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PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journal and Conference publications (DOI available)

1. Sunilkumar K. Prajapati, Ragesh G. Kapadia, Sunil Kumar, “A review on advancements in passive decay heat removal system of advanced nuclear reactors,” Open Nuclear Energy, Volume 1, June 2026, 100001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.one.2026.100001
2. Brooke L Smith, Meiyi Zhang, Sunil Kumar, Maria D King, “Aerosolization Affects Bacillus globigii Vegetative Cell and Spore Behaviors” Microorganisms, Vol. 13, Issue 11, page 25-32. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112532
3. Shreesha Yogish Rao, Sunil Kumar, Kavita Rathore, Ashok K Dewangan, “Nanofluids in Compact Heat Exchangers: Advances, Mechanisms, Challenges, and Sustainable Prospects in Thermal Management,” International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies (IJMMST), Vol. 4, Issue 1, page 1-30.   https://doi.org/10.56896/IJMMST.2025.4.1.001
4. Sunilkumar K. Prajapati, Ragesh G. Kapadia, Sunil Kumar, “Numerical Investigation of the Subcooled Flow Boiling in the Vertical Heated Tube,” International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies (IJMMST), Vol. 4, Issue 1, page 31-53.   https://doi.org/10.56896/IJMMST.2025.4.1.002
5. Sunilkumar K. Prajapati, Ragesh G. Kapadia, Sunil Kumar, “Multiscale and Multiphysics Coupling Approaches in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics: A Review,” International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies (IJMMST), Vol. 4, Issue 1, page 61-97.   https://doi.org/10.56896/IJMMST.2025.4.1.004
6. P.K. Bhowmik, D. Chowdhury, H.H. Abdellatif, S. Wahlquist, Sunil Kumar, S. Sharma, A. Ali, F. Mascari, P. Sabharwall, Flow instabilities in helical-coil steam generators for small modular reactors: A review, Nucl. Eng. Des. 433 (2025) 113846. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NUCENGDES.2025.113846
7. Madhu Jhariya, Ashok Kumar Dewangan, Syed Quadir Moinuddin, Sunil Kumar, Aqueel Ahmad & Ashok Kumar Yadav, Research progress on efficient battery thermal management system (BTMs) for electric vehicles using composite phase change materials with liquid cooling and nanoadditives. J Therm Anal Calorim 149, 13653–13680 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-024-13752-x
8. Hussein Sharadga, Ahmad Dawahdeh, Sunil Kumar, “Accelerated MPPT Controller for Photovoltaic Systems under Rapid Solar Radiation Changes Using Neural Network” 2024, Journal of Sustainibility, MDPI https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031021
9. Sunil Kumar, K. Rathore, “Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development Goal of Clean and Affordable Energy,” International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies, Vol. 2, Issue 1, page 01-15. https://doi.org/10.56896/IJMMST.2023.2.1.001
10. K. Rathore, Sunil Kumar, “Net Zero Emissions for Our Future Generations through Renewables: A Brief Review,” International Journal of Energy Resources Applications (IJERA), Vol. 2, Issue 1, page 22-43. https://doi.org/10.56896/IJERA.2023.2.1.004  
11. Sunil Kumar., Mark Klassen, David Kalassen, Robert Hardin, Maria King, “Dispersion of sneeze droplets in a meat facility indoor environment - without partitions”, Environmental Research (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116603
12. Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Ashwani Kumar, Nitesh Dutt, Sunil Kumar, “Electrohydrodynamic capillary instability of Rivlin-Ericksen viscoelastic fluid film with mass and heat transfer” 2023, Heat Transfer, DOI: 10.1002/htj.22944
13. Sunil Kumar, M.D. King, Numerical investigation on indoor environment decontamination after sneezing, Environ. Res. 213 (2022) 113665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113665
14. Sunil Kumar, A. Thyagarajan, D. Banerjee, Experimental Investigation of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Platform Leveraging Phase Change Materials in a Chevron Plate Heat Exchanger, in: Int. Mech. Eng. Congr. Expo., 2022: pp. 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2022-96226
15. Sunil Kumar, R.B. Grover, H. Yadav, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, A. Agrawal, R.B. Grover, U. Kannan, H. Yadav, A. Agrawal, Experimental Investigations on Thermal Stratification in a Large Pool of Water with Immersed Isolation Condenser, Int. Conf. Nucl. Eng. Proceedings, ICONE. 3 (2020) 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE2020-16647
16. Sunil Kumar, A. Thyagarajan, D. Banerjee, an investigation on chevron plate heat exchanger filled with organic phase change material, in: Proc. ASME 2020 Heat Transf. Summer Conf. HT2020 July 13-15, 2020, Virtual, online. https://doi.org/10.1115/HT2020-9122
17. Sunil Kumar, R.B. Grover, H. Yadav, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, A. Agrawal, Experimental and numerical investigation on suppression of thermal strati fi cation in a water-pool: PIV measurements and CFD simulations, 138 (2018) 686–704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.04.070
18. Sunil Kumar, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, M. Sharma, D.S. Pilkhwal, Experimental and computational simulation of thermal stratification in large pools with immersed condenser by, Appl. Therm. Eng. 113 (2017) 345–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.10.175
19. Sunil Kumar, R.B. Grover, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, Numerical investigation on the effect of shrouds around an immersed isolation condenser on the thermal stratification in large pools, Ann. Nucl. Energy. 110 (2017) 109–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2017.06.022
20. Sunil Kumar, P.K. Vijayan, M. Sharma, D.S. Pilkhwal, U. Kannan, A.K. Nayak, Experimental and numerical analysis of thermal stratification in large water pool, 2015. http://inis.iaea.org/Search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:47073982 

Conference Presentations and posters (selected)

Energy management research conferences

1. Kumar, Sunil, Thyagarajan, Ashok., Banerjee, Debjyoti., “Experimental Investigation of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) Platform Leveraging Phase Change Materials in a Chevron Plate Heat Exchanger,” International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2022), October 30 – November 3, 2022, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2. Sunil Kumar, R.B. Grover, H. Yadav, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, A. Agrawal, R.B. Grover, U. Kannan, H. Yadav, A. Agrawal, “Experimental Investigations on Thermal Stratification in a Large Pool of Water with Immersed Isolation Condenser,” 28th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, August 4 – August 5, 2020, Virtual.
3. Kumar, Sunil, Thyagarajan, Ashok., Banerjee, Debjyoti., “Numerical investigation on thermal front propagation in a PCM filled heat exchanger for efficiency improvement,” Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC 2020), July 12 – 15, 2020, Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, FL, USA
4. Sunil Kumar, P.K. Vijayan, M. Sharma, D.S. Pilkhwal, U. Kannan, A.K. “Nayak, Experimental and numerical analysis of thermal stratification in large water pool,” Thorium Energy Conference 2015, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
5. Kumar, Sunil, Vijayan., P.K., Kannan., U, Nayak., A. K., 2013, “Investigation on thermal stratification on a large water pool with immersed condenser”, Proceedings of the 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference December 28-31, 2013, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
6. Sunil Kumar, P.K. Vijayan, A.K. Nayak, “Thermal stratification: a problem for passive safety system in advanced water reactors” International conference on “Severe Accident Analysis and Management” 2013, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India
7. Kumar, Sunil, Hardin, G. Robert., and Maria King., “Cotton Wads Drying in Conveyer Belt System: CFD Simulations,” 2023 ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 9 - 12, 2023, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
8. Kumar, Sunil, Hardin, G. Robert., and Maria King., “Numerical investigation on seed cotton conveyance and drying for improving energy efficiency,” Beltwide Cotton Conference, National Cotton Council of America, January 4 - 6, 2022, Marriott River Center Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA
9. Kumar, Sunil, Hardin, G. Robert., and Maria King., “Improving Energy Efficiency in Seed Cotton Conveying and Drying,” Beltwide Cotton Conference, National Cotton Council of America, January 5 – 7, 2021, (virtual conference), USA.

Aerosols generation and dispersion Research conferences

10. Sunil Kumar, Meiyi Zhang, John Cate, Hunter Welch, Maria King “Airborne Transmission and Mitigation in Indoor Environments: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 42ndAnnual Conference, October 21 - 25, 2024, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
11. Sunil Kumar, Maria King “Mitigating Bioaerosol Spread Through Computational Fluid Dynamics” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 40^th annual Conference, October 21 - 25, 2023, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
12. Kumar, Sunil, and Maria King., “Exploring the Impact of Diffuser Design on Droplet Dispersion in Indoor Spaces,” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 41st Annual Conference, October 2 - 6, 2023, Portland, Oregon, USA
13. Kumar, Sunil, and Maria King., “suppressing spread of viral sneeze droplets using transparent curtains in large food processing facilities,” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 40th Annual Conference, October 3-7, 2022, Raleigh Convention center, Raleigh, NC, USA
14. Kumar, Sunil, and Maria King., “Design-Aided Mitigation of the Spread of Virus Aerosols,” American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 39th Annual Conference, October 18 - 22, 2021, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
15. Kumar, Sunil, David Klassen, Tatiana Baig, and Maria King., “Ventilation Systems and COVID-19”, American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 39th Annual Conference, October 18 - 22, 2021, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
16. Kumar, Sunil, and Maria King., “Numerical Investigation on Transport and Removal of Airborne Virus from a Hospital Room,” 38th American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Annual conference (AAAR 2020), October 5 – 9, 2020, Raleigh, USA.

Books Chapters Publication

1. Sunil Kumar, Robert Hardin, Maria King “Modeling of flows through porous media,” Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer: Advances, Design, Control and Applications, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003465171-8).
2. Sunil Kumar, Debjyoti Banerjee, “PCMs for Sustainability Applications by Leveraging Machine Learning,” Phase Change Materials (PCMs) - Recent Advances, New Perspectives, and Applications, Intech Open Publication (http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114380).
3. Sunil Kumar, Kavita Rathore, Debjyoti Banerjee, “Heat Transfer Fundamentals and Introduction to Heat Exchangers” Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837-1).
4. Sunil Kumar, Kavita Rathore, Mithilesh Kumar Sahu, Mohit Pramod Sharma, Kuber Nath Mishra, and Debjyoti Banerjee, “Heat Exchanger Classifications and their Areas of Application” Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837-2). 
5. Sumit Khatri, Suvanjan Bhattacharyya1, Sunil Kumar, “Conventional Methods for Enhancing Heat Transfer Relevant to Heat Exchangers” Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837-3).
6. Nancy Maurya, Naman Jain, Tapasvi Bhatt, Sunil Kumar, and Suvanjan Bhattacharyya, “Microchannel Heat Exchangers” Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837-8).
7. Arya Shah, Karan Sharma, Vaibhav More, M.D. Yadav, and Sunil Kumar, “Fouling and Corrosion Prevention Strategies” Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press Publication, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837-12).
8. Kavita Rathore, Sunil Kumar, Debjyoti Banerjee, “Introduction to Phase Change Materials” Advances in Phase Change Materials and its Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions, Springer Publication, 2025 (publication in progress).    
9. Chaitanya Mali, Sunil Kumar, Kavita Rathore, Debjyoti Banerjee, “Advancements in Enhancing Thermophysical Properties” Advances in Phase Change Materials and its Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions, Springer Publication, 2025 (publication in progress).   
10. Sunil Kumar Prajapati, Kavita Rathore, Sunil Kumar, Debjyoti Banerjee, “Machine Learning and AI in PCM Research” Advances in Phase Change Materials and its Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions, Springer Publication, 2025 (publication in progress).   
11. Mohit Sharma, Sunil Kumar, “Environmental Impact and Sustainability of PCMs” Advances in Phase Change Materials and its Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions, Springer Publication, 2025 (publication in progress).   
12. Shreesha Rao, Sunil Kumar, Debjyoti Banerjee, Kavita Rathore, “Global Market and Industry Trends for Advances in Phase Change Materials” Advances in Phase Change Materials and its Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions, Springer Publication, 2025 (publication in progress).   

Books Publication

1. Sunil Kumar, “Radiation Detection Basics & Development of Advance Gas Detector: Characterization and Experimental Validation,” LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2013-02-20), ISBN-13: 978-3-659-22249-8, ISBN-10: 3659222498, EAN: 9783659222498, category: Technology, (complete book of 176 pages). https://www.amazon.com/Radiation-Detection-Development-Advance-Detector/dp/3659222496  
2. Kumar, Sunil, Rathore, K., & Banerjee, D. (Eds.). (2026). Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies: AI, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003509837  
3. Sunil Kumar, Kavita Rathore, Debjyoti Banerjee, “Advances in Phase Change Materials and their Applications: Bridging AI and Thermal Solutions,” Springer Nature, 2025, (Book submitted for publication).
4. Sunil Kumar, Palash Kumar Bhowmik, Piyush Sabharwall, “Advances in Small Modular Reactor Technology: Thermal-Hydraulic Design and Analysis with Techno-Economic Perspectives,” Elsevier Publication, 2026 (Book Writing in Progress).