PROCEEDINGS OF THE ________ NATIONAL HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER CONFERENCE, DECEMBER, 1997 S.N. Paper No. Title INVITED LECTURES Author Page No. 1. HMT-97-001 Impact of energy separation on heat transfer W.S. Seol and R.J.Goldstein 1 2. HMT-97-002 Heat pipes and closed two-phase thermosyphons for rational use of energy and efficient cooling and heating technologies Manfred Groll 13 3. HMT-97-003 Augmentation of heat transfer using vortex generators Kahoru Torii and JurandirI. Yanagihara 29 4. HMT-97-004 Some problems of transport phenomena in the combustion of fuel sprays R. Natarajan 45 5. HMT-97-005 Heat transfer in thermal plasmas N. Venkatramani 57 6. HMT-97-006 Heat and mass transfer in metal hydride reactors: influence on design and performance of heating and cooling systems S. Srinivasa Murthy and M. Ram Gopal 73 7. HMT-97-007 Thermal conditioning and stratification in cryogenic propellant rocket system K. Ramamurthi 85 8. HMT-97-008 Application of computerized tomography for measurements in heat and mass transfer P. Munshi 97 9. HMT-97-009 Thermal hydraulic problems of sodium cooled fast reactors G. Vaidyanathan 107 10. HMT-97-010 Enhanced boiling heat transfer using passive augmentation techniques A.R. Balakrishnan and S. Madhusudana Rao 121 11. HMT-97-011 Role and characterisation of double-diffusive convection during solidification of binary alloys B. Basu and A.K. Singh 129 12. HMT-97-012 Results of some recent studies on pool nucleate and film boiling V.K. Dhir 143 13. HMT-97-013 Advances in solution methods for effectivenessNTU relationships for heat exchanger complex flow arrangements D.P. Sekulic and R.K.Shah 159 14. HMT-97-014 Heat and mass transfer in czochralski crystal growth systems H. Zhang and V. Prasad 175 15. HMT-97-015 Heat transfer in film cooled turbine blades Vijay K. Garg 185 16. HMT-97-016 Stability and rupture of thin liquid film S.G. Bankoff and 201 1 Alexander Oran 17. HMT-97-017 Bone-cell growth in microgravity-cell biology, fluid mechanics and mass transfer P.S. Ayyaswamy 211 18. HMT-97-018 Large eddy simulation of complex flows with heat transfer N.K. Mitra 219 19. HMT-97-019 On the role of finite elements in heat and mass transfer K.N. Seetharamu 233 20. HMT-97-020 Industrial vaporisers and recent research Vishwas V. Wadekar 247 Conduction, Solidification amd Melting 263-306 21. HMT-97-021 Calculation and control of contact conductivity in construction elements of spacecraft and power systems Yu. S. Mesnyankin 263 22. HMT-97-022 Thermal boundary effects for laminated composite solids S S. Sadhal 269 23. HMT-97-023 Thermal stress simulation for space reinforced composite structures V.V. Vorobey 275 24. HMT-97-024 Capillary porous structures as a specific form of a volume sublimation in solid refrigerants Andrey V. Rozhentsev 279 25. HMT-97-025 A peculiarity of effective thermal conduction in solid capillary porous refrigerants Andrey V. Rozhentsev and Michael V. Rybnikov 285 26. HMT-97-026 Analysis of microwave thawing with the effective heat capacity method Tanmay Basak and K.G.Ayappa 289 27. HMT-97-027 Interface positions and heat flux distributions in steady, two-dimensional, pure water-ice systems Elanine Bohr, Nabil Elkouh and B. Rabi Baliga 295 28. HMT-97-028 Modeling and simulation of human thermal activity S.C. Boregowda, S.N.Tiwari and S.K.Chaturvedi 301 Forced Convection Heat and Mass Transfer 307-462 29. HMT-97-029 Analysis of some theoretical methods developed for comparison of thermohydraulic effectiveness of heat transfer surfaces G.A. Dreitser, B.V. Dzyubenko and R.I. Yankimenko 307 30. HMT-97-030 Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of laminar flow through a circular tube fitted with regularly spaced twisted tape elements with multiple twists S.K. Saha and D. Chakraborty 313 31. HMT-97-031 Performance evaluation of full length and half length twisted tape inserts on laminar flow heat transfer in tubes M.S. Lokanath 319 2 32. HMT-97-032 Experimental investigation heat transfer characteristics of a round jet impinging on a flat plate at constant heat flux condition S.K. Biswas, P. Manna and R.K. Brahma 325 33. HMT-97-033 Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of rectangular ducts with inclined chamfered ribroughness on one broad heated wall Rajendra Karwa, S.C.Solanki and J.S. Saini 331 34. HMT-97-034 Physical model of streamline and heat transfer in transversely finned tubes Ye. N. Pismenny 337 35. HMT-97-035 Gas-phase controlled absorption for countercurrently flowing gas and liquid between two rotating disks P. Sandilya, G. Biswas and A. Sharma 341 36. HMT-97-036 Local heat transfer distribution in a rotating square channel with a sharp 180 DEG bend S.V. Prabhu and R.P. Vedula 347 37. HMT-97-037 Effect of drop diameter on mass transfer in liquidliquid systems M.M. Anwar, S. Anwar and D.W. Pritchard 353 38. HMT-97-038 Hydrothermal growth due to double diffusive convection in composite materials M. Venkatachalappa, Prasad, I.S. Shivakumara and R. Sumithra 357 39. HMT-97-039 Two-dimensional numerical study of developing flow and heat transfer in wavy passages K.M. Stone and S.P. Vanka 363 40. HMT-97-040 On the benard-poiseuille problem for Newtonian and slightly non-newtonian fluids-a numerical study John T. Albers and V. Dakshina Murty 369 41. HMT-97-041 Liquid-liquid two phase layered thermocapillary flow of non-newtonian fluids Dennis A. Siginer, Li Yunling and ThomasE.Jacks 375 42. HMT-97-042 An experimental study for estimating heat transfer coefficient from coiled tube surfaces in cross-flow of air Rahul Salhotra, S.K.Gupta and P.M.V.Subbarao 381 43. HMT-97-043 Mathematical model for predicting the horizontal dispersion of thermal discharge in a water body L.D. Papney and S.K. Gupta 387 44. HMT-97-044 Experimental study on enhancement of heat transfer due to the longitudinal vortices in a channel K. Torii, P.M.V. Subbarao and G. Biswas 395 45. HMT-97-045 Heat transfer in the flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching surface S. Bhattacharyya, A. Pal and A.S. Gupta 401 46. HMT-97-046 Unsteady convective heat transfer during displacement of liquid from a vessel by hot gas G.A. Dreitser, V.V.Volkov, A.S. Myakochin and A.S.Neverov 407 3 47. HMT-97-047 Turbulent heat transfer processes in idealized czochralski crystal growth configurations C. Wagner and R.Friedrich 415 48. HMT-97-048 Turbulent fluid flow modeling to predict the heat transfer in the plasma furnace M.R.R.I. Shamsi 421 49. HMT-97-049 Turbulent heat transfer and fluid flow in orthogonally rotating channels Sandip Dutta 427 50. HMT-97-050 Effect of an external flow on heat transfer in turbulent rayleigh-benard convection S. Ananda Theerthan and J.H. Arakeri 433 51. HMT-97-051 Numerical analysis of temperature fluctuations damping in a two-dimensional cavity Arlindo de Matos and Aristeu Silveira-Neto 439 52. HMT-97-052 A numerical study of turbulent fluid flow and heat transfer in a channel with discrete heated modules P. Deb, B. Basu and P.Majumdar 445 53. HMT-97-053 Numerical study of flow and heat transfer over an array of heated blocks A.K. Saha and P.K. Maji 451 54. HMT-97-054 Transient heat transfer from protruding electronic modules on a vertical board during orthogonal mixed convection Muhammad M. Rahman and Jagannath Raghavan 457 Natural Convection 463-512 55. HMT-97-055 Influence of variable density on natural convection in gas-filled rectangular porous enclosure V.V. Satyamurty and R.V.Sharma 463 56. HMT-97-056 Combined free and forced convection heat transfer to water in the entrance region of a horizontal annulus Nazurl Islam, U.N. Gaitonde and G.K.Sharma 469 57. HMT-97-057 Experimental study of Rayleigh-benard convection in square cavity at intermediate Rayleigh numbers Debasish Mishra, K.Muralidhar and P.Munshi 475 58. HMT-97-058 Free convection in a vertical parallel-plate channel for nouniform inlet velocity T.K. Bhattacharyya 481 59. HMT-97-059 Theoretical study of hydromagnetic free convection flow from a vertical surface to an isothermal porous medium with viscous heating, Brinkman friction and inertial drag O.A. Beg, H.S. Takhar and M.A. Hossain 487 60. HMT-97-060 Buoyancy-driven convection in vertical concentric cylindrical annulus M. Venkatachalappa 493 61. HMT-97-061 Laminar free convection in a horizontal cavity containing air and a condensable vapour P.K. De J. Srinivasan and J.H. Arakeri 499 62. HMT-97-062 Free convective mass transfer from vertical short cylinders to non-newtonian fluids R.P. Chhabra 507 4 Radiative Heat Transfer 513-540 63. HMT-97-063 Monte carlo prediction of radiative heat transfer in absorbing-emitting-scattering isothermal media in one-and two-dimensional Cartesian enclosures Subash Chandra Mishra and Manohar Prasad 64. HMT-97-064 Thermal design and analysis of payload deck of iIRS-P3 jets K.V. Shantharam and S.G. Barve 517 65. HMT-97-065 Radiation, heat and mass transfer in chemically reactive jets K.B. Galitseisky 523 66. HMT-97-066 A numerical study of radiative heat transfer in a rapid thermal processing chamber Pradip Dutta and John C. Chai 529 67. HMT-97-067 Three dimensional thermal radiation heat transfer analysis of a vaccum chamber for material processing K.K. Mishra, V. Bhasin, L.M. Gantayet, and H.S. Kushwaha 535 Boiling, Condensation and Multi-Phase Flows 513 541-654 68. HMT-97-068 Experimental study of boiling incipience in a closed loop thermosiphon Mohd. Kamil and S.S. Alam 541 69. HMT-97-069 Pool boiling heat transfer over interference plates S. Pal, S. Madhusudana Rao and A.R. Balakrishnan 549 70. HMT-97-070 Analytical model of critical boiling heat flux from a vertical heating tube inserted in porous media Hailong Mo, Tongze Ma and Zhengfang Zhang 555 71. HMT-97-071 Prediction of heat transfer coefficient for nucleate pool boiling of mixtures on finned tubes Abdul-Ameer S. Kadhum, M.A. Aboukheshem and B.S. Varshney 561 72. HMT-97-072 Experimental study of the heat transfer enhancement during vapour condensation from vapour-air mixtures on vertical tubes G.A. Dreitser and S.G. Zakirov 567 73. HMT-97-073 Experimental augumentation of nucleate pool boiling heat transfer coefficient Sattar Husain 573 74. HMT-97-074 Study of underside condensation of liquid metal on a partially wettable substrate J. Mukherjee, K.K. mishra, P. Anupama, N. Maiti, L.M. Gantayet and S.V.G. Menon 579 75. HMT-97-075 A general correlation for heat transfer during film boiling in vertical tubes M. Mohammed Shah and M. Altamush Siddiqui 585 76. HMT-97-076 Experimental hydrodynamics research of singlephase flow and mathematical model of boiling of cryogenic liquid in a channel with twisted-tape insert Mikhail K. Antipin, Olga B. Karpova, Stanislav E. Tarasevich and Anatoly B. Yakovlev 591 5 77. HMT-97-077 Experimental studies of hydrodynamics and heat exchange in channels with high-porous cellular materials in forced convection of single-phase and boiling working fluids Yu. F. Gortyshov, I.A. Popov and K.E. Gulitsky 597 78. HMT-97-078 Heat transfer specific nature at nitrogen film boiling in vertical tube in conditions of large liquid subcool G.A. Dreitser, I.V. Antukhov and V.P. Firsov 603 79. HMT-97-079 Electrohydrodynamic enhancement of heat transport capacity of a micro heat pipe W.W. Bhagat, W.P. King and K.P. Hallinam 609 80. HMT-97-080 Bubble distributions in two-phase flows S. Neti,O.E.E. Mohammed and E. Graf 615 81. HMT-97-081 Modeling of geysering instabilities during startup in two heated parallel channels J.C. Paniagua, U.S. Rohatgi and V. Prasad 623 82. HMT-97-082 Thermodynamic modeling of non-equilibrium processes in porous materials Eugeniusz Kalinowski and Andrzej Bucewicz 631 83. HMT-97-083 A new approach for bubbly flow to slug flow transition for vertical upward two-phase flow in pipes P.K. Vijayan, D.S. Pilkhwal, D. Saha, R.K. Sinha and V. Venkat Raj 637 84. HMT-97-084 Computation of multiphase flows S. Banerjee, F. Beux, V. De Angelis and Y. Pan 643 Numerical Modeling Heat and Mass Transfer 655-746 85. HMT-97-085 Thermo-mechanical modeling of high pressure liquid-encapsulated Czochralski Crystal Growth system H. Zhang and V. Prasad 655 86. HMT-97-086 Natural convective heat and mass transfer in fluid saturated anisotropic porous medium P. Nithiarasu, K.N. Seetharamu and T. Sundararajan 661 87. HMT-97-087 Heat transfer characteristics of a heated laminar offset slot jet R.C. Arora and K.A. Hossain 667 88. HMT-97-088 Numerical prediction of laminar and turbulent flow through 90° bend ducts of square and circular cross sections using non-staggered non-orthogonal grid S. Ray and A.W. Date 673 89. HMT-97-089 Thermostructural analysis of a solid rocket motor nozzle throat insert using finite element method R.C. Mehta, K. Suresh and R. Narayana Iyer 679 90. HMT-97-090 Numerical estimation of three-dimensional temperature distribution for laser heat treatment of finite size work pieces B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, Jaydev rana and P.K. Mishra 685 6 91. HMT-97-091 Numerical investigation of heat transfer and control of vortex shedding in the wake of a circular cylinder K. Veerabathra Swamy, G. Biswas and K. Venkatraman 691 92. HMT-97-092 A numerical study of natural convection in a porous square cavity with sinusoidal surface undulations B.V. rathish Kumar, P.V.S.N. murthy and P. Singh 697 93. HMT-97-093 A numerical simulation of buoyancy driven melt flow in a czochralski crystal puller subject to constant wall heat flux A.Roy, S. Roy and R.C. Arora 703 94. HMT-97-094 The ocv method for incompressible fluid flow calculation on non-staggered grids Atul Kumar Verma and V. Eswaran 711 95. HMT-97-095 Numerical simulation of turbulent flow and impingement heat transfer for an inclined jet in a duct with crossflow P.W. Li, K. Inaoka, K. Muralidhar and K. Suzuki 715 96. HMT-97-096 Finite element thermal analysis of steel ingots M.Prasad and S.K. Mazumdar 721 97. HMT-97-097 A time-dependent calculation procedure for flow and heat transfer in a periodic array of louvered fins D.K. tafi and L.W. Zhang 729 98. HMT-97-098 Numerical investigation of flow and heat transfer in a finned oval tube Y. Chen, M. Fiebig and N.K. Mitra 735 99. HMT-97-099 A comparison between a numerical scheme using asymptotic developments and the “fluent code” for different results on unsteady heat transfer in pipes R. Creff, J. Batina, J. Tourreuil and Y. Lecointe 741 Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques 747-764 100. HMT-97-100 Reconstruction of the temperature field in Rayleigh-benard convection in a cylindrical cavity using interferometry S.K. Bhadra, G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar 747 101. HMT-97-101 Filtering of measurements of non-ststionary yemperatures of media L.N. Alexandrovskaya, E.N. Nikiporets and V.V. Smirnov 753 102. HMT-97-102 Heat transfer at the trip of a cylindrical fiber-optic probe for measuring temperature oscillations in gas flows Nirajan K. Talukder 757 103. HMT-97-103 An experimental method to determine the interfacial velocity in the core-annular flow in a tube Sayavur I. Bakhtiyarov and Dennis A. Siginer 761 7 Heat and Mass Transfer Equipment 765-872 104. HMT-97-104 Evolutionary synthesis of heat exchanger networks Rakesh K.C. Mehta and Shankar Narasimhan 765 105. HMT-97-105 Performance evaluation of a plate heat exchanger and an augmented shell and tube heat exchanger J.P.R. Moses, R.D. Misal and M.S. Lokanath 771 106. HMT-97-106 Performance of heat exchangers with multicomponent zeotropic mixtures undergoing phase change G. Venkatarathnam and S. Srinivasa Murthy 777 107. HMT-97-107 An experimental investigation of fouling of heat exchangers on a crude oil preheat train P.R. Wheeldon and G.S. Virdee 787 108. HMT-97-108 Numerical study of heat transfer and pressure loss in cross-corrugated plate heat exchangers Mir-Akbar Hessami 795 109. HMT-97-109 Steady state performance analysis of once-through type steam generators Joe Mohan, R.B. Grover and V.H. Arakeri 803 110. HMT-97-110 Simulation of tube annealing furnace A.K. Singh, B. Basu, N. Ramachandran, M.K. Farook and A. Bharani Kumar 809 111. HMT-97-111 Navier-stokes analysis with different turbulence models for film-cooled turbine cascades S. Sarkar 815 112. HMT-97-112 A choice algorithm of an optimal cooling system of gas turbine blades B.M. Galitseisky, A.V. Loburev and M.S. Cherny 821 113. HMT-97113 Heat transfer near the trailing edge of a cooled turbine blade with special emphasis given to pressure side cut-back length Ganesh R. Iyer, Savash Yavuzkurt and Cengiz Camci 829 114. HMT-97-114 Determination of optimal row spacing for a staggered pin fin array in a turbine blade cooling passage E.E. Donahoo, A.K. Kulkarni, A.D. Belegundu and C. Camci 837 115. HMT-97-115 The mathematical modeling of absorptiondiffusion refrigerators V.N. Buz, H.F. Smirnov and V.M. Podgoretsky 845 116. HMT-97-116 Investigations on the vapor ejector autonomous refrigerator characteristics K.A. Goncharov, Yu. S. Botuk, M.A. Bukraba, V.N. Buz, A.I. Conoplev and H.F. Smirnov 851 117. HMT-97-117 Heat pipes state of the art for heat pumps Boris V. Kosoi 857 118. HMT-97-118 Effect of statistical and geometric parameters of water distribution on cooling tower performance T. Shivaraman, T. Sundararajan and V.R. Raghavan 861 8 119. HMT-97-119 A study of heat and mass transfer in a vertical evaporative cooler S.S. Kachwaha, P.L. Dhar and S.R. Kale Combustion Processes 867 873-918 120. HMT-97-120 On Dynamics of coal char combustion: ignition and extinction behaviour P. Gupta and R.K. Saha 873 121. HMT-97-121 A heat transfer model of 1-D transient temperature field in high speed jet of hot propellant gases Yu. Yonggang and Wang Qinyong 879 122. HMT-97-122 The thermochemical interaction of bodies with high-temperature high-velocity gas flows Yu. V. Polezhaev 123. HMT-97-123 Entropy balance and exergy analysis in the process of droplet combustion S.D. Hiwase, A. Datta and S.K. Som 124. HMT-97-124 Effects of spray parameters on flame structure and emission characteristics of gas turbine combustor 125. HMT-97-125 Numerical investigation of stabilization region of turbulent non-premixed flames S.K. Chaturvedi, A.S. Kheireddine and T.O. Mohieldin 905 126. HMT-97-126 Heat exchange and evaporation of non-stationary fuel spray in heated medium Valentin Nikolayevich Lukanin and Georgi Matveevitch Kamfer 911 127. HMT-97-127 Heat and mass exchange of vapor and gas mixture in generators S.A. Doubenets, A.F. Myandin and A.A. Zintchouk 915 A. Datta and S.K. Som Manufacturing and Material Processing 883 889 897 919-998 128. HMT-97-128 Effect of operating parameters on evaporative material removal using high-energy laser beam N.R. Pedanekar, B. Basu and Pradip Majumdar 919 129. HMT-97-129 Mathematical modeling of macrosegregation of iron-carbon alloy: effect of key process and physical parameters A.K. Singh and B. Basu 925 130. HMT-97-130 Surface displacements over a thermoelastic halfspace without energy dissipation Elizabeth Mathai 931 131. HMT-97-131 A two-dimensional conduction model for laser cladding Subhransu Roy, Shouvik Basu and A. Pandey 937 132. HMT-97-132 Thermal analysis of slab caster mould A.Paul, J.M. Korath, N. Pradhan, A.K. ray, S. Mazumdar, S.V. Chandramouli, Balasubramanium and Somedev Das 943 9 133. HMT-97-133 Comparative assessment of different models for the two-dimensional laser melting problem A.G. Marathe and M.R. Ravi 949 134. HMT-97-134 The metallic glasses formation in particle-laden flows Dmitry S. Mikhatulin, Yuri V. Polezhaev, Dmitry L. Revinznikov and Vitaly V. Rusakov 955 135. HMT-97-135 The properties of multifunction coatings synthesized by cold gas dynamics method P.V. Nikitine, N.A. Andreeve, S.M. Prorokov and A.G. Smolin 961 136. HMT-97-136 Study of heat transfer under periodic concentrated energy beam(CEB) S. Sethi, R.K. Singh, L.M. Ganayet and U.K. Chatterjee 967 137. HMT-97-137 Numerical simulation of free-jet expansion of metal vapour J. Mukherjee, L.M. Gantayet and V. Kumar 973 138. HMT-97-138 Laser glazing of porous coatings: effect of laset piwer and traverse speed T.A. Mahank, J. Singh and A.K. Kulkarni 979 139. HMT-97-139 Transport processes during synthesis of catalyst particles in a VGCF reactor AKM A. Hoque, M.K. Alam and K.K. Wong 985 140. HMT-97-140 A network approach for drying capillary porous medium X.F. yang, A. T. Prata and P.C. Phillippi 993 Nuclear Reactor Heat Transfer 999-1126 141. HMT-97-141 Thermal analysis of spent subassembly stuck-up during handling R. Gajapathy, K. Velusamy, G. Vaidyanathan and S.C. Chetal 999 142. HMT-97-142 Thermalevolution of PFBR IHX due to secondary pump trip Rama Swaminathan, G. Vaidyanathan and S.C. Chetal 1005 143. HMT-97-143 Mixed convection of sodium in main vessel cooling circuit of PFBR K. Velusamy, T. Sundararajan, G. Vaidyanathan, S.C. Chetal and S.B. Bhoje 1011 144. HMT-97-145 Turbulent natural convection in the enclosure formed by roof slab and main vessel of PFBR R. Senthil Velavan, K. Velusamy, T. Sundararajan, G. Padmanabham and G. Vaidyanathan 1017 145. HMT-97-145 Decay heat exchanger performance studies in scaled models M.V. Sridhara Rao, G. Padmakumar, G. Vaidyanathan and R.D. Kale 1023 10 146. HMT-97-146 Flow mixing experiments in a 37 rod bundle B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, S.C. Haldar, P.N. Prasad and A.K. Mohanty(Late) 1029 147. HMT-97-147 Design of safety grade decay heat removal system of pfbr using fem S. Athmaligam, A. Selvaraj and S.C. Chetal 1035 148. HMT-97-148 Preheating of pfbr reactor assembly components V. Balasubramaniyam, A.S.D. Mani, A. Selvaraj and S.C. Chetal 1041 149. HMT-97-149 Mixing pattern of a vertical cold jet in a hot pool K. Velusamy, M. Asokkumar, G. Vaidyanathan and S.C. Chetal 1047 150. HMT-97-150 Study of temperature fluctuations due to mixing of hot and cold jets in a fast reactor K. Rajesh, G. Ravichandran, G. Vaidyanathan and R.D. Kale 1053 151. HMT-97-151 Two phase steam and high density liquid metal vertical flow studies inlmmhd power conversion system P. Satyamurthy, N. Venkatramani, A.M. Quraishi and A. Mushtaq 1059 152. HMT-97-152 Two phase natural circulation residual heat removal J.S. Jayakumar and R.B. Grover 1065 153. HMT-97-153 Unsteady heat and mass transfer in oval twisted fuel rod bundle of space nuclear reactor B.V. Dzyubenko and R.I. Yakimenko 1071 154. HMT-97-154 Upgraded rbmks emergency core cooling system Oleg Yu. Novoselsky, Vladimir N. Smolin, Vladimir N. Filinov 1079 155. HMT-97-155 Analysis of the moderator flow and temperature distribution inside the calandria of Indian phwrs K.S. Gupta, H.S.Bhambra, D.S. Chawla and H.S. Kushwaha 1083 156. HMT-97-156 Transient temperatures in the seal disc of nuclear reactors K.S. Gupta, H.S.Bhambra, D.S. Chawla and H.S. Kushwaha 1089 157. HMT-97-157 Hchf: a computer code to determine critical heat flux in horizontal channel with and without internals H.G. Lele and S.K. Gupta 1095 158. HMT-97-158 Small break loca analysis for Indian phwr(220 mwe) B.Chatterjee, D.Mukhopadhyay and S.K. Gupta 1101 159. HMT-97-159 Transient analysis of an indian 220 mwe phwr power plant following tripping of one primary circulating pump Rajesh Kumar, Avinash Gaikwad, G. Chakraborty and V. Venkat Raj 1107 11 160. HMT-97-160 Effect of space discretisation on the loca analyses predictions using computer code RELAP4/MOD6 D. Mukhopadhyay, B. Ghosh, S.K. Gupta and V. Venkat Raj 1113 161. HMT-97-161 Heat and mass transfer during evaporation and calcinations of concentrated Radioactive liquid waste D.P. Pande, Neeraj Jain and P.B.S. Sengar 1119 Energy Conversion and Utilization 1127-1190 162. HMT-97-162 Heat transfer characteristics in a pressurized circulating fluidized bed P.K. Nag, A.V.S.S.K.S. Gupta and Deepak kumar 1127 163. HMT-97-163 Effect of fins on heat transfer in the cyclone separator of a cfb P.K. Nag, A.V.S.S.K.S. Gupta and A. Prem Kumar 1131 164. HMT-97-164 Studies in industrial cyclone heat exchanger P. Ramanan, T. Rajeswara Rao and B. Pitchumani 1137 165. HMT-97-165 Waste heat recovery boiler: second law analysis B.V. Reddy and N.K. Mitra 1143 166. HMT-97-166 Power optimization of reciprocating stirling –like engines with ideal regeneration, mixed-mode heat transfer and finite reservoirs David A. Blank 1149 167. HMT-97-167 Temperature response of a packed bed thermal storage system using an axial dispersion model for fluid Sarit Kumar Das, S. Chakrabarti and R.V. Kamat 1155 168. HMT-97-168 Fluidized Bed Boiler Technology for a captive power plant-criteria for selection S. Krishnan, S.Chakrabarti and R.V.Kamat 1161 169. HMT-97-169 Heat transfer in utilization systems of the internal combustion engines A.Sheipak, M. Chekalov, V. Bogdanov and V. Kapanjev 1169 170. HMT-97-170 Influence of ambient conditions on the thermodynamic performance of the kalian cycle R.K. Sinha and R.P. Vedula 1175 171. HMT-97-171 Circulation rates in a single vertical tube thermosiphon reboiler S.S. Alam, Nihaluddin and Mohd. Kamil 1179 172. HMT-97-172 Energy analysis of an operating coal fired steam power plant A.K. Chaturvedi and S.S. Kachhwaha 1185 Renewable Energy Systems 173. HMT-97-173 A simple method to determine time constant of a box type solar cooker with different food materials 12 1191-1226 M. Altamush Siddiqui and Matiullah Khan 1191 174. HMT-97-174 Optimum hot water temperature for the maximum performance of the thermosyponic solar water heater-cum-absorption systems M. Arif and M. Altamush Siddiqui 1197 175. HMT-97-175 An experimental investigation on improvement of thermal performance of solar air heaters using inclined rib roughness an absorber oplates Dhananjay Gupta, S.C. Solanki and J.S. Saini 1203 176. HMT-97-176 A method for transient testing of solar flat-plate collectors E.H. Amer, J.K. Nayak and G.K. Sharma 1209 177. HMT-97-177 Numerical simulation of a thermal siding of a building S. Amiroudine, N. Miolard, M. Dupont and P.H. Nguyen 1215 178. HMT-97-178 Studies on performance characteristics of a solar parabolic through concentrator with a variable area absorber C.M. Narayanan 1221 13