Mr. DIGANT MEHTA

Faculty Details


  • Designation : Assistant Professor
  • Qualification : Ph.D (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Experience : 14 Years
  • Area Of Interest : Phase Change Materials, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering)

Teaching Experience

14 Years

Courses taught

1. Power Plant Engineering - 2171910/3171910

2. Renewable Energy Engineering - 2181910
3. Design of Heat Exchangers - 3161911
4. Heat Transfer - 3151909
4. Refrigeration and Air-conditioning - 2161908
4. Basic Mechanical Engineering - 3110006

Institute/Department work

1. Institute GSRIF Coordinator

2. Institute IQAC member secretary
3. Department Time Table Coordinator

Expert lectures Delivered

1. At GEC, Palanpur on “Influence of Orientation on Thermal Performance of Shell and Tube Type Latent Heat Storage Unit” dated 03/10/2020
2. At GEC,  Bhavnagar on "Influence of Orientation on Thermal Performance of Shell and Tube type Latent Heat Storage Unit: An experimental and numerical analysis” 

Conference publications

1. Presented Research paper in International Conference of FMFP DEC-2010 at IIT MADRAS (Published in Conference Proceedings)
2. Published  Research paper in National Conference of FMFP DEC-2012 at SVNIT, Surat (Published in Conference Proceedings)
3. Energy and Exergy analysis of a Lignite fired low pressure FBC boiler in textile industry International Conference of NUiCONE NOV-2013, NIRMA UNIVERSITY (Published in Conference Proceedings)
4. Published  Research paper in National Conference of FMFP DEC-2013 at NIT, HAMIRPUR
5. Presented Reseach paper in National Conference on Emerging Research Trends in Engineering- April-2016 (Published in Conference Proceedings)*
6. Experimental and Numerical analysis of double pipe heat exchanger with its entropy minimization in National Conference on Emerging Research Trends in Engineering- April-2016* (Published in Conference Proceedings)
7. Effect of orientation of shell and tube latent heat storage unit on melting phenomena of phase change material, 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE HEAT and MASS TRANSFER CONFERENCE (IHMTC-2017), December 27-30, 2017, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, INDIA.
8. Performance of Shell and Tube Latent Heat Storage Unit under different Orientation7th International and 45th National FLUID MECHANICS and FLUID POWER CONFERENCE (FMFP 2018), December 10-12, 2018, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, INDIA.
9. Accelerated charging of PCM in horizontal latent heat storage unit using different multitube arrangement, 11th International Conference on APPLIED ENERGY (ICAE 2019), August 12-15, 2019, Västerås, SWEDEN (Presented under ITS Scheme of SERB, Govt. of INDIA)
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