Students/Staff

Ph.D. students  

• Mr. Arun Sindhu (Jan 2023 - present)

• Mr. Umesh Patel (July 2022 - present)

• 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)

• Mr. Yagya Narayan (External, part-time)

Group Alumni

Past Ph.D. Students 

• Dr. Gaurav Sharma, Effect of Structure Shape and Elastic Coupling on Flow-Induced Vibrations, 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, 

Past postdoctoral Fellows 

• Dr. Vikrant Chandrakar

• Dr. Sanghamitro Chatterjee 

• Dr. Manish K Thakur

• Dr. Lukesh Mahato

Past M.Tech/M.S. Students 

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

• Mr. Vinay Tiwari (June 2025, ISRO)

• Mr Sanjay John (June 2025, Navy)

• Mr Vikram Mangat (June 2025, Navy)

• Mr. Dinesh Daudke (June 2024, Godrej)

• Mr. Rahul Saini (June 2024, Navy)

• Mr. Tribin Thomas (June 2024, Navy)

• 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)