People


Research Scholars

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Mr. Anbu Serene Raj C. (M.S & Ph.D)

Area of research (with Prof. G. Rajesh)

Shock reflections/interactions in stratified medium
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Mr. Aswin P. (Ph.D)

Area of research (with Prof. Balaji Srinivasan)

High fidelity compressible flow simulations and application with machine learning
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Dr. Shesh N. Dhurandhar (Post-Doc)

Ph.D, IIT-Roorkee

Area of research

DSMC of rarefied flows
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Mr. Praveen Kumar (M.S)

Area of research

Vorticity Dynamics, Multiphase flows
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Ms. Esmitha Ganesan (M.S)

Area of research

Turbulence, Magnetohydrodynamics
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Ms. Sanjana Rao (Ph.D)

Area of research

Rarefied flows, Gas Kinetic Methods, DSMC




Graduated Scholars (M.S & Ph.D)

Mr. Sai Srikanth Orcid ID

M.S, (Submitted, 2023)

Thesis title: DNS of Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq incompressible buoyancy-driven flows using Entropically Damped artificial compressibility
Status: at SankhyaSutra Labs Limited, Bangalore

Dr. Vishnu Mohan Orcid ID

M.S & Ph.D, 2022 (jointly with Prof. Balaji Srinivasan)

Thesis title: Stability and continuum breakdown regimes in compressible mixing layers
Status: at Newcastle University

Dr. Aswathy Nair K. Orcid ID

M.S & Ph.D, 2022

Thesis title: Global Linear Stability Analysis of Spatially Developing Flows with Slip Boundaries
Status: at Florida State University

Mr. Rohtash Goyal

M.S, 2021 (jointly with Prof. T. Jayachandran)

Thesis title: Numerical investigation of dynamic effects in transition from regular to Mach reflection of oblique shock waves in steady flow
Status: At Bajaj Auto, Pune

Dr. R. Sooraj Orcid ID

Ph.D, 2021

Thesis title: DNS of vortex ring in confinement
Status:

Dr. R. Vishnu Orcid ID

Ph.D, 2021

Thesis title: Influence of heating on Vogel-Escudier flow
Status: at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Dr. Manjul Sharma Orcid ID

M.S & Ph.D, 2020

Thesis title: DNS of axial vortex breakdown
Status: Research faculty at University of Colorado Boulder
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Dr. Arun S. Orcid ID

Ph.D, 2019 (jointly with Prof. G. Rajesh)

Thesis title: Direct numerical simulation of compressible mixing layers: Topology-based characterization and scale-space energy density
Status: Computational Scientist, Daresbury Laboratory-UKRI, Warrington, UK

Dr. Ajith Kumar S.

Ph.D, 2016

Thesis title: Effects of Prandtl number on laminar cross-flow over a heated horizontal cylinder
Status: Currently in the faculty at Amirtha University

Dr. J. Santhosh Jude

Ph.D, 2016 (jointly with Prof. Sunetra Sarkar)

Thesis title: Stochastic analysis of flow through porous media using the random solid-pore geometry as the input uncertainty
Status: Left physics and Fluid Mechanics :-(
now a christian missionary

Mr. Ravindra Shende

M.S, 2013

Thesis title: Effect of compressibility on interactions of 2D inviscid shielded vortices
Status: Last known to be at Zeus Numerix, Pune, India

Mr. R. Sooraj Orcid ID

M.S, 2012

Thesis title: Modal and non-modal stability analysis of superfluid plane Poiseuille flow
Status: Continued for Ph.D at IITM


Post-doctoral mentees

Dr. Naveen K. S. (Ph.D, BITS-Pilani)

Post-doc, 2023

Stratified Vogel-Escudier flows
Last known coordinates: ITC, Bangalore

Dr. G. P. Aravind (Ph.D, IIST-Trivandrum)

Post-doc, (jointly with Prof. T. Jayachandran) 2021-2022

Simulation of multi-species reacting flows using point implicit method
Last known coordinates: Senior Software Development Engineer, Sankyasutra, Bangalore

Dr. Sita Takkur (Ph.D, IPR-Ahmedabad)

Post-doc, (jointly with Prof. Sumesh P. Thampy) 2018-2019

Simulation of interfacial flows using LBM
Last known coordinates:

Dr. Sharath Jose (Ph.D, ICTS-Bangalore)

Post-doc, 2017-2019

Stratified Vogel-Escudier flows
Last known coordinates: Post-doc at ICTS, Bangalore