Uttam Rana

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Academic Qualifications

• M.Tech.          Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 2005                         
• B.E. (Mech.)   Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2003

Contact

Phone

1. Office: 033-26684561-63 (Extension-788)
2. Residence: +91 97344 42497

Address

1. E-mail: rana@mech.iiests.ac.in, rana.uttam@gmail.com

Area of Research

• Combustion
• Heat transfer and fluid flow analysis.

Courses Undertaken

Under Graduate

• Heat Transfer
• Solar energy and its applications
• Basic mechanical engineering
• Automobile engineering
• Circulating fluidized bed technology
• Numerical methods in engineering
• Computation fluid dynamics

Post Graduate

• Gas turbine and compressors.

•  Combustion science and engineering.

Recent Publications (Last 10)

1.  Prediction of flame speed and exergy analysis of premixed flame in a heat recirculating cylindrical micro combustor, Uttam Rana, Suman Chakraborty, S.K. Som, Energy 126 (2017) 658-670
2. Dynamics and thermodynamics of co-flow non-premixed methane–air flame in a cylindrical microcombustor with heat recirculating wall, Uttam Rana, Suman Chakraborty & Sankar Kumar Som, Combustion Theory and Modelling , 2017 Vol. 21, No. 4, 677–69
3. Thermodynamics of premixed combustion in a heat recirculating micro combustor, Uttam Rana, Suman Chakraborty, S.K. Som, Energy 68 (2014) 510-518.
4. Wall heat recirculation and exergy preservation in flow through a small tube with thin heat source, S.K. Som⁎, Uttam Rana, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 64 (2015) 1–6.