The ISTAM was established in 1955 in India with it’s headquarters at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. The Society was formed to provide a platform for scientists, technologists, and engineers to share and discuss the current research work they conducted individually or in groups to seek solutions to emerging problems for better living conditions. During the congress, five memorial lectures in honour of B. R.Seth, P.L. Bhatnagar, B. Karunesh, A.S. Gupta and G.I. Taylor are given by eminent researchers. Also, several invited lectures have been arranged to cover the current trends of various theoretical and applied mechanics topics. The Annual Congress of the Society has been held at various IITs, NITs, Universities, Engineering colleges and other reputed research establishments in different parts of the country. It has been attracting a large number of researchers not only from our country but also from abroad. The society has gone a long way in promoting inter-disciplinary research in Basic and Applied Sciences. Presently, the society has 33 corporate members and 1308 life members. Extended abstracts submitted are peer-reviewed and are published in the form of e-proceedings. Full-length papers presented at the Conference will be published in our Souvenir volume/ reputed journals.

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The School of Advanced Sciences and Languages (SASL) in VIT Bhopal is principally concerned with blending the best knowledge of science and humanities with Engineering to align the expertise of our students with the ever changing technological requirements. The school offers numerous core and elective courses, developed in collaboration with international academia and industrial experts, in Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, English and Humanities. The school imparts knowledge by employing student centered teaching approaches via state-of-the-art studio classrooms equipped with wave 2.0 technology. The school is also involved in the research where researchers and scholars in partnerships with government, industry and non-profit organizations, develop cutting-edge technology and innovations to serve our society. The research carried out by our faculty members, with diverse research profiles and with industrial and international working experience, ranges from basic areas such as Drug Design, Microbiology, Molecular Modeling, Energy & the Environment, Materials, Catalysis, Nonlinear Dynamics, Differential Equations, Numerical Methods, Graph Theory, Space Science, Astrophysics, Solar Physics and Computational Linguistics to interdisciplinary areas such as Biotechnology, Nano-Electronics, Computational Biology, Machine Learning in Biology & Chemistry, Sociolinguistics, Teaching Pedagogy etc. The school imparts knowledge of natural sciences and languages to the B. Tech, Int. M.Tech, M. Tech, MCA and Ph.D. students by employing student centered teaching approaches via CALTech (Collaborative and Active Learning through Technology), including hands-on experience in the state-of-the-art laboratories & studios.

Fluid Mechanics

• FM1 Aerodynamics and Propulsion
• FM2 Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
• FM3 Biofluid Dynamics
• FM4 Boundary Layer and Compressible Flows
• FM5 Computational Fluid Dynamics
• FM6 Electro hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
• FM7 Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics
• FM8 Geophysics and Astrophysics
• FM9 Heat and Mass Transfer
• FM10 Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Porous Media
• FM11 Low Reynold’s Number Flow
• FM12 Mathematical Modelling
• FM13 Multiphase Flow
• FM14 Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow
• FM15 Stability of Fluid Flow

Solid Mechanics

• SM1 Aerospace structures
• SM2 Computational Solid Mechanics
• SM3 Control Structures
• SM4 Elasticity
• SM5 Experimental Methods in Solid Mechanics
• SM6 Fracture Mechanics
• SM7 Mechanics of Composites
• SM8 Structural Dynamics
• SM9 Viscoelasticity and Creep
• SM10 Wave Propagation

Participants intending to present a paper in Congress should upload a three-page extended abstract composed of an abstract, research aim, brief literature survey, problem formulation, solution methodology and significant conclusions as per the format available on the ISTAM website. Based on the reviewer’s recommendation, communication will be sent to the participants. Once the extended abstract is accepted for presentation, the participant is required to submit a brief abstract (limited to 200 words) or the full-length paper (maximum of twelve pages) as per the format on the ISTAM website, in case the participant wishes to publish it in the e-proceedings of the conference, which is subject to the peer review process.

Three awards, one each, in Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Experimental Techniques or Computational Methods will be given to researchers aged 30 years or below for presenting outstanding research work at the Congress. The researcher should do the work independently with no co-author(s). The author who would like to be considered for the “Young Scientist” award is requested to mention it at the top of the Abstract by writing “PAPER FOR THE YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD” and check the tick mark on “YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD” while you are submitting it on the website. The author must present the award paper personally during the Award Session of the Congress. The Award Session will be held only if sufficient papers are received in each category.