Kameswararao Anupindi Associate Professor |
Hello, welcome to my webpage. I am currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Previously, I was a Research Fellow in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics research group at the University of Southampton. My research focus was on developing embedded LES-RANS methodologies in compressible flows with applications to predicting flow around aircraft spoilers accurately and efficiently. At the University, I worked with Professor Richard Sandberg to develop these methods.
Before moving to England, I worked as a post doctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Tennessee, USA. My appointment at ORNL was possible through Advanced Short Term Research Opportunity (ASTRO) program. During my time at the lab, I worked on enhancing an in-house lattice Boltzmann solver and its pre-processor.
I pursued my doctoral studies under the guidance of Professor Steven Frankel, in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. My research was on developing a high order numerical frame work for simulating and understanding the blood flow in human arteries in healthy and pathological conditions. The main goal of the research is to accurately predict/simulate the working conditions of medical devices used in pathological arterial repair. The incompressible flow solver that I am working with specifically has large eddy simulation (LES) as the turbulence model, and enhancements such as implementation of immersed boundary method (IBM) and a parallel multi-block frame were contributed by me in order to handle complex geometries that commonly arise in arterial flow domains.
Prior to enrolling for my doctoral studies, I worked at ANSYS FLUENT India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra, as a software development engineer on the FLUENT project. During this time, I have had an opportunity to work with a dynamic and smart solver meshing team. I worked on new enhancements and issues related to solver meshing such as non-conformal interfaces and moving meshes during my tenure.
I pursued my masters studies in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradhesh. I worked under the guidance of Professor Tapan K. Sengupta towards my thesis on direct numerical simulation of free shear layers. During this time I worked on spatio-temporal instability of zero pressure gradient boundary layers and numerically solving compressible Navier-Stokes equations using compact schemes to simulate flow field developed by a round jet issuing into a quiescent atmosphere. Prior to joining post graduate studies I finished my bachelors studies from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, in Mechanical Engineering.
Research Interests
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Biomedical fluid flows
- Lattice Boltzmann method
- Transition & Turbulence
- Aeroacoustics
Education
| Jan 2010 - Dec 2013 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. |
| Jun 2004 - May 2006 | M.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering. Indian Institute of Technolgoy Kanpur, UP, India. |
| Jun 2000 - May 2004 | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering. JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, AP, India. |
Experience
| Nov 2022 - Present | Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai, India. |
| Nov 2015 - Oct 2022 | Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Madras, Chennai, India. |
| Mar 2014 - Oct 2015 | Research Fellow Aerodyanmics and Flight Mechanics Research Group University of Southampton, England, UK. |
| Oct 2013 - Feb 2014 | Post Doctoral Researcher Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA. |
| Jan 2010 - July 2013 | Graduate Research Assistant School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. |
| Aug 2006 - Dec 2009 | Software Developement Engineer Solver Meshing Group, FLUENT Project ANSYS FLUENT India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, MH, India. |
| Jul 2004 - Jun 2006 | Graduate Research Assistant Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technolgoy Kanpur, India. |
Teaching Experience (as a student)
| Fall 2010 | Teaching Assistant ME323: Mechanics of Solids |
| Spring 2011 | Teaching Assistant ME614: Computational Fluid Dynamics |
Course Projects (as a student at Purdue)
| ME608 (Spring 2010) | Numerical Methods in Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
2D SIMPLE Solver for Laminar Flow Over a Square Cylinder Report [431 KB], Presentation [456 KB] |
| ME697F (Spring 2010) | Galerkin Methods for Fluid Dynamics
Galerkin/Least Squares Finite Element Method for Fluid Flow Problems Report [411 KB], Presentation |
| ME611 (Fall 2010) | Principles of Turbulence
Project1: Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Presentation [588 KB] Project2: Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) of Fluid Flow Data Presentation [28 MB] |
| AAE626 (Spring 2011) | Turbulence and Turbulence Modeling
Large eddy simulation of turbulent flow between counter- rotating concentric cylinders Report [4.5 MB], Presentation |
| ME615 (Fall 2011) | Aeroacoustics
Aeroacoustic simulations using Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) Report [3.3 MB], Presentation [3.1 MB] |
| ECE563 (Spring 2012) | Programming Parallel Machines
MPI Parallelization of WenoHydro and FlowLBM solvers Report [1.2 MB] |
| MA692 (Fall 2012) | Introduction to Spectral Methods for Scientific Computing
Final Project Report [221 KB] |
Journal Publications
Conference Publications
Conference Presentations
Seminars and Invited Talks
Courses taught at IIT Madras
| ME6150, Numerical Methods in Thermal Engineering | Jan - May 2016, Jan - May 2017 |
| ME1100, Thermodynamics | July - Nov 2016, July - Nov 2017, July - Nov 2018 |
| ME6006/ME6151, Computational Heat and Fluid Flow | July - Nov 2017, Jan - May 2019, Jan - May 2020, Jan - May 2022, Jan - May 2023 |
| ME6125, Theory of Steam and Gas Turbines | Jan - May 2018 |
| ME5103, Incompressible Fluid Flow | July - Nov 2019, Sept - Dec 2020, July - Nov 2021 |
| ME3101, Heat Transfer | July - Nov 2022, July - Nov 2023 |
| ID5130, Parallel Scientific Computing | Jan - May 2021 (co-instructor: Prof. Rupesh), Jan - May 2024 |
| ME5201, Computational Methods in Engineering for web-enabled M.Tech |
April - July 2021 |
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
| Computational Fluid Dynamics Using Finite Volume Method | September - December 2020 , July - October 2021 , July - October 2022 |
Doctoral Students
Present Students
- Gowri Sankar Pattanaik (2022 - 2026)
- Kiran Sivadas (2022 - 2026)
- Jayadeep K (2023 - 2027), co-adviser: Prof. Harshal Akolekar (IIT Jodhpur)
- S Jagajith (2023 - 2027), QIP scholar, primary-adviser: Prof. C. Balaji
- Madhurjya Mahanta (2023 - 2027), primary-adviser: Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
- Aayan Rahman (2024 - 2028), co-adviser: Prof. P. D. Sreehari
Alumni
- M. Sakthivel, PhD (2022) - Currently a post-doctoral fellow at IISc Bengaluru.
- Sai Ravi Gupta Polasanapalli, PhD (2022) - Currently a post-doctoral researcher at BTU Cottbus, Germany
- Sourabh Sadanand Jogee, PhD (2022) - Currently a faculty at Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
- Satyajit Choudhury, PhD, (2023), primary-adviser: Prof. BSVP Patnaik - Currently working for Mercedes Benz Research
M.S. Students
Present Students
- Sagar Bhatt (2025-2027)
Alumni
- Jaymeen Patel (2023 - 2026)
- Nirupam Pal (2023 - 2026)
- Priyesh Rajesh Kakka (2018 - 2020)
- Palaniappan Venkatachalam (primary-adviser: Prof. Srikrishna Sahu) (2019 - 2021)
- Aritra Roy Choudhury (2019 - 2021)
- Kuldeep Tolia (2021 - 2023)
B. Tech, Dual-Degree and M. Tech. students
Present Students
2022 - 2024
- Lalit Sunil Patil
- Madhav Rao Bommali
Alumni
2021 - 2023
- Renu Jatoliya
- Deepesh Kumar Meena
2020 - 2022
- Rohit Bisoi
- Melvin Sunny
- Shreekara Guruprasad
- Azhar Gafoor
- Siddharth Dey
2019 - 2021
- Mohil Chaudhari
- RVRKS Naveen
2018 - 2020
- Sidharth R (co-advised by Prof. Srikrishna Sahu)
- Anup Ranjan
2017 - 2019
- Khagesh Suresh Chaudhari
- Anup Vaman Barve (co-advised by Prof. Srikrishna Sahu)
- Gokul S. Nair
- Bhanu Mitra Bulusu
2016 - 2018
- Paghdhar Dhavalkumar Mansukhbhai
- Karthik Nishanth
- Akshay Soo
- Sriramdas Venkata Ramana
- Indresh Tiwari (co-advised by Prof. Sahu)
2015 - 2017
- Vignesh Banusekar (co-advised by Prof. Chatterjee)
- M. Vidyasagar (co-advised by Prof. Pattamatta)
- Sriphani Srikanth Akkireddy (co-advised by Prof. Sahu)
Linux/Programming Documents
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I use git for managing my research codes. Although there are many resources available online on using git, I wrote one by myself and it is here Elegant code management using Git
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High Performance Computing at Cornell Virtual Workshop
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High Performance Computing training at Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Links
TED Talks
| Contact: |
Kameswararao Anupindi Room no. 343, NAC-II, Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, TN, India 600 036 |
| Phone: | +91-44-22574695 |
| E-mail: | kanupindi@iitm.ac.in |
| Profile: | Google Scholar Profile |