Students:

Ph.D. Students (Former and Present) :

1. A.Mukhopadhyay, A Calculation Procedure for Viscous Incompressible Flows in Arbitrary Geometry and Study of Confined Wakes Behind Partially Enclosed Bluff Bodies, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, March, 1992. ( Present email address: Aniruddha.Mukhopadhyay@ansys.com)

2. P. Deb, Three Dimensional Computation of Laminar and Turbulent Flows with Heat Transfer in a Channel with Built-in Longitudinal Vortex Generators, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, April, 1994. (Present email address: pdeb@twsu.edu)

3. P.K.Maji, Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Flow in the Spiral Casing of a Hydraulic Turbine, Dept of Mechanical Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, August, 1997. (Present address: MECON (I) Ltd, Ranchi, India)

4. A.K.Saha, Dynamical Characteristics of the Wake of a Square Cylinder at Low and High Reynolds Numbers, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, February, 1999. (Present email: aksaha@iitk.ac.in)

5. P. Sandilya, Studies on Gas-Phase Mass Transfer in a Centrifugal Contractor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016, July 1999. (email: pavit@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in)

6. R. Vasudevan, Heat Transfer Enhancement in Plate-Fin Heat Exchangers Using Longitudinal Vortex Generators, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, March 2000. (email:rvdevan27@gmail.com)

7. Shaligram Tiwari, Application of Vortex Generators and the Tubes of Different Shapes to Enhance Performance of Fin-tube Heat Exchangers, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, February 2004. (email: shaligt@iitm.ac.in)

8. K Arul Prakash, Finite Element Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in the Spallation Target Module of an Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, June, 2006. (email: arulk@iitm.ac.in, arul.k.prakash@gmail.com)

9. Gaurav Tomar, Analysis of Interfacial Instabilities in Adhesion, Dewetting and Phase Change, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, January, 2008.(Present email address: gtom@mecheng.iisc.ernet.in, gaurav.tomar03@gmail.com).

10. Daniel Gerlach, Analyse von kapillar-dominanten Zweiphasenstroemungen mit einer kombinierten Volume-of-Fluid und Level-Set Methode, Der Technischen Fakultaet der Universitaet Erlangen Nuernberg, Erlangen-91058, Germany, August, 2008. (Jointly guided with Prof. Dr. Franz Durst) (Present email address:Daniel.Gerlach@cbi.uni-erlangen.de, dagerlach@gmx.de).

11. Amaresh Dalal, Development of a Finite Volume Based Navier-Stokes Solver on Unstructured Grids and Its Application to Analyze Transport Mechanisms in Heat Exchangers, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, January 2009 (Present email address: amaresh@purdue.edu).

12. Subhankar Sen, Flow Past Stationary and Vibrating Cylinders of Various Cross Sections at Low Reynolds Numbers, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208016, June 2010 (present email address: subhanka@iitk.ac.in).

13. Indrajit Chakraborty, Some Aspects of Air Bubbles and the Bubbles in Film and Flow Boling (In Progress)

14. Pankaj Saha, Large Eddy Simulation in a Channel with Built-in delta Winglet Pair (In progress)

15. Bahni Ray, Impact of Liqiud Drops on a Liquid Surface and Intermolecular Interaction Induced Instabilities in Thin Films (In Progress)

 


M.Tech Students (Former and Present):

    1. R.Radhakrishnan, Some Studies of combustion in Gas Turbine Using Air Blast Atomization, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 1984.

    2. H.Chattopadhyay, Computation of Navier-Stokes and Energy Equations in a Channel in Presence of Wing-Type Vortex Generators, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 1989.

    3. S.Chakraborty, Numerical Flow Visualization and Heat Transfer in a Laminar Radial Impinging Jet, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 1989.

    4. S. Biswas, Numerical Calculation of Velocity, Temperature and Entropy Generation in Three-Dimensional Channel Flows with Longitudinal Vortex Generators, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, January, 1992.

    5. M. Sarkar, Simulation of Velocity and Temperature Fields in a Communicating Channel, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 1993.

    6. A.K.Saha, A Multigrid Method for Two and Three Dimensional Flows Behind Bluff Bodies in a Channel, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, June 1994.

    7. P.K.Chaudhary, Some Aspects of Single and Multicomponent Droplet Combustion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 1994.

    8. Chetan Kumar, Computation of Flow Past Delta Wings, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 1994.

    9. Satya Prakash, Applications of the Spectral Element Method to Buoyancy Driven Flows, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, April 1995.

    10. Sriraj K. Bhadra, Reconstruction of the Temperature Fields Using Mach Zehnder Interferometer, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, April, 1997.

    11. S. Asad Hussain, Comparison between Direct and Nonintrusive Measurements of the Temperature Fields in Rayleigh Benard Convection, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, March, 1997.

    12. Bipin. S. Lokhande, Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow Past a Backward Facing Step and Through a Parallel Plate Channel, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur,March 1997.

    13. Praveen Chaudhary, Three-dimensional Numerical Simulation of Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Rectangular Enclosures,Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 1997.

    14. Veerabathra Swamy K., Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Passive Control of Vortex Shedding in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 1997.

    15. Suresh Singh, The Effect of Thermal Buoyancy in the Mixed Convective Flows through a Vertical Channel with a Built-in Circular Cylinder, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, April, 1998.

    16. Partha Pratim Mukherjee, Enhanced Oil Recovery from Porous Formation, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, April, 1999.

    17. Meena Singh, Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics in a Three- Dimensional Ribbed Channel, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, February, 2000.

    18. Ashish Kulkarni, Some Aspects of Solidification Related to Rapid Tooling Applications, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, February, 2000.

    19. Vivek Rajan Singh, Experimetal Studies on Flow Around Circular Cylinder, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, December, 2000.

    20. Sudipta Basu, Flow and Heat Transfer in a Crossflow past a Circular Tube placed in a Channel, February, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2001.

    21. P.L.N. Prasad, Enhancement of Heat Transfer in a Fin-tube Heat Exchanger using Winglets in Common-Flow-Down Arrangement, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, October, 2001.

    22. Y. Srinivas, Large-eddy Simulation of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flow Past a Square Cylinder, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, December, 2001.

    23. Aseem Jain, Winglet-Type Vortex Generators with Common-Flow-Up Configuration for Fin-Tube Heat Exchangers, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, December, 2001.

    24. Dalton Maurya, Enhancement of Heat Transfer using Oval Tube and Vortex Generators, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, December, 2001.

    25. Suman Basu, Analysis of Flow Structure and Heat Transfer in Tube Banks and a Tube in Rotating Configuration, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, February, 2003.

    26. Debadi Chakraborty, Influence of an Integral Splitter Plate and an Annular Fin on Heat and Momentum Transport for the Case of Flow Past a Tube, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, February 2003.

    27. Deepak K Agarwal, Planar Simulation of Bubble Growth in Film Boiling Using a Variant of VOF Method, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2004.

    28. Somnath Roy, Large Eddy Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Channel with Embedded Longitudinal Vortices, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2004.

    29. Santanu De, Finite Element Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Complex ADSS Geometry, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2004.

    30. Akshika Maheshwari, Flow Over a Single and Multiple Spheres: Drag and Heat Transfer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2004.

    31. Kedar N. Jathar, Modelling of Mixing in the LD Vessels, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2005.

    32. Siddhartha Pal, Laminar and Turbulent Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer in the Spallation Region of the Target System, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2005.

    33. Hemant Kumar Patel, Thermal Hydraulics Analysis of Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Breeder Reactors, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2006.

    34. G. S. Chaitanya, Large Eddy Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Channel with a Built-in Winglet Pair, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2006.

    35. Prakash C. Rastogi, Flow and Heat Transfer in a Ribbed Channel, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2006.

    36. Ram Ranjan, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer around a Square Cylinder at Incidence Using Unstructured Grids, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, May 2007.

    37. N. Senthil Kumar, Finite Element Analysis of the Onset of Vortex Shedding in Flow Past a Circular Cylinder, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2007.

    38. Ajoy Patra, Electrostatic and Intermolecular Interaction Induced Instabilities in Thin Viscoelastic Films, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2007.

    39. M. Venkat Reddy, Vortex Induced Vibration of an Elastically Mounted Square Cylinder, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2007.

    40. Sandip Sarkar, Effect of Buoyancy on Vortex Shedding Past a Circular Cylinder in Crossflow at Low Reynolds Numbers, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2008.

    41. S. Kushwaha, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation for Flow Past Single and Multiple Square Cylinders, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2008.

    42. Nitish Singh, Numerical Modelling of Gas-bubble Motion in a Liquid-filled Finite Cylinder using CLSVOF Method, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2010.

    43. Anikesh Pal, Enhancement of Heat Transfer by Delta Winglet-Type Vortex Generators with Common-Flow-Up Configuration for Fin tube Heat Exchangers, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, May 2010.

    44. Pankaj Dumka, Confocal Study of Mixing in Microchannels, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, June 2010

 

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