Research

Journal Publications 

1. Gawande, Vipin B., A. S. Dhoble, and D. B. Zodpe. "Effect of roughness geometries on heat transfer enhancement in solar thermal systems–A review." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 32 (2014): 347-378. (Elsevier, Impact Factor- 14.98)

2. Gawande, Vipin B., A. S. Dhoble, and D. B. Zodpe. "CFD analysis to study effect of circular vortex generator placed in inlet section to investigate heat transfer aspects of solar air heater." The Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014). (Publisher – Hindawi, Impact Factor- 1.220)

3. Gawande, Vipin B Dhoble, A. S., Zodpe, D. B., & Chamoli, S. "Experimental and CFD-based thermal performance prediction of solar air heater provided with right-angle triangular rib as artificial roughness." Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 38 (2) (2016): 551-579. (Publisher – Springer, Impact Factor- 2.220)

4. Gawande, V. B., Dhoble, A. S., Zodpe, D. B., & Chamoli, S.. Experimental and CFD-based thermal performance prediction of solar air heater provided with chamfered square rib as artificial roughness. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 38(2) (2016), 643-663. (Publisher – Springer, Impact Factor- 2.220)

5. Gawande, V. B., Dhoble, A. S., Zodpe, D. B., & Chamoli, S. "A review of CFD methodology used in literature for predicting thermo-hydraulic performance of a roughened solar air heater."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 54 (2016): 550-605. (Publisher – Elsevier, Impact Factor- 14.98)

6. Gawande, V. B., Dhoble, A. S., Zodpe, D. B., & Chamoli, S. Experimental and CFD based thermo hydraulic performance evaluation of a solar air heater with reverse L-shaped rib roughness on absorber plate. Solar Energy (2016). (Publisher – Elsevier, Impact Factor- 5.742).

7. Gawande, V. B., Dhoble, A. S., Zodpe, D. B., & Chamoli, S. Analytical approach for evaluation of thermal hydraulic performance of roughened solar air heater, Case studies in thermal engineering 8 (2016) 19-31. (Publisher – Elsevier, Impact factor-4,724)

8. Wadhawan, Amol, A. S. Dhoble, and V. B. Gawande. "Analysis of the effects of use of thermal energy storage device (TESD) in solar air heater." Alexandria Engineering Journal (2017). (Publisher – Elsevier, Impact Factor-3.732)

9. Gawande, V. B., A. S. Dhoble, D. B. Zodpe, and S. G. Fale. "Thermal performance evaluation of solar air heater using combined square and equilateral triangular rib roughness." Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering (2018): 1-11. (Publisher Taylor and Francis- Cite score-1.70)

10. Gawande, Vipin B., A. S. Dhoble, D. B. Zodpe, and Chidanand Mangrulkar. "A comparative analysis of thermo-hydraulic performance of a roughened solar air heater using various rib shapes." Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering (2018): 1-20. (Publisher Taylor and Francis- Cite score-1.70)

11. Chidanand K. Mangrulkar, Ashwinkumar S. Dhoble, Sunil Chamoli, Ashutosh Gupta, Vipin B. Gawande. Recent advancement in heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics in cross flow heat exchangers. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 113 (2019) 109-220. (Publisher –Elsevier-Impact Factor-14.98)

12. Gawande, Vipin, Ashwin Dhoble, Dhananjay Zodpe, Sunil Chamoli, and Shirish Bali. "Optimisation of design parameters in solar air heater channel with right-angle triangular inserts using the Taguchi approach." International Journal of Ambient Energy (2022): 1-10. 

Patent

One patent published (Patent application No. 201621021852) 

Conference Procedings

1. Gawande V.B., Ramgadia Abhishek, Saha Arun. Numerical study of flow and heat transfer in wavy channel. Proceedings of the 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME heat and mass transfer conference, Jauary-4-6-2010, Mumbai-India.

2. Gawande V.B., Zodpe, D.B., Pawar G.P. Flow analysis of flue gases in ESP inlet duct using CFD. Proceeding of the 4th international conference on advances in Mechanical Engineering, September 23-25, 2010,. S.V.National institute of technology, Surat, Gujrat. India.

3. Gawande V.B., Zodpe D.B., Kachale Dhanajay. Application of CFD in various fields of engineering. MIPFEST-08, 22 January, 2008, Koneru Lakshmaiah College of engineering, green fields, Vaddeswaram, A.P, India.

4. Sachin Bichitkar, Prasad Buddiyal, Siddhant Chavan, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Dr. V. B. Gawande. “CFD analysis of wind turbine with different flange angles”. 1st International Conference on Applied Mechanical Engineering Research at N.I.T Warangal, Telangana during 2-4th May-2019.

5. Omkar Bankar, Sourabh Prabhune, Nikhil Mule, Dr. Vipin B. Gawande. "A comparison of Mechanical Properties of 3D printed specimens based on filament quality". International Conference on Progressive Research in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Patna, Uttarpradesh-India.


Research Recognition

Recognized reviewer of-

1) Elsevier’s “Applied Thermal Engineering” journal.

2) Elsevier’s “Alexandria Engineering Journal”.

3) Elsevier’s “International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer”