Students/Staff
Group photo - Dec 2022
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Vikrant Chandrakar
Dr. Sarvesh Shukla
Ph.D. students
Mr. Arun Sindhu
Mr. Umesh Patel
Mr. Vineet Kumar
Mr. Yagya Narayan
Mr. Avinash Pandey
Mr. Bibek Kumar
Mr. Mradul Ojha (jointly advised with Prof. Lalit Kumar)
Mr. Shubham Giri (jointly advised with Profs. Amit Agrawal and V. Kartik)
Mr. Parth Patel (jointly advised with Profs. Amit Agrawal and Atul Sharma)
M.Tech students
Mr. Vinay Tiwari
Group Alumni
Past Ph.D. Students
Mr Gaurav Sharma, Effect of Structure Shape and Elastic Coupling on Flow-Induced Vibrations, (under review), 2024
Dr. Prathamesh Bange, Thesis title and year: Non-isothermal Spreading, Bouncing and Evaporation of a Droplet on a Solid Surface in Partial and Total Wetting Condition, 2024
Dr. Sarvesh Shukla, Thesis title: 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, Thesis title and year: Thermal Modeling of Drilling Titanium under Various Cooling Strategies, 2022, Principal advisor: Prof S S Joshi
Dr. Rahul Mishra, Thesis title and year: 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, Thesis title and year: Experimental Study on Droplet Breakup in Two-Phase Microfluidic System, 2021, Monash advisor: Prof. Adrian Neild
Dr. Rameez Bahadursha, Thesis title and year: Energy Extraction From Fluid Flows Using Vortex Induced Vibrations of Cylinders Attached to Bistable Springs, 2021, Principal advisor: Prof Amitabh Bhattacharya
Dr. Manish Kumar. Thesis title and year: Experimental and Computational Study of Spreading and Evaporation of a Droplet on Microtextured and Smooth Solid Surfaces, 2020
Dr. Laxman Malla, Thesis title and year: 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, Thesis title and year: Computational Study of Vortex-Induced Vibration in Isothermal and Non-isothermal Flows using a Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Method, 2020
Dr. Anup Kundu, Thesis title and year: 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 , Thesis title and year: 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 , Thesis title and year: Impact and Evaporation Dynamics of Droplets on Surfaces with Different Wettability: Experimental and Numerical Study, 2018, Joint-advisor: Prof Atul Sharma
Dr. Javed Shaikh, Thesis title: 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,
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Samarendra Panda
Dr. M Praveen
M.Tech/M.S. Students
(Parenthesis indicates position joined after leaving the group and month/year in which degree was awarded)
Mr. Rahul Saini (June 2024)
Mr. Tribin Thomas (June 2024)
Mr. Gaurav Upadhyay (Aug 2021)
Mr. Aayush Patel (June 2021)
Mr. Kulijeet Singh Maan (June 2021)
Mr. Saurabh (Navy, June 2021)
Mr. Vishal Mahale (June 2020)
Mr. Nishith Sen (Navy, June 2020)
Mr. Hari Prasad N (Navy, June 2019)
Mr. Ankit U (Navy, June 2019)
Mr. Varun Gusaine (Navy, June 2018, , co advisor: Prof A Agrawal)
Mr. Kishore Reddy (Navy, June 2017)
Mr. Kartik Kotadia (Navy, June 2016)
Mr. Vivek Misra (DRDO, June 2016)
Mr. Sandeep S Brar (Navy, June 2015)
Mr. Vijay P Yadav (Navy, June 2015)
Mr. Santanu Mondal (GM, June 2014)
Mr. Vishal Kedia (GE, June 2013, Principal advisor: Prof Atul Sharma)
Research Interns
Mr. Shrujal Zala