Heat and Mass Transfer Lab

Faculty Incharge        

Dr. S. Venkatachalapathy

Facilities Available

• Pin Fin Apparatus

  • Forced convection

  • Free convection

• Emmissivity Measurement Apparatus

• Double Pipe Heat Exchanger

• Thermal Conductivity Apparatus

  • Guarded Hot Plate method

  • Composite wall method​

• Heat Convection measurement apparatus

  • Bank of Tubes

  • Plate Fins

  • Flat Plate

• Film and Drop wise Condensation Apparatus

• Diffusion Vacuum Pumping System

• Thermal Image Camera

 

Ongoing Research

• Pool Boiling heat transfer
• Electronic Cooling
• Microchannel Heat Transfer
• Spiral Rod Inserts with TiO₂/Water Nanofluids
• Flow and Heat Transfer through Refractory Ducts
• Phase Change Materials

 

Research Scholars

Ph.D Scholars

• Kamatchi R
• Srinivasan V
• Sanjo George C
• Anbu.S
• Karthikeyan P
• Periasamy M

 

M.S. Scholars

• Sudarssan N
• Akash A Revankar
• Pawan Bajpai

 

 Contact

Dr. S. Venkatachalapathy

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Institute of Technology

Tiruchirappalli - 620015

Lab: 04312503436