New publication from Turbine Testing Lab Dr. Sailesh Chitrakar, Prof. Hari Prasad Neopane and Prof. Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug published a paper entitled ‘Development of a test rig for investigating the flow field around guide vanes of Francis turbines’ in Flow Measurement and Instrumentation Journal (Elsevier). Here is the link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955598619302572 For reference: Sailesh Chitrakar, Hari Prasad Neopane and Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug...

Publication of Proceedings of CRHT-IX in IOP-Journal of Physics The short-listed papers presented in the International Symposium on Current Research in Hydropower Technologies (CRHT) –IX organized by Turbine Testing Lab (TTL) on 9th April 2019 in Kathmandu University has now been published in IOP-Journal of Physics-Conference Series. Following is the link to the published papers. https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/1266/1 In this symposium, 30 papers were presented, out of wh...

Dr. Biraj Singh Thapa, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Faculty In-Charge, Turbine Testing Lab has published an article on “Contribution of FranSed Project to the research at Turbine Testing Laboratory at Kathmandu University in Nepal” in a Newsletter published from NTNU. The article can be found at: https://www.ntnu.edu/hydrocen/newsletter-3

Publications of Dr. Gajendra Sharma Dr. Gajendra Sharma, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has got the following papers published in the year 2018: 1. Gajendra Sharma and Ghanshyam Mahaseth. An Empirical Assessment of Service Quality and Customer Preference of Cellular Service Providers in Nepal. International Journal of Excellence Innovation and Development, 1(2), pp. 40-54, 2018. Available online at: http://www.ijeid.com/papers/vol1issue2/IJEID11AB040...

Dr. Prachand Man Pradhan, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering, has got the following joint research papers published in the year 2018:  1. Kozubal, J.W., Bhat, D.R., Pradhan, P. M., “LOAD BEARING CAPACITY OF LATERAL LOADED PILES IN WATERED CARPATHIAN FLYSCH “, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 947-962, Archives of Mining Sciences, Poland, DOI 10.24425/ams.2018.124986,  (Dec. 2018) Available on: http://archiwum.img-pan.krakow.pl/index.php...

Dr. Jyoti U. Devkota, Professor, Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Kathmandu University has published an article in Springer Nature. This article is titled “Multivariate Statistics of Biogas and National Grid Energy Consumers for Countries with Limited and Scarce Data: Nepal as a Case Study".

Dr. Rajendra Adhikari, Assistant Professor from Department of Physics, School of Science has co-authored a peer-reviewed article on Physical Review B (Journal of American Physical Society), entitled "Hyperferroelectricity in ZnO: Evidence from analytic formulation and numerical calculations". The abstract of the article is on the link below: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.104101 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.104101

Mr. Pawan Karki, Lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering, published a paper (Technical brief) entitled “Study of adiabatic obstacles on natural convection in a square cavity using Lattice Boltzmann method” in “Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications” (ASME). The article can be viewed in the following link http://thermalscienceapplication.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=2712864&resultClick=1

Dr. Prachand Man Pradhan, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Geomatics Engineering, has got the following joint research papers published in the year 2018: 1.  Kozubal, J.W., Bhat, D.R., Pradhan, P. M. , “LOAD BEARING CAPACITY OF LATERAL LOADED PILES IN WATERED CARPATHIAN FLYSCH “, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 947-962, Archives of Mining Sciences, Poland, DOI 10.24425/ams.2018.124986,  (Dec. 2018)Available on: http://archiwum.img-pan.krakow.pl/index....

The article covers evaluation of wide range of pharmacological activities such as anti-ulcer assay, anti-diarrhea assay, anti-inflammatory assay, analgesic assay as well as the enzymatic assay such as lipase inhibition and alpha-amylase inhibition activities of of Eucalyptus camaladulensis Dehnh leaf extract. The article can be downloaded from the link below: Anil Upreti, Bibek Byanju, Muna Fuyal, Apekshya Chhetri, Paras Pandey, Rajeswar Ranjitkar, Jyoti Joshi Bhatta, Bishnu Prasad Pandey . Ev...