Research Area
Research in the Department embraces traditionally core mechanical engineering areas and emerging interdisciplinary topics in its objective to extend the frontiers of contemporary research. This research voyage traverses and knits relevant themes in materials, structures, mechanisms, manufacturing, fracture, tribology, dynamics, vibration, design, control, computational modeling of solids and fluids, multiscale and multiphase physics, biomechanics, robotics, turbomachinery, combustion and fuel technologies, energy transport and storage, power generation, micro- and nanoscale phenomena, and soft matter among others. The rich diversity in faculty backgrounds enables the Department to delve in a blend of theoretical, experimental and applied studies.
The following categorizes broad areas of the Department’s research.
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
G.K. Ananthasuresh
M.S. Bobji
Namrata Gundiah
C.S. Jog
R. Narasimhan
R. Rangarajan
K.R.Y. Simha
K. Viswanathan
VIBRATION, ACOUSTICS AND CONTROL
Ashitava Ghosal
R. Rangarajan
Jishnu Keshavan
FLUID MECHANICS AND FLOW PHYSICS
Jaywant H. Arakeri
Saptarshi Basu
C. Dharuman
R.N. Govardhan
Namrata Gundiah
Aloke Kumar
Ratnesh K. Shukla
G. Tomar
MECHANISMS, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION
G.K. Ananthasuresh
B. Gurumoorthy
G.R. Jayanth
R. Rangarajan
Dibakar Sen
HEAT TRANSFER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS
Saptarshi Basu
Susmita Dash
Pradip Dutta
M. Himabindu
Pramod Kumar
R.T. Naik
G.S.V.L. Narasimham
R.V. Ravikrishna
Navaneetha K. Ravichandran
MICRO- AND NANOSCALE PROCESSES AND DEVICES
Susmita Dash
Aloke Kumar
Sptarshi Basu
M.S. Bobji
C.S. Jog
G.K. Ananthasuresh
Rudra Pratap
Navaneetha K. Ravichandran
MANUFACTURING AND MATERIALS
M.S. Bobji
Pradip Dutta
Namrata Gundiah
S.V. Kailas
Pramod Kumar
R. Narasimhan
K. Viswanathan
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
G.K. Ananthasuresh
Ashitava Ghosal
R. Rangarajan
Jishnu Keshavan