I am fortunate to have highly motivated and hard-working students working with me on a variety of projects. (Of course, so far, none of them has reached the stage of the grad-student in the cartoon above & I hope no one has to!).
PostDocs
Dr. Swapnil Soni (funded by TCS Research)
Dr. Shailendra Chaurasiya (funded by IIT Bombay)
Students:
Arupjyoti Das (PhD student), Project: Numerical investigations of rotating turbulence
Ravi Kant (PhD, jointly with Prof. Atul Srivastava), Project: Experimental study of magnetoconvection in liquid metal batteries
Akshay Shirsat (PhD, jointly with Prof. SV Prabhu), Project: Liquid metal magnetoconvection in pipes and channels
Sooraj Bharan (PhD, jointly with Prof. Shiva Gopalakrishnan), Project: Turbulence modeling in Finite element framework
Rohit Jiwane (PhD, jointly with Prof. Sridhar Balasubramanian), Project: Numerical simulations of rotating convection with bi-directional temperature gradients
Brajdhar Kumar (PhD, jointly with Prof. Atul Srivastava), Project: Multiphysics couplings in liquid metal batteries
Rishika Tiwari (PhD, jointly with Prof. Atul Srivastava), Project: Numerical investigations of mixing in liquid metal batteries
Satish Boda (MTech), Project: Multiphysics modelling of realistic liquid metal batteries in OpenFOAM
Garima (MTech), Project: Strategies for mitigating stratification in liquid metal batteries
Sombit Gupta (MTech), Project: Electromagnetic pumping of liquid metal flows
Aritra Roy (MTech)
Undergraduate research project students:
Niveditha Nair (BTech)
Project: Effect of fringing magnetic fields on heat transfer in pipes
Graduated:
Swapnil Soni (PhD), Thesis: MHD flow in liquid metal batteries
Amit Jha (PhD ) (jointly with Profs. Shyam Karagadde), Thesis: MHD instabilities in Aluminum reduction cells
Akhilesh Ponkshe (MTech), Project: Multiphysics modeling in liquid metal batteries
Anusha Mantha (DDP project, jointly with Prof. Kowsik Bodi), Project: Electromagnetic railguns
Kaustubh Thakurdesai (Project Staff) - completed M.Phil. at Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge, UK, Project: Study of flow in liquid metal batteries with interfaces
Apoorv Giriya (Dual degree project) - now an ML engineer, Project: Segregated solvers for studying flow in liquid metal batteries
Saksham Jindal (Dual degree project) - pursued MS in InnoEnergy from Europe, CAE Engineer at Tresa Motors, Project: Electrovortex flow in liquid metal batteries
Kshitij Ghormode (B.Tech. Honours Final year) - completed MS from Stanford, Project: Electromagnetic braking in continuous casting of steel (awarded Undergraduate Research Award)
Debanjali Chatterjee (B.Tech Honors project) - pursuing PhD from Purdue, Project: Buoyancy-induced flow in rotating compressor cavities