TITLE OF INVENTION: INNOVATIVE DEFORMABLE BLADES FOR SAVONIUS TURBINE TO INCREASE OUTPUT BY REDUCING DRAG ON RETURNING BLADE

• APPLICANT NAME Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram

• APPLICATION NUMBER: 202541020567

• DATE OF FILING: 6/03/2025

• APPLICATION STATUS: Application Awaiting Examination

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel. Entropy Generation and Hydro-Thermal Analysis of Microchannel Heat Sink with Solid Inserts for Electronic Cooling Applications. Heat Transfer Research. 54(17):75-96, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1615/HeatTransRes.2023048353

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel.  Effect of in-phase type waviness in the walls of a confined Savonius rotor placed in a long channel, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 37(5):2395-2403, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-023-0416-7

G N V Sudeepta Vaishnavi, J Ramarajan and S Jayavel. Numerical studies of bubble formation dynamics in gas-liquid interaction using Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 39, p.101718, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2023.101718

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel. Effect of surface modification and substrate material on flow and heat transfer characteristics in microchannel heat sink. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 148, 2831–2843 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11920-5

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel.  Effect of location of discrete heat sources on a wavy-wall microchannel for liquid cooling. Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, 29 (2):69-96, 2022. DOI: 10.1615/JEnhHeatTransf.2022041688

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel. Numerical study on the effect of out-of-phase wavy confining walls on the performance of Savonius rotor. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 226: 105023, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2022.105023

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel. Performance improvement in savonius wind turbine by modification of blade shape. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 15(1):99–107, 2022. https://doi.org/10.47176/jafm.15.01.32516

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel. Effect of wavy wall and plate bifurcations on heat transfer enhancement in microchannel.  ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging 144(4), 041007, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052537

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel. Optimization of porous fin location and investigation of porosity and permeability effects on hydro-thermal behavior of rectangular microchannel heat sink. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 129: 105754, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105737

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel. Microchannel with waviness at selective locations for liquid cooling of microelectromechanical devices. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics 14(3):935-948, 2021.  https://doi.org/10.47176/jafm.14.03.31874

R Deepakkumar and S Jayavel, S. Effect of rotating control cylinder location on vortex shedding behind a main cylinder. Fluid Dynamics Research, 53(1), p.015503, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1088/1873-7005/abd1d1

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel. Numerical study of the effect of geometry and operating parameters on the performance of Savonius vertical axis wind turbine. Current Science, 119(12):1927-1938, 2020

Rajendran Senthil Kumar and S Jayavel. Forced convective air-cooling effect on electronic components of different geometries and orientations at flow shedding region. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 8(4):597-605, 2018

R Deepakkumar and S Jayavel. Effect of local waviness in confining walls and its amplitude on vortex shedding control of the flow past a circular cylinder. Ocean Engineering, 156:208-216, 2018

Rajendran Senthil Kumar and S Jayavel. Influence of flow shedding frequency on convection heat transfer from bank of circular tubes in heat exchangers under cross flow. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 105:376-393, 2017

R Deepakkumar, S Jayavel, and Shaligram Tiwari. Cross flow past circular cylinder with waviness in confining walls near the cylinder. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 10(1), 2017

R Deepakkumar, S Jayavel, and Shaligram Tiwari. A comparative study on effect of plain-and wavy-wall confinement on wake characteristics of flow past circular cylinder. Sadhana, 42(6):963-980, 2017

R Deepakkumar and S Jayavel. Air side performance of finned-tube heat exchanger with combination of circular and elliptical tubes. Applied Thermal Engineering, 119:360-372, 2017

C Gurunathan, R Gnanamoorthy, and S Jayavel. Effect of reinforcement forms in selectively reinforced polymer composite: temperature distribution under sliding contact condition. International Journal of Plastics Technology, 20(2):265-278, 2016

C Gurunathan, R Gnanamoorthy, and S Jayavel. Prediction of frictional heating and temperature distribution in selective ceramic-reinforced polymer composite. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology, 228(12):1433-1442, 2014

Manickavasagam, V. M., B. Vijaya Ramnath, C. Elanchezhian, J. Jenish, S. Jayavel, and V. Muthukumar. Investigation on impact and compression properties of pineapple reinforced polymer composite. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 591: 116-119, 2014

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Advection transport model of vortex enhanced heat transfer. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55(11-12):3273-3287, 2012

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Effect of vortex generators and integral splitter plate on heat transfer and pressure drop for laminar flow past channel-confined tube banks. Heat Transfer Engineering, 31(5):383-394, 2010

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Effect of tube spacing on heat transfer performance of staggered tube bundles in the presence of vortex generators. Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, 17(3), 2010

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Finite volume algorithm to study the effect of tube separation in flow past channel confined tube banks. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 4(1):39-57, 2010

S Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, Gautam Biswas, and Mihir Sen. Kinematics of a fluid particle due to interaction of fixed inviscid vortex filaments in presence of external translation and pulsation. International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 37(2), 2010

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Numerical study of heat transfer and pressure drop for flow past inline and staggered tube bundles. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 19(8):931-949, 2009

S Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari. Numerical study of flow and heat transfer for flow past inline circular tubes built in a rectangular channel in the presence of vortex generators. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 54(8):777-797, 2008

S Jayavel, Pratish P Patil, and Shaligram Tiwari. Interaction of a skewed Rankine vortex pair. Physics of Fluids, 20(8):083601, 2008

Ramarajan, J., and S. Jayavel. "Performance study of Savonius vertical axis wind turbine with slotted blades." In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 1) Select Proceedings of FMFP 2021, pp. 447-452. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.

Sathish Kumar, D., and S. Jayavel. "Effect of Surface Modification and Substrate Material on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Microchannel Heat Sink." In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 2) Select Proceedings of FMFP 2021, pp. 327-332. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.

Kavin, A. S., R. V. Abishek, J. Ramarajan, D. Sathish Kumar, and S. Jayavel. "Numerical Study on Enhancement of Heat Transfer in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Using Multiple Tangential Injection." In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 2) Select Proceedings of FMFP 2021, pp. 509-514. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.

Prasad, Matcharla Devi Sri, S. Jayavel, and R. Gnanamoorthy. "Effect of coir fiber reinforcement in PLA on the heat transfer characteristics–numerical simulations." Materials Today: Proceedings 2023.

Tiwari, Ratnanjali, D. Sathish Kumar, J. Ramarajan, and S. Jayavel. "Enhancement of Heat Transfer in Liquid-Cooled Heat Sink Using Rotating Impeller." In Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol—I, pp. 349-357. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Sathish Kumar, D., and S. Jayavel. "Numerical Analysis of Smooth and Wavy Wall Microchannel Heat Sink for Electronic Cooling Applications." In Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol—I, pp. 299-309. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Ramarajan, J., and S. Jayavel. "Numerical Study on the Performance of Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with Guide Vanes." In Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Vol—I, pp. 287-298. Springer, Singapore, 2022.

Warghat, Ketan Vinayak, D. Sathish Kumar, and S. Jayavel. "CFD Analysis on Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Pipe in Pipe Heat Exchanger With Tangential Injection." In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 1013, no. 1, p. 012028. IOP Publishing, 2021.

Ramarajan, J., D. Sathish Kumar, Ratnanjali Tiwari, and S. Jayavel. "The Influence of Rotating Element on Flow and Heat Transfer in the Two-Dimensional Confined Channel." In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, pp. 333-341. Springer, Singapore, 2021.

Ramarajan, J., and S. Jayavel. "Modification in the rotor of Savonius turbine to reduce reverse force on the returning blade." In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research, pp. 1103-1111. Springer, Singapore, 2021.

Singh, Arshdeep, Siga Satya Sekhar, S. Jayavel, and Sudhir Varadarajan. "Numerical Study on the Effect of Impeller Geometry on Pump Performance." In Advances in Applied Mechanical Engineering, pp. 233-242. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

Warghat, Ketan V., D. Sathish Kumar, and S. Jayavel. "CFD analysis on the effect of radiation and inlet gas temperature on porous media solar heater." In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 1473, no. 1, p. 012015. IOP Publishing, 2020.

Sathishkumar, D., and S. Jayavel. "Effect of Channel Confinement and Hydraulic Diameter on Heat Transfer in a Micro-channel." In Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, pp. 441-448. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Alli, Mahammad Sehzad, and S. Jayavel. "Numerical study on performance of savonius-type vertical-axis wind turbine, with and without omnidirectional guide vane." In Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, pp. 449-455. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Deepakkumar, R., S. Jayavel, and Shaligram Tiwari. "Computational study of fluid flow characteristics past circular cylinder due to confining walls with local waviness." In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 759, no. 1, p. 012083. IOP Publishing, 2016.

Jayavel, S., and Shaligram Tiwari. "Numerical investigation of incompressible flow past circular tubes in confined channel." CFD Letters 1, no. 1 (2009): 1-14.

Mohanasaravanan P, Jayavel S, and Shaligram Tiwari, Numerical Study of Vortex Dynamics in the wake of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition India (IMECE-INDIA 2025-161394),  Hyderabad, India, 10-13 September, 2025.

Nithyanandham G and Jayavel S, Comparative Study of Circular Jet Impingement on Stationary and Rotating Disks Under Constant Heat Flux, 4th International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy, NIT Puducherry, India, 11-13 December 2024. 

Pranav P, Nithyanandham G, Mohanasaravanan P S, and Jayavel S, Effects of Second Throat on Converging – Diverging Supersonic Nozzle, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, India, June 6-8, 2024.

Nithyanandham G and Jayavel S, Prandtl-number effects and correlation for axisymmetric jet impinging on flat surface, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC-2023-286), IIT Patna, India, 14-17 December, 2023.

Karthikeyan M, Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Experimental investigation on the performance of portable Savonius type micro vertical axis wind turbine, International Conference on Emerging Aspects of Manufacturing, Thermal and Design Engineering (MATHED-2022), NIT Hamirpur, India, 15th– 17th February 2023.

Anamika Singh, Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Performance analysis of NREL 5 MW wind turbine blades, International Conference on Emerging Aspects of Manufacturing, Thermal and Design Engineering (MATHED-2022), NIT Hamirpur, India, 15th– 17th February 2023.

Mahesh A, Palaniappan M, Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Numerical Investigation on The Straight and Curved Blade Propeller, International Conference on Emerging Aspects of Manufacturing, Thermal and Design Engineering (MATHED-2022), NIT Hamirpur, India, 15th– 17th February 2023.

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel, Influence of pivoted blades on the static torque characteristics of Savonius turbine. Proceedings of the 9th International and 49th National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec 14-16, 2022.

G Krithin, D Sathish Kumar, J Ramarajan, and S Jayavel. Impact of relative size and rotation rate of an upstream cylinder on the hydrodynamics of a stationary cylinder in tandem. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Fluid Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, Kerala, India, June 9-11, 2022.

G N V Sudeepta Vaishnavi, J Ramarajan, and S Jayavel, Numerical study on the bubble formation and dynamics in a two-phase interaction using Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Fluid Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, Kerala, India, June 9-11, 2022.

J Ramarajan and S Jayavel, Performance study of Savonius vertical axis wind turbine with slotted blades. Proceedings of the 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), FMFP2021–010–094, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, RJ, India, December 27-29, 2021. 

A S Kavin, R V Abishek, J Ramarajan, D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel, Numerical Study on Enhancement of Heat Transfer in a Double Pipe Heat Exchanger Using Multiple Tangential Injection. Proceedings of the 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), FMFP2021–010–194, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, RJ, India, December 27-29, 2021. 

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel, Effect of Surface Modification and Substrate Material on Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Microchannel Heat Sink. Proceedings of the 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), FMFP2021–010–162, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, RJ, India, December 27-29, 2021. 

D Sathish Kumar and S Jayavel, Numerical Analysis of Nano-Fluid Based Wavy Wall Microchannel Heat Sink for Electronic Cooling Applications. Proceedings of the 26th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and the 4th International ISHMT - ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2021), IIT Madras, Chennai, India, December 2021.

Madri Venus, J Ramarajan and S Jayavel, Heat transfer enhancement using jet impingement with attachments on the target surface. Proceedings of the 26th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and the 4th International ISHMT - ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2021), IIT Madras, Chennai, India, December 2021.

Narasimhan Sankar, J Ramarajan and S Jayavel, Prediction of wind turbine performance using machine learning technique. Proceedings of the 26th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and the 4th International ISHMT - ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2021), IIT Madras, Chennai, India, December 2021.

Sathish Kumar D and Jayavel S, Numerical Analysis of Smooth and Wavy Wall Microchannel Heat Sink for Electronic Cooling Applications. Proceedings of (ICRACEM 2020) 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, September 2020

Ratnanjali Tiwari, Sathish Kumar D, Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Enhancement of Heat Transfer in Liquid Cooled Heat Sink using Rotating Impeller. Proceedings of (ICRACEM 2020) 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, September 2020

Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Numerical study on the performance of Savonius vertical axis wind turbine with guide vanes. Proceedings of (ICRACEM 2020) 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Computational and Experimental Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, September 2020

Ketan Vinayak Warghat, Sathish Kumar D and Jayavel S, CFD Analysis on heat Transfer Enhancement in a Pipe in Pipe Heat Exchanger with Tangential Injection. Proceedings of International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICOFTIME 2020), Presidency University, Bangalore, April 2020.

Sathish Kumar D and Jayavel S, Numerical study of multi microchannel heat sink for electronic cooling (Paper ID; 210). Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), IIT Roorkee, December 28-31, 2019.

Siddhant Karmarkar, Sathish Kumar D and Jayavel S, Numerical study of heat transfer augmentation in micro-channels with corrugation (Paper ID; 216). Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), IIT Roorkee, December 28-31, 2019.

Ketan Vinayak Warghat, Sathish Kumar D and Jayavel S, CFD analysis on the effect of radiation and inlet gas temperature on porous solar heater. Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermo-fluids and Energy Systems, BNM Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, December 27-28, 2019.

Ramarajan J and Jayavel S, Modification in the rotor of Savonius turbine to reduce reverse force on the returning blade (Paper ID; 261). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, December 10-12, 2019.

Ramarajan J, Sathish Kumar D, Ratnanjali Tiwari and Jayavel S, The influence of rotating element on flow and heat transfer in the two-dimensional confined channel (Paper ID; 81). Proceedings of the 46th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2019), PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore, December 09-11,2019.

Arshdeep Singh, Siga Satya Sekhar, Jayavel S, and Sudhir Varadarajan, Numerical study on the effect of impeller geometry on pump performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Mechanical Engineering Research (IC-AMER2019), NIT Warangal, May 02-05, 2019.

J. Ramarajan and S. Jayavel, Study on Performance of Savonius Type Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. Proceedings of 45rd National and 7th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, December 10-12, 2018.

Varun Gupta, J. Ramarajan and S. Jayavel, Design of Rotor for Savonius Type Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. Presentation at International Conference on Small Wind Turbine. Organized by National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), Chennai, December 10-13, 2018.

Mahammad Sehzad Allia and S. Jayavel, Numerical study on performance of savonius type vertical axis wind turbine, with and without omni-directional guide vane. Proceedings of International Conference on Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (NHTFF-2018), NIT Warangal, January 19-21, 2018.

D. Sathish Kumar and S. Jayavel, Effect of channel confinement and hydraulic diameter on heat transfer in a micro-channel. Proceedings of International Conference on Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (NHTFF-2018), NIT Warangal, January 19-21, 2018.

Y. Sai Krishna, S. Jayavel and V. Sudhir, CFD analysis of centrifugal pump performance with different impeller geometries. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM 2017), IIT Kharagpur, December 28-30, 2017.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Numerical simulation of flow past a circular cylinder and the effect of rotating control cylinder on vortex shedding, Proceedings of Computational Science Symposium, IISc Bangalore, March 16-18, 2017.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Steady flow behavior of confined cylinder wake with local waviness in the confining walls, Proceedings of Computational Science Symposium, IISc Bangalore, March 16-18, 2017.

J. Manogna and S. Jayavel, Numerical investigation of flow and thermal characteristics in heat-sink due to cooling fan and impinging jet, Proceedings of Computational Science Symposium, IISc Bangalore, March 16-18, 2017.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, A comparative study of cross confinement effect on flow past circular cylinder due to plain and wavy walls, Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, MNNITA, Allahabad, December 15-17, 2016.

J. Manogna and S. Jayavel, Improvement in thermal performance of pin-fin heat sink by varying the geometric parameters, Proceedings of International Conference on Design and Manufacturing (IConDM 2016), IIITDM Kancheepuram, December 16-17, 2016.

R. S. Sampath Kumar and S. Jayavel, Study of flow characteristics past a cylinder with a pitching airfoil in the wake, Proceedings of ISTAM 2016, 61st Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, VIT University, December 11-14, 2016.

R. Deepakkumar, M. Balasundar and S. Jayavel, Comparison of solution algorithms for unsteady problem of flow past circular cylinder, Proceedings of ISTAM 2016, 61st Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur, VIT University, December 11-14, 2016.

J. Manogna, R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Computational analysis of flow and thermal characteristics of pin-fin heat sink , Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS2016), Paper No. 308, IIT Bombay, June 27- July 1, 2016.

Jaganathan, R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Numerical study on effect of airfoil pin-fin location in tube fin heat exchanger, Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS2016), Paper No. 335, IIT Bombay, June 27- July 1, 2016.

Ashish Ameria, R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Experimental investigation of heat transfer enhancement and change in pressure drop due to wavy spiral fin, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Material Sciences (ICEMS-2016), Jaipur National University,March 17-19, 2016.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Numerical investigation on performance of finned-tube heat exchanger with hybrid rows of tubes, Proceedings of 23rd National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference IHMTC2015, Paper No. 290, ISRO Thiruvananthapuram, December 17-20, 2015.

R. Deepakkumar, A. Jaganathan and S. Jayavel, Performance assessment of heat exchanger with airfoil pin-fin inserts, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER-2015), Paper No. 378, IIT Bombay, December 15-17, 2015.

K. Meghana Sarat and S. Jayavel, Numerical study of laminar flow characteristics for flow past rotating cylinders, Proceedings of the Forty Second National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP2015), Paper No. 222, NITK Surathkal, December 14-16, 2015.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel,Numerical study on laminar flow characteristics for flow past cross-confined hybrid rows of tubes, Proceedings of the Forty Second National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP2015), Paper No. 202, NITK Surathkal, December 14-16, 2015.

R. Deepakkumar, S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Computational study of fluid flow characteristics past circular cylinder due to confining walls with local waviness, Proceedings of XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics: CCP2015, Paper No. FDCM-O-86, IIT Guwahati, December 2-5, 2015.

R. Deepakkumar and S. Jayavel, Effect of under relaxation factor on convergence rate of computations for flow past circular cylinder, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-123, IIT Kharagpur, December 29-31, 2014.

S. Thirumavalvan, V. Sivachithambaram and S. Jayavel, Numerical investigation of biodiesel reactor, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-258, IIT Kharagpur, December 29-31, 2014.

Y. Usha and S. Jayavel, Effect of cylinder rotation on heat transfer, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-260, IIT Kharagpur, December 29-31, 2014.

R. Senthil Kumar and S. Jayavel, Heat transfer enhancement under natural convection of triangular aluminium fins using carbon nano tubes, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-334, IIT Kharagpur, December 29-31, 2014.

B. Vineela Devi and S. Jayavel, Numerical simulation of heat transfer in channels with different ribs, Proceedings of 10th IRF International Conference, Chennai, India, Page No. 48-51, June 8, 2014.

R. Senthil Kumar and S. Jayavel, Optimizing the orientation and geometries of electronic components for effective heat transfer, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Developments, Paper No. ICRAMID-227, Ponjesly College of Engineering, March 7-8, 2014.

Y. Usha and S. Jayavel, Influence of flow rate and component spacing on heat transfer in an electronic system, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Developments, Paper No. ICRAMID-80, Ponjesly College of Engineering, March 7-8, 2014.

S. Thirumavalavan and S. Jayavel, Design of continuous reactor system for the production of biodiesel, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Developments, Paper No. ICRAMID-249, Ponjesly College of Engineering, March 7-8, 2014.

N. Sathyanarayanan, S. Jayavel and Theoklis Nikolaidis, Stability and performance analysis of a two spool gas turbine aero-engine, Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Interdisciplinary Developments, Paper No. ICRAMID-193, Ponjesly College of Engineering, March 7-8, 2014.

S. Sathish Kumar, R. Senthil Kumar and S. Jayavel, Numerical investigation of forced convective cooling of electronic components, Proceedings of the 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Paper No. HMTC1300403, IIT Kharagpur, December 28-31, 2013.

G. Kalaignanam, B. Naveen and S. Jayavel, Experimental investigation of direct contact heat exchanger for domestic air-conditioners, Proceedings of the Fortieth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. FMFP2013-42, NIT Hamirpur, December 12-14, 2013.

N. Sathyanarayanan, S. Jayavel and Theoklis Nikolaidis, Off design performance simulation of gas turbine aero-engine, Proceedings of the Fortieth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. FMFP2013-293, NIT Hamirpur, December 12-14, 2013.

R. Senthil Kumar and S. Jayavel, Numerical investigation of flow around circular cylinder, Proceedings of the Fortieth National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. FMFP2013-41, NIT Hamirpur, December 12-14, 2013.

S. Sathish Kumar, R. Senthil Kumar and S. Jayavel, Computation of Flow Past Various Cylinder Geometries, Proceedings of Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) 2013, Paper ID: FM_40, IIT Madras, July 4–6, 2013.

S. Ganga Prasath, M. Sudharsan and S. Jayavel, Numerical Study on Influence of Blowing on Lid-Driven Cavity Flow using LCS. Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Body Flows (Blubof2011), Paper no. 83, IIT Kanpur, December 12-16, 2011.

Naga Krishna Chaitanya K, Adeel Ahmed Qureshi and S. Jayavel, Design and fabrication of a reactor to produce biodiesel from Neem oil. Proceedings of Recent Trends in Alternate Energy – 2011, Paper no: 50, NIT Calicut, June 9-10, 2011.

M. Sudharsan, S. Ganga Prasath and S. Jayavel, Numerical study on the effect of suction and blowing on flow past two inline cylinders. Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-2010/103, IIT Kharagpur, December 27-29, 2010.

K.V.S.S.D Prasanth and S. Jayavel, Flow Patterns past Multiple Circular Cylinders in various Configurations. Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Paper No. ICTACEM-2010/116, IIT Kharagpur, December 27-29, 2010.

S. Ganga Prasath, M. Sudharsan and S. Jayavel, Numerical study of heat transfer and vortex shedding characteristics due to unsteady flow past square cylinders. Proceedings of the 37th National & 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. FMFP2010-171, IIT Madras, Chennai, December 16-18, 2010.

M. Sudharsan, S. Ganga Prasath, S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Flow and heat transfer for flow past elliptic tubes in fin-tube heat exchangers. Proceedings of the 37th National & 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. FMFP2010-238, IIT Madras, Chennai, December 16-18, 2010.

S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Numerical investigation of heat transfer enhancement in fin-tube heat exchangers by vortex generators in common-flow-up and common-flow-down configurations. Proceedings of 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay & NPCIL, Mumbai, January 4-6, 2010.

S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Lagrangian study of particle trajectory due to vortices generated by vortex generators mounted in various configurations. Proceedings of 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay & NPCIL, Mumbai, January 4-6, 2010.

S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Effect of tube-spacing for flow past inline and staggered arrangement of tubes in plain-fin-tube heat exchangers. Proceedings of National Conference on Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Paper No. NCRAC2009-P54, IIT Madras, Chennai, January 08-10, 2009.

S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Effect of vortex generators on heat transfer enhancement for flow past an inline arrangement of circular tubes having wall confinement. Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, IISC Bangalore, July 2-4, 2008.

S. Jayavel and Shaligram Tiwari, Numerical study of heat transfer enhancement and pressure loss penalty for flow past an inline arrangement of circular tubes in presence of vortex generators. Proceedings of 19th National and 8th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Paper No. HEX-4, JNTU, Hyderabad, January 3-5, 2008.

S. Jayavel, Pratish P. Patil and Shaligram Tiwari, Effect of pulsating axial flow on the bounded field of a counter-rotating inviscid vortex pair. Proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Fluid Flow and Thermal Sciences, Paper No. AFFTS2008-C79, SVNIT, Surat, May 22-24, 2008.

S. Jayavel, Pratish P. Patil and Shaligram Tiwari, Kinematics of a fluid particle in an interacting vortex field. Proceedings of National Conference of Research Scholars in Mechanical Engineering, Paper No. NCRSME2007-34, IIT Kanpur, March 23-24, 2007.

Shaligram Tiwari, Pratish P. Patil, S. Jayavel, and G. Biswas, Flow and heat transfer characteristics near first transition for flow past a circular tube confined in a narrow channel. Proceedings of 33rd National and 3rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Paper No. NCFMFP2006-1132, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, December 7-9, 2006.

D. Santhosh Kumar, S. Jayavel, D. Raguraman, Design of leak testing machine for 350cc cylinder head in bullet engine, BIHER Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol.1 pp.56-62 2005.

S. Jayavel, Surendar Narasimhan, S. Uppiliappan, Thahir Naqqash, Advances in pneumatic engine design, National Conference on Advances in Engineering Design, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, April 29-30, 2005.

S. Jayavel, V. Veeraragavan, D. Santhosh Kumar, S. Uppiliappan, Automatic vision sensing in inspection process, National Conference on Advances in Engineering Design, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, April 29-30, 2005.

S. Jayavel, S. Jebaraj, Bio-diesel preparation and its performance testing, National Conference on Mechanical Engineering Research, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. February 28, 2005.

S. Jebaraj, S. Jayavel, Testing of diesel engine with bio-diesel, All India Seminar/ Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Sri Venkateshwara University, Thirupathi, August 20-21, 2004.