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Hi, welcome to my webpage.
Myself Dr. S. Harikrishnan, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India. I work broadly in the research area of thermal engineering. Please find more details about me as well as my research area in this website.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India in Thermal Engineering (2019)
PG Diploma: NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Telangana, India in Patent Law (2014)
M.Tech: National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappali, Tamilnadu, India in Thermal Power Engineering (2014)
B.Tech: Government Engineering College Thrissur, Kerala, India in Mechanical Engineering (2012)
POST Doctoral experience
POST Doctoral experience
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (December 2019 - March 2020) in the Multiphase Multiphysics Lab, Department of Mechanical engineering, IIT Madras
Project officer (August 2019 - December 2019) in the Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellow (January 2019-July 2019) in the Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras.
awards and honours
awards and honours
Received 'Outstanding Contributor Award', National FOSSEE Awards 2025 (Edition 02), by the Ministry of Education, Government of India on July 17, 2025 at IIT Bombay.
Research article titled ‘Flow transition in periodically fully developed wavy channels’ has been selected as Editor’s Pick in American Institute of Physics – Physics of Fluids journal, June 2021.
Received best paper presentation award in 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT2020) conducted by BITS Pilani Dubai campus on 19 - 21 March 2021.
Received IIT Madras Institute Research Award for Ph.D. thesis in September 2019.
Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at IIT Madras (January 2019-July 2019).
1st Prize in “Eaton’s Industry Defined Problem: Thermal Management – Effective Cooling Solutions for High Power Density Equipment” Design Challenge, Shaastra, IIT Madras in 2017.
1st Prize in “Eaton’s Industry Defined Problem: Enhance Heat Removal Capacity for Industrial Brakes” Design Challenge, Shaastra, IIT Madras in 2016.
Qualified CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) with All India Rank of 214 in Engineering Science (2014).
Qualified GATE with 98.35 percentile among 1, 12, 320 candidates appeared in Mechanical Engineering (2012).
in media
in media
Research article titled 'Effect of liquid–air interface on particle cloud dynamics in viscous liquids' featured in The Hindu Business Line and IITM-Tech Talk website.
Invited talk in IIT Bombay on OpenFOAM on YouTube
other activities
other activities
Reviewer for the journal ‘American Institute of Physics–Physics of Fluids’, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology .
Coaching partner for OpenFOAM in FOSSEE , IIT Bombay
Assistant Coordinator, CUSAT-TBI (Technology Business Incubation Center)
Invited talks/Events
Invited talks/Events
Invited talk on ‘Kick starter session on CFD with OpenFOAM’ organized by Department of Ship Technology, CUSAT on 22nd November 2022.
Invited talk on “Introduction to Meshing’ on ‘Three-day online workshop on the basics of CFD and OpenFOAM’ organized by FOSSEE IIT Bombay on 11th January 2023.
Invited talk on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics” on KTU sponsored training program on Computation Fluid Dynamics using OpenFOAM organized by Universal Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala on 1st February 2023.
Invited talk on "Applications of CFD in thermal aspects of shipbuilding" on 2nd February 2024 in Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kochi, Kerala.
Evaluator for the event "Young Innovators Technological Summit 2024" organized by Kerala Government Higher Education Department and Directorate of Technical Education at Govt. Polytechnic College, Kalamassery, on 22nd and 23rd February 2024.
Invited talk on “Meshing in OpenFOAM” on six day online workshop on ‘Tackling CFD & Heat Transfer using OpenFOAM’ organized by FOSSEE IIT Bombay on 19th-24th February 2024.
Session chair for the "International Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Air Purification" event organized by the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras on 1st and 2nd April 2024.
Invited panelist at the Industry-Academia Meet on CFD-OpenFOAM, FOSSEE-IIT Bombay, advocating for stronger industry-academia collaborations to accelerate OpenFOAM adoption on 29th November 2024.
Subject Expert: Trilingual Glossary of Engineering (English-Hindi-Malayalam) Workshop by Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education, Government of India at CUSAT, May 26-30, 2025
Invited talk on “An introduction to meshing in OpenFOAM” on four-day online 'Faculty development program on OpenFOAM’ organized by FOSSEE IIT Bombay on 10th-13th June 2025.
Session chair for the "13th Asia Conference on Mechanical and Materials Engineering (ACMME 2025)" held in Tokyo, Japan on 18th -21st June 2025.
Invited talk on “OpenFOAM Unpacked: A Hands-On Journey into Open-Source CFD” on five-day online 'Simulation, Modeling, and Analysis: Tools for Mechanical Engineering Research’ organized by VITAP University, Amaravathi, Andhrapradesh on 1st-5th July 2025.
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