Table of Contents

Volume I

Keynote Papers

Title/Author	Page
TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE Carl H. Gibson	1
ANALYTICAL METHOD IN INVERSE HEAT TRANSFER PROBLEM USING LAPLACE TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE APPLICATION TO ONE- AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL CASES Masanori Monde, Hirofumi Arima, Wei Liu and Yuhichi Mitsutake	11
SENSITIVE MICROWAVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF MATERIALS M. Saka and Y. Ju	31
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THROUGH APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY Izumi Ushiyama, Yuichi Nakajo, Yasuyuki Nemoto and Tsutomu Dei	39
APPRAISAL OF THE INDIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY PROGRAMME H.P.Garg	53
RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS AT HIGHER RATES OF STRAIN Hassan Mahfuz, Wahid Mamun and Shaik Jeelani	57
ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE HOUSEHOLD SECTOR: RIGHT DIAGNOSIS AND WRONG THERAPY B.Sudhakara Reddy	67
A REVIEW OF THERMAL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON JET IMPINGEMENT COOLING Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman and Rengasamy Ponnappan	79
Interaction of thermoacoustic waves and buoyancy-induced flows in an enclosure Bakhtier Farouk and Murat k. Aktas	97
MODERN DEVELOPMENT AND GENERAL PERFORMANCE OF JET NOISE SUPPRESSORS K. Seto	107
STATE OF ART ON SELF-RECTIFYING AIR TURBINES FOR WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION Toshiaki Setoguchi and Manabu Takao	117

TRANSPORT PROCESSES AND THERMODYNAMIC IRREVERSIBILITIES IN DROPLET COMBUSTION S.K. Som	127
CRYOGENICS: ITS PRODUCTION, PROPERTIES AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS Kanchan Chowdhury	135
MODEL STUDIES ON THE CLOSURE MECHANISMS OF HEART VALVES Niranjan K. Talukder	155
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY M.N.A. Hawlader	161
PARADIGM SHIFT IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THIS MILLENIUM Anwarul Azim	167
GLOBALISATION, IPP’S, ENERGY SECTOR AND CHALLENGES TO THE DEVELOPING NATIONS Md. Golam Mohiuddin	173
TURBULENCE MODELS IN SUPERSONIC FLOWS E. Shirani , H. Ahmadikia , S. Talebi	185
TOWARDS A NEW FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES Noor Al Quddus, S. Reaz Ahmed and Md. Wahhaj Uddin
DIRECT SIMULATION OF HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS OF COMPLEX GEOMETRIES Kunio Kuwahara and Satoko Komurasaki
TURBULENCE MODELS IN SUPERSONIC FLOWS E. Shirani , H. Ahmadikia and S. Talebi
ENERGY SCENARIO AND POLICY IN BANGLADESH M. Nurul Islam