1. MODERN MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IN FLUID MECHANICS, Sponsored by the Quality Improvement Program of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and held from 9 - 14 December 1991, Organizers: K Muralidhar and T Sundararajan, (30 participants).

2. COMPUTATIONAL FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER, Sponsored by the Indian Society for Technical Education and held from from 11 - 23 May 1992. Organizers: K Muralidhar and P S Ghoshdastidar, (50 participants).

3. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS, Sponsored by the Quality Improvement Program of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, held from 9 - 13 May 1994. Organizers: K Ramesh and K Muralidhar (45 participants).

4. PARALLEL COMPUTING APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Sponsored by DST, AICTE, CSIR and IIT Kanpur, 6-8 January 1997. Organizers: M.K. Verma, V. Eswaran and K. Muralidhar (30 participants).

5. 14th NATIONAL HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER CONFERENCE, 29-31 December 1997, organized by G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, served as Secretary of ISHMT/ASME joint committee.

6. SPECIAL TOPICS IN FLUID MECHANICS, 20-25 July 1998, Sponsored by QIP, Government of India; Organizers: K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas.

7. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN THERMAL SCIENCES, 2-7 August 1999, Sponsored by QIP, Government of India; Organizers: P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar.

8.Coordinator of the session on ART OF EXPERIMENTS in the symposium entitled REACH (for Research Challenges) organized by IIT Kanpur in March 2007 and held at Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh.

9. Inaugural IIT KANPUR - NTU SINGAPORE WORKSHOP IN MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, held at NTU Singapore during 10-11 July 2007 (coordinators: M. Damodaran and K. Muralidhar).

10. Second JOINT IIT KANPUR - NTU SINGAPORE WORKSHOP IN MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, held at IIT Kanpur during 5-6 April 2008.

11. Served as Advisor for the third REACH symposium held at IIT Kanpur from 10-12 October 2010. Coordinated and chaired the session on RESEARCH VISION.

COURSE PACKAGES

1. K. Muralidhar and T. Sundararajan, EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN THERMAL SCIENCES, October 1991, 185 pages.

2. K. Muralidhar and T. Sundararajan, COMPUTER- AIDED INSTRUCTION IN FLUID MECHANICS, December 1991, 135 pages and 10 FORTRAN programs.

3. K. Muralidhar and P. S. Ghoshdastidar, COMPUTER METHODS IN HEAT TRANSFER, May 1992, 242 pages and 5 FORTRAN programs.

4. K. Muralidhar and K. Deb, MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR ENGINEERING PROBLEM-SOLVING, August 1998, 329 pages.

LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT

Installation of a three channel hot wire anemometer with PC- based data acquisition for turbulence measurements in stratified shear flows. Development of software for automatic data
collection, probe calibration, data reduction and turbulence statistics.

Installation and assembly of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with 35 mW He-Ne laser and 6 inch optics for studies in buoyancy- driven convection. Development of software for image
acquisition, noise removal, fringe analysis, refraction errors and uncertainty analysis on an image pocessing system.

Installation of a laser-Schlieren system for temperature measurement in flames.

Upgradation of an existing low speed wind tunnel with a variable-speed servo-controlled motor and an experimental chamber.

Installation of a PC-controlled wavemaker in Hydraulics laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering.

PC-based measurement systems for determination of oil and air viscosities.

NEW EXPERIMENTS DEVELOPED FOR INSTRUCTION

Velocity and turbulence measurements in a free shear layer.

Determination of drag coeficient and Strouhal number for cylinders placed in cross-flow; Effect of free stream turbulence and heating.

Boundary-layer velocity profiles over rough surfaces.

Determination of viscosity of gases, oils and viscoelastic media.

Study of transient Rayleigh-Benard convection using interferometry and digital image processing.

Demonstration experiment for illustrating data acquistion and control in a boiling heat transfer unit.

Measurement of turbulence statistics in an adverse pressure gradient flow.

INVITED SEMINARS

Talks given at Kyoto University, Japan during 1997-98.

LASER INTERFEROMETRY FOR BUOYANCY-DRIVEN PROBLEMS, August 1997.

OPERATOR SPLITTING ALGORITHMS FOR ADVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEMS,
December, 1997.

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF REGENERATORS IN CRYOCOOLERS, February,
1998.

MEASUREMENT OF THREE DIMENSIONAL TEMPERATURE FIELDS IN FLUIDS USING LASER-INTERFEROMETRY, a series of 5 lectures presented to senior officers of DRDL, Hyderabad, March 1999.

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF THERMAL PROCESSES DURING CRYSTAL GROWTH, delivered at Solid State Physics Laboratory, New Delhi on 30 April 1999.

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER, Proceedings of the 16th National Convention of Mechanical Engineers, University of Roorkee, September 2000.

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF A HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM, Indo-German Workshop on High-temperature Fibre Composite Materials, Banaras Hindu University, September 2000.

ESTIMATION OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS BY AN INVERSE TECHNIQUE, CEP course on Spectroscopic and Thermal Techniques for materials characterization, organized by DMSRDE Kanpur, November 2000.

MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF TRANSPORT PROCESSES DURING CRYSTAL GROWTH, Center of Advanced Technology, Indore, November 2000.

PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN NONLINEAR DIFFUSION PROBLEMS BY AN INVERSE TECHNIQUE, 27th National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference held at FCRI, Palghat, December 2000.

MODELING OF IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT DURING ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY FROM A POROUS FORMATION, National Conference on Mathematical and Computational Models, held at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 2001.

LASER-BASED MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE IN FLUIDS, Short term course on Wind Tunnel Testing, IIT Kanpur, 11-15 February 2002.

Lecture 1: MODELING AND DESIGN OF STIRLING AND PULSE-TUBE CRYOCOOLERS, Lecture 2: INVERSE TECHNIQUES IN DESIGN, Lecture 3: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS, Short term course on CAD of Thermal Systems, IIT Kanpur, 14-19 July, 2003.

APPLICATION OF INVERSE TECHNIQUES IN ENGINEERING, presented at Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 12th September, 2003.

FLOW VISUALIZATION USING OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES, presented at Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 2nd October, 2003.

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR BUOYANCY-DRIVEN FLOWS, presented at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 24th October 2003.

ROLE OF CONVECTION IN THE GROWTH OF OPTICAL CRYSTALS, presented at Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, 7th November, 2003.

LASER MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE AND CONCENTRATION FIELDS IN BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION, presented at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, on 10th December 2003.

IMPORTANCE OF CONVECTION IN THE GROWTH OF OPTICAL CRYSTALS, presented at the symposium entitled Topical meeting on Frontiers in Materials Science and Technology, on 30th December 2004 at Center of Advanced Technology, Indore.

OPTICAL IMAGING AND CONTROL OF CONVETCTION DURING THE GROWTH OF A CRYSTAL FROM ITS AQUEOUS SOLUTION, presented at the National Symposium on Crystal Growth and Characterization on 29th September 2005 at Loyola College, Chennai.

STRUCTURE OF LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW BEHIND A PRISM OF SQUARE CROSS-SECTION AT VARIOUS ORIENTATIONS, presented at the 50th Congress of Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, IIT Kharagpur and held during 14-17 December 2005.

TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEDIA (2 lectures) and MEASUREMENTS IN TURBULENT FLOW (2 lectures) delivered at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on 12th and 13th January 2007.

MODELING FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN HIERARCHICAL POROUS MEDIA, presented at the Indo-Australian workshop on CFD Approach to Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, held at the Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee during 12-14 April 2007.

INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTS; SCHLIEREN AND SHADOWGRAPH; INVERSE TECHNIQUES; Three lectures given in the QIP course entitled Modern Measurement Techniques in Solid and Fluid Mechanics held during 7-12 May 2007 (coordinators: P. Venkitanarayanan and S. Khandekar).

USING LASERS IN MICROMACHINING, lecture given in the QIP course entitled Micromachining held during 18-23 June 2007 (coordinator: Dr. V.K. Jain).

GENERALIZED MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA, presentation given at the Joint IIT Kanpur - NTU Singapore workshop on Mechanical, Aerospace, and Industrial Engineering held at NTU Singapore during 10-11 July 2007.

LASER MEASUREMENTS IN FLUID AND THERMAL SCIENCES, Keynote lecture delivered at the International Conference on Recent rends in Mechanical Engineering, Organized by College of Engineering, Ujjain during 5-7 October 2007.

GROWTH OF ND:YAG CRYSTALS IN A CZOCHRALKSI PROCESS, presented at the INAE annual Convention held during 7-8 December 2007 at RCI Hyderabad.

RECONSTRUCTION OF TIME-DEPENDENT CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS AROUND A KDP CRYSTAL GROWING FROM ITS AQUEOUS SOLUTION, Subir Kar Memorial Lecture presented at the 34th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference held at BIT Mesra during 12-14 December 2007.

GROWTH OF YAG CRYSTALS IN A CZOCHRALSKI PROCESS, presented at the INAE Annual Convention during 7-8 December 2008 at RCI Hyderabad.

EXPLOITATION OF GAS HYDRATES AS AN ENERGY SOURCE, presented at the second REACH symposium of IIT Kanpur at Khajuraho held during 15-18 March 2008.

OPTICAL IMAGING OF CONVECTION DURING GROWTH OF KDP AND PROTEIN CRYSTALS, presented during the second joint symposium between NTU Singapore and IIT Kanpur (at IIT Kanpur) during 5-6 April 2008.

REFRACTIVE INDEX METHODS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE, SOLUTAL CONCENTRATION AND FLUID FLOW, presented at AFFTS-2008 (National Conference on Advanced Fluid Flow and Thermal Sciences) held during 22-24 May 2008.

SIMULATION OF OSCILLATORY FLOW IN TUBULAR BIFURCATIONS ON UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS, presented at the International Workshop on New Horizons in Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, held on 24th March 2009 at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai (2009).

INTERFEROMETRY, SCHLIEREN, AND SHADOWGRAPH, presented at the International Symposium on Recent Trends in Flow Visualization, held at IIT Roorkee during 29-31 December 2009.

MICROSCALE HEAT CONDUCTION, presented during the QIP course on Microscale Transport Phenomena at IIT Kanpur in January 2011.

DROPWISE CONDENSATION ON TEXTURED SURFACES, presented during the QIP sponsored course on Phase Change Phenomena at IIT Kanpur, January 2011.

MODELING PHASE CHANGE IN A CRYSTAL GROWTH PROCESS, presented during the QIP sponsored course on Phase Change Phenomena at IIT Kanpur, January 2011.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER, presented at Vellore Instritute of Technology, Vellore on 4th February 2011.

MODELING FLUID FLOW AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, presented during the QIP sponsored course on Biofluid Mechanics at IIT Kanpur in March 2011.

(i) OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS USING REFRACTIVE INDEX AND SCATTERING TECHNIQUES and (ii) RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTTAIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS, presented at the National Institute of Technology Agartala in March 2011.

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IN FLUID AND THERMAL SCIENCES, presented at IIT Roorkee, 9th July 2011.

FREE AND FORCED JETS: SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTS, presented at the theme meeting on FBR Core Design: Current Status and Future Directions, held at IGCAR Kalpakkam on 19th September 2011.

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSPORT PHENOMENA, Keynote Lecture during the 2nd ICAMB Conference held at VIT Vellore during 9-11 January 2012.

INTRODUCTION TO INVERSE METHODS and APPLICATIONS OF INVERSE TECHNIQUES, lectures given at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Roorkee on 2nd July 2012.

EXTRACTING DATA FROM IMAGE SEQUENCES USING INVERSE TECHNIQUES, Plenary Lecture at the National Workshop on Image Processing Applications in Industry, Medicine, and Aerospace, organized by DRDL Hyderabad held at the Research and Innovation Center, IITM Research Park during 28-29 December 2012.

MODELING METHANE PRODUCTION FROM A HYDRATE RESERVOIR VIA SIMULTANEOUS DEPRESSURIZATION AND CO2 SEQUESTRATION, Keynote Lecture at the Gas Hydrates Symposium held at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa on 18th January 2013.

IMAGING UNSTEADY THREE DIMENSIONAL FLUID FLOW AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA, Plenary lecture at the National Laser Symposium-21 held at BARC Mumbai during 6-8 February 2013.

OPTICAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES IN THERMAL SCIENCES, Invited lecture delivered at NIT Jalandhar, 22nd April 2013.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, Invited Lecture delivered at VIT Vellore, 25th May 2013.

FUNDAMENTALS AND MODELING OF DROPWISE CONDENSATION, three Invited Lectures delivered at IIT Roorkee, 24th June 2013.

HEAT CONDUCTION FUNDAMENTALS, ten Invited Lectures delivered at SVNIT Surat, 1-2 July 2013.

CASE STUDIES IN EXPERIMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER; CARRYING OUT LITERATURE SURVEY AND PROBLEM DEFINITION IN RESEARCH, Lectures delivered in the NSFMFP-sponsored workshop on Research Methodology, held at NMMIT Allahabad during 27-28 September 2013.

FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA WITH APPLICATIONS, presented at the TEQIP workshop (Pravartana) held at IIT Kanpur during 5-7 October 2013.

PROBLEM DEFINITION NAD VALIDATION, Inaugural lecture at the course entitled Research methodology, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Kolkata, 29th January 2014.

CASE STUDIES IN EXPERIMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS, lecture delivered a at the NSFMFP-sponsored workshop on Research Methodology, held at NIT Surathkal during 10-12 July 2014.

DROPWISE CONDENSATION OVER TEXTURED SURFACVES: INFLUENCE OF DROP SHAPE AND COALESCENCE, Keynote Lecture, International Heat Transfer Conference - 15, held at Kyoto Japan (August 2014).

FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA WITH APPLICATIONS, Invited Distinguished Lecture, presented on 19th March 2015 at The Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan.

SHAPE AND MOTION OF A LIQUID DROP PLACED OVER A TEXTURED SURFACE, Keynote lecture, 17th ISME Conference, 3-4 October 2015, held at IIT Delhi.

FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER DURING DROP SPREADING OVER A HORIZONTAL SURFACE, Keynote Lecture, ASCHT2015, Busan, S. Korea (November 2015).

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXTRACTION OF METHANE FROM UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON RESOURCES, Keynote Lecture delivered during the KDMIPE Day celebrations of ONGC Dehradun, 19th December 2015.

RESOURCE MATERIAL

Prepared an educational film entitled, HOT-WIRE ANEMOMETRY for curriculum development cell of IIT Kanpur (39 minutes).

POPULAR SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

CHAOS IN PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, The Hindu, 7 December 1988.

DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE, Science Reporter, October, 1990.

FORWARD AND INVERSE MEASUREMENTS, in Directions - a research publication of IIT Kanpur, Vol. 8(2), 2007.

EXPLOITATION OF GAS HYDRATES (with A. K. Saha) in Directions, Vol. 9(1), 2008.

SIMULATION OF OSCILLATORY FLOW IN AORTIC BIFURCATIONS, in Directions, Vol. 10(1), 2009.

CREATING A RESEARCH VISION FOR IIT KANPUR, in Directions, Vol. 12(1), 2012.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, National Institute of Science Communication And Information Sciences, New Delhi (January 2008 - December 2010).

Member, Optical Society of America, 2005 onwards.

Life member, Indian Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, since 2011.

Life member, Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, since 2006.

Reviewer for leading journals in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

High-level Summer Consultancy: Spent two months at ANURAG, (Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group), Ministry of Defence, Hyderabad from 15 May to 20 June 1993.

Spent one week at C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), Pune, for parallelizing a two dimensional enhanced oil recovery code on 2 and 4 node machines.

Member, National Advisory Committee, 26th National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference, held in December 1999 at IIT Kharagpur. Also chaired a session on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer.