Sponsored Research

1. Novel DEM-CFD Approach to Model Particle Scale Heat Transfer
   Sponsoring agency: DST
   Duration: 2 yrs
   Status: Completed Feb. 2023
   Role: PI
   CoPI: Prof. BVSSS Prasad, ME
   
2. Next generation Heat Exchanger Design using Additive Manufacturing and shape optimization
   Sponsoring agency: DST and MHI
   Status: Completed Mar. 2022
   Role: CoPI
   PI: Prof. K. Arul Prakash, AM
   Other CoPI: Prof. Srinivas Jayanthi, ChE, Prof. BVSSS Prasad, ME and Prof. G. Saravana Kumar
   
3. Numerical study of performance of inducer and pump used in cryogenic engines under cavitating and non-cavitating conditions
   Sponsoring agency: ISRO
   Status: Completed Jan. 2022
   Role: PI
   CoPI: Prof. Dhiman Chatterjee, ME
   
4. Study of thermophysical properties of nanofluids and their flows for the design of new generation coolants for industrial applications
   Sponsoring agency: DST-RFBR (Indo-Russia) Collaborative project
   Status: Completed Aug. 2019
   Role: CoPI
   PI: Prof. Sarith P. Sathian, AM
   PI from Russia: Prof. Valery Ya Rudyak, Novosibirsk State University
   of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Novosibirsk University, Russia
   
5. Investigation on the aerodynamics of insect hovering in inclined stroke plane
   Sponsoring agency: SIGMA-ARDB
   Status: Completed Oct. 2015
   Role: PI
   CoPI: Prof. K.Arul Prakash, AM
   
6. Acoustic wall pressure spectra by turbulent boundary layer by CFD approach for underwater vehicles
   Sponsoring agency: NRB
   Status: Completed Sep. 2015
   Role: CoPI
   PI: Prof. S.K.Bhattacharyya, OE
   
7. Development of immersed boundary Navier-Stokes solver for simulating insect flight dynamics
   Sponsoring agency: ARDB
   Status: Completed, Sep. 2012
   Role: CoPI
   PI: Prof. K.Arul Prakash, AM
   
8. Performance of newly developed turbulence model for low speed and high speed underwater vehicles
   Sponsoring agency: NRB
   Status: Completed Jul. 2012
   Role: PI
   CoPI: Prof. S.K.Bhattacharyya, OE
   
9. Evaluation of turbulence model in predicting hydrodynamic parameters in TVC
   Sponsoring agency: ARDB
   Status: Completed Dec. 2010
   Role: PI
   
10. FEM Simulation of BioFluid Flows
    Sponsoring agency: DST
    Status: Completed Nov. 2009
    Role: Chief Mentor
    Co-Mentor: Prof.T.Sundararajan, ME
    
11. LES investigation of interference effect due to bluff body at moderate Reynolds number
    Sponsoring agency: CSIR
    Status: Completed Jun. 2009
    Role: PI
    
12. Large eddy simulation of rectangular channel with a built-in winglet pair
    Sponsoring agency: ARDB
    Status: Completed, March 2006
    Role: PI from IIT Madras side
    Other investigators: Prof. E.G.Tulapurkara, AE, IIT Madras, and Prof. Gautam Biswas, IIT Kanpur