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Infrastructure |
| Name | Previous affiliation | Research topic | Status | Current position |
| Manish K. Dhiman | IIT Guwahati, India | Turbulent combustion modeling | Completed | Faculty, Dept. Chemical Engineering, NIT Hamirpur, India |
| Tanmoy Mondal | Gyeongsang National University, South Korea | Wake instabilities | Completed | Faculty, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, NIT Patna, India |
| Aniruddha Choudhary | Virginia Tech, USA | Two-phase flow simulations | Completed | Simulation Software Developer, Applied Materials, India |
| Name | Previous affiliation | Thesis topic | Status | Current position |
| Vysakh C. Vijeesh | Cochin University of Science and Technology | Bluff-body flows | ongoing | |
| Ranjana Mary Rajesh | University of Hyderabad | DNS of particles in turbulence | ongoing | |
| Shruti Rekha Mohanty* | NIT Rourkela | Bluff-body flows | ongoing | |
| Arshdeep Singh | NIT Hamirpur | Rotating turbulent flows | ongoing | |
| Mahesh Somasani | University College of Engineering, Osmania University | Turbulent combustion dynamics using LES | ongoing | |
| Deekshith I. Poojary | SJEC, Mangalore | DNS of particles in turbulence | ongoing | |
| Navaneeth Krishnan* | Amrita University | Sport aerodynamics | ongoing | |
| Gokul S. | IIST Thiruvananthapuram | Transition to turbulence in plane Couette flows | Completed | |
| Harish Varma Tamada | IIST Thiruvananthapuram | LES of rough wall turbulence | Completed | Scientist E, NARL, India |
| Prince Victor Jenies C. | GCT Coimbatore | Turbulent jet flows | Completed | Engineer, Renault-Nissan, India |
| Harshal P. Mahamure | NIT Warangal | Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Particulate Suspension Flows Using MGLET-LaParT | Completed | Senior R&D Manager, Tata Motors, India |
| Karthikeyan J. | NIT Kurukshetra | Effects of surface roughness and Coriolis force on turbulent channel flows | Completed | Postdoc, University of Genoa, Italy |
| Shashi Kumar Javanappa | NMIT Bangalore | Turbulent plane Couette flow with a roughened wall | Completed | CFD Software Engineer, Altair, India |
| Fatemeh H. Dadmarzi* | Dept. Marine Tech., NTNU, Norway | DNS of wake interference effects | Completed | Research Scientist, SINTEF Ocean AS, Norway |
| Helene Hisken* | Dept. Phys. Tech., Univ. Bergen, Norway | Investigation of instability and turbulence effects on gas explosions: experiments and modelling | Completed | Product Certification Engineer, Gexcon, Norway |
| Dan Yang* | Dept. Marine Tech., NTNU, Norway | Transitional wake flow behind an inclined flat plate | Completed | Faculty, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engg, Huazhong Univ. Sci. & Tech., China |
| Name | Previous affiliation | Thesis topic | Status | Current position |
| Saravanakumar S. | SASTRA | DNS of particles in turbulence | ongoing | |
| Arnab Roy | Gandhinagar Institute of Technology | Turbulent combustion | ongoing | |
| Ashok Choudhary | Annamalai University | Turbulent combustion | ongoing | |
| Omkar Mahesh Halyali | Savitribai Phule Univ, Pune | Perforated bluff-body wake dynamics | ongoing | |
| Harishteja Peddi | Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar | DNS of particles in turbulence | ongoing | |
| Manoj Kumar Chitumalla | MVSR College, Osmania University | Perforated bluff-body wake dynamics | Completed | Design Engineer, Masson Marine, France |
| Anand S. Zambare | Savitribai Phule Univ, Pune | Turbulent combustion | Completed | PhD student, Université Paris-Saclay, France |
| Pradeep A. Jadhav | Savitribai Phule Univ, Pune | Shear-layer instabilities | Completed | R & D Engineer, Bajaj Auto, India |
| Ankit Pandey | IET, Lucknow | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | Technical Support Engineer, ANSYS, India |
| Narasimha Varadhan M. | SASTRA | Bluff-body flows | Completed | Engineer, Renault-Nissan, India |
| Manohar Teja Kalluri | MVGRCE, Vizianagaram | Turbulent/non-turbulent interface dynamics | Completed | PhD student, University of Exeter, UK |
| Abhinav Singh | MSRIT, Bangalore | DNS of perforated bluff-body wakes | Completed | Engineer, GE Aerospace, India |
| Alexander Moen | Dept. Phys. Tech., Univ. Bergen, Norway | Evaluation of turbulence models in gas dispersion | Completed | Faculty, Hoyskole, Bergen, Norway |
| Name | Affiliation | Thesis topic | Status | Current position |
| Rajeev Vijjeswarapu | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | LES of bluff-body flows | ongoing | |
| Chandan S. | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | Turbulent combustion simulations | ongoing | |
| Anish Anand Pophale | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | Turbulent combustion simulations | Completed | PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Bikram Baidhwar Chhetri | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | PhD student, IIT Hyderabad |
| Rohan Hela | Physical Science, IISER Pune | Sport aerodynamics | Completed | PhD student, IIT Kanpur |
| Kishore Ram Sathia | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | LES of stepped-cylinder wakes | Completed | PhD student, Columbia University, USA |
| Jinan P. | Physical Science, IISER Kolkata | Synthetic turbulence generators | Completed | PhD student, Technion, Israel |
| Asapu Sai Kiran | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | Data Engineer, antz.ai, India |
| Charan Theja D. | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | LES of stepped-cylinder wake flows | Completed | Senior engineer, Airbus, India |
| Anand S. | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | Flow predictions over Ahmed body | Completed | Senior engineer, TCS, India |
| Athul Vinod | Dept. Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras | LES of cross-plate wake flow | Completed | Technical lead, KLA Tencor, India |
| Name | Affiliation | Research topic | Status | Current position |
| Sudeendra Raghavendran | PSG Institute of Technology Coimbatore | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | MS student, IIT Madras, India |
| Amruth Saroj A. | NIT Rourkela | Vehicle emission dispersion simulations | Completed | JRF, NITK |
| Meysiva V. | Dept. Chem Engg., IIT Madras | Turbulent combustion simulations | Completed | MS-PhD student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Yashwanth Teja Chennuru | NIT Trichy | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | PhD student, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain |
| Balavignesh V. N. | BITS Pilani, Hyderabad | Premixed combustion simulations | Completed | R & D Engineer, ANSYS, USA |
| Aswin Chandrasekar | Dept. Chem Engg., IIT Madras | Two-phase flow modeling | Completed | PhD student, McMaster University, Canada |
*Co-advisor