Vagesh D. Narasimhamurthy

Welcome to Computational Flow Turbulence and Combustion Lab

Dr. Vagesh D. Narasimhamurthy

Professor
Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Applied Mechanics & Biomedical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600 036, India

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Lab News
🏅 Congratulations to Deekshith Poojary on having your article published in Physics of Fluids selected as an Editor's Pick.
🏅 Congratulations to Anand Zambare, recipient of the Institute Research Award for the best MS (research) thesis, IIT Madras (2024)
🏅 Congratulations to Deekshith I. Poojary on winning the Best Poster Award from Elsevier at the 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows (ICNMMF), Reykjavik, Iceland
🏅 Congratulations to Anish Anand Pophale, recipient of the R K Vishwanath Memorial Prize for the academic excellence in Dual Degree Computational Engineering, IIT Madras (2024)
🏅 Congratulations to Bikram Baidhwar Chhetri, recipient of the Institute Merit Prize for the academic excellence in International Interdisciplinary Master's Program (I2MP), IIT Madras (2024)
🏅 Congratulations to Kishore Ram Sathia, recipient of the G S Bhuvaneshwar Prize and G V N Rayudu Memorial Prize for the academic excellence in Dual Degree Computational Engineering, IIT Madras (2023)
🏅 Congratulations to Shashi Kumar J. on winning the Best Young Researcher award from SADHANA-Indian Academy of Sciences at the 16th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics
🏅 Congratulations to Harshal P. Mahamure on winning the Best Poster Award from American Chemical Society at the 13th International Conference on Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (CompFlu)
🏅 Congratulations to Charan Theja D., recipient of the Usha Kothandaraman Memorial Prize for academic excellence in MTech, IIT Madras (2018)

Professional activities

Editorial Advisory Board, Acta Mechanica, Springer, 2024 - present.

Technical and Program Committee member, IHMTC 2021 (26th National and 4th International Heat and Mass Transfer Conference), IIT Madras, Chennai, 2021.

Technical Committee member, HiPC CFD workshop (IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing), 2016 - 18.

Member of European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC) Special Interest Group (SIG45).

Member of Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT), Indian Society of Applied Mechanics (ISAM) and National Center for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD).

Senior software developer of FLACS commercial CFD software (2011 - 16).

Project manager of European Commission (EC) 7th Framework Programme (FP7) funded CO2PipeHaz (CO2 Pipeline Hazards) project (2011 - 13).

Project member of International Energy Agency (IEA) and EC's HySafe project (2011 - 13).

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance.

Industry promoter and recruiter at IAESTEs Naeringslivsdager (career fair) at NTNU, Trondheim (2014 - 15).

Research interests

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), direct numerical simulation (DNS), turbulence modeling (URANS, LES/DES), Lagrangian particle tracking, high-performance computing (HPC).

Turbulence, transition, bluff-body flows, multi-phase flows, premixed combustion, fire & explosion safety.

Immersed boundary method and porosity/distributed resistance (PDR) modeling.

Welcome to Computational Flow Turbulence and Combustion Lab

Dr. Vagesh D. Narasimhamurthy

Professor

Professional activities

Research interests