State of the art on pulsating heat pipes
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Brief Bio - Manfred Groll

Manfred Groll is a professor at Universität Stuttgart, Germany since 1985. He heads the Department of Energy Conversion and Heat Transfer at IKE from 1970. During 1975/76 he worked at NASA Ames Research Center on heat pipe technology development for satellite applications. Since late 1976, besides teaching activities, he is responsible for R&D projects at IKE on heat pipes and thermosyphons, including micro and pulsating heat pipes; enhanced two-phase heat transfer; micro heat transfer in pool and flow boiling; hydrogen storage and metal hydrides. He is chairman of the committee on International Heat Pipe Conferences, associate editor of International Journal of Heat and Technology, on the editorial board of various thermal science journals and guest/advisory professor at various Chinese universities. He has over 280 publications in the field of engineering thermophysics, energy technology and nuclear reactor safety. He has studied mechanical and nuclear engineering at University Stuttgart, receiving doctoral degree in 1969 and habilitation in 1978.

Brief Bio - Sameer Khandekar

Sameer Khandekar is completing doctoral research at IKE, Universität Stuttgart, Germany. After his under-graduate studies in 1993, he served onboard marine diesel propulsion vessels/ power plants for about four years. Later he joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and received the Master of Technology degree in Thermo-fluid Science in the year 2000. His areas of present interest are energy systems, electronics thermal management and microscale thermo-hydrodynamics. He plans to pursue a career in academics and research.