Student Theses

 

 

 

Anoop A M
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Venkat R. Sonti
Thesis Topic: Structural acoustics of perforated panels
 
Safvan Palathingal
PhD
Adviser: Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh
Thesis Topic: Statics of shallow bistable arches
 
Srikrishna P
PhD
Adviser: Dr. G. S. V. L. Narasimham 
Thesis Topic: Experimental studies on flat plate, single loop and multiloop, pulsating heat pipes
 
Yogendra Vasantrao Kuwar
PhD
Adviser: Dr. G. S. V. L. Narasimham
Thesis Topic: Numerical and experimental studies on an automotive air conditioning system
 

 

Akriti Sharma
MTech (Research)
Adviser: Prof. Ramsharan Rangarajan
Thesis Topic: A shape optimization approach for simulating contact of elastic membranes with rigid obstacles 
 
M Vikranth Kumar Reddy
MTech (Research)
Adviser: Prof. G. K. Ananthasuresh
Thesis Topic: Orientability of the moving platform in planar cable robots
 

 

 

Amardip Kumar
MTech
Adviser: Prof. Jaywant H. Arakeri
Thesis Topic: Heat and mass transfer in greenhouse and effects of ventilation  
 
Akshay Bhimrao Chate
MTech
Adviser: Prof. Pradip Dutta
Thesis Topic: Thermochemical energy storage for cabin heating application in hybrid electric vehicles
 
Hareesh Chandran
MTech
Adviser: Dr. R. Thirumaleswara Naik
Thesis Topic: Study of performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine using diesel-fuel additive
 
Pravin Agarwal
MTech
Adviser: Prof. M. S. Bobji
Thesis Topic: Viscosity measurement through stretching of liquid bridge
 
Tarun Singh Baghel
MTech 
Adviser: Prof. Venkat R. Sonti
Thesis Topic: Computing modal parameters of fluid-loaded panels using the coupling coefficient
 

 

 

 

 

Ashwin K P
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic:  Development of a flexible actuator and motion planning for endoscopic robots
 
Krishna Mohan Kumar
PhD
Adviser: Prof. M. L. Munjal
Thesis Topic:  Direct estimation of acoustic source characteristics of the internal combustion engine exhaust system and analysis of complex muffler configurations
 
Sagar D Khivsara
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Pradip Dutta
Thesis Topic:  Development of tubular solar receiver with supercritical carbon dioxide as working fluid
 
Santanu Pramanik
PhD
Adviser: Prof. R V Ravikrishna
Thesis Topic: Experimental and numerical studies on low emission syngas combustion
 
Saurabh Markandeya
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ravikrishna
Thesis Topic:  Experimental studies on soot and particulate reduction in heavy fuel oil combustion
 

 

 

ShivamSharma
MSc
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: A framework for identifying solvable joint reactions in over-constrained mechanisms
 

 

 

 

 

Ashith Shyam R Babu
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: Design and development of a three-degree-of-freedom parallel manipulator to track the sun for concentrated solar power towers
 
Puneet Singh
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: The role of basal ganglia and redundancy in supervised motor learning
 

 

Shubham Agrawal
MTech
Adviser: Prof. Raghuraman N. Govardhan
Thesis Topic: Measurement of thrust & propulsive efficiency of flexible foil performing heave motion
 

 

Arkadeep Narayan Chaudhury
MSc
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: Kinematic design and optimal synthesis of parallel manipulators using monte carlo method
 
Shounak Bhattacharya
MSc
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: Design, analysis, simulation and experimentation of a flexible spine quadruped
 

 

 

Midhun Sreekumar Menon
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: Motion planning of flexible one-dimensional objects and hyper-redundant robots
 
Raviteja Chanumolu
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: A novel hybrid vehicle architecture: Modeling, Simulation and Experiments
 

 

 

 

 

 

Basireddy Sandeep Reddy
PhD
Adviser: Prof. Ashitava Ghosal
Thesis Topic: A study of two problems in nonlinear dynamics using the method of multiple scales