Contact Information

E-mail : mkkhan[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Personal Webpage :

Phone : +91-612-2552019

Fax :  +91-612- 2277383

Research Interest

Heat transfer, Two-phase fluid flow, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Modelling and simulation of thermal systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Teaching

at IIT Patna

1. ME101: Engineering Mechanics (Tutorial)

2. ME110: Workshop-I

3. ME111: Engineering Drawing (Lab)

4. ME204: Fluid Mechanics-I

5. ME206: Fluid Mechanics-II

6. ME212: Mechanical Engineering Laboratory-I (Fluid Mechanics Lab)

at Thapar University Patiala
1. Heat and Mass Transfer
2. Turbomachines
3. Thermodynamics
4. Kinematics of Machines
5. Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
6. Fluid Machinery Laboratory

No. of Ph.D Students Mentored

Two

Professional Experience

1. Lecturer, University Polytechnic, AMU Aligarh, from August 2002 to May 2003
2. Lecturer, Thapar University, Patiala from January 2008 to December 2008

Awards and Honours

1. Received assistantship from MHRD during M.Tech. after cracking GATE-2000
2. Received assistantship during PhD from MHRD

Currently Sponsored Projects

Project Title: Evaluation of Burst Criterion for Zircaloy Clad
Funding Agency: AERB
Funding Amount: Rs. 25.5 lakh (approx.)

Text and Reference Books Authored

A book chapter entitled "Refrigeration, Cold Storage and Air Conditioning" in the handbook entitled "Food Process Design Handbook", Wiley-Blackwell (UK), pp. xxx-xxx. (Under review)

Member, Editorial Board

1. International Journal of Fluids Engineering
2. International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology

3. International Journal of Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Publications

A. International Refereed Journals

1. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2007. Flow Characteristics of Refrigerants Flowing inside an Adiabatic Spiral Capillary Tube, HVAC&R Research, Vol. 13, issue 5, pp. 731-748.

        2. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2008. A Homogenous Flow Model for Adiabatic Helical Capillary Tube, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 114, Part 1, pp. 239-249.

        3. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2008. An Experimental Study of the Flow of R-134a inside an Adiabatic Spirally Coiled Capillary Tube, International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 31, issue 6, pp. 970-978.

         4. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2008. Experimental Study of the Flow of R-134a through an Adiabatic Helically Coiled Capillary Tube, HVAC&R Research, Vol. 14, issue 5, pp. 749-762.

         5. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2008. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Flow of R-134a Through Lateral Type Diabatic Capillary Tube, HVAC&R Research, Vol. 14, issue 6, pp. 871-904.

            6. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2009. Experimental Investigation on Diabatic Flow of R-134a Through Spiral Capillary Tube, International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 261-271.

       7. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2009. Flow Characteristics of Refrigerants Flowing through Capillary Tubes - A Review, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 29, issue 8-9, pp. 1426-1439.

            8. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2009. Experimental Investigation on the Flow of R-134a through Adiabatic and Diabatic Capillary Tubes, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 115, Part-1, pp. 82-92.

            9. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., 2009. Performance Prediction of Adiabatic Capillary Tubes by Conventional and ANN approaches- A Comparison, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 115, Part-1, pp. 93-105.

        10. Khan, M.K., 2010. Metastable Flow inside Capillary Tubes- A Critical Review, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol. 116, Part-1, pp. 478-487.

B.  Conferences

      1. Khan, M.K., Sahoo, P.K., Kumar, R., Flow characteristics of HFC-134a  in an       adiabatic helical capillary tube, 5^th International conference on Heat transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics HEFAT, 1-4 July 2007,Sun City, South Africa.

         2. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., Experimental investigation on the performance of R-134a flowing through a straight capillary tube under adiabatic and diabatic flow conditions, 19th National & 8th ISHMT – ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference January 3-5, 2008, JNTU, Hyderabad, India.

3. Khan, M.K., Kumar, R., Sahoo, P.K., An Experimental Investigation on Straight and Coiled Adiabatic Capillary Tubes, National Conference of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (NCRAC), January 8-10,  2009, IIT Madras, India. (accepted).

       4. Khan, M.K., 2010. Metastable Flow inside Capillary Tubes: A Critical Review, ASHRAE Winter Conference, January 23-27, 2010, Orlando, FL, USA.

Other Information

1. Reviewer, ASHRAE (American Society of heating Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc.)
2. Reviewer, Journal of Zhenjiang University, Springer

Last updated : 31st May, 2010