Dr. Arunkumar. V

Date of Joining MEC: 15 March 2010

Professional Experience: Total 5 Years (5 Research and 2 Years Teaching)

  - Project Associate - Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulation of a Solid rocket exhaust plume at high altitude - ARDB-DRDO Project NITC/IITM.

Educational Profile:-

• Ph.D (2020)

  • School of Nanoscience & Technology,  National Institute of Technology- Calicut, Calicut

• M.Tech (2009)

  • Mechanical Engineering - Propulsion Engineering

  • University of Kerala / College of Engineering, Trivandrum.

  • First Class

• B.Tech (2007)

  • Mechanical Engineering

  • First Class with Distinction.

Courses handled:-

Professional Bodies:-

• Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education, ISTE

Research Interest:-

• Micro scale and Nano scale fluid flow and heat transport.

• Combustion charecteristics

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

• Gas Dynamics/ Rarefied Gas Dynamics

• Molecular Dynamics (MD)

Projects / Theses Guided:-

• "Underwater Robotic Drone” Rohit Rajeev, Nash Mohammed, Vivek R.S Prince Yesudas, Rohit G. Completed March 2018.

• "Design and Fabrication of  a Stair Climbing Hand Truck"; Akhil shanmugham, Selbin kurian, MEC, Completed March 2017.

• "Modification in rear-wheel alignment system in an automobile for easy parking."; Siddharth s, Vishnu Namboothiri, MEC, Completed March 2016.

  Publications:-

  Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Conferences:-

   Journal Articles:-

• VA Kumar and Sarith P.Sathian, "Influence of Nanoparticle on the Evaporation of Nanodroplets from Solid Substrates: A Molecular Dynamics Study.", (Review Completed.)

• V. Arun Kumar, V. Sajith, Sarith P. Sathian, "Influence of Nanoparticles on the Evaporation of a Nanodroplet from Solid Substrates: An Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Investigation", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 615, 126227, 2021.

• VA Kumar and Sarith P.Sathian, "Evaporation of a Liquid Droplet in the Presence of a Nanoparticle"., ASME, Journal of Heat Transfer, 140(5), 054501, 2018.

• VA Kumar, SA Lal, "Numerical Prediction of Natural Convection in a Vertical Annulus Closed at Top and Opened at Bottom", Heat Transfer Engineering 34 (1), 70-83,2012

  Conferences:-

• VA Kumar and Sarith P.Sathian, "Studies on the Evaporation of a liquid droplet in the presence of a nanoparticle" Accepted in 2nd European Conference on Non-equilibrium Gas Flows-Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

• Arunkumar. V, Nandu Gopan, Sachin Krishnan T.V., and Sarith P.Sathian, "Molecular dynamics studies on hydrogen bond dissociation in a water droplet at high temperature'', National Propulsion Conference, February, 21-23, 2013, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India.

• S. Anillal and Arunkumar.V, `"Numerical Prediction of Natural Convection in a Vertical Annulus'' NCTT-O9, College of Engineering Trivandrum.

• S. Anil Lal, Arunkumar. V, E. Jabir, "Numerical prediction of asymmetric natural convection in a narrow vertical annulus closed at top and open at bottom'', ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference January 4-6, 2010, Mumbai, India