Himanshu Tyagi
About:
Himanshu Tyagi is an associate teaching professor of energy and mineral engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State. His background is in the field of thermo-fluids engineering and his research has mainly been in the application of heat transfer techniques for improving the overall efficiencies of clean and sustainable energy systems, in particular solar thermal systems, water desalination processes, and more recently in the field of thermal management of lithium-ion batteries. He also has interests in the heat transfer analysis of biological systems including the thermal ablation of cancer tissues (for techniques such as hyperthermia, and cryosurgery).
He has previously worked in the Steam Turbine Design Division of Siemens (in Germany and India), in the Thermal and Fluids Core Competency group of Intel Corp (in United States), and in 2009 he joined the faculty position in the department of mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (currently on leave from there since 2024).
Tyagi obtained his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of heat transfer and specifically looked at the radiative and ignition properties of nanoparticle-laden fluids, the work related to which won the best paper award at the ASME Energy Sustainability Conference at Long Beach, California in 2007. Prior to his Ph.D., he obtained his master's from University of Windsor, Canada in 2005 and his bachelor's from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2001, both in the fields of mechanical engineering.
- Kashyap, A. S., Bhalla, V., and Tyagi, H., 2025, "Uniform Temperature Distribution and Reduced Convection Losses: Top and Bottom Heating Strategies for Nanofluid and Surface Absorption-based Solar Thermal Systems", Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 259, p. 124904. (DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124904)
- Kulkarni, V., Kashyap, A. S., Pal, M., and Tyagi, H., 2025, "Performance Analysis of Solar Collector Integrated with Porous Metallic Foam", Applied Sciences, Vol. 15(5), p. 2432. (DOI: 10.3390/app15052432)
- Beniwal, R., and Tyagi, H., 2024, "Performance Analysis of Sub-Cooled Transcritical CO2 Refrigeration System Using Vapour Absorption Refrigeration System and Dew Point Evaporative Cooling", Energy, Vol. 310, p. 133219. (DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.133219)
- Chauhan, K. S., Beniwal, R., and Tyagi, H., 2024, "Thermodynamic Analysis of a Hybrid Novel Solar Powered Humidification-Dehumidification Coupled with Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System", Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 300, p. 117930. (DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117930)
- Chauhan, K. S., and Tyagi, H., 2023, "Thermal Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation", Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 291, p. 117249. (DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.117249)
- Garg, K., Beniwal, R., Das, S. K., and Tyagi, H., 2023, "Experimental Investigation of a Low-Cost Humidification-Dehumidification Desalination Cycle using Packed-Bed Humidifier and Finned-Tube Heat Exchanger", Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Vol. 41, p. 101858. (DOI: 10.1016/j.tsep.2023.101858)
- Makauskas, P., Pal, M., Kulkarni, V., Kashyap, A. S., and Tyagi, H., 2023, "Comparative Study of Modelling Flows in Porous Media for Engineering Applications using Finite Volume and Artificial Neural Network Methods", Engineering with Computers. (DOI: 10.1007/s00366-023-01814-x)
- Beniwal, R., Garg, K., and Tyagi, H., 2023, "Thermodynamics Analysis of a Novel Absorption Heat Transformer-Driven Combined Refrigeration and Desalination System", Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 277, p. 116597. (DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116597)
- Garg, K., Das, S. K., and Tyagi, H., 2022, "Thermal Design of a Humidification-Dehumidification Desalination Cycle consisting of Packed-Bed Humidifier and Finned-Tube Dehumidifier", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 183, p. 122153. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.122153)
- Kulkarni, V. V., Bhalla, V., Garg, K., and Tyagi, H., 2021, "Hybrid Nanoparticles-laden Fluid based Spiral Solar Collector: A Proof-of-Concept Experimental Study", Renewable Energy, Vol. 179, pp. 1360-1369. (DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.07.133)
- Monga, D., Soni, S., Tyagi, H., and Taylor, R. A., 2020, "Optimization of Tumor Ablation Volume for Nanoparticle-mediated Thermal Therapy", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 157, p. 106515. (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2020.106515)
- Li, Q., Beier, L.-J., Tan, J., Brown, C., Lian, B., Wang, Y., Dai, P., Li, T., Le Clech, P., Tyagi, H., Liu, X., Leslie, G., and Taylor, R. A., 2019, "An integrated, solar-driven membrane distillation system for water purification and energy generation", Applied Energy, Vol. 237, pp. 534-548. (DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.12.069)