nur.alam@nitm.ac.in
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Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Guwahati, October 2019
M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Guwahati, June 2016
B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NERIST, June 2014
4. Shukla A., Alom, N., and Saha, U. K., 2022. Spline-Bladed Savonius Wind
Rotor with Porous Deflector: A Computational Investigation, Journal of the Brazilian Society of
Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Vol: 44, issue: 10, p:1-17
1. Alom N, P.K. Talukdar, B.K. Sarkar, and Saha U. K., 2023. Influence of Concentrated Augmenter on the Performance of A Two-Bladed Savonius Wind Rotor Composed of Arc-Elliptical Profile, Paper No. GTIndia2023-118292, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 07 – 08, Bangalore, India.
2. Baruah, J., Venkaiah, P., Kumar, N., Sarkar, B.K. and Alom, N., 2022 Offshore Wind Turbine Pitch Control with Aeroelastic Effect, IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), May 20-22, 2022, Virtual
3. Shukla, S., Bora, B.J., Deo, A., Alom, N., 2022, Numerical Analysis of
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Blades in ANSYS Fluent, Materials Today Proceedings,
Vol: 59, part: 3, p: 1781-1785
4. Alom N., and
Sarkar B.K., 2021. Effect of Exit Blade Angle on the Performance of Cross Flow
Hydro Turbine: A Numerical Study, Paper No. GTIndia2021-76037, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 02 – 03, Virtual, online
5. CJ Ramana, Bora BJ, Roy S, Alom N, and Buradi A, 2021, CFD Analysis of Pressure and Velocity
distribution in Novel Reverse Osmosis Filtration of Crude Biodiesel,
Proceedings of the 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and
Fluid Power (FMFP) December 27-29, 2021, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, RJ, India
6. Singh J., Alom N., and Sarkar B.K., 2020.
Computational assessment of cross flow hydro turbine by changing the rotational speed, Proceedings of the 8th
International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power
(FMFP2020), December 09-11, 2020, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, Assam, India
7. Talukdar P.K., Alom N., Rathod U.H., Kulkarni
V., Saikia P., and Rava, D. K., 2020. Wind Tunnel Experiments to Estimate the
Performance of a Novel Arc-elliptical-bladed Savonius Wind Rotor, International
Conference on Recent Trends in Developments of Thermo-fluid and Renewable
Energy, November 26 – 28, 2020, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, Yupia, India.
8. Alom N, and Saha U. K., 2019. Determining the optimal location of vent augmenters in an elliptical-bladed
Savonius rotor, Paper No. GTIndia2019-2344, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 05 – 06, IIT Madras, Chennai,
India.
9. Alom N, Das R, and Saha U. K., 2019. Optimization of aerodynamic
parameters of an elliptical-Bladed Savonius wind rotor using multi-objective
genetic algorithm, Paper No.
GTIndia2019-2346, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 05 – 06, Chennai, India.
10. Alom N, Das R, and Saha U. K., 2019. A Differential Evolution-Based
Inverse Method to Optimize Blade Configurations in Elliptical-Bladed Savonius
Wind Turbines, Paper No.
GTIndia2019-2352, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 05 – 06, Chennai, India.
11. Alom, N., Kumar, N., and Saha, U. K., 2019.
Analyzing the effect of shaft and end-plates of a newly developed
elliptical-bladed Savonius rotor from wind tunnel tests, Paper No. OMAE2019-95570, ASME 38th International Conference on Ocean,
Offshore and Arctic Engineering, June
9-14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
12. Alom, N., and Saha, U. K., 2017. Arriving at the optimum overlap ratio
for an elliptical-bladed Savonius rotor, Paper No. GT2017-64137, ASME Turbo Expo, June 26–30, Charlotte, North
Carolina, USA.
13. Alom, N., Kumar, N., and Saha, U. K., 2017.
Aerodynamic performance of an elliptical-bladed Savonius rotor under the
influence of number of blades and shaft, Paper No. GTIndia2017-4554, ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, December 7–8, Bangalore, India.
14. Alom N., Kolaprathi S.C., Gadde S.C., and Saha U.K., 2016, “Aerodynamic design optimization of elliptical-bladed Savonius-style wind turbine by numerical simulations”, Paper No. OMAE2016-55095, ASME 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, June 19-24, Busan, South Korea.
15. Alom, N., and Saha, U.K., 2016. Numerical optimization of semicircular-bladed Savonius rotor using vent augmenters, Asian Congress on Gas Turbines 2016, November 14-16, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
1.
Qualified “Graduate Aptitude Test in
Engineering (GATE)” in Mechanical Engineering, 2014.
2.
Recipient of “Anundoram
Boruah Award” by Govt. of Assam, India, 2009
3.
Recipient of “ASME
Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award 2017” to attend ASME Turbo Expo, June 26–30, 2017,
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
4.
Recipient of “ASME
Outreach to Engineers Award by ASME, to attend ASME OMAE 2019, June 9-14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
5. Recipient of “DST-SERB International Travel Support” By MHRD, Govt. of India, 2019, to attend ASME OMAE 2019, June 9-14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
6. “Alom, N., and Saha, U. K., 2018. Four decades of research into the augmentation techniques of Savonius wind turbine rotor, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 140, No. 5, p. 050801”, become the most accessed article of the year 2018.
1. On ‘ANSYS and
Its Application in Engineering’ Department of Mechanical Engineering, GIMT Guwahati,
Assam, India, 5-9 June 2017.
2. On the topic of ‘Problem Solving Approaches Using CFD
Tools’ in 5th National Workshop on Research Methodology in Fluid Mechanics,
Jointly Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati &
National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, India, held at IIT
Guwahati during June 22-23, 2019.
3. On ‘Use of CFD Tools’ Department of
Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, Assam, India, 17-21 February 2021
4. On the topic
of Computational Analysis of Various Savonius Rotor Blade Profiles in the Refresher Program on Small Wind Turbines:
Design, Development and Testing organized by Trinity College of
Engineering and Research, Pune during 31st March-6th
April 2021
5. On the topic of Evolution
of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines and Its Applications in the STTP on Recent Developments in
Renewable Energy organized by Government Engineering College Bharuch, Gujrat
during 4-9th April 2021
6. On the topic of Experimental Analysis of
Savonius Wind Rotors in the Refresher Program on Small Wind Turbines: Design,
Development and Testing phase-II organized by Trinity College of
Engineering and Research, Pune during 28th April-4th May
2021
7. On the topic of Computational Analysis of Cross Flow Hydro Turbine with
the Variation of Blade and Nozzle Entry Arc Angle in the 2nd International Workshop on In-stream Hydrokinetic organized at the
Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), IIT Roorkee, during
Sept.27-28, 2021.
UG Courses:
Fluid Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics
Power Plant Engineering
Power Generation Technology
Engineering Thermodynamics
Hydro Power
Wind Energy
Safety Engineering
Workshop Practice-I
Workshop Practice-II
Mechanical Laboratory-III
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Fluid Machines laboratory
PG Courses:
Power Plant Engineering
Thermal Science Laboratory
Thermal & Fluid System Properties Measurement.
Heat Transfer Laboratory
ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
International Journal of Green Energy (Tailor & Francis)
Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects (Tailor & Francis)
International Journal of Sustainable Energy (Tailor & Francis)
Wind Engineering
Energy
Alexandria Engineering
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Oceans Engineering
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
Energy Report
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (IOP Press)
CFD Letters
Session Chair at 4th ICEPE 2022, Organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya during 29th April – 01st May, 2022.
Organizing Member of Computational Modeling and Analysis Using Ansys and Creo (CoMAAC 2015), NIT Meghalaya
Member of Pre-Convocation Food Committee 2016, NIT Meghalaya
Member of Departmental Library Committee of NIT Meghalaya 2018
Organizing Member of IC-RIDME 2018, International Conference Held at NIT Meghalaya
Member of Pre-Convocation Cultural Committee 2019 of NIT Meghalaya
Member of Departmental NBA Committee 2019 of NIT Meghalaya
Member of Event Management Committee for Hands on Training on ANSYS for CFD held at NIT Meghalaya 2019.
Member of the departmental time table committee: Ongoing
MTP Co-Ordinator: Ongoing
Member of the departmental NBA committee: Ongoing