Biographical note

Dr Khaled Sallam is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA, where he leads the thermofluids laboratory. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, USA. Dr Sallam developed 3 graduate courses and 8 undergraduate courses at OSU and received multiple teaching awards. He has published 71 journal articles and conference papers, and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.Dr Shubham Srivastava is Head of the Engineering Simulations Department at Rheem Water Heating, USA, where he leads the group's research in the fields of combustion, fluid dynamics and heat transfer. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University, USA. His research interests include combustion and thermal-fluid sciences, in which he has over 10 years of experimental experience, as well as experience in computational methods development.