Dr. Rakesh Kumar
    Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

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Journal Publications
[64] Bajpai, A., Bhateja A., Kumar, R., “Plume Surface Interaction during Lunar Landing using a Two-way Coupled DSMC-DEM Approach”, Physical Review Fluids, Accepted for publication (2024).
[63] Singh, R., Kalluri, A.M., Suman, V.K., Kumar, R., “Analysis of the Interaction of a Shock with Two Square Bubbles Containing Different Gases”, Physics of Fluids, Accepted for publication (2024).
[62] Khan, A., Chidambaranathan, M., Verma, S.B., Kumar, R., “Swept Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction Control using Micro Vortex Generators”, Shock Waves, Accepted for publication (2024).
[61] Appar, A., Bajpai, A., Kumar, R., “Numerical Study of Gas-Surface Interface Effects due to Transpiration in a Hypersonic Flow over a Blunt Body”, Physics of Fluids, 36, 016134 (2024).
[60] Jaiswal, Y., Khan, A., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shocked Confined-Granular Flow over Obstacles”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 960, A21 (2023).
[59] Wangikar, A.U., Bajpai, A., Kumar, R., “Supersonic Dusty Gas Flow past a Cylinder in Eulerian-Lagrangian Framework”, Physics of Fluids, 35, 123323 (2023).
[58] Joshi, A., Papados, A., Kumar, R., “Investigation of Low and High-Speed Fluid Dynamics Problems using Physics-Informed Neural Network”, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 37(2), 149 (2023).
[57] Naspoori, S.K., Appar, A., Kumar, R., Kammara, K.K., “Molecular Dynamics Study of Gas-Surface Interactions on beta-Cristobalite S”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 60(6), 1892 (2023).
[56] Bose, A., Kumar, R., Chinnappan, A.K., “Modeling of Brownian Force on a Spherical Particle Trajectory in Free Molecular Gas Flow Regime S”, Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 8, 493 (2023).
[55] Appar, A., Bajpai, A., Sivakumar, U., Naspoori, S., Kumar, R., “Rarefied Gas Effects on Hypersonic Flow over a Transpiration-Cooled Flat Plate”, Physics of Fluids, 35, 016109 (2023).
[54] Sharma, B., Kumar, R., Pareek, S., “Bulk Viscosity of Dilute Gases and Their Mixtures”, Fluids, 8, 28 (2023).
[53] Sharma, B., Pareek, S., Kumar, R., “Bulk Viscosity of Dilute Monatomic Gases Revisited”, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, 98, 32 (2023).
[52] Sharma, B., Kumar, R., Gupta, P., Pareek, S., Singh, A., “On the Estimation of Bulk Viscosity of Dilute Nitrogen Gas using Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Approach”, Physics of Fluids, 34, 057104 (2022).
[51] Khan, A., Rao, N., Baghel, T., Perumal, A.K., Kumar, R., “Parametric study and scaling of Mach 1.5 jet manipulation using steady fluidic injection”, Physics of Fluids, 34, 036107 (2022).
[50] Appar, A., Kumar, R., Naspoori, S.K., “Conjugate Flow-Thermal Analysis of a Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle in the Rarefied Flow Regime”, Physics of Fluids, 34, 026107 (2022).
[49] Mathews, A.K., Khan, A., Sharma, B., Kumar, S., Kumar, R., “A Numerical Investigation of Granular Shock Waves over a Circular Cylinder using the Discrete Element Method”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 936, A11 (2022).
[48] Bhesania, A.S., Kamboj, P., Peddakotla, S.A., Kumar, R., “In-depth Analysis of Reaction Kinetics Parameters of Phenolic Resin using Molecular Dynamics and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach”, Computational Material Science, 206, 111215 (2022).
[47] Bhesania, A.S., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K.,“Extraction of Thermal properties of Organic Ablative Materials using the Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 36 (4), 824 (2022).
[46] Khan, A., Hankare, P., Verma, S., Jaiswal, Y., Kumar, R., Kumar, S.,“Detachment of Strong Shocks in Confined Granular Flows”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 935 A13 (2022).
[45] Bhesania, A.S., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K.,“Ablative Thermal Response for Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Problems”, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 36(2), 377 (2022).
[44] Patel, P., Tiwari, R., Khan, A., Verma, S., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shock Profiles and Wake Structures in Granular Flow Past Obstacles”, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 29 (4), 63 (2022).
[43] Kumar, R., Singh, R., Chinnappan, A.K., Appar, A., “Orbital Decay Simulation of a Spacecraft due to Aerodynamic Drag in the Low Earth Orbit”, The Aeronautical Journal, 126, 565 (2022).
[42] Appar, A., Kumar, R., “Effect of Thermal Ablation at the Fluid-Solid Interface of a Hypersonic Reentry Vehicle in Rarefied Flow Regime”, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 35 (8), 610 (2021).
[41] Faheem, M., Khan, A., Kumar, R, Khan, S.A., Asrar, W., Sapardi, M.A.M, “Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Cross Wire on the Flow Field of Elliptic Jet”, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 90, 108834 (2021).
[40] Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K., “Modeling of Dusty Gas Flows due to Plume Impingement on a Lunar Surface”, Physics of Fluids, 33, 053307 (2021).
[39] Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K., Kammara, K.K., “Correlations for Aerodynamic Coefficients for Prolate Spheroids in the Free Molecular Regime”, Computers and Fluids, 223, 104934 (2021).
[38] Khan, A., Bhesania, A.S., Kumar, R., “An Experimental Study on the Control of Plug Nozzle Jets”, Shock Waves, 31, 31 (2021).
[37] Faheem, M., Khan A., Kumar, R., Khan, S.A., Asrar, W, “Experimental Study on the Mean Flow Characteristics of a Supersonic Multiple Jet Configuration”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 108, 106377 (2021).
[36] Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Development of Empirical Relationships for Surface Accommodation Coefficients through Investigation of Nano-poiseuille Flows using Molecular Dynamics Method”, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 24:70 (2020).
[35] Singh, M., Naspoori, S.K., Arghode, V., Kumar, R., “Study of Nickel-coated Aluminum Nanoparticles using Molecular Dynamic Simulations and Thermodynamic Modeling”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 22:269 (2020).
[34] Yang, Y., Peddakotla, S.A., Kumar, R., Park, G., “Effect of Argon Gas in Oxygen Catalytic Recombination on a Silica Surface: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study”, Acta Astronautica, 175, 531 (2020).
[33] Panthi, R., Krishna, T.V., Nanda, S.R., Khan, A., Kumar, R., Sugarno, M.I., “Experimental Study of Impinging Plug Nozzle Jet using a Vortex Generator”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 57(6), 1414 (2020).
[32] Khan, A., Verma, S., Hankare, P., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shock-shock Interactions in Granular Flows”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 884 (2020).
[31] Khan, A., Akram, S., Kumar, R., “Experimental Study on Enhancement of Supersonic Twin-jet Mixing by Vortex Generators”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 96, 105521 (2020).
[30] Kammara K.K., Kumar, R., Singh A.K., Chinnappan, A.K., “Systematic Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Approach to Characterize the Effects of Surface Roughness on Accommodation Coefficients”, Physical Review Fluids, 4, 123401 (2019).
[29]  Sharma, B., Kumar, R., “Estimation of Bulk Viscosity of Dilute Gases using a Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Approach”, Physical Review E, 100, 013309 (2019).
[28] Peddakotla, S.A., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Particle Trajectory for the Evaluation of Surface Accommodation Coefficients”, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 23, 79 (2019).
[27] Khan, A., Panthi, R., Kumar, R., Ibrahim, S.M., “Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Extended Cowl on the Flowfield of Planar Plug Nozzles”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 88, 208 (2019).
[26] Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K., Myong, R.S., “Transport Dynamics of an Ellipsoidal Particle in Free Molecular Gas Flow Regime”, Physics of Fluids, 31, 037104 (2019).
[25] Khan A., Kumar, R., “Effect of Cross Wire Tab Orientation on Twin Jet Mixing Characteristics”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 99, 344 (2018).
[24] Harpale, A., Sawant, S., Kumar, R., Levin, D., Chew, H.B., “Albative Thermal Protection Systems: Pyrolysis Modeling by Scale-Bridging Molecular Dynamics”, Carbon, 130, 315 (2018).
[23] G., Malaikannan, Chinnppan, A.K., Kumar, R., “A Novel Efficient Hybrid DSMC-Dynamic Collision Limiter Algorithm for Multi-scale Transitional Flows”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 86 (9), 565 (2018).
[22] Kumar, R., Akhil M.V., Chinnappan, A.K., “Denoising of DSMC Simulation Data using the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Technique”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 55 (4), 841 (2018).
[21] Khan A., Kumar, R., “Experimental Study and Passive Control of Over-expanded Plug Nozzle Jet”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 55 (3), 776 (2018).
[20] Kumar, R., Chinnappan, A.K., “Development of a Multi-species, Parallel, 3D Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo Solver for Rarefied Gas Flows”, Computers and Fluids, 159, 204 (2017).
[19] G. Malaikannan, Kumar, R., “Novel Efficient Particle based Hybrid Approach for Modeling Hypersonic Rarefied Flows”, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 54 (6), 1267 (2017).
[18] G. Malaikannan, Kumar, R., “Hybrid Particle-Particle Numerical Algorithm for High Speed Non-Equilibrium Flows”, Computers and Fluids, 152, 24 (2017).
[17] Naspoori S.K., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Study of Crater Formation and its Characteristics due to Impact of a Cluster Projectile on a Metal Surface by Molecular Dynamics Approach”, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research B, 396, 34 (2017).
[16] Chinnappan, A.K., Malaikannan, G., Kumar, R., “Insights into Flow and Heat Transfer Aspects of Hypersonic Rarefied Flow over a Blunt Body with Aerospike using Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo Approach”, Aerospace Science and Technology, 66, 119 (2017).
[15] Kammara, K.K., Malaikannan G., Kumar, R., Molecular Dynamics Study of Gas-Surface Interactions in a Force Driven Flow of Argon through a Rectangular Channel, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 20(2), 121 (2016).
[14] Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., “Modeling of High Speed Gas-Granular Flow over a 2D Cylinder in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Framework,” Granular Matter, 18, (2016).
[13] Kumar, R., “Numerical Investigation of Gas-Surface Interactions due to Ablation of High-Speed Vehicles,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 53, 538 (2016).
[12] Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., Donbosco, F.S., “Reconsideration of Metal Surface Sputtering due to Bombardment of High Energy Argon Ion Particles: A Molecular Dynamics Study,” Computational Particle Mechanics, 3, 3 (2016).
[11] Kaushik, M., Kumar, R., Humrutha G., “Review of Computational Fluid Dynamics Studies on Jets”, American Journal of Fluid Dynamics, 5, 1 (2015).
[10] Verma, A.K. and Kumar, R., “Molecular Dynamics Study of Heat Transfer in Two-phase Flows through a Nanochannel,” Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, 2, 223 (2014).
[09] Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “Development of a Particle-Particle Hybrid Scheme to Simulate Multi-scale Transitional Flows,” AIAA Journal, 51, 200 (2013).
[08] Zhu, T., Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., "Analysis of Fractal-like Spore Aggregates using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 26, 417 (2012).
[07] Kumar, R., Li, Z., Levin, D., “Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Condensation in the High Pressure Flows using the Statistical BGK Approach,”  Physics of Fluids, 23, 052001 (2011).
[06] Kumar, R., Li, Z., vanDuin A., and Levin, D., “Molecular Dynamics Studies to Understand the Mechanism of Heat Accommodation in Homogeneous Condensing Flow of Carbon Dioxide,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 064503 (2011).
[05] Kumar, R., Saurav, S., Titov, E., Levin, D., Long, R., Neely, W., and Setlow, P., “Thermo-structural Studies of Spores Subjected to High Temperature Gas Environments,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 755 (2011).
[04] Kumar, R., and Levin, D., “Simulation of Homogeneous Condensation of Small Polyatomic Systems in High Pressure Supersonic Nozzle Flows using BGK Model” Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 124519 (2011).
[03] Kumar, R., Titov, E., Levin, D., Gimelshein, N., and Gimelshein, S., “Assessment of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook Approaches to Modeling of Nozzle Flows in the Near Continuum Regime,” AIAA Journal, 48, 1531 (2010).
[02] Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “Reconsideration of Planar Couette Flows Using a Statistical Approach to the BGK Model Kinetic Equation,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 24, 254 (2010).
[01] Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “Compressible Laminar Boundary-Layer Flows with Statistical Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook Approaches,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 24, 556 (2010).

Refereed Conference Proceedings
[43] Bhesania A., Peddakotla, S.A., Kamboj, P., Kumar, R., Arghode, V., “On Extraction of Parameters for Pyrolysis Reaction Kinetics of Organic Materials with Molecular Dynamics and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach”, AIAA AVIATION Forum, AIAA 2021-3127, August 2021.
[42] Bhesania A., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., Arghode, V., “Extracting Thermal Conductivity of Organic materials using the Green-Kubo Method”, AIAA AVIATION Forum, AIAA 2021-3126, August 2021.
[41] Khan A., Hankare, P., Verma, S., Sute, P.P., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shocks and Shock Interactions in Granular Flow past Circular Cylinder”, AIAA AVIATION Forum, AIAA 2019-3075, June 2019.
[40] Dwivedi, D., Khan, A., Kumar, R., Ibrahim, S.M., “Effect of Cross-Wire Tab Offset on Twin-Jet Mixing Characteristics”, Proc. Of the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW32) doi: 10.3850/978-981-11-2730-4_0131-cd
[39] Verma, S., Khan A., Hankare, P., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shock-Shock Interactions in Granular Flows”, Proc. Of the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW32) doi: 10.3850/978-981-11-2730-4_0344-cd
[38] Khan A., Hankare, P., Verma, S., Kumar, R., Kumar, S., “Shock Detachment in Granular Flows”, Proc. Of the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW32) doi: 10.3850/978-981-11-2730-4_0295-cd
[37] Faheem, M., Khan, A., Kumar, R., Khan, S.A., “Experimental Study of Supersonic Multiple Jet Flow Field”, Proc. Of the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW32) doi: 10.3850/978-981-11-2730-4_0362-cd
[36] Sharma, B., Kumar, R., “Bulk Viscosity of Gases by Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Approach”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 090003 (2019).
[35]  Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., Arghode, V.K., “Transport of a Non-spherical Particle in Free Molecular Regime using the DSMC Method”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 070021 (2019).
[34] Peddakotla, S.A., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Single Particle Trajectory Analysis for the Evaluation of Surface Accommodation Coefficients”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 170002 (2019).
[33] Peddakotla, S.A., Khan, A., Kumar, R., “Characterization of Plug Nozzle in the Rarefied Regime using the DSMC Method”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 070025 (2019).
[32] Mistry, S., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Coaxially Rotating Carbon Nanotubes: A Novel Mechanism for Nanoscale Pumping of Fluids”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 160001 (2019).
[31] Sharma, K., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “Study of Mechanical Response of CNT-Polyethylene Nanocomposite using Molecular Dynamics Approach”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 090006 (2019).
[30] Nayak, N., Kammara, K.K., Arghode, V.K., Kumar, R., “Molecular Dynamics Study of Thermochemical Behaviour of Nicket-Coated Aluminum Nanoparticles”, AIP Conference Proceedings 2132, 090008 (2019).
[29] Mistry, S., Kammara, K.K., Kumar, R., “A Comprehensive Study of Water Transport Mechanisms through Carbon Nanotubes”, Proceedings of the XLV Summer School – Conference on Advanced Problems in Mechanics, Russia, pp. 303-315, 2017.
[28] Kammara, K.K., Chinnappan, A.K., Kumar, R., “Study on Effect of Momentum and Energy Accommodation Coefficient on Flow Properties”, Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), 2017, Hyderabad, India.
[27] Rana, S., Kammara, K.K., Peddakotla, S.A., Kumar, R., “Pressure Driven Water Transport through Graphene Nanochannel Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), 2017, Hyderabad, India.
[26] G., Malaikannan, Kumar. R., “Development of an Efficient Kinetic Particle based Hybrid DSMC-DCL Numerical Approach for Hypersonic Rarefied Flows”, 21st AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonics Technologies Conference, AIAA Paper 2017-2165.
[25] K. Kishore Kumar, Donbosco, F.S., and Kumar, R.,“Molecular Dynamics Study of Sputtering Phenomena on Metal Surfaces due to Bombardment of High Energy Particles, ” 29th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1628, pp. 916. 2014
[24]Donbosco, F.S. and Kumar, R.,“Study of Plume Behavior of a Convergent-Divergent and Aerospike Nozzle at High Altitudes using DSMC,” 29th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1628, pp. 170, 2014.
[23] Kumar, R., Borner, A., Li, Z., and Levin, D., “Electrospray Simulation in a Colloid Thruster using Particle-in-Cell Approach,” AIAA Paper 2012-788, 2012.
[22] Dhariwal, R., Kumar, R., Levin, D., Goldstein, D., Varghese, P., and Trafton, L., “Modeling and Simulation of Near-field Enceladus Plumes from Tiger Stripe Fractures using a Collision Limiter Condensation Model,” AIAA Paper 2012-226, 2012.
[21] Kumar, R., Titov, E., Levin, D., and Anderson, B., “Development and Application of a Charring Ablator Thermal Response Model,” AIAA Paper 2011-3785, 2011.
[20] Titov, E., Kumar, R., and Levin, D., “Towards the Development of a Hybrid Statistical Method for Modeling Reentry Flows about Blunt Bodies,” AIAA Paper 2011-3127, 2011.
[19] Kumar, R., Zhu, T., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “DSMC Analysis of Fractal-like Aggregates of Spores in the Semi-rarefied Flow Regime,” 42nd AIAA Thermophysics Conference, AIAA Paper 2011-3938, 2011.
[18] Titov, E., Kumar, R., Levin, D., Anderson, B., and Bouslog, S., “Simulation of Heat Loads on the CEV Orion Compression Pads during Reentry,” AIAA Paper 2011-3320, 2011.
[17] Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “Development of a Particle-Particle Hybrid Scheme based on ESBGK and DSMC Methods to Simulate Multi-scale Transitional Flows,” AIAA Paper 2011-0625, 2011.
[16] Titov, E., Kumar, R., Levin, D., and Anderson B., “Modeling of Crack Growth in AVCOAT Heat-shield,” AIAA Paper 2011-0137, 2011.
[15] Kumar, R., Li, Z., van Duin, A., and Levin, D., “Molecular Dynamics Studies to Understand the Mechanism of Heat Accommodation in Homogeneous Condensing Flow of CO2,” 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1333, pp. 853, 2011.
[14] Zhu, T., Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “DSMC Analysis of Fractal-like Aggregates of Spores in the Semi-rarefied Flow Regime,” AIAA Paper 2011-3918, 2011.
[13] Titov, E., Kumar, R., and Levin, D., “Determination of Flow Non-equilibrium Regions using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Criterion,” 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, 2010.
[12] Titov, E., Kumar, R., and Levin, D., In Depth Analysis of AVCOAT TPS Response to a Reentry Flow,” 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1333, pp. 492, 2011.
[11] Kumar, R., Li, Z., and Levin, D., “Simulation of Homogeneous Condensation of Ethanol in High Pressure Supersonic Nozzle Flows using BGK Condensation Model,” 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1333, pp. 185, 2011.
[10] Kumar, R., and Levin, D., “A New Weighting Scheme Approach for Two-phase Condensation Modeling,” 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1333, pp. 179, 2011.
[09] Kumar, R., Li, Z., and Levin, D., “Modeling of CO2 Condensation in High Pressure Flows using the Statistical BGK Approach,” AIAA Paper 2010-0818, 2010.
[08] Titov, E., Levin, D., Anderson, B., Kumar, R., Larin, M.E., “Modeling of Crew Exploration Vehicle Reentry Ablation Flows,” 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2010-988, 2010.
[07] Kumar, R., Saurav, S., Titov, E., Levin, D., Long, R., and Neely, W., “Thermo-structural Studies on Spores Subjected to High Temperature Gas Environments,” 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference, AIAA Paper 2009-3752, 2009.
[06] Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., “Comparison of Statistical BGK and DSMC Methods with Theoretical Solutions for Two Classical Fluid Flow Problems,” 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference, AIAA Paper 2009-3740, 2009.
[05] Titov, E., Kumar, R., and Levin, D., “Assessment of Kinetic BGK Application to the Internal and External Flows in Modeling RCC Crack Growth,” AIAA Paper 2009-3756, 2009.
[04] Kumar, R., Titov, E., Levin, D., Gimelshein, N., and Gimelshein, S., “Application of the Statistical BGK Approach to the Modeling of Nozzle Flows in the Near Continuum Regime,” AIAA Paper 2009-1318, 2009.
[03] Titov, E., Kumar, R., Levin, D., Gimelshein, N., and Gimelshein, S., “Analysis of Different Approaches to Modeling of the Nozzle Flows in the Near Continuum Regime,” 26th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1084, pp. 978, 2009.
[02] Kumar, R., Simon, L., Joseph, G., and Verma, A.K., “Thermal Analysis of Pressure Sensors in a Recovery Module during its Atmospheric Descent,International Conference on Recent Advances in Heat Transfer, pp. 165, 2006.
[01] Kumar, R., Simon, L., Joseph, G., and Verna A.K., “Thermal Analysis of Avionics Packages in a Recovery Module during its Atmospheric Descent,” 18th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, pp. 1930, 2006.