Research


(to be updated)

  • Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics lab

    • Vorticity Dynamics

    Vortex Breakdown and reconnections

    Vortex Rings

    Double shear layer, Vortex merger, Flow past bluff bodies


    Turbulence: Theory and Simulation

    Scale space dynamics

    Compressible and rarefied flows

    Thermal convection

    Rotating and stratified flows

    Magnetohydrodynamics

    Stability and transition


    Simulations of Flow Regimes Beyond Continuum

    Boltzmann equation and solutions

    Rarefied flows

    Quantum fluids


    Inhouse codes
    • Collaborators: Profs. T. Jayachandran and Balaji Srinivasan
    • Authors: S. Arun, Vishnu Mohan, Manjul Sharma, Aswathy Nair, Tom Jose

  • • Unstructured 3D Gas Kinetic Method (GKM)
  • • Structured 2D Unified Gas Kinetic Method (UGKS)
  • • 6th Order Compact Difference Scheme using Entropically Damped Artificial Compressibility
  • • Unstructured 3D Finite Volume Compressible/Incompressible using Tetrahedron cells
  • • Navier-Stokes and Allen-Cahn solver for Incompressible Interfacial Flows
  • • Finite Volume Method for MHD Incompressible Flows
  • • Direct Numerical Simulation of Linear Pertubation Equation using FVM
  • • Bi-Global Stability Eigen Value solver using Chebyshev Spectral Method