Students/Staff

Ph.D. students

Group Alumni

Past Ph.D. Students

(with thesis title and year of graduation)

Mr. Shubham Giri, Experimental study on flow-induced vibrations of flexible cantilevered plates with implications in energy harvesting of ambient wind (jointly advised with Profs. Amit Agrawal and V. Kartik, Thesis to be submitted in May 2026)
Mr. Mradul Ojha, Evaporation of Pure and Binary Liquid Droplets in Different Configurations , 2026 (under review) (jointly advised with Prof. Lalit Kumar)
Dr. Bibek Kumar, Interfacial Dynamics of Droplet on Solid and Flexible Substrate: From Impact Dynamics to Final Colloidal Deposits Morphology, 2026
Dr. Avinash Pandey, Flow-Induced Vibrations of Passive and Actuated Plates for Energy Harvesting and Bio-Inspired Applications, 2026.
Dr. Rahul Agrawal, Thermohydraulic Analysis of Lance and Offset Fins-based Compact Heat Exchanger with Applications in Fighter Aircrafts, 2025 (Joint advisor: Prof. Sandip K Saha),

Dr. Gaurav Sharma, Effect of Structure Shape and Elastic Coupling on Flow-Induced Vibrations, 2024
Dr. Prathamesh Bange, Non-isothermal Spreading, Bouncing and Evaporation of a Droplet on a Solid Surface in Partial and Total Wetting Condition, 2024
Dr. Sarvesh Shukla, Biomimetic CFD Study on Fish-like Undulating Surface of a Stationary or Pitching hydrofoil , 2024, Joint advisors: Profs. Amit Agrawal and Atul Sharma
Dr. Ankit Kumar, Thermal Modeling of Drilling Titanium under Various Cooling Strategies, 2022, Principal advisor: Prof S S Joshi
Dr. Rahul Mishra, Computational Studies of Effect of Structural Viscoelasticity on two-dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction problems, 2021, Principal IITB advisor: Prof Salil Kulkarni, Monash advisor: Prof. Mark Thompson
Dr. Sagar Agnihotri, Experimental Study on Droplet Breakup in Two-Phase Microfluidic System, 2021, Monash advisor: Prof. Adrian Neild
Dr. Rameez Bahadursha, Energy Extraction From Fluid Flows Using Vortex Induced Vibrations of Cylinders Attached to Bistable Springs, 2021, Principal advisor: Prof Amitabh Bhattacharya

Dr. Manish Kumar. Experimental and Computational Study of Spreading and Evaporation of a Droplet on Microtextured and Smooth Solid Surfaces, 2020
Dr. Laxman Malla, Experimental Study of a Droplet Deposition on a Solid Surface: Self Assembly of Colloidal Particles and Bouncing Droplets, 2020, Monash advisor: Prof. Adrian Neild,
Dr. Hemanshul Garg, Computational Study of Vortex-Induced Vibration in Isothermal and Non-isothermal Flows using a Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Method, 2020
Dr. Anup Kundu, Computational study of interaction of an elastic plate with laminar flow involving large-scale flow-induced deformation, 2019, Monash advisor: Prof. Mark Thompson,
Dr. Atul K Soti , Computational and experimental investigation of fluid-structure interaction with applications in energy harvesting and thermal augmentation, 2018, Monash advisor: Prof. Mark Thompson,
Dr. Nagesh D Patil , Impact and Evaporation Dynamics of Droplets on Surfaces with Different Wettability: Experimental and Numerical Study, 2018, Joint-advisor: Prof Atul Sharma
Dr. Javed Shaikh, A Novel Sharp-Interface Level-Set-Method based CMFD Development and its Application for Analysis of Coalescence and Evaporation of a Droplet, 2017, Principal advisor: Prof. Atul Sharma,

Past postdoctoral Fellows

Past M.Tech/M.S. Students

(Parenthesis indicates position joined after leaving the group and month/year in which degree was awarded)

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