print.
Dr B. P. Pundir has published a book entitled 'Engine Emissions: Pollutant Formation and Advances in Control Technology.' The book has been brought out by Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.
Dr. (s) Kalyanmoy Deb, Partha Chakraborty, N.G.R. Iyengar, and S.K. Gupta have brought out an edited volume entitled 'Advances in Computational Optimization and its Applications'. The book is published by Universities Press, Hyderabad
Book entitled Chaos, Nonlinearity and Complexity by Dr Ashok Sengupta will soon be published by Springer, New York. It is a hardcover book with 358 pages and is a part of the series on Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing.
Dr. Prabhat Munshi has produced an edited book entitled 'Computerized Tomography for Scientists and Engineers'. The book is published jointly by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis, New York) and Anamaya Publishers, NewDelhi.
Dr. V. K. Jain has written a book entitled Machining Technology that has been published by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The well-known book entitled Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Shaughnessy, Jr., Katz and Schaffer (Oxford University Press) is now available in SI Units, thanks to the FPS-to-SI conversion implemented by Dr. Sameer Khandekar.
Prof. A K Mallik along with Dr. J. K. Bhattacharjee from the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata has authored a new book titled "Stability Problems in Applied Mechanics". The book has been published by Narosa Publishing House as a part of the IIT Kanpur Series of Advanced Texts. Details of the book can be obtained from Here. This book is an excellent sequel to Prof. Mallik's earlier and highly acclaimed books on Theory of Machines, Manufacturing Science and Control of Vibrations.
Dr. G. K. Lal and Dr. S. K. Choudhury have authored a new book entitled "Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes," published simultaneously by Narosa (New Delhi) and Alpha Science (London). Details can be obtained from Here.
Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta's text book entitled "Applied Mathematical Methods" has now been published by Pearson Education, Dorling Kindersley (India).
A review article entitled Optical Imaging and Control of Convection around a Crystal Growing from its Aqueous Solution by K. Muralidhar, Atul Srivastava and P. K. Panigrahi has now appeared in New Topics in Crystal Growth Research, a Nova publication.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

New Books & Reports

A new SAE publication SP-2067 entitled 'Alternative Fuels and CI Engine Performance' edited by Avinash Kumar Agarwal and G. J. Thompson is now in print.

The book entitled "Czochralski Growth of Oxide Crystals: Numerical Simulation and Experiments," by Jyotirmay Banerjee and K. Muralidhar,published by Techscience Press, Georgia (USA) is now in print.

Dr B. P. Pundir has published a book entitled 'Engine Emissions: Pollutant Formation and Advances in Control Technology.' The book has been brought out by Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi.

Dr. (s) Kalyanmoy Deb, Partha Chakraborty, N.G.R. Iyengar, and S.K. Gupta have brought out an edited volume entitled 'Advances in Computational Optimization and its Applications'. The book is published by Universities Press, Hyderabad

Book entitled Chaos, Nonlinearity and Complexity by Dr Ashok Sengupta will soon be published by Springer, New York. It is a hardcover book with 358 pages and is a part of the series on Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing.

Dr. Prabhat Munshi has produced an edited book entitled 'Computerized Tomography for Scientists and Engineers'. The book is published jointly by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis, New York) and Anamaya Publishers, NewDelhi.

Dr. V. K. Jain has written a book entitled Machining Technology that has been published by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

The well-known book entitled Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Shaughnessy, Jr., Katz and Schaffer (Oxford University Press) is now available in SI Units, thanks to the FPS-to-SI conversion implemented by Dr. Sameer Khandekar.

Dr. G. K. Lal and Dr. S. K. Choudhury have authored a new book entitled "Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes," published simultaneously by Narosa (New Delhi) and Alpha Science (London). Details can be obtained from Here.

A review article entitled Optical Imaging and Control of Convection around a Crystal Growing from its Aqueous Solution by K. Muralidhar, Atul Srivastava and P. K. Panigrahi has now appeared in New Topics in Crystal Growth Research, a Nova publication.