Research Highlights

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  ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

  WiCom serves as a platform for researchers of IIT Indore to contribute their research in all areas of communications with particular emphasis on techniques related to 5G wireless networks and beyond. Specifically, we focus on bidirectional relaying, cognitive radio, D2D communications, MIMO techniques, satellite communications, and molecular communications. The bidirectional relaying can significantly improve the performance of wireless networks in terms of coverage and spectrum efficiency for multipath fading scenario. Based on this, our recent works have introduced several implementation aspects of two-phase and three-phase bidirectional relaying protocols.
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  MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

  Impinging air jets have been used in various industrial applications including the drying of paper, cooling of gas turbine blades and cooling of electronic components. Here, an attempt has been made to propose a theoretical model to predict the heat transfer characteristics of two dimensional impinging jets on a hot surface. Energy integral method is used to obtain the solution. Based on the analysis a generalized expression for Nusselt number is obtained involving various parameters such as: nozzle to plate distance, Prandtl number, Reynolds number and modeling parameter k. Tests have been carried out by using a two dimensional nozzle with length to diameter ratio of 70.