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ETFL - IIT Kanpur 2020 — Present

Journal Publications

2027

Non-nonotonic critical heat flux and orientation-dependent roughness effects in pool boiling
International Journal of Thermal Sciences (Vol. 233(1): 111434)
Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.

2026

A multipurpose thermal convection setup to study turbulent super structures
Review of Scientific Instruments [in press]
Yik, H., Schettler, C., Bodenschatz, E., Madanan, U., Weiss, S
Effect of aspect ratio and grain size in classical Darcy-Bénard systems: onset of convection and beyond
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 271(2): 129394)
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.
Boundaries Matter: Impact of Sidewall Conductance on Porous-media Thermal Convection
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 173: p.110773)
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.
Thermal transport in porous media: effect of grain size in Darcy-Bénard convection at high Rayleigh numbers
International Journal of Thermal Sciences (Vol. 220: p.110409)
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.

2025

Enhanced vapor generation and salt mitigation in a solar evaporator using a Janus-type hybrid wick
Applied Thermal Engineering (Vol. 284: p.129175)
Chatterjee, D., Kumar, P., Goel, S., Muralidhar, K. and Madanan, U.
A semi-analytical approach to estimate sidewall thermal conductance for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with uninsulated sidewalls
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 165: p.108993)
Bhadwal, A., Alam, P., Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.

2024

Addressing the Nusselt number divergence across varied fluid-solid combinations in Darcy-Bénard convection
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 161: p.108403)
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.
Effect of finite thermal conductivity bounding walls on Darcy-Bénard convection
ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 146(5): p.052701)
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.

2023

A set of generic correlations for high-Rayleigh-number thermal convection in inclined rectangular enclosures
Progress in Nuclear Energy (Vol. 166: p.104975)
Sen, N. and Madanan, U.
Heat transfer enhancement through pitch ratio optimization of butterfly inserts in minichannel heat sinks
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (Vol. 46: p.102262)
Pandey, R. and Madanan, U.

2022

Numerical investigation into heat transfer augmentation in a square minichannel heat sink using butterfly inserts
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress (Vol. 36: p.101522)
Sudheer A. P. and Madanan, U.
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection of compressed gas: effect of sidewall conductance
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 182: p.121965)
Srinivasan, V., Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

2027

Experimental investigation of pool boiling heat transfer on electrodeposited nickel-copper microporous surfaces at atmospheric conditions
Proceedings of the 8th Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, Napoli, Italy [paper accepted]
Kumar, G., Malik, W., Badwe, N. and Madanan, U.

2025

Numerical Investigation of Flow and Thermal behavior of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide in a Straight Circular Pipe
Proceedings of the 12th International and 52nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Nirma University, Gujarat, India
Pathak, M., Chaudhary, A., Muralidhar, K. and Madanan, U.
Numerical investigations into thermofluidics of supercritical nitrogen in a straight circular tube
Proceedings of the 28th National and 6th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Chaudhary, A., Pathak, M., Muralidhar, K. and Madanan, U.
Heat transfer performance and durability of electrodeposited bi-conductive microporous coatings in saturated pool boiling
Proceedings of the 28th National and 6th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Kumar, G., Mallick, R., Badwe, N. and Madanan, U.
Evaporative mass flux resolved using IR thermography from thin bi-porous surfaces
Proceedings of the 28th National and 6th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Chatterjee, D., Goswami, S., Muralidhar, K. and Madanan, U.
Combined influence of surface orientation and roughness on pool boiling heat transfer performance
Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer, Tokyo, Japan
Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.

2024

Thermal Convection in Darcy-Bénard System: Effect of Sidewall Thermal Conductance
International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media: Fundamentals and Applications, Xi'an, China
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.
Effect of Characteristic Length on Natural-convection-driven Evaporation-based Solar Evaporators for Desalination Applications
Proceedings of the 10th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics (ExHFT-10), Rhodes Island, Greece
Chatterjee, D., Madanan, U. and Muralidhar, K.

2023

Enhancement of free convective heat transfer inside an enclosure with discrete heat sources
Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Patna, Bihar, India
Barik, R., Alam, P., Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.
Computer simulations on heat transfer enhancement in a minichannel heat sink using modified butterfly inserts
Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Patna, Bihar, India
Halder, A., Pandey, R. and Madanan, U.
Numerical investigations into the effect of pitch of butterfly inserts on heat transfer enhancement in a minichannel heat sink
Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Patna, Bihar, India
Pandey, R. and Madanan, U.
Sidewall thermal conductance in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection: effect of uninsulated sidewalls
Proceedings of the 17th International Heat Transfer Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
Alam, P., Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.

2022

Numerical investigation into effect of sidewall thermal conductance in Darcy-Bénard convection
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Fluid Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, India
Alam, P. and Madanan, U.
Numerical study on heat transfer augmentation in a square minichannel heat sink using butterfly inserts
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Fluid Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, India [Best Paper of the Session]
Sudheer, A. P. and Madanan, U.
Empirical and machine learning approaches for turbulent thermal convection in rectangular enclosures tilted at acute angles
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Fluid Thermal and Energy Systems, NIT Calicut, India
Sen, N., Pisharody, A. S. and Madanan, U.

2021

Computational study on jet breakup behavior of a high-density liquid jet entering a quiescent immiscible liquid pool
Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Madanan, U. and Prajapati, S.

Guest Editorials

2024

Tracing the Academic Lineage of Richard J. Goldstein
ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, (Vol. 146(5): 050302)
Shadid, J. and Madanan, U.
Special Issue: Richard J. Goldstein Memorial Issue - Transformative and Innovative Advancements in Heat and Mass Transfer: A Lifetime of Path-Breaking Scholarship That Spans Gas-Turbine Cooling to Transport Processes and Critical Diagnostic Tools for Convective Heat Transfer and More
ASME Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, (Vol. 146(5): 050301)
Manglik, R. M., Boetcher, S. K. S., Simon, T. W. and Madanan, U.

Invited Book Chapters

2026

Passive thermal management of a hard-disk-drive-based storage system for edge appliances.
Advances in Heat Transfer - Volume 62
Kattakkadan, S., Mandlik, N., Pol, N. and Madanan, U.

2023

Factors influencing heat transfer mechanism in nucleate pool boiling: a comprehensive review with state of the art and future prospects
Advances in Heat Transfer - Volume 56
Kumar, G. and Madanan, U.

Archival Work Pre-2020

Journal Publications

2020

Effect of freestream turbulence on recovery factor of a thermocouple probe and its consequences
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 152: p. 119498)
Kulkarni, K. S., Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.
High-Rayleigh-number thermal convection of compressed gases in inclined rectangular enclosures
Physics of Fluids (Vol. 32(1): p. 017103)
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

2019

Effect of sidewall conductance on Nusselt number for Rayleigh-Bénard convection: a semi-analytical and experimental correction
Journal of Heat Transfer (Vol. 141(12): p. 122504)
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.
Simplified correlations for free convection from a horizontal isothermal cylinder
Applied Thermal Engineering (Vol. 161C: p. 113832)
Goldstein, R. J., Madanan, U. and Kuehn, T. H
Experimental investigation on very-high-Rayleigh-number thermal convection in tilted rectangular enclosures
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 139: pp. 121-129)
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.
Thermal convection in horizontal rectangular enclosures at moderate Rayleigh numbers: effect of sidewall conductance and aspect ratio
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 136: pp. 178-185)
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

2018

A note on adiabatic two-phase flow maldistribution in a set of horizontal parallel minichannels with I-type and Z-type configurations
Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification (Vol. 132: pp. 34-41)
Madanan, U., Chatterjee, D. and Das, S. K
Experimental investigation on two-phase flow maldistribution in parallel minichannels with U-type configuration
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (Vol. 96(8): pp. 1820-1828)
Madanan, U., Nayak, R., Chatterjee, D. and Das, S. K
Experimental validation of a boundary layer convective heat flux measurement technique
Journal of Heat Transfer (Vol. 140(7): p. 074501)
Kulkarni, K. S., Madanan, U., Simon, T. W. and Goldstein, R. J.

2017

Prediction of two-phase mass split in mini tubes
Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification (Vol. 120: pp. 216-219)
Madanan, U.
The heat/mass transfer analogy for a backward facing step
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 113: pp. 411-422)
Mittal, R., Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.
Experimental validation of heat/mass transfer analogy for two-dimensional laminar and turbulent boundary layers
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Vol. 113: pp. 84-95)
Kulkarni, K. S., Madanan, U., Mittal, R. and Goldstein, R. J.
Modeling and measurements of heat/mass transfer in a linear turbine cascade
Journal of Turbomachinery (Vol. 139(9): p. 091002)
Papa, F., Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

Conference Proceedings & Presentations

2019

Effect of sidewall conductance on Nusselt number for Rayleigh-Bénard convection: a fin model and experimental correction
2019 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, USA
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

2018

Prediction and correction of sidewall conductance for natural convection in horizontal enclosures
Poster session at the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, Beijing, China
Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

2017

Numerical and experimental investigation of heat/mass transfer in a linear turbine cascade
2nd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, USA
Papa, F., Madanan, U. and Goldstein, R. J.

Invited Book Chapters

2022

Thermal convection studies at the University of Minnesota
Advances in Heat Transfer - Volume 54
Goldstein, R. J. and Madanan, U.