Advisory Activities

POST DOCTORAL FELLOW

• • PAST

• 1. Dr Dushyant Shringi (along with Prof. Amit Agrawal): PhD from the University of California, Davis, USA, Nov. 2010 to Feb. 2011; now, Senior Engineer, CTFE (Computational Thermal and Fluids Engineering) team, Cummins Research and Technology India Ltd. (CRTI), Pune.

  2. Dr. Tanmoy Mandal, PhD. from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, July, 2016 - July, 2017

  3. Dr. Satyendra SIngh, PhD. from Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Hamirpur, May, 2017 - Jan. 2018; now, Assistant Professor, National Instititute of Technology Jalandhar.

  4. Dr. Subhasis Rath, Ph.D.  from School of Energy Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, July 2021-July 2022.

DOCTORAL THESIS GUIDANCE

• • PAST

• 1. Sachin B. Paramane: Numerical Investigation of Free Stream Flow across a Rotating and Rotationally Oscillating Cylinder with Forced and Mixed Convection Heat Transfer (Completed, July 2009). Now in Crompton Greaves Ltd. - Global R & D Centre, Mumbai.

  2. D. Datta (Co-Guide: Dr. K. Iyer): Analytical and Level Set Method Based Numerical Study for Two-Phase Stratified Flow in a Plane Channel Dissipating Uniform Heat Flux and a Square Duct (Completed, October 2010). Now Additional Chief Engineer (CFD Development and Fuel Handing System) in Directorate of Reactor Safety & Analysis, Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited, Mumbai.

  3. C. M. Sewatkar (Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): Flow Regimes and Wake Interaction Mechanism for Multiple Stationary and Oscillating Square Cylinders arranged in different Configurations (Completed, July 2011). Recipient of Excellency in PhD Thesis Award for the year 2012 given by IIT Bombay for outstanding research contribution. Now Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Collage of Engineering, Pune.

  4. Vinesh H. Gada: A Novel Level Set based CFMD Methodology in 2-D/3-D Cartesian and Cylindrical Coordinates and its Application for Analysis of Stratified-Flow and Film-Boiling (Completed, December 2012). Recipient of Excellency in PhD Thesis Award for the year 2013 given by IIT Bombay for outstanding research contribution. Now Development Engineer, Siemens PLM Software, Pune.

  5. Kaushal Prasad (Co-Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): CFD Study on Channel-Confined Flow across Single and Unconfined Flow across Three Rows of Cylinder (Completed, April 2013). Now Principal and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Finolex Academy of Management & Technology, Ratnagiri.

  6. Mukul Srivastava (Co-Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): A Novel Level Set Method based Immersed Boundary Method and its Application to hydrodynamics of fish-like locomotion of single and in-group flexible hydrofoils (Completed, April 2015). Recipient of **Computational Talent Prize** for the year 2013 given by SHELL India - for a Paper - to recognize outstanding computational research by students in Indian academia  FIRST prize in the ORAL Presentation from Thermal and Fluid Engineering in the MEGRES (Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Symposium) 2014. Now Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

  7. Absar M. Lakdawala (Co-Guide: Dr. Rochish Thaokar):  A Novel Level-Set based CMFD Methodology and its Application to Interface Dynamics of Jet Breakup with and without Electric Field (Completed, October 2015). SECOND prize in the ORAL Presentation from Thermal and Fluid Engineering in the MEGRES (Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Symposium) 2014. Now Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad.

  8. Javed Shaikh (Co-Guide: Dr. Rajneesh Bhardwaj): A Novel Sharp-Interface Level-Set-Method Based CMFD Development and its Application for Analysis of Coalescence and Evaporation of a Droplet(Completed, July 2017). Recipient of **Computational Talent Prize** for the year 2016 given by SHELL India - for a Paper - to recognize outstanding computational research by students in Indian academia. Now R&D Engineer at Intel Research Lab, Bangalore.

  9. Nagesh Patil (Guide: Dr. Rajneesh Bhardwaj): Impact and Evaporation Dynamics of Droplets on Surfaces with Different Wettability: Experimental and Numerical Study (Completed, Feb. 2018). "Best Research Poster Winner" award in IACT, 2015 event (Industry Academia Collaboration on Technology, IIT Bombay), organized by GE and IITB. Now, Assistant Professor, IIT Bhilai.

  10. Sumedh Pawar (Sponsored by Crompton Greaves Global R&D Center): Multiphysics Modelling and Simulations of Arc-Formation during Welding and inside a Nozzle of a SF6 Gas Circuit Breaker (Completed, April 2018). FIRST prize in the POSTER Presentation from Thermal and Fluid Engineering in the MEGRES (Mechanical Engineering Graduate Research Symposium) 2014. Now, R&D Engineer, Crompton Greaves Ltd.

  11. Mausam Sarkar: CFD Study on Periodically Fully-Developed Flow in Furrowed and Serpentine Sinusoidal-Wavy-Channels: Flow Regimes and Heat Transfer Characteristics (Completed, April 2018). Now Scientific-Officer G, Reactor Project Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.

  12. A. M. Aneesh (Guide: Dr. Atul Srivastava): Thermal hydraulic Performance of Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers (PCHEs): Numerical and Experimental Investigation (Completed, Oct. 2018). Now Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Pilani (Raj.).

  13. Majid Hassan Khan (Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal): Development of Three Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry & Experimental and Numerical Study on Flow around a Cube. (Completed, Oct. 2018)

  14. Hrisheekesh Krishnan (Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal, and Prof. John Seridan and Prof. Mark Thompson (Monash Univ.)): A Numerical Study on the Near Body Vorticity Dynamics ofa Square Cylinder under Inline Pulsatile Flow. (Completed, Feb. 2019)

  15. Namshad T. (Co-Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal): CFSD Development and it Application for Hydrodynamic Analysis on various types of Fishes-Like Kinematics, Propulsion, and Flexibility of 2D and 3D NACA Hydrofoils. AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) Award 2018 for 100 Best Stories, given by Department of Science and Tech. INDIA. (Completed, Sept 2019) Now Post Doctoral Researcher, Univ. of Glasgow, UK.

  16. Anirudh Kedarnath Jonnalagadda (Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal), The Onsager-Regularized Lattice Boltzmann Method: a Regularization Scheme Based on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. (Completed, Oct. 2021) Now Post Doctoral Researcher, IISc Bangalore.

  17. Brijesh Pandey (Guide: Prof. Rangan Banerjee): Development and Application of Co-Simulation Framework for Ceiling Fan-Integrated Energy Management Systems in Buildings. (Completed, Jan. 14, 2022) 

  18. Charu Mittal, Computational FSI Study on Flow-Induced Vibration of a Stationary and Elastically-Mounted Cylinder with a Detached Rigid and Flexible Splitter-Plate. (Completed, Jan. 27, 2022) Now lead aerodynamic engineer at General Electric, Bangalore.

  19. Siddharth Gupta (Co-Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal and Prof. Mark Thompson & Prof. Kerry Hourigan (Monash Univ.)), Fish-Inspired Hydrodynamic Study of Stationary, Undulating, and Oscillating Hydrofoils.  (Completed, Jan. 28, 2022)

  20. Harshal S. Raut (Co-Guide: Prof. Amitabh Bhattacharya): Computational multi-Fluid Structure Interaction Study on Nucleate Boiling under the Effect of Externally Actuated Surfaces. (Completed, Aug. 26, 2022)

  21. Vinay Prasad (Co-Guide: Prof. Salil Kulkarni): Fluid flexible-Solid Interaction Study in a Lid-Driven Cavity flow: Solid Motion, Chaotic Mixing, and Chaotic Advection. (Completed, Jan. 13, 2023)

  22. Sanjid CS (Guide: Janani S. Murallidharan): Sharp Interface Level Set Method on a Co-located Grid for Nucleate Boiling with Power Transients. (Completed, April 14, 2023)

  23. Nitin Goyal (Co-Guide: Prof. Neeraj Kubhakarna): CmFD Development and its Application for Analysis of Unequal-Sized Droplets-Interaction: Binary Coalescence, Collision, and Combustion. (Completed, April 24, 2023)

  24. Vinay Kumar (Registered in HBNI, Mumbai; Co-Guide: Dr. R. K. Singh): Cartesian Grid-Based Navier-Stokes (NS), Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), and Hybrid NS-DSMC Methods for Continuum and/or Rarefied Gas Flows around Complex Geometries. (Completed, December 01, 2023)

  25. Sarvesh Shukla (Guide: Dr. Rajneesh Bhardwaj and Co-Guide: Prof. Amit Agrawal): Biomimetic CFD Study on Fish-like Undulating Surface of a Stationary or Pitching hydrofoil. (Completed, January 16, 2024)

  26. Pratyush Kumar (Guide: Prof. Sandip K. Saha), A Study on Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Scaling Laws of Breeder Blanket Concept of Fusion Reactor. (Completed, March 22, 2024)

• • PRESENT

1. Santosh Mallah (Guide: Amit Agrawal): Experimental and Numerical Study on Flow across a Bio-Inspired Flapping Foil.

2. Gaurav Belwal (Sponsored from Cummins India Ltd.): CFD Study on Impact of a Droplet on Thin Films.

3. Sumant R. Morab (Co-Guide: Janani S. Murallidharan): Fluid Structure Acoustic Interaction (FSAI) Investigation for Phono-Angiography

4. Jigar Desai (Guide: Shyam Karagadde): Role of ultrasonic streaming and cavitation on liquid melts.

5. Abhishek (Guide: Sandip K. Saha): Computational FSI Study on Flow-Induced Vibration of a Elastically-Mounted Cylinder in close proximity of a Downstream Stationary Cylinder

6. Shivji Prasad Yadav (Guide: Amit Agrawal): Numerical Modeling of Blood Flow in Microchannel and Blood Plasma Separation Microdevice. 

7. Orkodip Mookherjee (Guide: Prof. Shantanu Pramanik, NIT Durgapur): Coupled Level-Set Volume-of-Fluid Method-based CMFD Development and Applications

8. Nipun S. Kothare (Guide: Janani S. Murallidharan): Effect of Cyclic Exponential Heat Flux based Power Transients on Bubble Coalescence in Nucleate Pool Boiling.

9. Nikhil Tamboli (Guide: Janani S. Murallidharan): Numerical Study on Bubble Dynamics in Human Vasculature: An approach towards Targeted Drug Delivery.

10. Saurabh Kumar Singh (Guide: Milind Atrey): Thermal Investigation of cryogenic storage vessel in stationary as well as moving (Sloshing) condition

11. Sachin SB: Fluid multi-Structure Interaction Study on Flow-induced Vibration of a Cylinder/Sphere with a detached Structure.

12. Bismaya Ranjan Behra (Co-Guide: Dr. Rajneesh Bhardwaj): Numerical and Experimenal Study on Droplet Impact Dynamics over a Pool.

13. Parth Patel (Guide: Amit Agrawal and Co-Guide: Dr. Rajneesh Bhardwaj): Experimental and Numerical Studies on Fluid Structure Interactions, with Applications to Vortex-Induced Energy Harvesting

14. Alisha Daimari (Sponsored from Cummins India Ltd.; Co-Guide: Shyam Karagadde): Fuel cell and its Numerical Modelling.

GRADUATE THESIS GUIDANCE

DD Projects

• 1. Shashi Ranjan Kumar: Low Reynolds Number Flow around Row of Square Cylinders, 2006.

  2. Dheeraj K. Singh: Numerical Simulation of Dentritic Solidification using Sharp-Interface Level Set Method, 2007.

  3. Sumedh Padhgane: Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Wavy Channel, 2007.

  4. Lakshya Chaplot: Machine Learning Method-based CFD Development for Unsteady Flows. 

  5. Atharva N. Lagwankar: CFD Analysis of Stenosed Artery and Plaque Rupture Prediction.

M.Tech. Projects

• 1. K. Ravi: Characterization of Leak Rates Through Cracks, 2005.

  2. Pankaj Sharma: A Physics based Finite Volume Method in Cylindrical Coordinates for Unsteady State Conjugate Heat Transfer, 2008.

  3. Narendra Kumar: 3-D Level Set Method for Simulation of Two-Fluid Stratified Flow in a Pipe, 2008.

  4. Nayan Pandya: A Semi-Explicit Immersed Boundary Method and its Application to Flow across a Transversely Oscillating Cylinder, 2008.

  5. L. Vamsi Krishna (Guide: Dr. A Agrawal): Lattice Boltzmann Method based Simulation of Flow around a Transversely Oscillating Square Cylinder, 2008.

  6. Tanveer Ahmed (Co-Guide: Dr. C. S. Solanki): CFD Simulation of Efficient Coooling of Solar Cells using Light Concentration, 2008.

  7. Arvind Limje: CFD Simulation of Two-Fluid Stratified Developing Flow in a Plane Channel and a Pipe, 2008.

  8. Ajay Singh Parihar: Numerical Simulation of Granular Materials through Bins using Discrete Element Method, 2009.

  9. Dhruv Dhaval: Finite Volume Method Based Simulation of Combined Conduction Radiative-Convective Heat transfer in Developing Flow through a Pipe with a Rod, 2009.

  10. Rahul Verma: Performance Study of Linear Algebraic Equation Solvers for single and two-phase flow simulation on single and multi processors, 2010.

  11. Sagar Chavan: Level Set Method based Numerical Study for Two-Phase Stratified Flow in a Plane Channel With and Without Phase Change, 2010.

  12. Saurish Das: Level Set Method based Parallel Computation of 3-D Steam-Water Stratified Flow in a Pipe with a Nuclear Rod, 2011.

  13. Anil Raj (Co-Guide: Dr. A Agrawal): CFD Simulation and Analysis of Fish-like Locomotion, 2011.

  14. Rakesh B. Chechare: Development of Adaptive Cartesian Grid Method for Single-phase Flow Simulation, 2012.

  15. Modithoka Babu Rao: CFD Simulation and Analysis of Fish-like Group-Locomotion, 2012.

  16. Vishal Kedia: Development of Adaptive Cartesian Grid Method for Moving-boundary and Two-Phase Flow Simulation, 2013.

  17. Debasis Das: CFD Simulation of Film-Condensation, 2013.

  18. Arnab Ganguly (Guide: Dr. Atul Srivastava): Development of Phase-Field Method and its Application for Analysis of Dentritic Growth, 2013.

  19. Hitesh Mazumdar (Guide: Dr. Atul Srivastava): Numerical Investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy-Channels, 2013.

  20. Harshi Patel (Co-Guide: Salil Kulkarni): 2D CFD Development for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, using Sharp Interface Immersed Boundary Method, 2015.

  21. Amit Gurav: 3D CFD development for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, using Level Set based Immersed Boundary Method, 2015.

  22. Gaurav Katiyar (Guide: Sandip Saha): Numerical modelling of bubble growth in micro channel using Level Set Method, 2015.

  23. Bhawar Sarjerao Appasaheb (Guide: Sridhar Balasubramanian): CFD Study of Flow over Flapping Foil as a Mechanism for Energy Harvesting, 2015.

  24. Swapnil Jani (External Student; Guide: Absar Lakhdawala, Nirma Univ. Ahmedabad): 2D CFD Application and Analysis for Flapping Wing Aerodynamics, 2015.

  25. Ernold Thompson: Numerical Study of Flapping Wing aerodynamics, 2016.

  26. Sumit Shinde: 3D CFD Development and Parallelization Study on Level Set based Immersed Boundary Method, 2016.

  27. Nihar Takkar (External Student; Guide: Absar Lakhdawala, Nirma Univ. Ahmedabad): Application of Dual-Grid Level Set Method based inhouse code for Simulation of the Casting Process: Filling and Solidification. 2017.

  28. Saurabh Shubham: OPEN-FOAM based Simulations of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems, 2018.

  29. Kuntal Patel (External Student; Guide: Absar Lakhdawala, Nirma Univ. Ahmedabad): Sharp Interface Level Set Method Based CMFD Development: An EfficientMethodology on Non-Uniform Semi-Adaptive Mesh, 2018.

  30. Abhishek Kumar (Guide: Dr. Sandip Kumar Saha): CFD Study on Pebble based Reactor, 2019.

  31. Divyaj Shah (Co-Guide: Prof. Amitabh Bhattacharya): CFSI Study on Fin based Heat Transfer Enhancement, 2020,

  32. Rahul Gundre, CFD Study on Droplet Coalescence in a Tube, 2020,

  33. Ammar A. Qazi, Machine Learning-based CFD Development and Optimization Study, 2021.

  34. Mohamed Ornasir, Numerical Study on Flow-Induced Vibration of an Elastically-Mounted Triangular Cylinder, 2023

  35. Ridham J Shah, Computational multi fluid dynamics development of Modified-pressure based DI-LSM for modeling multi-phase flows on a co-located grid.  

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

• • PAST

• 1. Vishesh Aggarwal: Parallel Computing of Two Phase Flow. May 2011-July 2012. Now Application Engineer, ANSYS Inc., Pune, INDIA.

  2. Vikas Verma: Computational Modeling and Simulation of Film-Condensation. June 2012-July 2013. Now in Infosys, Mysore, INDIA.

  3. Rahul Joshi: Development of Learning material for OPEN-FOAM CFD open-source software. 2012-2013. Now doing MTech. at IIT Bombay.

  4. Abhijit Date: Developing exercise problems and power-point slides for a text book on “A First Course in CFD: Development, Application and Analysis”; 2013-2014.

  5. Malhar Maluste: Flow across a Stationary Cylinder in-between Two Counter-Rotating Side Cylinders; 2013-2014, Now doing PhD. at IIT Bombay.

  6. Nihar Thakkar: Level Set Based Modelling and Simulation of Casting - Filling & Solidification.

• PRESENT

1. Kuntal Patel: Level Set Based Modelling and Simulation of Casting - Filling & Solidification.