Vinod Narayanan

Vinod Narayanan

Journal Publications

  1. P., A.J., Sharma, M., A., S., and Narayanan, V., 2025. Bifurcations in narrow gap spherical Couette flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Accepted for publication)
  2. P., A.J., and Narayanan, V., 2025. Thermal Effects on the Dynamics of Vortex Breakdown in Spherical Couette Flow. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0250795
  3. Thummar, M., Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2025. Stability and Energy Balance Analysis of Axisymmetric Boundary Layer: Effects of Oblique Nonuniform Suction and Injection. Journal of Fluids Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4066061
  4. Nair, P.P., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Effect of injection location on mixing characteristics with pylon downstream of cavity. Aerospace Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2024.109741
  5. Thummar, M., Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Stability and receptivity analyses of the heated flat-plate boundary layer with variable viscosity. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2024.109624
  6. P., A.J., Nair, P.P., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Active wake control of a bluff body with blunt trailing edge using incompressible numerical simulations. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0233729
  7. Nair, P.P., P, A.J., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Influence of passive strut on the mixing and combustion performance enhancement. Acta Astronautica. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.03.004
  8. Nair, P.P., Ananthu, J.P., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Effect of jet splitting using passive strut on the performance and thermoacoustic characteristics of a scramjet combustor. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0217214
  9. Tewari, K., Dewan, A., Narayanan, V., and Dogra, G., 2024. Large eddy simulation of passive noise reduction in subsonic jets by using chevrons. Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.15282/jmes.18.2.2024.10.0797
  10. Thummar, M., Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Stability And Energy Balance Analysis of Axisymmetric Boundary Layer: Effects of Oblique Non-Uniform Suction And Injection. Journal of Fluids Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4066061
  11. Unnikrishnan, A., Narayanan, V., and Vanka, S.P., 2024. High-order meshless global stability analysis of Taylor–Couette flows in complex domains. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0213325
  12. Unnikrishnan, A., Narayanan, V., Chamorro, L.P., and Vanka, S.P., 2024. Taylor–Couette flow and heat transfer in an elliptical enclosure with a rotating inner cylinder. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0190826
  13. Dandelia, Harvansh, Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Control of linear instabilities in two-dimensional airfoil boundary layers. Fluid Dynamics Research. 10.1088/1873-7005/ad4053
  14. Nair, P.P., Suryan, A., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Effect of upstream injection and pylon downstream of the cavity on the mixing characteristics. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188771
  15. Nair, P.P., Suryan, A., and Narayanan, V., 2023. Effect of passive strut angle on the vortical structures and mixing characteristics of scramjet combustor. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0151676
  16. Thummar, M., Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Transient energy growth analysis of flat-plate boundary layer with an oblique and non-uniform wall suction and injection. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109275
  17. Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2024. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer on a rotating circular cylinder. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2023.109241
  18. Thummar, M., Bhoraniya, R., Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2023. Stability and receptivity analysis of flat-plate boundary layer with suction and blowing. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-023-04328-1
  19. Sam, L., Idithsaj, P., Nair, P.P., Suryan, A., and Narayanan, V., 2023. Prospects for scramjet engines in reusable launch applications: A review. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.05.341
  20. Dandelia, Harvansh, Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2022. Optimal control of growth of instabilities in Taylor–Couette flow. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086971
  21. Nair, P.P., Suryan, A., and Narayanan, V., 2022. Modal analysis of mixing characteristics in scramjet combustor with passive struts. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.08.061
  22. Kant, R., Sharma, V., Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2022. Receptivity and sensitivity analysis of Jeffery-Hamel flow. Sadhana. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s12046-022-01925-z
  23. Nair, P.P., Narayanan, V., Suryan, A., and Kim, H.D., 2022. Prediction and visualization of supersonic nozzle flows using OpenFOAM. Journal of Visualization. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-022-00856-5
  24. Dandelia, H., Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2022. Optimal control of growth of instabilities in Taylor–Couette flow. Physics of Fluids. 10.1063/5.0086971
  25. Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2022. A modified FxLMS fluid flow control model for convectively unstable disturbances. Sadhana. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-022-01874-7
  26. Unnikrishnan, A., Shahane, S., Narayanan, V., and Vanka, S.P., 2022. Shear-driven flow in an elliptical enclosure generated by an inner rotating circular cylinder. Physics of Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0076537
  27. Nair, P.P., Narayanan, V., and Suryan, A., 2022. Combustion efficiency improvement for scram-jet combustor with strut-based flame stabilizer using passive techniques. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.09.224
  28. Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2021. Global stability analysis of the axisymmetric boundary layer: Effect of axisymmetric forebody shapes on the helical global modes. Pramana. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-021-02147-4
  29. Bhoraniya, R., Hussain, Z., and Narayanan, V., 2021. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer on a slender circular cone with the streamwise adverse pressure gradient. European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2021.01.008
  30. Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2019. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer: Effect of axisymmetric forebody shapes. Pramana. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-021-02147-4
  31. Bhoraniya, R., and Narayanan, V., 2019. Global Stability Analysis of Spatially Developing Boundary Layer: Effect of Streamwise Pressure Gradients. Fluid Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462819060028
  32. Kant, R., and Narayanan, V., 2019. Control of optimal growth of instabilities in Jeffery-Hamel flow. AIP Advances. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5087432
  33. Thomas, Tibin, and Narayanan, V., 2019. Heat transfer by convection in carbon nanotube arrays using molecular dynamics approach. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics. 10.29252/jafm.12.03.29037
  34. Bhoraniya, R., and Vinod, N., 2018. Global stability analysis of flow over a cylinder. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-018-0461-5
  35. Bhoraniya, R., and Vinod, N., 2017. Global stability analysis of flow over a circular cone. Phys. Rev. Fluids. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.063901
  36. Bhoraniya, R., and Vinod, N., 2017. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone. Journal of Physics, IOP. 10.1088/1742-6596/822/1/012018
  37. Vinod, N., and Govindarajan, R., 2012. Secondary Instabilities in Incompressible Axisymmetric Boundary Layers: Effect of Transverse Curvature. Journal of Fluids Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4005767
  38. Vinod, N., and Govindarajan, R., 2007. Signature of laminar instability in the transitional boundary layer. Journal of Turbulence. https://doi.org/10.1080/14685240600851732
  39. Vinod, N., and Govindarajan, R., 2005. Instabilities and Transition in Boundary Layers. Pramana Journal of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02704560
  40. Vinod, N., and Govindarajan, R., 2004. Pattern of breakdown of laminar flow into turbulent spots. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.114501

Conferences

  1. Study titled ‘Control of instabilities in pulsating channel flow’ presented at the 1st European Fluid Dynamics Conference (EFDC 2024), Aachen, Germany, 2024.
  2. Study titled ‘Meshless – linear stability analysis for computations of flow instabilities in Couette flow within elliptical enclosure’ presented at the 1st European Fluid Dynamics Conference (EFDC1), Aachen, Germany, 2024.
  3. Study titled ‘Numerical Simulation of Airfoil-Vortex Interaction in Tandem Airfoils’ presented at the 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2024-2334
  4. Study titled ‘Optimal growth of instabilities in pulsating Taylor-Couette flow’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
  5. Study titled ‘Transient energy growth and resolvent analyses of the axisymmetric boundary layer with suction and injection’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
  6. Study titled ‘Numerical study of passive enhancement of mixing using strut downstream’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
  7. Study titled ‘Numerical study of dual cavity scramjet combustor with pylon downstream’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
  8. Study titled ‘A study on unsteady throttling dynamics of scramjet intake by varying suction mass flow rate’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea, 2024.
  9. Study titled ‘Bifurcations in Taylor-Couette flow within an elliptical enclosure with an eccentrically placed inner cylinder’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2024), 2024.
  10. Study titled ‘Preferential concentration of particles in decaying isotropic turbulence’ presented at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2024), 2024.
  11. Study titled ‘Global stability analysis of the boundary layer with non-uniform wall suction and injection’ presented at the Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, 2024. 10.1615/IHMTC-2023.70
  12. Study titled ‘Computational Study of Injection Infront of the Cavity with Pylon Placed Downstream’ presented at the 14th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, HAL Management Academy, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 2023.
  13. Study titled ‘Numerical study on the effect of the pylon downstream of the cavity-based scramjet combustor’ presented at the 8th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1615/TFEC2023.aer.046452
  14. Study titled ‘Numerical simulation of the effect of different divergent angle of pylon’ presented at the Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 (EUCASS-CEAS Conference), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023. https://doi.org/10.13009/EUCASS2023-659
  15. Study titled ‘Effect of Injection Method on the Pylon Placed Downstream of the Cavity’ presented at the AIAA Aviation Forum, San Diego, California, USA (Virtual Presentation), 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-4137
  16. Study titled ‘Numerical study on the effect of equivalence ratio in passive strut configuration’ presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum, National Harbor, Maryland, USA (Virtual Presentation), 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-1645
  17. Study titled ‘Mixing characteristics of scramjet combustor with passive struts using data-driven modal decomposition technique’ presented at the 14th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC14), Athens, Greece, 2022.
  18. Study titled ‘Control of growth of instabilities in axisymmetric boundary layer’ presented at the 14th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Athens, Greece, 2022.
  19. Study titled ‘Active wake control of a bluff body using incompressible numerical simulations’ presented at the 9th Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF2022), Utsunomiya, Japan, 2022.
  20. Study titled ‘Numerical study on the effect of divergent angle of passive struts on the mixing of scramjet combustor’ presented at the 9th Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF2022), Utsunomiya, Japan, 2022.
  21. Study titled ‘Control of growth of perturbations in airfoil boundary layer’ presented at the Applied Mathematics Symposium: Instability and Flow Transition, IIT Hyderabad-IIT Guwahati, 2022.
  22. Study titled ‘Control of optimal transient growth on high AR trapezoidal wing boundary layers’ presented at the 74th Annual meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2021.
  23. Study titled ‘Mixing enhancement of strut based flame stabilizer for scramjet combustor using passive techniques’ presented at the 74th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, Arizona, 2021. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD21/Session/E03.7
  24. Study titled ‘Global stability analysis of eccentric Taylor Couette flow’ presented at the Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, 2021.
  25. Study titled ‘Shock Induced Mixing in Strut Based Flame Stabilizer for Scramjet Combustor’ presented at the 6th National Symposium on Shock Waves, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, 2020.
  26. Study titled ‘Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer on a circular cone with adverse pressure gradient.’ presented at the 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
  27. Study titled ‘Effect of cylinder geometry on the flow through annulus.’ presented at the 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2019. https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD15/Session/D38.2
  28. Study titled ‘Integrated simulation of active noise cancellation using a computational fluid dynamics approach’ presented at the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Germany, 2019.
  29. Study titled ‘Signature of linear instability in transition zone measurements in boundary layers’ presented at the Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF2019), 2019.
  30. Study titled ‘Global stability analysis of the spatially developing boundary layer: effect of wall suction and injection’ presented at the Proceedings of 16th Asian Congress in Fluid Mechanics, Bangalore, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5183-3_54
  31. Study titled ‘Large Eddy Simulation of Passive Noise Reduction in Subsonic Jets’ presented at the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2018.
  32. Study titled ‘Effect of boundary inputs in active flow control of plane Poiseuille flow through systems approach’ presented at the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2018.
  33. Study titled ‘Biglobal Stability Analysis of Axisymmetric Boundary Layer on Circular Cone.’ presented at the 15th Asian Congress in Fluid Mechanics, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2016.
  34. Study titled ‘Passive Control of Flow Separation on the Plate with Strong Adverse Pressure Gradient using Vortex Generators.’ presented at the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India, 2016.
  35. Study titled ‘Evaluation of the Outflow Boundary Conditions for BiGlobal Stability Analysis of Axisymmetric Boundary Layer.’ presented at the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India, 2016.
  36. Study titled ‘Effect of boundary inputs in active flow control of plane poiseuille flow through systems approach.’ presented at the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India, 2016.
  37. Study titled ‘Linear Stability Analysis of Incompressible Taylor Couette MHD Flow.’ presented at the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India, 2016.
  38. Study titled ‘Biglobal stability analysis of spatially developing axisymmetric boundary layers.’ presented at the 68th APS Meeting, Division of Fluid Mechanics, Boston, USA, 2015.
  39. Study titled ‘Effect of viscosity stratification on stability of axisymmetric boundary layer.’ presented at the 68th APS Meeting, Division of Fluid Mechanics, Boston, USA, 2015.
  40. Study titled ‘Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layers.’ presented at the 66th APS Meeting, Division of Fluid Mechanics, Pittsburgh, USA, 2013.
  41. Study titled ‘The role of Peclet number in 3-D mixing inside drops.’ presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2008.
  42. Study titled ‘Stability of Axisymmetric Boundary Layers The effect of Transverse curvature.’ presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 2007.
  43. Study titled ‘The many routes to turbulence in shear flows.’ presented at the Seventh National CFD Conference, Bangalore, India, 2005.
  44. Study titled ‘Aspects of the Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Axisymmetric Boundary Layers.’ presented at the 21st International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw, Poland, 2004.
  45. Study titled ‘The laminar-turbulent transition region: puzzles and progress.’ presented at the Perspectives in Non-Linear Dynamics, Chennai, India, 2004.
  46. Study titled ‘Are subtransitions in boundary layers a signature of laminar instability?’ presented at the International Symposium on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, Bangalore, India, 2003.
  47. Study titled ‘Stability analysis of an axisymmetric boundary layer.’ presented at the 9th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Isfahan, Iran, 2002.
  48. Study titled ‘Axisymmetric instabilities in the boundary layer over a cylinder.’ presented at the Third National CFD Conference, Bangalore, India, 2001.
  49. Study titled ‘The transition zone in adverse pressure gradient boundary layers: Results from stochastic simulations.’ presented at the XV International Symposium on Air Breathing Engines, Bangalore, India, 2001.