Education

• PhD, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2016.

• M.Tech., Department of Applied Mechanics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, 2009

• B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, AKG Engineering College Ghaziabad, 2006

Experience

• Dec 2013 - Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra

• Jan 2010 - Dec 2013, Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

• Aug 2006 - Aug 2007 , Graduate Engineer Trainee, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Limited Mumbai

Academic and Administrative Responsibilities

• Associate Faculty Member , Department of Energy Science and Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra.

• Member, SAC, School of Renewable Energy & Efficiency (SREE), NIT Kurukshetra.

• Member, SRC, School of Renewable Energy, & Efficiency (SREE), Kurukshetra.

• Faculty in-charge, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics Laboratory, MED, NIT Kurukshetra

Sponsored R&D Project/Consultancy

1. Development of Computational Model for High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) Thermal Spray System (Ongoing); Principal Investigator; Funding Agency: SERB, DST; Grant: Core Research Grant; Funding Amount: INR 28.27 Lac, Duration: March 2024 onwards for 3 years.

2. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Flame Deflector for Conducting Ground Testing of Cluster Nozzle Semi Cryo Stages (Ongoing); Co-Principal Investigator; Funding Agency: ISRO; Funding Amount: INR 31.92 Lac, Duration: 2 Years.

3. "SAKSHAM - Scientific Advancements in Knowledge for Sustainability, Healthcare, and Materials", Co-Principal Investigator; Funding Agency: ANRF, Funding Amount: 60 Lac, Duration: 5 Year.

4. "SAKSHAM - Scientific Advancements in Knowledge for Sustainability, Healthcare, and Materials", Co-Principal Investigator; Funding Agency: ANRF, Funding Amount: 55 Lac, Duration: 5 Year.

Selected Publications 

1. Shalini Gupta, Ashwani Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, “Optimizing Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency through Passive Design Strategies in Office Buildings Within India’s Composite Climate,” 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Energy Systems and Control, Springer, NIT Kurukshetra, February 21-23, 2025.

2. Shalini Gupta, Ashwani Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, “A Comparative Analysis of PVsyst and PVWatts for Rooftop Solar PV Performance at NIT Kurukshetra Library,” First International Conference on Power and Intelligent Control Systems (PICS-2025), Springer, NIT Hamirpur, July 4-5, 2025.

3. Investigation of pleated air filters: effects of various shapes and design parameters on flow patterns and pressure drop. Anuj Kumar Shukla, Abhishek Kumar, Rajesh Kumar & Pritanshu Ranjan,  International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) (2023) (URL)

4. Satyavrat Pratap Singh, Rajesh Kumar and Pradeep Kumar, Analysis of wind resource on a site using wind turbine mathematical model on MATLAB SIMULINK, 5th International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment, NIT Meghalaya, June 15-17, 2023.

5. Satyavrat Pratap Singh, Rajesh Kumar and Pradeep Kumar, Comparison and Review of Mathematical models and AI Techniques for optimal design of wind turbine, National conference on Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure, NIT Kurukshetra, May 27-28, 2023.

6. Souvik Roy, Rajesh Kumar, Numerical simulation and comparative analysis of liquid droplet to study the effect of Surface tension on its spreading, 11th International Conference on Recent Challenges in Engineering and Technology, Jakarta, Indonesia, June 16-17, 2023.

7. Souvik Roy, Rajesh Kumar, CFD analysis of Liquid droplet to study the spreading dynamics after impact on a solid substrate. 3rd International Conference on Advancement in Materials Processing Technology (AMPT) 2023, NIT Jamshedpur, July 13-14, 2023.

8. Suraj, Rajesh Kumar, A numerical investigation of dynamics of air entrapment and pore formation in thermal spray coating, 3rd International Conference on Advancement in Materials Processing Technology (AMPT) 2023, NIT Jamshedpur, July 13-14, 2023.

9. Mantri Harish, Rajesh Kumar, Understanding the drag reduction and anti-biofouling properties using Shark skin denticles on curved surfaces, 3rd International Conference on Advancement in Materials Processing Technology (AMPT) 2023, NIT Jamshedpur, July 13-14, 2023.

10. Shaifali Sood, NK Tiwari, Rajesh Kumar, Life cycle assessment of a hybrid solar based electric vehicle charging station using SimaPro, International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER) by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 7-9 July, 2022.

11. Shaifali Sood, NK Tiwari, Rajesh Kumar, Enviro-economic assessment of energy sources used for electric vehicle charging, Sustainable Technology For Power And Energy Systems (STPES) by National Institute of Technology Srinagar and Indian Institute of Technology Jammu., 4-6 July, 2022

12. Vandana, Tiwari, N.K and Kumar R, Impact of Different Electrode Material and Substrate on Operation of Microbial Fuel Cell, International Conference on Innovations in Applied Science and Engineering (ICIASE 2022) organized by NIT, Jalandhar, May 17-19, 2022.

13. Vandana, Tiwari, N.K and Kumar R, Effect of External Resistance on Double Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell Performance, International Conference on Recent Advances in Water Resources, Environment and Geomatics Engineering (ICRAWEG2022) organized by NIT Raipur, March 10-11, 2022

14. Vandana, Tiwari, N.K and Kumar R, Electricity Production from Different Effluent Using Microbial Fuel Cell. 8th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research(ICAER2022) organized by IIT, Bombay, March 10-11, 2022.

15. Abhishek Arora and Rajesh Kumar, Multi-parametric Optimization of a Convective Type Waste Heat Recovery System, International Conference on Energy Conversion and Thermo-fluid Systems, NIT Jaipur, November 19-20, 2021.

16. Abhishek Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, A Computation Study of Filtration Process with Different Pleat Shapes, 2nd International Congress on Advances in Mechanical and Systems Engineering (CAMSE 2021), NIT Jalandhar, July 17-19, 2021

17. A computational study on air entrapment and its effect on convective heat transfer during droplet impact on a substrate. Rajesh Kumar,  Rajesh K. Shukla, Alok Kumar and Arvind Kumar. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 153(106363):1-11, 2020. (URL)

18. Numerical study of pore formation in thermal spray coating process by investigating dynamics of air entrapment. Rajesh K. Shukla, Alok Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Digvijay Singh and Arvind Kumar. Surface & Coatings Technology, 378(124972):1-16, 2019. (URL) 

19. A Study of LES-SGS Closure Models Applied to a Square Buoyant Cavity. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 98:164-175, 2016. (URL)

20. Partially-averaged Navier–Stokes method for turbulent thermal plume. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan. Heat and Mass Transfer, 51(12):1655-1667, 2015. (URL)

21. URANS computations with buoyancy corrected turbulence models for turbulent thermal plume. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 72:680-689, 2014. (URL)

22. Computational models for turbulent thermal plumes: recent advances and challenges. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan. Heat Transfer Engineering, 35(4):367-383, 2014. (URL)

23. Assessment of buoyancy-corrected turbulence models for thermal plumes. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 7(2):239-249, 2013. (URL)

24. S. Rampurkar, K. S. Sandhu and Rajesh Kumar, Performance of parallel connected compressed air energy Storage for proper utilization of wind energy, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems (AMIAMS-2017), NIT Allahabad, Feb 3-5, 2017.

25. Rajesh Kumar, Flow past a rotating cylinder at high Reynolds number using PANS method, 69th Annual meeting of American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, USA, November 20–22, 2016

26. Rajesh Kumar and Anupam Dewan, Effect of inlet conditions on the turbulent statistics in a buoyant jet, 68th Annual meeting of American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 22–24, 2015

27. Pawan Kumar, Rajesh Kumar and Lalit Thakur, A CFD study of high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) thermal spray process, 3rd National Conference on Nanoscience and Instrumentation Technology (NCNIT), NIT Kurukshetra, India, 2015

28.  Rajesh Kumar, L.N. Ravishankar and Anuj Jain, CFD simulation of air flow in cyclone separator, 1st Annual Conference on Enabling Technologies for Chemical Process Industries, IIChE Kanpur Regional Centre, CSJM University Kanpur, India, 2009

Book Chapters

1. Arora, Abhishek, and Rajesh Kumar; Multi-parametric optimization of a convective type waste heat recovery system; Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Mechanical Engineering; CRC Press, 2022. 157-173. (URL)

2. Kumar, Abhishek, Rajesh Kumar, and Anuj Kumar Shukla; A Computation Study of Filtration Process with Different Pleat Shapes; Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering: Select Proceedings of CAMSE 2021; Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. 895-907. (URL)

Book Chapters

1. Vadhera, Shelly, Rajesh Kumar, and Anupam Dewan, eds. Advances in Green Energy Technologies:Volume 2. Vol. 1314. Springer Nature, 2025. 

Workshops/Conferences Organized 

1. International Conference on Green Energy and Sustainable Technology (ICGEST 23), December, 15-17, 2023, SREE, NIT Kurukshetra 

2. One Week Workshop on “Waste Management: A Key to Sustainable Earth” during February 11-15, 2023 in the School of Renewable Energy and Efficiency, NIT Kurukshetra.

3. One Week Workshop on “Energy Conservation Efficiency and Sustainability” during December 13-17, 2021 in the School of Renewable Energy and Efficiency, NIT Kurukshetra.

4. 2nd  International Conference on “New Frontiers in Engineering, Science & Technology” (NFEST) during Feb 18-22, 2019 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra.

5. 26th National Conference on Internal Combustion Engines and Combustion (NCICEC) during November 1-4, 2019 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra.