Dr. D. S. Mehta

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Palanpur, Gujarat

CONTACT

Cabin :  5009 (Building No 5)

E-mail:  dsm@gecpalanpur.ac.in

AREA OF INTEREST

  • Thermal System Design, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Phase Change Materials

COURSE TAUGHT

  • Heat Transfer
  • Energy Conversion and Management
  • Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines
  • Design of Heat Exchangers

SKILL AND KNOWLEDGE

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Phase Change Materials
  • Design of Heat Exchangers

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • Design and Development of Latent Heat Storage Systems
  • Battery Thermal Management System

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India, 2021

M. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Thermal System Design, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India, 2008-2010

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, SPCE, Visnagar 2001-2005

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor, Government Engineering College, Palanpur (Gujarat) from 24, April 2024 Onwards
  • Assistant Professor, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) from 01, February 2022 to 23, April 2025 3.
  • Assistant Professor, Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar (Gujarat) from 13, December 2013 to 31, January 2022 4.
  • Assistant Professor, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) from 03, April 2010 to 12, December 2013

PORTFOLIO

  • Department Time Table Committee Member, VGEC Chandkheda (July 2011 – Sept 2013) 2. Department GTU Coordinator, VGEC Chandkheda (July 2011 – Sept 2013)
  • Department Mid Semester Coordinator, VGEC Chandkheda (July 2010 – Sept 2013)
  • Department AICTE/GTU Affiliation Coordinator, VGEC Chandkheda (July 2010 – Sept 2013)
  • Institute Scholarship Coordinator -Student Section, GEC, Bhavnagar (Dec 2013 – Sept 2016)
  • Departmental LLCC Coordinator, GEC, Bhavnagar (Dec 2013 – July 2016)
  • First year orientation Coordination, GEC, Bhavnagar (Sept 2014)
  • Coordination with DTE inspection, GTU inspection, Lesson Planning, GTU & CBCS online marks entry, GEC, Bhavnagar (July 2015 – July 2016)
  • Institute TEQIP MIS committee, GEC, Bhavnagar (March 2014 – July 2016)
  • Institute Chief Minister Scholarship Coordinator, GEC, Bhavnagar (May 2014 to July 2016)
  • Institute MYSY Scholarship Coordinator, GEC, Bhavnagar (May 2014 to July 2016)
  • Overall monitoring of Academic activities, Monthly Review report, GEC, Bhavnagar – (July 2015 – Sept 2016)
  • Department Placement Coordinator/Institute placement committee, VGEC Chandkheda (Feb 2022 – Feb 2023)
  • Student mentor/class coordinator (Batch 2021-25), VGEC Chandkheda (April 2023 – April 2025)
  • Testing/Consultancy, Record keeping of computers/Laptop, Printers, Projectors and Installation of software and related procedures, VGEC Chandkheda (April 2023 – April 2025)
  • Department Committee member- RUSA, Students’ Industrial Visit/Tour& Training & Expert lecture, Webinar, VGEC Chandkheda (April 2023 – April 2025)

MEMBERSHIP

  • Lifetime Membership of ISTE (LM48146)

PUBLICATIONS

International Journal

  1. Mehta, D. S., Solanki, K., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2019). Thermal performance of shell and tube latent heat storage unit: Comparative assessment of horizontal and vertical orientation. Journal of Energy Storage, 23, 344-362.(cited by 109)
  2. Mehta, D. S., Vaghela, B., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2019). Heat transfer intensification in horizontal shell and tube latent heat storage unit. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 75(7), 489-508. (cited by 37)
  3. Mehta, D. S., Solanki, K., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2019). Influence of orientation on thermal performance of shell and tube latent heat storage unit. Applied Thermal Engineering, 157, 113719. (cited by 84)
  4. Mehta, D. S., Vaghela, B., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2020). Enrichment of heat transfer in a latent heat storage unit using longitudinal fins. Heat Transfer, 49(5), 2659-2685. (cited by 15)
  5. Mehta, D. S., Vaghela, B., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2020). Thermal performance augmentation in latent heat storage unit using spiral fin: an experimental analysis. Journal of Energy Storage, 31, 101776. (cited by 75)
  6. Mehta, D. S., Vaghela, B., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2021). Heat transfer enhancement using spiral fins in different orientations of latent heat storage unit. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 169, 107060. (cited by 40)
  7. Vaghela, B. V., Mehta, D. S., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2021). Investigations on Thermal Performance of Spiral Finned Latent Heat Storage Unit. In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power: Proceedings of FMFP 2019 (pp. 285-294). Springer Singapore.

International Conference

  1. Mehta, D., & Banerjee, J. (2010, December). ANALYSIS OF MIXED CONVECTION IN NANOFLUID USING A NON NEWTONIAN THERMAL DISPERSION MODEL. In Proceedings of the 37th National and 4th International Conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power.
  2. Mehta D. S., Vyas M K..(2013), Energy and exergy analysis of a lignite fired, low pressure FBC boiler in textile industry, 4th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE)
  3. Mehta, D., Chaudhari, S., Rathod, M., & Banerjee, J. (2017). Effect of orientation of shell and tube latent heat storage unit on melting phenomena of phase change material. In Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017). Begel House Inc..
  4. Mehta, D. S., Vaghela, B., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2018). Performance of Shell and Tube Latent Heat Storage Unit under different Orientation, 7th International and 37th National Conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP – 2018).
  5. Vaghela, B., Mehta, D., Rathod, M., & Banerjee, J. (2019). Augmentation of heat transfer in horizontal shell and tube type latent heat storage. In ICTEA: International Conference on Thermal Engineering (Vol. 1, No. 1), PDEU Gandhinagar 
  6. Mehta, D. S., Rathod, M. K., & Banerjee, J. (2019). ACCELERATED CHARGING OF PCM IN HORIZONTAL LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT USING DIFFERENT MULTITUBE ARRANGEMENT.
  7. Mehta D. S., Aditya Kandre (2022), The State of art on Technological development, Policies & Challenges of Solar PV panels in India, International Multidisciplinary Engineering Conference, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar
  8. Digant S. Mehta Sanjay B. Pipalya, Anand B. Dhruv, Jatin R. Patel (September 2022) The State of Art of Stepped Solar Desalination System Productivity Enhancement

National Journal

NIL

National Conference

  1. Mehta D. S., Makwana D. H., Banerjee J., Numerical Analysis of Natural Convection in Nanofluid organized at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NIRMA UNIVERSITY during 25-27 November 2009.
  2. Mehta D. S., Experimental and Numerical analysis of double pipe heat exchanger with its entropy minimization, organized at VGEC Chandkheda, DTE Gujarat, SPFU during 04-05 April 2016.

BOOK PUBLICATION

NIL

ACHIEVEMENTS

Expert Lectures Delivered

  1. Delivered an expert talk on “Influence of Orientation on Thermal Performance of Shell and Tube type Latent Heat Storage Unit: An experimental and numerical analysis” in Mechanical Engineering Department at Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar on 17/10/2020.
  2. Delivered an expert talk on “Influence of Orientation on Thermal Performance of Shell and Tube Type Latent Heat Storage Unit” in Mechanical Engineering Department at Government Engineering College, Palanpur on 03/10/2020.
  3. Delivered a talk on “Quality Education, Accreditation and Teacher Development” in Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar under the celebration of one year on NEP-2020 on 06/08/2021.

Laboratory Development

NIL

STTP/SEMINAR/Workshop Organized

  1. Organized the training programme on “Ansys Software” in Mechanical Engineering Department, VGEC Chandkheda in the duration of 24/03/2025 to 28/03/2025

Research Projects

  1. Principal Investigator in the project entitled “Towards the performance Improvement of Latent Heat Storage Unit: A Numerical Investigation” in collaboration with Prof.(Dr.) M.K.Rathod, MED, SVNIT under the scheme of STEM (Research Promotion under Technical Education)

Short Term Courses/Seminars/ Workshop Attended

Sr. No.

Course Title

Venue

Duration

1

Induction Phase -I

NITTTR Extension Centre, Ahmedabad

30/05/2011 to 10/06/2011

2

A second level course on heat transfer

NIT, Surat

01/07/2013 to 05/07/2013

3

Mathematical Modelling in Science and Engineering

NIT, Surat

23/06/2014 to 27/06/2014

4

Computational fluid Dynamics: Theory and Practice

NIT, Surat

30/06/2014 to 04/07/2014

5

MATLAB and GIS Applications

GP Gandhinagar

27/04/2015 to 08/05/2015

6

Siemens and CIM Controller

LDCE, Ahmedabad

18/05/2015 to 22/05/2015

7

Computer Aided Design using Solid works

GEC, Bhavnagar

31/08/2015 to 04/09/2015

8

Developing Research, Consultancy Capabilities using CAD/CAM/CAE Tools

GEC, Bhavnagar

05/10/2015 to 09/10/2015

9

Computational Heat and Mass transfer

NIT, Surat

14/12/2015 to 18/12/2015

10

Indo-French Workshop on Phase Change Thermal Systems

 IIT Kanpur and The center for Thermal Sciences (CETHIL) INSA-Lyon, France (Sponsored by Indo-French Centre for the promotion of Advanced Research)

29/11/2016 to 01/12/2016

10

Exploring the Research Potential and Capabilities in the field of Thermal science

GEC, Bhavnagar

22/08/2016 to 23/08/2016

11

NBA Accreditation

IITRAM, Ahmedabad (NITTTR Bhopal)

14/10/2019 to 18/10/2019

12

Fundamentals of Energy management and applications

NIT, Surat

25/11/2019 to 29/11/2019

13

Non-Conventional Energy Sources

IIT Madras

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jan-Apr 2020

(12 weeks)

14

Comprehensive Online Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

i-Hub Gujarat

(MOOC)

July – Sept 2020

15

Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics

IIT Guwahati

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jan-Apr 2021

(12 weeks)

16

Energy Resources, Economics and Environment

IIT Bombay

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jan-Apr 2021

(12 weeks)

17

Heat Exchangers: Fundamentals and Design Analysis

IIT Kharagpur

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jul-Oct 2021

(12 weeks)

18

Fluid Dynamics and Turbomachines

IIT Madras

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jul-Sept 2021

(8 weeks)

19

Fundamentals of Convective Heat Transfer

 

IIT Guwahati

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jul-Oct 2022

(12 weeks)

20

Project Management: Planning, Execution, Evaluation and Control

IIT Kharagpur

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jul-Sept 2023

(8 weeks)

21

Gas Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications

IISc Bangalore

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jan -Apr 2024

(12 weeks)

22

Foundation of Computational Fluid Dynamics

IIT Madras

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jul-Sept 2024

(8 weeks)

23

Train the Trainer Programme on Effective Implementation of NEP 2020 in Technical & Professional Institutes of Gujarat

CTE, Gandhinagar & NITTTR Chandigarh

14/10/2024 to 18/10/2024

24

Fundamentals of Welding Science and Technology

IIT Guwahati

(NPTEL MOOC)

Jan-March 2025

(8 weeks)

25

Cryogenic Hydrogen Technology

IIT Kharagpur

(NPTEL MOOC)

Feb-Apr 2025

(8 weeks)

PhD SUPERVISON

NIL

ACHIEVEMENTS

Received International Travel Support Find from Science and Engineering Research Board, New Delhi under Government of INDIA to present my research paper entitled “ACCELERATED CHARGING OF PCM IN HORIZONTAL LATENT HEAT STORAGE UNIT USING DIFFERENT MULTITUBE ARRANGEMENT” in the International Conference on Applied Energy held at Vasteras, Sweden during 12-15 August 2019.