Current Lab Members
Raghuraman N. Govardhan
Professor
Manoj Dixit
PhD Student
Vortex rings, bubbles, particles
Chiranjeevi Sadana
PhD Student
Vortex Induced Vibration, Bubbly Flow, Flow past cylinder
Ashok B.
PhD Student
Dipanjan Barman
PhD Student
Jaiprakash Anand
PhD Student
Centrifugal Compressor, Stall & Surge, Inlet Distortion
C., KK, Anand, J, S., G, & Govardhan, RN. “Design of a Facility for Testing Centrifugal Compressors.” Proceedings of the ASME 2023 Gas Turbine India Conference. ASME 2023 Gas Turbine India Conference. Bangalore, India. December 7–8, 2023. V001T01A009. ASME.
Sajjan Raj Keshari
PhD Student
Supersonic FSI
Abhay Sharma
PhD Student
High speed flow
N SANDEEP
PhD Student
Experimental Fluid Dynamics
Swati Bhartiya
M.Tech Student
Robotic fish motion and maneuverability.
Deepak
M.Tech Student
Turbomachinery (Centrifugal Compressor)
Alumni
PhD
Dr. Nithiyaraj M.
Jet Injection into Supersonic Crossflow: Flowfield and Mixing studies
Dr. Anil Das P. V.
Propulsive Performance of Pitching Foils Investigated with Viscous Vortex Particle Method
(Co-guided by Ratnesh K. Shukla)
Dr. Prahallada J.
Blade Flutter in a Linear Cascade: Unsteady Loads and Flow Features in Subsonic and Transonic Flows
Dr. Jimreeves David M.
Flow and Forces on Rigid and Flexible Plates in Unsteady Rotational Motion
(Co-guided by Jaywant H. Arakeri)
Dr. Dilip D.
Maintaining Underwater “Cassie” State for Sustained Drag Reduction in Channel Flow
(Co-guided by M.S. Bobji)
Dr. Sanjay K. Shukla
Experimental Study of Flow Past a Circular Cylinder with a Flexible Splitter Plate
(Co-guided by Jaywant H. Arakeri)
Dr. Prashant Das
Unsteady Two Dimensional Jet with Flexibleflaps at the Exit
(Co-guided by Jaywant H. Arakeri)
Dr. Narsing K. Jha
Interaction of Bubbles with Vortical Structures
Dr. Jayaprakash N. Murugan
Shock Wave-Boundary Layer Interaction in Supersonic Flow over Compression Ramp and Forward-Facing Step
Dr. Pankaj M. Nadge
High Reynolds Number Flow over a Backward-Facing Step
Subhajit Biswas
Two phase turbulence, Vorticity Dynamics, Drag reductions
Chandrasekhar M.
PhD Student
Kishor Kumar C.
PhD Student (ERP)
Ramana K
PhD Student
High speed aerodynamics, sprays and atomisation, multiphase flows
Alumni
M.Sc. (Engg.) / M.Tech (Res)
Jimreeves David M.
Force Measurements on Rigid and Flexible Oscillating Foils
(Co-guided by Jaywant H. Arakeri)
Prashant Das
Vortex Pair Generation using Flexible Flaps
Sanjay K. Shukla
Flow Over a Circular Cylinder with a Flexible Splitter Plate
Ashish Ashtana
Micro-PIV Study of Apparent Fluid Slip over Hydrophobic Surfaces
Pranav R. Joshi
Unsteady Flow Field Downstream of a Sudden Expansion
Niraj Panthi
Shock Dynamics due to Downstream Pressure Perturbations: Idealization of Transonic Unstarted Cascade Flutter
Varun S.
Numerical simulation of a high-speed jet injected in a uniform supersonic crossflow using adaptively redistributed grids
Sourabh K. Jha
Stall Flutter of a Cascade of Blades at Low Reynolds Number
Shantanu Bhat
Study of Stall Flutter of an Isolated Blade in a Low Reynolds Number Incompressible Flow
Vijay Kumar
Flutter of Turbomachinery Blade
Mayank Jaiswal
Centrifugal compressor, stall & surge.
Alumni
M.E / M.Tech
Abhijeet Nandanwar (2005)
Development and evaluation of software for micro-Particle Image Velocimetry
Anil Kumar (2005)
Effect of Surface Roughness and Hydrophobicity on Contact Angle
Ashok Kumar (2006)
Development and Testing of Supersonic Blowdown Wind-tunnel
Goutam Mondal (2007)
Supersonic Flow over a Protrusion
Sohan Singh Parmar (2008)
Flow through Rough Hydrophobic Micro-Channels
Mahesh Kamble (2008)
Propulsion by Flapping Airfoils
Abhra Chatterjee (2009)
Forces on a Circular Cylinder with a Flexible Splitter Plate
K. Jayaprakash (2009)
Flow over Protrusion
Anil Das (2010)
Development of two-dimensional Viscous Vortex Methods for the Simulation of Unsteady Flows
Subhamoy Gupta (2010)
Starting Flow through a Tube with a Flexible exit
Pradeep S. Pawar (2011)
Study of Entrapment of Air in a Micro Channel Using Hydrophobic Textured Surfaces for the Possibility of Drag Reduction
Jagadeesh P. (2011)
Development of Fluid-Structure Interaction Code using Vortex Particle Method
Chetan Powar (2012)
Development of Fluid-Structure Interaction Code using Vortex Particle Method
Pankaj Kumar (2012)
Water Entry and Subsequent Motions of a Falling Blunt Body
Roshan John Samuel (2013)
Development of Vortex Particle Method for Flexing Bodies
Shivam (2013)
Unsteady Force Measurements on Oscillating 3-D Foils
Uttiya Mukerjee (2014)
Implementation of Variable Core Vortex Particle Methods
Subhajit Biswas (2015)
Fish Like Propulsion for Robotic Underwater Vehicles
Dipanjan Barman (2015)
Experimental Study of Stall Flutter in Heaving Cascade of Airfoils
Ayush Saraswat (2016)
Experiments on a Transonic Oscillating Cascade
Ashok B. (2017)
Measurements of Propulsive Performance of Oscillating Foils
Sunil Bagaria (2018)
Measurements of Propulsive Characteristics of Flexible Foils undergoing Pitching Motion
Shubham Agarwal (2019)
Measurement of Thrust and Propulsive Efficiency of Flexible Foils Performing Heave Motion
Cdr Anand S (2022)
Propulsion system design of BAUV
Praveen T (2024)
Fluid- Structure Interactions
Snehil Srivastav
M.Tech Student
Anand
M.Tech Student
Siddhi Nagvekar (2025)
M.Tech Student
Thermal Turbomachinery Design
Siddhi Nagvekar
M.Tech Student
Thermal Turbomachinery Design