Scientific and Technological Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions: Select Proceedings of FLUTE 2023

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Prof. (Dr.) Basant Singh Sikarwar is a Postdoc from Iowa State University USA Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India and MTech Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee India. His research experience is quite diversified in many aspects of thermo-fluids research with an emphasis on phase change phenomena and the formation of interfaces. The subject is poised for growth because of several engineering applications such as optimization of cooling techniques thermal management of engineering systems drop evaporation dynamics boiling water harvesting from moist air dropwise condensation and thermal energy storage. During his Ph.D. he developed a Finite Volume-based CFD solver and his research group has been using this CFD solver for his research in thermal and fluid engineering. He published 75+ SCI/Scopus-indexed journals and 100+ Scopus-indexed conference manuscripts. He completed one research-funded project of the Science Engineering Research Board (SERB) India and three research-funded projects are going on in his lab. He chaired manyconferences and is a member of the editorial board of many journals and book series. He supervised four Ph.D. students and four Ph.D. students are currently doing research in his lab. Currently He is a Professor and Heading the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amity University NOIDA India. In addition he is an Assistant Director at the Amity Directorate of Engineering Technology and Innovation (ADETI) and a member of the task force Amity Institute of Defence Technology. Dr. Sikarwar has delivered many guest lectures at National/International conferences and workshops. He has also been the author/co-author of two books and the inventor of 10 Indian patents.  Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma completed Ph.D. (Thermal Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. He did his M.Tech. (Energy Management) from IIT Delhi in 2008 and B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pant Nagar in 2003. For the last eighteen years he has been involved in experimental and theoretical study of many aspects of novel desalination techniques food-energy-water nexus boiling and condensation. During his Ph.D. he developed a novel desalination device to fulfill the requirement of potable water. He published more than 30 SCI/Scopus-indexed journals and conference articles on novel desalination techniques food-energy-water nexus boiling and condensation.