Dr. Nandhakumar P

Thesis title: Droplet Clustering And Group Vaporization In Turbulent Evaporating Sprays

Year: 2024

Current Affiliation: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, IIT Madras

Dr. Shirin Patil 

Thesis title: Primary Breakup and spray characterization in single, twin and multi-jet cross-flow airblast atomizers 

Year: 2022

(Prof. MS Shanmugam endowment prize for novel measurement method in Mechanical Engineering )

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh

Dr. Abhijeet Kumar 

Thesis title: Liquid jet Instabilities and Spray Unsteadiness in Coaxial Airblast Atomizers

Year: 2020

(Institute Research Award )

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Dr. Manish M 

Thesis title: Experimental Study of Droplet Clustering in Polydisperse Sprays 

Year: 2019

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam 

Co-guidance

Dr. Anjith Kumar 

Joint guidance with Prof. T. Sundararajan

Thesis title: Design and Development of a Micro-Channel based Rotary Atomizer and Its Spray Characterization 

Year: 2023

Dr. Anandteerth M 

Joint guidance with Prof. T. Sundararajan

Thesis title: GDI spray dynamics at elevated ambient pressure and temperature and wall impingement effects 

Year: 2021    

Dr. Shradha Sharma 

Joint guidance with Prof. T. Sundararajan

Thesis title: A Study on the Interactions of Swirl Air with Hollow Cone Spray 

Year: 2020

Dr. Umesh V 

Joint guidance with Prof. Shaligram Tiwari

Thesis title: Effect of sidewall condition and aspect ratio on unsteady transition in Rayleigh-Benard

Marangoni convection 

Year: 2020

Dr. Vishnu M 

Joint guidance with Prof. Sabita Sarkar

Thesis title: Study of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Gas Stirred Steelmaking Ladles 

Year: 2019

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Dhanbad

Ashish Vishwakarma

Thesis title: Characterization of droplet clusters in a turbulent multiphase gas cloud using a model cough simulator

Year: 2025

Surya Ghosh

Thesis title: Spray interaction study in adjacent gas-centered swirl co-axial (GCSC) injector elements

Year: 2024

Palaniappan Venkatachalam

Co-guide: Prof. Kameswararao Anupindi

Thesis title: Multiphase simulation of spray impingement and mixing in channel airflow for SCR applications

Year: 2022 

Arnab Chakraborty

Thesis title: Coriolis-induced liquid breakup and spray evolution in a rotary slinger atomizer: Experiments and Analysis

(Institute of Engineers Innovative Student Projects Award at Master's Level )

Year: 2022 

Ketaki Purkar

Thesis title: Optical Characterization of Spray Impingement and Mixing in a Channel for SCR Application

Year: 2019

Ujas Patel

Co-guide: Prof. Arvind Pattamatta

Thesis title: Droplet Evaporation and Combustion: Effect of Air Turbulence, Fuel Composition and Nanoparticle Addition

Year: 2019

Co-guidance

Ankit Pandey

Joint guidance with Prof. Vagesh D Narasimhamurthy

Thesis title: Detached Eddy Simulation of Two Phase Jet Flows

Year: 2024

Shubham Garg 

Joint guidance with Prof. Mayak Mittal

Thesis title: PLIF imaging of fuel distribution in small port fuel injection SI engine

Year: 2021    

Dr. Manikandan Balasubramaniyan

Topic: Droplet clustering in reacting swirling sprays

Dr. Vasudev Chaudhuri

Topic: Nano-emulsion fuel droplet combustion