Publications

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17. S Afrin, N Hossain, Z Ma, VM Krushnarao Kotteda, A Badhan, V Kumar, On-Sun Testing of a High-Temperature Solar Receiver’s Flux Distribution, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 144, (2022).

16. VMK Kotteda, and M toellinger, Study the thermal radiation effects in gas-solid flows with gray and non-gray P1 models implemented in MFiX. Powder Technology, 394, (2021).

15. A Badhan, VMK Kotteda*, S Afrin, and V Kumar, Quantifying uncertainty in the residence time of the drug and carrier particles in a Dry Powder Inhaler, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, (2021).

14. C Harris, VMK Kotteda*, SS Kumar, V Kumar, and A Bronson, An Analysis of the Effect of Contact Angle on the Liquid Metal Infusion into a Packed Bed, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction B, (2021)

13. VMK Kotteda, A Stephens, W Spotz, V Kumar, and A Kommu, ‘Uncertainty quantification of fluidized beds using a data-driven framework’, Powder Technology 354, 709-718 (2019) [RG url]

12 VMK Kotteda, A Schiaffino, A Chattopadhyay, S Sanjay, V Kumar, and A Bronson, ‘Sensitivity of Viscosity on Molten Ti Infusion into a B4C Packed-Bed at the Microscopic Scale’, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction B 50, 1559-1565 (2019). [RG url]

11. D Lozano, VMK Kotteda, VS Rao Gudimetla and V Kumar, ‘Implementing Artificial Intelligence in predicting metrics for characterizing laser propagation in atmospheric Turbulence’, Journal of Fluid Engineering 12,121401-08 (2019). [RG url]

10. P Delgado, VMK Kotteda, and V Kumar, ‘Hybrid Fixed-Point Fixed-Stress Splitting Method for Linear Poroelasticity’, Geosciences 9, 29–43 (2019). [RG url]

9. S Behara, V Chandra, B Ravikanth, and VMK Kotteda, ‘Oscillation responses and wake modes of three staggered rotating cylinders in two- and three-dimensional flows’, Physics of Fluids 30, 103602 (2018). [RG url]

8. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar and W Spotz, ‘Performance of preconditioned iterative solvers in MFiX-Trilinos for fluidized beds’, Journal of Supercomputing 74, 8:4104-4126 (2018). [RG url]

7. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Flow in a planar convergent-divergent nozzle’, Shock waves 27, 441-455 (2017). [RG url]

6. S Mittal, G Chopra, M Furquan, Navrose, VMK Kotteda and V Bhatt, ‘Finite Element Computations of Complex Flows’, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 82, 2:385-394 (2016). [RG url]

5. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Flow in a Y-intake at supersonic speeds’, Journal of Propulsion and Power 32, 171-187 (2016). [RG url]

4. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Instabilities in air intakes of supersonic air vehicles’, Directions, IIT Kanpur , (2015).

3. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Computation of turbulent flow in a mixed compression intake’, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics 6, 126-141 (2014). [RG url]

2. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Stabilized finite element computation of compressible flow with linear and quadratic interpolation functions’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 75, 273–294 (2014). [RG url]

1. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, ‘Viscous flow in a mixed compression intake’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 67, 1393–1417 (2011). [RG url]

Proceedings/Transactions (Peer-reviewed)

25. VMK Kotteda, A Kommu, and V Kumar, A data-driven framework for uncertainty quantification of a fluidized bed, IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference, Sep 24-26, 2019, Waltham, MA, USA.

24. A badhan, VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, CFD DEM Analysis of a Dry powder Inhaler, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

23. VMK Kotteda, A Kommu, V Kumar and W Spotz, Uncertainty quantification of a fluidized bed reactor, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

22. A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, A Bronson and SS Kumar, Uncertainty Quantification of Molten Hafnium Infusion Into A B4c Packed-Bed, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

21. B Roman, SA Kumar, B Joddar, VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, A numerical analysis of interactions between different collagen I:III ratios and cardiomyocytes, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference , July 28-August 1,2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

20. J Terrazas, VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, R Edmonds and M Zeisset, The CFD Modeling of the Water Braking Phenomena for the Holloman High-Speed Test Track, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

19. LF Rodriguez, V Kumar, J Espiritu, VMK Kotteda, D Lozano and A Rodriguez, Branch and Bound Analysis To Characterize Phase Variations In Laser Propagation Through Deep Turbulence, AJKFluids ASME - JSME - KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 28-August 1, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA.

18. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar and W Spotz, Performance portability of a fluidized bed solver, IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sep 25-27, 2018, Waltham, MA USA.

17. J Contreras-Serna, A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda, A Garcia-Cuellar and V Kumar, Numerical simulation of the formation of melt jets in melt-coolant interactions, ASME 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2018, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

16. D Lozano, VMK Kotteda, VSRao Gudimetla and V Kumar, Implementing Artificial Intelligence in predicting metrics for characterizing laser propagation in atmospheric Turbulence, ASME 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2018, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

15. A Rodriguez, A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, Neural network approach to predict the flow rate for the immiscible two-phase flow at pore scale for enhancing oil recovery application, ASME 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2018, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

14. A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda, S Shantha, A Bronson and V Kumar, Predicting The Depth Of Penetration Of Molten Metal Into A Pore Network Using Tensorflow, ASME 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2018, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

13. Z Nieto, VMK Kotteda, A Rodriguez, V Kumar and A Bronson, Utilization of machine learning to predict the surface tension of molten metals and alloys, ASME 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Jul 15 - Jul 20, 2018, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

12. ST Hussain, A Chattopadhyay, A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, Optimization of Micro-Pillar Wick Structured Cooler by using an Exa-scale Pore Network Simulator, 2018 Rice oil and gas high-performance computing, March 12-13, 2018, Rice University, Houston, TX.

11. VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, Effect of air-fuel ratio on biomass gasification, 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP – 2017), December 14-16, Amrita University, Kollam.

10. A Schiaffino, A Chattopadhyay, ST Hossain, VMK Kotteda, V Kumar and A Bronson, Computational Study of High-Temperature Liquid Metal Infusion, ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 31-August 3, 2017, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

9. VMK Kotteda, A Chattopadhyay, V Kumar and W Spotz, Next generation multiphase flow solver for fluidized bed applications, ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, July 31-August 3, 2017, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.

8. A Chattopadhyay, VMK Kotteda, V Kumar and W Spotz, Next generation exascale capable multiphase solver with Trilinos, ASME international Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov 11-17, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

7. A Chattopadhyay, V Kumar, VMK Kotteda and W Spotz, Leveraging Trilinos’s Next Generation Computing Framework for an Exa-Scale Poro-Elastic Network Simulator Implementation, IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sep 13-15, 2016, Waltham, MA USA.

6. VMK Kotteda, A Chattopadhyay, V Kumar and W Spotz, A framework to integrate MFiX with Trilinos for high fidelity fluidized bed computations, IEEE High-Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sep 13-15, 2016, Waltham, MA USA.

5. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Numerical simulation of viscous flow in a twin intake, 2nd National Propulsion Conference, Feb 23-24, 2015, IIT Bombay, India.

4. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Flow in a mixed compression intake with linear and quadratic elements, 15th AeSI Annual CFD Symposium, Aug 9-10, 2013, IISc Bangalore, India.

3. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Finite element computations of compressible flows using linear and quadratic interpolation functions, 13th AeSI Annual CFD Symposium, Aug 11-12 2011, IISc Bangalore, India.

2. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Finite element computation of compressible flows using conservative variables, 16th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF-2011), Mar 23-25, 2011, Munich, Germany.

1. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Viscous Flow in a Mixed Compression Intake, 8th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Jan 10-14, 2010, Hong Kong, China.

Presented Papers/Symposia/Professional Meetings/Workshops

18. VMK Kotteda, and M Stoellinger, A thermal radiation model for numerical simulation of reacting fluidized beds with MFiX-TFM, MFiX-DEM and MFiX-PIC, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2019 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science, August 6 -8, 2019, Morgantown, WV, USA.

17. V Kumar, VMK Kotteda, , and A Badhan, CFD DEM analysis of a DPI with containerized MFiX on Cloud, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2019 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science, August 6 -8, 2019, Morgantown, WV, USA.

16. VMK Kotteda, D Tobin, and M Stoellinger, Implementing General Framework in MFiX for Radiative Heat Transfer in Gas–Solid Reacting Flows, 2019 Annual Project Review Meeting for Crosscutting, Rare Earth Elements, Gasification and Transformative Power Generation, April 9-11, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

15. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, and W Spotz , Dakota Integrated with MFiX for UQ Analysis: Sensitivity of particle size on pressure in a fluidized bed DEM simulations, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2018 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science , August 7 -9, 2018, Houston, TX, USA.

14.V Kumar, A Rodriguez, and VMK Kotteda, Towards Exascale Simulations: Data-driven and predictive analysis framework for a legacy multiphase solver with Trilinos, Dakota, & Tensorflow, Sandia National Laboratory , July 2 2018, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

13. A Rodriguez, Z Nieto, A Schiaffino, L Rodriguez, VMK Kotteda, J A Muñoz, and V Kumar, Artificial Intelligence Approach To Predict The Physics For An Immiscible Two-phase Flow At Pore Scale For Enhanced Oil Recovery, Sandia National Laboratory, Fire Science and Technology Department Symposium, June 2018, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

12. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, W Spotz, A Rodriguez, A Schiaffino, and A Chattopadhyay, MFiX Integrated with Trilinos: First and second generation preconditioned linear solvers performance analysis, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2018 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science, August 7 -9, 2018, Houston, TX, USA.

11. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, and W Spotz, Trilinos Linear Solver integrated in MFiX, a Fortran based Multiphase Solver from NETL, Trilinos User-Developer Group meeting 2017 , October 23-26, 2017, CSRI Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

10. VMK Kotteda, V Kumar, W Spotz, A Rodriguez, A Schiaffino, and A Chattopadhyay, Linear Solver Performance Analysis of MFiX Integrated with a Next Generation Computational Framework, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2017 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science , August 8 -10, 2017, Morgan town, WV, USA.

9. A Rodriguez, A Schiaffino, A Chattopadhyay, VMK Kotteda, W Spotz, and V Kumar, High Performance Computing with a Focus on Measuring the Scalability of the Problem Guided by the Development of New Algorithms from a MFiX Framework to MFiX-Trilinos Framework, Southwest Emerging Technology Symposium 2017, April 1, 2017, Wyndham Airport Hotel, El Paso, TX, USA.

8. A Schiaffino, VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, Next Generation Solvers with Trilinos, Southwest Emerging Technology Symposium, April 1, 2017, Wyndham Airport Hotel, El Paso, TX.

7. ST Hossain, A Chattopadhyay, VMK Kotteda, W Spotz and V Kumar, Extracting High Fidelity Heat Transfer Physics for Micro-Pillar Wick Structures through an In-House Exa-Scale Pore-Network Simulator, Southwest Emerging Technology Symposium 2017, April 1, 2017, Wyndham Airport Hotel, El Paso, TX.

6. VMK Kotteda, A Chattopadhyay, V Kumar, and W Spotz, MFiX integrated with Trilinos for High Fidelity Multiphase Flow Simulations, NETL 2016 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science, August 9-10, 2016, Morgan town, WV.

5. VMK Kotteda, A Chattopadhyay, V Kumar and W Spotz, High Fidelity Computational Model for Simulating Large Scale Multiphase Flow Problems, 4th Annual IDR Symposium, April 25, 2016, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso.

4. A Chattopadhyay, VMK Kotteda and V Kumar, Next Generation Computing Framework for Exascale Simulations, Southwest Emerging Technology Symposium 2016, April 9, 2016, Wyndham Airport Hotel, El Paso, TX.

3. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Viscous flow in a twin intake at supersonic speeds, Aerospace Engineering Doctoral Students Symposium, May 12-13 2014, IIT Kanpur, India.

2. VMK Kotteda and S Mittal, Our CFD efforts on understanding buzz in mixed compression intakes, Symposium on Air Intake for Airspace Vehicles, March 2013, DIAT Pune, India.

1. VMK Kotteda, Navrose, Sidharth GS and S Mittal, Finite element simulations of fluid flows, Symposium on HPC Applications, March 2012, IIT Kanpur, India.

Research/Startup Grants

Awarded
  • The Need for CFD Modeling of Water Braking Phenomena at the Holloman High-Speed Test Track, Co-PI, Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, $270,000, 2019-22

  • A next-generation exa-scale capable multiphase flow solver, Principle Investigator, Agency: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), 50000SUs, 2017-18

  • Developing a next-generation multiphase flow solver: MFIX-Trilinos, Principle Investigator, Agency: Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), 50000SUs, 2017-18

  • A next-generation exa-scale capable multiphase flow solver, Principle Investigator, Agency: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), 50000SUs, 2016-17

Declined
  • Using MFiX-DEM with Trilinos and Dakota to predict DPI drug delivery; Co-Principle Investigator with Principle Investigator Dr. V. Kumar; Agency: National Institutes of Health, Amount Requested $400,000 May 2018

  • Discrete Ordinates Model for Radiative Heat Transfer in Gas-solid Flows; Co-Principle Investigator with Principle Investigator Dr. V. Kumar; Agency: Department of Energy, Amount Requested $398,940 February 2017

  • Uncertainty quantification: performance investigation of a rotorcraft with Dakota; Co-Principle Investigator with Principle Investigator Dr. V. Kumar; Agency: Army Research Laboratory June 2017

Contributed
  • Implementing General Framework in MFiX for Radiative Heat Transfer in Gas-Solid Reacting Flows; Principle Investigator - Dr. Michael Stoellinger; Agency: Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory 2018-21

  • High Fidelity Computational Model for Fluidized Bed Experiments; Principle Investigator - Dr. Vinod Kumar; Agency: Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory 2016-18

  • Numerical Simulation of Instabilities in Supersonic Flow in Y-duct Air Intakes; Principle Investigator - Prof. Sanjay Mittal; Agency: Aeronautics Research and Development Board 2014-16

  • Numerical Simulation of Buzz in Supersonic Mixed Compression Air Intakes; Principle Investigator - Prof. Sanjay Mittal; Agency: Aeronautics Research and Development Board 2009-11