Publications and Conferences

Peer-reviewed journal paper

1. M. Shyam Kumar, S. R. Chakravarthy, Manikandan Mathur, Optimum air turbulence intensity for polydisperse droplet size growth, Physical Review Fluids 4, 074607 (2019)

2. M. Shyam Kumar, Manikandan Mathur, S. R. Chakravarthy, Experimental study of the effects of droplet number density on turbulence-driven polydisperse droplet size growth, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 917, A12 (2021)

3. M. Shyam Kumar, S. R. Chakravarthy, Manikandan Mathur, Physical coupling between inertial clustering and relative velocity in a polydisperse droplet field with background turbulence, Europhysics Letters, 142.2 (2023)

4. M. Shyam Kumar, Ruichen He, Lei Feng, Paul Olin, Hooi Pin Chew, Paul Jardine, Gary C. Anderson, Jiarong Hong, Particle generation and dispersion from high speed dental drilling, Clinical oral investigations, 27(9) (2023)

5. M. Shyam Kumar, Christopher J. Hogan, Steven A. Fredericks, Jiarong Hong, Visualization and Characterization of Agricultural Sprays Using Machine Learning based Digital Inline Holography, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 216 (2023)

6. M. Shyam Kumar and S. R. Chakravarthy, Droplet arrival pattern, clustering and settling velocity in a polydisperse droplet field, Experiments in Fluids, 65 (2024)

7. Xu, Wenbin, Ziyu Wang, Bowen Mei, Martin A. Erinin, M. Shyam Kumar, Yijie Xu, Jiarong Hong, Luc Deike, and Yiguang Ju. "Repetitive autoignition and extinction instability of non-premixed n-dodecane spray cool flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 40 (2024). 

8. M. Shyam Kumar and Hong, J. Generalizable deep learning approach for 3D particle imaging using holographic microscopy (HM). Optics Express, 32(2024). 

9. M. Shyam Kumar and Hong, J. A review of 3D particle tracking and flow diagnostics using Digital Holography. Measurement Science and Technology (2025). 

10. Wang, Jincheng, Edward Chumbley, Harsha Sista, Amrit Kumar, Hui Hu, M. Shyam Kumar and Jiarong Hong, Development of a Digital Inline Holography Technique to Characterize Airborne Supercooled Water Droplets and Ice Crystals for Aircraft Icing Studies, AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum (2025)

11. Wang, Jincheng, Edward Chumbley, M. Shyam Kumar, Jiarong Hong and Hui Hu, Development of a Digital Inline Holography System for Aircraft Icing Studies, Applied Optics (2025)

Conferences

1. Presented a talk titled “Unraveling Spray Dynamics and Droplet Generation from an Energy Perspective ” at APS-DFD, 26 November, 2024, Salt Lake City, USA

2. Presented a talk titled “Polydisperse Droplet Size Growth in a Turbulent Air Flow-Effects of Droplet Number Density and Size” at APS-DFD, 23 November, 2019, Seattle, USA

3. Presented a talk titled “Effect of Turbulence-Induced Inertial Clustering on Droplet Arrival Statistics in a Polydisperse Droplet Field” at European Turbulence Conference, September 2019, Torino, Italy

4. Presented a talk titled “An Experimental Study of the Effects of Air Turbulence on Droplet Coalescence” at European Turbulence Conference, 22 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden

5. Presented a talk titled “Experimental Measurement of Droplet Coalescence in Three Dimensional Turbulence”, Institutes for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS)-Asia , 7 November, 2016, Chennai, India

6. Attended the 4th National conference on India Radar Meteorology (iRAD-2020), IIT Madras, Chennai