Post Doctoral Researchers:

Shishir Srivastava (December 2025 - Present)

Ph.D. – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

M.Tech – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

B.Tech – Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow

Numerical Investigation of High-Speed Flows on Compliant Surfaces

Regular PhD Students:

Abdul Gafoor (Jan 2021 - present)

M.Tech: Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal

B.Tech: College of Engineering, Trivandrum (University of Kerala)

Efficacy of Plasma actuation strategies for flow control.


Ritu Raj kumar (Jan 2023 - Present)

B.Tech: Cochin University of Science and Technology(CUSAT), Kerala

M.S: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

High fidelity simulations of high-speed boundary layers.


Sumit Sarvankar (Jan 2023 - Present)

MS: IIT Madras

B.Tech: Tezpur University

Transitional flows in Turbines


Sai Teja Kaluva (July 2023 - Present)

M.Sc: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

B.Tech: IIITDM Jabalpur

Prediction of pressure fluctuations beneath the boundary layers of complex geometries


Shivam Saini (MS+PhD) (Jan 2022 - Present)

B.Tech: University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulence Closures


Neelima Venugopalan (July 2025 - Present)

Master’s in Propulsion Engineering, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russia

B.Tech: Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

Acoustic loads beneath high speed boundary layers on Compliant Surfaces


Vikash kumar srivastav (July 2025 - Present)

MS: Indian Institute Of Technology Dharwad

B.Tech: Aeronautical society of India, New delhi

Intake Aerodynamics under Off-design Conditions


External PhD Students:

S. Thennavarajan (Jan 2020 - present - Jointly with Dr. Dilipkumar Alone, NAL)

M.Tech: NIT Karnataka

B.Tech: AMIE

Condition monitoring of turbomachinery systems.


Amit Sachdeva (Jan 2021 - present - Jointly with Dr. Praveen Kumar)

M.Tech: IISc Bangalore

B.Tech: Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Detached Eddy Simulations for Complex Geometries


Amit Sachdeva (Jan 2026 - present - Jointly with Dr. Dilipkumar Alone, NAL)

M.Tech: IIT-Bombay, Aerospace engineering

B.Tech: Mechanical Engineering, JNTU Hyderabad

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering : Government polytechnic Visakhapatnam

Optimization of Transonic centrifugal compressor stages


Masters Students (MS and M.Tech):

Gulnaaz Rasiya (MS) (July 2023 - Present - Coguide: Prof. Chandan Sarangi)

B.Tech: College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur

CFD simulations of urban canopies



Aryan Shrivastav (MS) (July 2025 - Present)

B.Tech: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur

Design and Optimization of Jet Engine Turbine Blades for Crossflow and Shock Control



Ujwal R (MTech) (July 2025 - Present)

B.Tech: BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

Inverse design of turbo machine blades using machine learning methods



Aadharsh R (MTech) (July 2025 - Present)

B.Tech: Amrita University Coimbatore

Improve Existing In-House Design Tool for Centrifugal Impellers with Updated CFD



Rohit S Varma (MTech) (July 2025 - Present)

B.Tech: SASTRA University, Thanjavur

Real Roughness Effects on Transition Under Pressure Gradients


Dual Degree / BTech Students:

Raghuram BB (April 2024 - Present)

Enhancing COMPSQUARE solver using OpenACC and OpenMP Offloading; Machine learning for modelling in high speed flows

Project Associates:

Kartik Ruikar (November 2025 - Present)

Dual Degree (BTech & MTech): Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Studying strategies to correct sub-precision errors for high fidelity simulations.

Alumni:

Post Doctoral Scholars:

Student Year Currently at:
Ankit Bhai Patel 2025 Parul University
Shivam Sandeep 2024-25 Siemens Energy Products, India
Ananth S M 2023-24 CERFACS, France

Doctoral Students:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Adrian Arasu 2024 High Fidelity Simulations of Crosswind Flows Over Intake and Flow Control (Recipient of Research Excellence Award, IIT Madras) Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Ananth SM 2023 Roughened Ultra High-Lift Blades with Grooves for Drag Reduction (Recipient of Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer (TEECE) travel award from ASME International Gas Turbine Institute & Best Thesis Award from University of Melbourne) Post Doctoral Researcher, CERFACS

MS:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
RituRaj Kumar (MS) 2023 Development of Computational Frameworks to Capture High-Speed Flows IIT Madras, PhD
Aditya Vaid (MS) 2023 Interaction of free stream turbulence with roughness induced streaks in transitional flows PhD at LMFL, CNRS France
Sumit Sarvankar(MS) 2023 Crosswind Aerodynamic Analysis Using Quasi 3D Ducts IIT Madras, PhD

Project Associates:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Devi Mutyala 2021 Wall modelling for Large Eddy Simulations The University of Texas, Austin

MTech/MPhil/DDP/IDDDP:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Priyanshu Nailwal (MTech) 2025 Non-Axisymmetric Endwall Contouring Trishul Space, Delhi
Anish Konar (MTech) 2025 Predicting Wall Pressure Spectra beneath high-speed flows using Machine learning Collins Aerospace - RTX, Bangalore
Roshan R (MTech) 2025 Detached Eddy Simulations using In-house Solver Paninian Aerospace, Bangalore
Sourabh Jaiswal (MTech) 2025 Development of solid propellant based gas turbine engine Ethereal Exploration Guild, Banglore
Aman Rajananda (MTech) 2024 Developing Numerical Framework to Control Separated Flows using Plasma Actuators GE Aerospace, Bangalore
Subhathra Sabapathy (MTech) 2024 Numerical Investigation of Real Roughness Effects on Boundary Layer Transition Airbus, Bangalore, India
Manur Gautam (MTech) 2024 Developing Numerical Framework to Control Separated Flows using Plasma Actuators Project Assistant, Aeronautical Development Agency
Sai Prasanna Gangadhar (IDDDP) 2024 Super-Resolution in Computational Fluid Dynamics Honda R&D, Japan
Nachiketa Narayan (MTech) 2023 Machine Learning Techniques to predict Wall Pressure Spectra in Turbulent Boundary Layers (Recipient of Prof. CS Krishnamoorthy endowment prize for best MTech thesis) General Electric, Bangalore, India
Mukul Kumar (MTech) 2023 Machine Learning (ML) for Subgrid Modelling Agnikul Cosmos, India
Jagdish Bagre(DDP) 2023 Non-axisymmetric Endwall Contouring of Turbine Cascade Ansys Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune
Yashwant (DDP) 2023 Landfall Prediction of Cyclones using Reanalysis Data American Express
Kotturi Sai Nikhil (MTech) 2022 Enhancement of in-house High-order Solver to handle Overset Grids OLA Bangalore, India
Korumilli Satya Kumar (MTech) 2022 Large Eddy Simulations of Cavity Flows: Active Flow Control Using Plasma Actuation Airbus Bangalore, India
Kiran Hiremath (MTech) 2022 Implementation of Transition/Turbulent models in COMPSQUARE Agnikul Cosmos, India
Akash Haridas(IDDDP) 2022 Deep Neural Networks to Correct Sub-Precision Errors in CFD University of Toronto
Ananthu Nair(DDP) 2022 Inverse Design of Airfoil Using Deep Neural Networks Urban Company, Chennai
Avinash Bagali(DDP) 2022 Physics Informed Neural Networks to Model Transitional Flows Satsure Analytics, Bangalore
Ganesh Nampelly (MTech) 2021 Eddy Resolving Simulations of Cavity Flows (Recipient of INAE Innovative Students Project Award) Robert Bosch Bangalore, India
Yengu Siva Sai Krishna (DDP) 2021 Instability and breakdown of Stuart Vortices Navi Technologies, Bangalore
Alex Yeung (MPhil) 2018 Aircraft Nacelle Design Hong Kong Government

B.Tech:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Krishma Rajesh Mehta 2025 Linear Stability Analysis of Fluid Flows (BTP) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aswin Kumar 2024 Scalable asynchrony-tolerant schemes for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (Best SRS poster award at 31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing) MS Student, IISc Bangalore
Vasudeva Tushar Nilker 2023 Endwall Contouring For Secondary Loss Minimization In Turbines ISAE-Supaero, France
Nihal S Manvi 2022 Tensor based Neural Networks for turbulence closure WorldQuant, Mumbai
Vanya B 2021 Lower Order Modelling and LSTMs to model Transitional Flows JP Morgan Chase
Sanjan Muchandimath 2020 Custom Solver for validating the Immersed Boundary Method with Smeared Geometry on the NASA rotor 67 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Parag Goyal 2020 Predicting Transitional flow Over Rough Surface Using Deep Voxel Flow Nference Labs
Dhruval Karmariya 2020 Prediction of Transitional Flows using Gene Expression Programming Standard Chartered GBS Pvt. Ltd.
Aditya Vinod 2019 Lower Order Modelling of Transitional and Turbulent Boundary Layers The University of Texas, Austin

B.Tech, Undergraduate Research Project:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Akash Haridas 2021 Modelling Wall-Pressure Spectra using Neural Networks University of Toronto
Rahul Chakwate 2020 Data Driven Turbulence Modelling Carnegie Mellon University
Mihir Godia 2019 Generation of Gaussian and non-Gaussian Surface Roughness -

Summer/Winter Interns:

Student Year Thesis Currently at:
Niranjan Sankar 2021 Development of non-linear tools to study bypass transition Madras Institute of Technology
Subathra Sabapathy 2021 Non-linear analysis of transitional flows IIT Madras, MTech
Amit Kumar 2021 Inverse design of airfoils using CNN and DNN Jaguar Land Rover
Sidarth Narayan 2019 Enhancement of high fidelity CFD solver using OpenACC Convergent Science