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Dr R Vijayakumar

Dr R Vijayakumar, is an associate professor in Ocean Engineering Department IIT Madras. He had served in Indian Navy for 21 years and retired as Commander. He is a graduate of Naval Architect from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin. He has done a PG Diploma in Naval Construction from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and M Tech in Ocean Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. On completion of his graduate training, he joined the Corps of Naval Constructors of the Indian Navy. He had worked in various capacities in Indian Navy as Naval Architect Designer in Directorate of Naval Design and in Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam and Mumbai. His fields of interest include Ship Hydrodynamics, Ship Dynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Fluid structure interactions of composite propellers and green ship initiatives.

Details of my Alma mater

Bachelor of Technology(Naval architecture and ship building)from CUSAT in 1995

DIIT (Naval Construction ) from IIT Delhi in 1998

Master of Technology(Ocean Engineering) from IIT Madras in 2004

Doctor of Philosophy( Naval Engineering - Dept of Applied Mechanics) from IIT Delhi in 2009

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