Biographical note

Satya Ranjan Mishra is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University. He has 19 years of teaching experience at both the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He completed his doctoral studies at Siksha O Anusandhan in 2013 and has been actively engaged in research since then. His areas of interest include Heat Transfer, Magnetohydrodynamics, Porous Media, etc., within the broader field of Fluid Dynamics. He has published nearly 250 papers in international journals of repute, which are either SCI or Scopus indexed and can be found in various databases such as Scopus, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, etc. Due to the significant citation of his work, he was recognized as one of the Top 2% World Scientists by Stanford University, USA, for four consecutive years (2020-2023). He has also guided 13 research scholars, with six more students currently working under his guidance. Dr. Mishra has delivered several lectures at various conferences and faculty development programs, including one organized by Rajasthan Technical University, Rajasthan, in 2019 on the topic “Introduction to MATLAB,” an FDP organized by Poornima Group of Institutions, Rajasthan, on the topic “Numerical Solutions using the Scientific Tool MAPLE” in 2020 (online), and a Summer Instructional School organized by NIT Arunachal Pradesh in 2020 on the topic “Linear Algebra.” He is the series editor for a book series at Springer Nature and has also edited a book under it in the year 2020. He is also an editor/associate editor for several reputed international journals. Dr. Mishra has authored a book titled Learning Numerical Methods using MATLAB and is expected to be released soon.

Apul Narayan Dev is currently working as an Associate Professor and Coordinator at the Centre for Data Science, Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. He has 12 years of teaching experience at both the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He completed his M.Phil and PhD from Gauhati University in 2011 and 2016, respectively. His areas of interest include the basic study of theoretical plasmas, degenerate and non-degenerate plasmas, mathematical methods, and fluid flow, with a broad focus on plasmas and fluid dynamics. He has published nearly 45 papers in reputable international journals, all of which are either SCI or Scopus indexed, and can be accessed through databases like Scopus, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, etc. He also published a book titled Shock Wave Phenomena in Dusty Plasma which is available on Amazon. Dr. Dev has guided one research scholar, with four more students working under his guidance. Additionally, he has organized two international conferences (AMSE-2019, AMSE-2022) and two international webinars (Maple-2020, Mathematica-2020), and edited a Scopus-indexed conference proceeding published by a reputed publisher in 2022 as the leading editor.

Alok Kumar Pandey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He obtained his PhD from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India. His research area is Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has published over 60 research articles in international journals and was included in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2023 list by Stanford University. In 2018, he was awarded the Publons Peer Review Award. He is a certified reviewer for more than 100 international journals and currently serves as an editor for Open Physics and Journal of Engineering Researcher and Lecturer, associate editor for the Journal of Advanced Research in Numerical Heat Transfer and Journal of Advanced Research in Micro and Nano Engineering, and a member of the editorial board for journals like Teknomekanik and SCIREA Journal of Mathematics. His scientific metrics, according to Google Scholar, show an h-index of 30, 2,126 citations, and an i10-index of 43.

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi completed his PhD, and his thesis is titled “Viscous Correction for the Potential Flow Analysis of Capillary and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability.” He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. Dr. Awasthi specializes in the mathematical modeling of flow problems. He has taught courses in Fluid Mechanics, Discrete Mathematics, Partial Differential Equations, Abstract Algebra, Mathematical Methods, and Measure Theory to postgraduate students. He has extensive knowledge of mathematical modeling in fluid dynamics and can solve flow problems analytically and numerically. His areas of expertise include viscous potential flow, electro-hydrodynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, heat, and mass transfer. Dr. Awasthi has excellent communication skills and leadership qualities and is self-motivated, responding to suggestions in a constructive manner. He qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 2008, earning a Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). He has published over 125 research publications, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers, in national and international journals and conferences. He has also published 10 books and is a series editor for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Intelligent Engineering Systems, published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis, USA). He has attended numerous symposia, workshops, and conferences in mathematics and fluid mechanics. Dr. Awasthi received “Research Awards” consecutively from 2013 to 2016 from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, and has also received a start-up research fund from the UGC, New Delhi, for his project titled “Nonlinear Study of the Interface in Multilayer Fluid Systems.” He has been recognized as one of the top 2% influential researchers globally by Stanford University for 2022 and 2023. His ORCID is 0000-0002-6706-5226, and his Google Scholar and ResearchGate profiles can be accessed at Google Scholar and ResearchGate, respectively.