Department: Mechanical Engineering

Mr. ABHIRAM R NAIR

Employee Code / ID No. 10620074
Qualifications M TECH THERMAL SCIENCE
Orcid ID 0000-0002-5228-4733
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Heat Transfer , Compressible Flow
Research,  Consultancy, Publication Development and Validation of a Code for Heat Flux Estimation using Inverse Heat Transfer Technique and Conjugate Gradient Method DOI:10.1201/9780429353628-89.
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Mr. Bipin Sankar

Employee Code / ID No. 10621078
Qualifications M. Tech
Orcid ID 0000-0003-4955-9705
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Material Science and Development
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Dr. Arun M.G

Employee Code / ID No. 10624079
Qualifications M.Tech., Ph.D
Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9027-4491
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Aeroacoustics, Microfluidics
Research,  Consultancy, Publication Journal Publications
1. M.G. Arun and T.J.S. Jothi (2022), Aerodynamic noise characteristics of non-circular cylinders in subcritical flow regime, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 21(8), 766-792.
2. M.G. Arun, D. Dilip and S. Kumar Ranjith (2021), Effect of interface curvature on isothermal heat transfer in a hydrophobic microchannel with transverse ribs and cavities, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 167, 107014.
3. M.G. Arun and T.J.S. Jothi (2020), Aerodynamic noise characteristics of the flow past a circular cylinder, Noise Control Engineering Journal, 68(5), 328-338.
4. V.V. Sankar, J. Cletus, M.G. Arun and R.S. Kumar (2022), Analytical modeling of laminar developing flow between hydrophobic surfaces with different slip-velocities, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 144(4), 041301.
Conference Publications
1. M.G. Arun and T.J.S. Jothi (2023), Effect of surface roughness on the aerodynamic noise from flow past a circular cylinder, 29th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 09-13 July 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
2. M.G. Arun and T.J.S. Jothi (2021), Aeroacoustic characteristics of flow past circular cylinders in tandem configurations, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 3) FMFP2021, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Singapore, 271-276.
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Mr. JACOB VARGHESE KARINGOTTU

Employee Code / ID No. 10624081
Qualifications M.TECH (Machine Design), B.TECH (Mechanical Engineering)
Orcid ID 0000-0002-2397-9173
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Machine Learning
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Dr. Jishnu Chandran R

Employee Code / ID No. 10625083
Qualifications PhD, Post-Doc
Orcid ID 0000-0003-3128-3595
Industry / R & D Experience 3 years Post-Doc Research experience in Mechanical Engineering (CFD) from VIT
University, One year Masters Project Intern at VSSC, ISRO.
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multi-phase flows,  CO2 Air-Conditioning and
Refrigeration, Renewable Energy Harvesting Systems, Engineering Systems for Sustainable Development, PINN.
Research,  Consultancy, Publication PUBLICATIONS
SCI / Scopus Indexed Journal Publications

  • Jishnu Chandran R, Sreeja Sadasivan, Senthil Kumar A, Fei Chen. Two-Phase Radial Ejector for Transcritical CO2 Refrigeration, Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 126142. AIP Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0244439 [Imp Fac- 4.1]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, Senthil Kumar A, Sreeja Sadasivan, Bibin John & Rajesh Kanna P. Effect of Spindle Position on the Performance and Two-phase Characteristics of Controllable Ejector for CO2 Refrigeration System, Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 205 (2024): 106125. Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2023.106125 [Imp Fac- 3.9]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, Senthil Kumar A, Sreeja Sadasivan, Rajesh Kanna P & Fei Chen. Two-phase Simulation of Transcritical CO2 Flow in Nozzle and Ejector using the Homogeneous Equilibrium Model, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 149 (2024): 5367–5380. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-024-13104-9 [Imp Fac- 3.0]
  • Tamilarasan S K, Jose J, Boopalan V, Chen F, Arumugam S K, Ramachandran J C, Parthasarathy R K, Taler D, Sobota T, Taler J. Recent Developments in Supercritical CO2-Based Sustainable Power Generation Technologies. Energies 17 (2024) 16: 4019. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17164019  [Imp Fac- 3.0]
  • Vignesh Boopalan, Jishnu Chandran R, Senthil Kumar A & Rajesh Kanna P. Numerical investigation of Burnout effect in turbine blade tip leakage at transonic condition, Engineering Research Express, 6 (2024) 4: 045554. IOP Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2631-8695/ad923a [Imp Fac- 1.5]
  • Sreeja Sadasivan, Senthil Kumar A, Jishnu Chandran R & Mahesh C Aggarwal. Effects of Influencing Factors on the Performance and Morphology of Shock waves in Ejectors: A Review, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 34 (2023) 11: 2350142. World Scientific. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183123501425 [Imp Fac- 1.4]
  • Arun Govind Neelan, Jishnu Chandran R, Manuel A. Diaz & Raimund Bürger. An efficient three-level weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for hyperbolic equations, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 42 (2023) 70. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-023-02214-z [Imp Fac- 3.0]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih. Development of a benchmark solution in compressible liquid flows: Analytical solution to the water shock tube problem, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 147 (2022): 5279-5292. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-10871-7 [Imp Fac- 4.4]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih. The Adaptive damping technique: Improving the simulation accuracy of hydraulic transients, International Journal of Mathematical Engineering and Management Sciences, 6 (2021) 6: 1553-1564, IJMEMS. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2021.6.6.092. [Imp Fac- 1.9]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, Risha Raju, & A Salih. An adaptively damped compressible-liquid model for non-cavitating hydraulic surges, International Journal of Engineering, Transactions A: Basics. 33 (2020) 10: 2047-2056, Materials and Energy Research Center. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5829/ije.2020.33.10a.23 [Imp Fac- 1.2]
  • Risha Raju, Jishnu Chandran R, A Salih & Kuruvilla Joseph.  Numerical Analysis of Mixing-chamber non-uniformities and feed conditions for optimal performance of urea SCR, Reaction Chemistry and Engineering. 5 (2020) 12: 2236-2249, Royal Society of Chemistry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RE00269K [Imp Fac- 4.2]
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih. A modified equation of state for water for a wide range of pressure and the concept of water shock tube, Fluid Phase Equilibria 483 (2019): 182-188, Elsevier. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2018.11.032 [Imp Fac- 2.8] Non-Scopus Journal Publications
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih. A comparative performance analysis of HLLC and AUSM+-up Riemann Solvers, Cankaya University Journal of Science and Engineering 7 (2020) 2: 108-117, Cankaya University.
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih. A pressure-based compressible-liquid flow model for computation of instantaneous valve closure in pipes, Science and Technology Journal 7 (2019)2: 60-66, Mizoram University.
    Book Chapters (Scopus-indexed)
  • Jishnu Chandran R, Risha Raju, A Salih & Senthil Kumar A. Accurate Compressible Flow Modelling of Liquid Shock Tube Problems, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2022 (Vol. 2). Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5752-1_75
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & Micky Baisil. Experimental and Computational Study of Liquid Nitrogen Transfer Line Chilldown, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2021 (Vol. 2), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6970-6_57
  • Arun Govind Neelan, Jishnu Chandran R, Manuel A. Diaz & Raimund Bürger. Improved Three-level Order-Adaptive WENO Scheme, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power 2021 (Vol. 2), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6970-6_41
    Conference Publications
  • Risha Raju, Jishnu Chandran R, Kuruvilla Joseph, & A Salih (2019). Numerical Modelling of NOx Reduction on Cu-ZSM-5 Monolith Reactor, 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, 2019, 1-6.
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih (2018). Equivalence of Density-Based and a Customized Pressure-Based Approach for Compressible Modelling of Instant Valve Closure in Irrigation Pipes, 7th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2018,1-3.
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih (2017). Water Shock tube simulation with Tait equation of state, 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, ISHMT Digital Library. Begell House Inc., 2017, 2203-2209.
  • Jishnu Chandran R, & A Salih (2016). A Comparative Study of AUSM Scheme with Some Common Finite Difference Schemes in Solving One-Dimensional Shock-Tube Problem, 6th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2016, 1-3.
  • Jishnu Chandran R, A Ramaraju, Harikrishnan R, Abhishek Kumar, Sujith Kumar R (2013). Chilldown Studies of a Cryogenic Transfer Line, 2nd National Conference on Advances in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, 2013, 233-238.
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Academic / Professional Outreach Activities Reviewer for the Physics of Fluids, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology,
International Journal of Thermodynamics, International Journal of Engineering [Scopus and WOS Indexed]
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Awards / Distinctions / Rank / Other Achievements if any Award for best presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal, and Energy Systems, 2024.
Award for best presentation at the 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2021.
Secured All India Rank 1354 in GATE 2011 with Score-574 and Percentile-98.33.

Dr. Vivek V Kamal

Employee Code / I+C4+B6:B6:C15 10625082
Qualifications M.Tech Machine Design , Ph.D.
Orcid ID 0000-0003-2791-0621
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Tribology,Coating,Triboelectric Nano generator
Research,  Consultancy, Publication Journal Publications
1. Vivek V Kamal, ArunKumar S S, Rani S, K Bindu Kumar “Parameter Optimization of Electrophoretically deposited Graphene Oxide coating on the frictional characteristics of AISI 52100 Alloy Steel”. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1177/09544089221150714
2. Vivek V Kamal, Nakul Pradeep, Rani Santhakumari amma, Muhammed Arif, Ananthan D Thampi, Sneha Edla “Tribological property and oxidation stability evaluation of rice bran oil with silicon dioxide nanoparticles and spicy aroma-based herbal oils as additives” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology DOI: 10.1177/13506501231162396
3. Vivek V Kamal, Awadhesh Kiran, Jude Francis, Amal Jose Arackal, Jeff Nicho Mathew, S Rani,” Comparative analysis of variation in macroscopic design process parameters of triboelectric nanogenerators” Materials Today: Proceedings,2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2023.01.158
4. Kamal VV, Francis J, Rani S, Kiran A, Kiran P, et al. 2023. “Sustainable Energy Generation Using Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Recent Trends and Future Potential”. NanoWorld J 9(S5): S44-S51.
Conference Publications
1. Vivek V Kamal, ArunKumar S S, Rani S, K Bindu Kumar “ Tribological Investigation of Nano PTFE coating on AISI 52100 dispersed in Oleic acid by Electrophoretic deposition method”. Select Proceedings of ICETM IE 2022. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 961–969. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6945-4_72
2. G. S. Anantharam, M. S. Sumanlal, Vivek V. Kamal, N. S. Sivasubramanian, S. Rani, K. Bindu Kumar; “Fabrication of semi-automated TIG cladding setup and exploring the frictional characteristics of cladding” . AIP Conf. Proc. 17 August 2023; 2890 (1): 020006. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0157092
3. Aravind, A., Kamal, V.V., Rani, S., Bindu Kumar, K. (2024). Tribological Investigation of Composite Coating on AISI 52100 Alloy Steel Using Electrophoretic Deposition. In: Raghavendra, G., Deepak, B.B.V.L., Gupta, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Volume 1. ICMech-REC 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0918-2_21
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Awards / Distinctions / Rank / Other Achievements if any KSCSTE Research Fellowship 2019
State Level Evaluation winner of the Young Innovators Programme (YIP) 2020

Mr. Aneesh A M

Employee Code / ID No. 10625084
Qualifications M.Tech (Thermal Engg.), P.hd (Pursuing)
Orcid ID 0009-0005-4861-580X
Industry / R & D Experience KSRTC Regional Workshop Mavelikkara( Graduate Apprentice Trainee)- 1 year
Email ID [email protected]
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Thermal Engineering/ Cryogenic Carbon Capture
Research,  Consultancy, Publication Publications
1.Dillep K.De,Idowu A.Oduniyi, Ashish alex Sam, Aneesh A M and Sandra
Akinmeji. Modeling carbon capture from power plants with low energy and water consumption using a novel cryogenic technology. Applied Thermal Engineering (IF:6.1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124315.

2.Aneesh AM, Sam AA. A mini-review on cryogenic carbon capture technology by
desublimation: theoretical and modeling aspects 2023:1–7.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2023.1167099. Frontiers in energy research (IF:3.858).
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Academic / Professional Outreach Activities 1. Student volunteer for International conference on Electrochemistry for industry,health and environment (EIHE-2024) held at VIT university, Vellore on February 2024.
2.Coordinated 2 days FDP on computational fluid dynamics on June 2018 at UKF
College of Engineering & Technology.
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Awards / Distinctions / Rank / Other Achievements if any Honored by “Raman research award” from VIT university in June 2023 for the publication of paper in Scopus indexed journal.

Ms. Atma Raj M R

Employee Code / ID No. 10625085
Qualifications M.Tech (Machine Design), B.Tech (Mechanical stream Production Engineering)
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Areas of Interest / Current Research Welding Simulation, Machine Design
Research,  Consultancy, Publication Publications
Joy Varghese V.M.,Atma Raj M R “Determination of Distortion Developed During TIG Welding of Low Carbon Steel Plate”,International Journal of Engineering Reasearch and General Science,Volume 2,Issue 5,August-September 2014  ISSN 2091-2730
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