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