Syllabus

Sustainable manufacturing has become a buzz in today’s manufacturing industries. Special attention is being given to the significant environmental burden that is being created due to manufacturing industries. Industry is facing an issue of getting skilled manpower trained in assessing these environmental burdens to make the manufacturing sustainable. This workshop tries to impart some of the sustainable and life cycle assessment (LCA) skills to make the students ready to implement sustainable manufacturing practices in industry. The main objectives are:
Inculcation of skills to create and implement sustainable practices in manufacturing.
Finding out the approaches and best practices for reducing carbon footprints and GHG Emissions.
Sustainability and Lifecycle analysis of machining process through case studies.
Who can attend?
Any undergraduate/diploma/postgraduate/PhD students/Working Professionals with basic knowledge of manufacturing.

Module1 (1 Hour): Monday
Sustainable Manufacturing: Introduction
Carbon Footprint and GHG Emissions
How to Perform Sustainability Analysis: Case Study

Module2 (1 Hour): Tuesday
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Introduction
Types of LCA
Phases Involved in Conducting LCA
How to Perform LCA: Case Study

Short Bio:

Dr. Navneet Khanna is a Dean, Faculty Aff airs and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, India. He is a specialist in building a strong pool of trained engineering graduates and is involved in solving Manufacturing related problems of Indian Industries and Government Organizations. He bagged the Early Career Research Award of SERB (Government of India) and successfully completed the project. He has successfully led90+ projects defined by the Indian industries and published 100+ research papers in renowned (SCI/SCIE) peer-reviewed (Q1 & Q2) journals. In addition to this core competence, he has created several avenues of collaborative work with ISRO, DRDO, IPR, IITs, and renowned institutions round-the-globe. He has been invited by several renowned institutions worldwide to deliver invited talks and lectures. Dr. Khanna’s name figured among the top 2% of researchers and scientists of the world in a report published by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier of the Netherlands for the years of 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Dr. Khanna is listed among the World’s Best Engineering and technology Scientists by Research.com. Dr. Khanna also featured among top 0.05% of scholars worldwide in the specialty of Cryogenics and Tribology by ScholarGPS.

Monday, Nov 10 to Tuesday, Nov 11, 2025
7:30 am – 8:30 am

Syllabus

i) Composites: Definition and main criteria. Classification. Main fibers, reinforcements andpolymeric matrices. Importance, benefits and market. ii) Micromechanics: Introduction and basicconcepts. Some analytical models for estimating longitudinal and transverse modulus of elasticity,Poisson’s ratio and in-plane shear modulus of continuous fibers composites. Use of the free MECH-Gcomp software (www.ufrgs.br/mechg).

The course requires the use of a notebook or similar.

Short Bio:

Dr. Sandro Amico graduated from UFRN, did his Masters at UNICAMP and the PhD at the University of Surrey (England). He is Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Department of Materials Engineering. He has published 340+ journal papers, 550+ conference papers, 25 book chapters and 4 patents, and has supervised 72 Master/Doctorate students. He was the Chair of the 3rd Brazilian Conference on Composite Material and received the Pesquisador Gaúcho Award from FAPERGS (2021) and the Technological Innovation Award from ANP – Category III (2020) with his team. He has an H-index of 48 (Scopus) and 57 (Google Scholar) and is associate editor of the Materials Research Ibero-American Journal. He leads a Composites group (www.ufrgs.br/gcomp)and the development of a free composite mechanics software (www.ufrgs.br/mechgcomp). His ongoing international collaborations include Politecnico di Milano and IPF-Dresden.
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56439261300

Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
7:30 am – 9:30 am

Syllabus

Objectives represent the heart of scientific writing. All other elements of the essay rely on them. Defining the objective(s) of a dissertation or thesis may seem like atrivial task for master’s and doctoral students. Many view it as merely a formality with little practical significance. This sense of triviality persists until the writing begins,at which point authors often lose the thread and get discouraged. Even worse, evaluators notice a disconnect between the objectives and the conclusions in the finalstages. Even if the wording is amended, this flaw can usually diminish the quality of the work or, at the very least, lessen its appreciation. Therefore, establishing theobjectives of a dissertation or thesis should be approached more objectively during the planning stage (but it is never too late for re-evaluation).
In this short course, the concepts, meanings, and methods of defining objectives in a scientific essay will be discussed from the tutor’s perspective and experience.The focus will be on the approach of research questions and hypotheses, which is not very common in Brazilian academia. The alignment of the objectives with theconclusion, as well as their interdependence with the introduction and discussion of the results, will be demonstrated (reaffirming an analogy of the objectives with aheart, now including their reciprocal dependence on other organs). Practical exercises will be carried out with the participants.
It is hoped that, by the end of this short two class-hour course, participants will be able to think more critically about the role of objectives in scientific writing,particularly in a dissertation or thesis. They should also be able to apply these concepts to develop and articulate the objectives of their work, starting from the proposalstage and especially during the actual writing of the dissertation or thesis.

Short Bio:
Dr. Américo Scotti, Mechanical Engineer, MSc and PhD in Welding Technology. He has been working in this specialty since 1982. He dedicated his career as a professor/researcher to studying the fundamentals of arc welding and wire arc additive manufacturing. He is currently a visiting professor of the graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil).

Thursday, Nov 13 to Friday, Nov 14, 2025
7:30 am – 8:30 am

Syllabus

Presentation format: Expository and practical, with computational demonstrations and exercises with real and simulated data.
A concise four-hour course introducing mechanical engineers to the essentials of artificial intelligence and machine learning: one hour on overarching concepts and terminology, followed by separate one-hour modules on supervised regression, supervised classification, and foundational neural-network methods.
Lecture 1: Panorama and core concepts
Lecture 2: Regression
Lecture 3: Classification
Lecture 4: Neural Networks

Short Bio:
Americo Cunha Jr is a Research Staff Member at Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) and an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies. His research focuses on the nonlinear dynamics of energy-harvesting systems and metamaterials, utilizing machine learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques for their design, analysis, optimization, and control.

Monday, Nov 10 to Thursday, Nov 13, 2025
7:30 am – 8:30 am

Syllabus

Introduction to Modern CFD: Outline of Course
Lecture 1: Background & Brief History
What is CFD and why do CFD?
A brief history of CFD
Lecture 2: The Governing Equations
General Balance Equation
Various Forms of Governing Equations
Lectures 3 and 4: The Finite Volume Method
Introduction to the finite volume method
Iterative convergence
Linear Solvers
Numerical Accuracy and Grid convergence
Lecture 5: Pressure Projection and SIMPLE Method
Pressure velocity coupling
staggered & non-staggered grid
The SIMPLE algorithm
Lecture 6: Turbulent Flow
Elementary concepts and Turbulence Models
Overview of 2 equation models (k-e type and k-w type, blended)
Overview of Wall Treatment
Into advanced models: Reynolds stress, LES, DNS
Lecture 7: Environmental Flows
Atmospheric Flows
Surface and Ground Water Flows
Lecture 8: Emerging Trends and CFD of the Future
Machine learning, PINN, Digital Twin, AI/ML
Further Reading

Short Bio:
Dr. Akshai K. Runchal has almost 60 years of experience in CFD and simulation of flow, heat and mass transport processes in engineering and environmental sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1969 from Imperial College (London) under the guidance of Prof. D. B. Spalding. Runchal along with Suhas Patankar and Micha Wolshtein formed the 3-member team led by Spalding that invented the Finite Volume Method (FVM) for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in mid-1960’s. He started his professional career as a faculty at IIT Kanpur in 1969 and has taught as regular or adjunct faculty at IIT(Kanpur), Imperial College (London), University of California (Los Angeles), Cal Tech (Pasadena), and Cal State (Northridge). In 1979, Dr. Runchal established the ACRi group of companies (www.ACRIcfd.com) that has offices in the USA, France and India. Core expertise of ACRi is Engineering, Environmental and Space Sciences.
Over the past 56 years. Dr. Runchal has provided advanced technology and CFD Simulation services to over 200 clients that include Fortune 500 corporations, R&D organizations, and governments in over 20 countries. Among his clients are BARC, DeitY and DRDO in India; ARCO, Coca Cola, Exxon, GE, IBM, Flour, Lockheed, NASA, Rockwell, US Air Force, US DOE and Westinghouse in the USA; Rolls Royce, AEA and BP in the UK; SAFRAN, TOTAL and Hydratec in France; ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia; BBC in Switzerland, and major organizations in Abu Dhabi, China, Holland, Korea, Sweden and UAE. Dr. Runchal has been actively involved in innovative and path breaking R&D projects with leading research organizations in many countries including the Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Sandia and Savannah River National Laboratories. Dr Runchal ’s expertise spans a broad spectrum of aerospace chemical, mechanical, civil and environmental engineering projects. Additionally, he has consulted extensively on projects in the fields of environmental impact, management of air, surface and ground water resources, safe disposal of hazardous and nuclear waste, and, policy and decision analysis. His clients have included major fortune He is the principal author of the ANSWER®, PORFLOW®, TIDAL®, and RADM™ CFD Software Tools that are widely employed by commercial, academic and R&D organizations. He obtained a Bachelor’s in Engineering with Honors from Punjab Engineering College (Chandigarh) in 1964. He is the author or co-author of 12 books and over 200 technical publications. Dr. Runchal has received professional honors and awards and has delivered keynote and invited talks at more than 100 international conferences and seminars. He is a Fellow of the ASME, a Fellow and founder member of the ASTFE, and has served as Chairman of the IIT Kanpur Foundation Board. He was a member of the IIT Gandhinagar Advisory Board from 2012 to 2019. He has served as an Advisor to the Government of India and the Indian Army and, a number of educational institutes in their R&D and Industrial Relations Programs.
In 2011, Dr. Runchal founded a non-profit CFD Virtual Reality Institute (www.CFDVRi.org) to further the cause of CFD education, training and R&D and to make CFD a vital and easily accessible tool for practicing engineers and its use in sustainable and socially responsive economic growth.
Dr. Runchal grew up in the scenic hill town of McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, that is now on the world map as the hometown of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He divides his time between McLeod Ganj and Los Angeles. Since 2006 he has been deeply engaged in reviving the lost heritage of Kangra Miniature Paintings through Kangra Arts Promotion Society (www.KangraArts.org) based in McLeod Ganj. His social interests include a passionate campaign to transform his home state of Himachal into a vibrant and sustainable economy through encouragement of Service/IT industry with high-paying jobs with low environmental foot print.

runchal@ACRiCFD.com ◙ +1 310 471 3023 ◙ +91 94 1822 0963
CEO & Founding Partner, ACRi Group (USA, France, India)
MD & Founder, CFD Virtual Reality Inst., Dharamsala
Distinguished Alumnus (PEC)
ASME Fellow
ASTFE Fellow & Founding Member
Ex-Chairman, IIT Kanpur Foundation
Ex-Member, Advisory Council, IIT Gandhinagar
Adjunct: UCLA (Los Angeles), Cal Tech (Pasadena)
Ex-Professor, IIT (Kanpur), Imperial College (London)
Ex-Advisor: Government of India
Core Expertise: CFD, Heat & Mass Transfer, Combustion
Engineering & Environment Modeling

Monday, Nov 10 to Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
7:30 am – 9:30 am