My major interests are in teaching and research activities centered broadly in Fluid-thermal area. I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Palakkad. I offer theory and also practical courses to students across various semesters. My research involves understanding combustion and general fluid phenomena through laser diagnostic techniques. I have a keen interest in developing novel techniques for laser based measurements as well
2003-2007 - B. Tech Mechanical Engineering, NIT Trichy
2009-2015 - PhD (Mechanical Engineering), IISc, Bangalore
2015-2017 - Post Doctoral Research Fellow, CCRC, KAUST
2017- Present - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Palakkad
My research work is on focused on studying combustion through simple experiments and laser diagnostic techniques. Currently our group works on soot modeling in laminar jet diffusion flames and laminar opposed jet diffusiona flames. Research work is also centred around using optical techniques to study flames and to obtain information on flame stabilisation, fuel flexibility in gas turbine combustors.
Undergraduate Teaching
August semester
ME 3020 Heat and mass transfer
ME 2010 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics
ME 4502 Aerospace Propulsion
January semester
ME 1100 Engineering Thermodynamics
ME 2240 Measurements Instrumentation and Control
ME 3020 Applied Thermofluids Engineering
ME 2040 Machine Drawing Practice
Postgraduate Teaching
ME 5613 Combustion
PhD candidates
Mr. Navaneethakrishnan
Soot measurement and modeling in opposed jet diffusion flames
MS candidate
Mr. Amit Makhija (Thesis submitted)
Soot modeling in laminar diffusion flames
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Project staff
Mr. Siva Kumar
Experimental and numerical studies in turbulent diffusion flames
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