Computational Fluid Dynamics and COMSOL Multiphysics : A Step-by-Step Approach for Chemical Engineers

Ashish S. Chaurasia, PhD, teaches in the Chemical Engineering Department at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India, where he holds the position of Associate Professor. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the National Chemical Laboratory–India (2005–2006) and postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London, United Kingdom (2006–2008). His general research interests focus on pyrolysis of biomass, biomass gasification, computational fluid dynamics, and modeling and simulation. He has authored two books and more than 100 publications in reputed journals and conferences.