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!).
Current Students:
Swapnil Soni (PhD student)
Project: MHD flow in liquid metal batteries
Arupjyoti Das (PhD student)
Project: Numerical investigations of rotating turbulence
Amit Jha (PhD ) (jointly with Profs. Shyam Karagadde and Atul Sharma)
Project: MHD instabilities in Aluminum reduction cells
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
Akhilesh Ponkshe (MTech)
Project: Multiphysics modeling in liquid metal batteries
Undergraduate research project students:
Pratham Seervi
Project: Liquid metal cooling
Graduated:
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
Nikhil Raghuvanshi (Intern) - completed MS from Hamburg university
Project: Buoyancy-induced flow in rotating compressor cavities