The Team
Prof. Vinod Narayanan
- BTech: Mahatma Gandhi University, 1995
- MTech: University of Kerala, 1999
- PhD: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 2005
Email: vinod@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Flow instabilities and transition to turbulence, compressible fluid flow, convective heat transfer
PhD students
Akash Unnikrishnan
- BTech: University of Kerala, 2016
- MTech: IIT Gandhinagar, 2019
Email: akash.unnikrishnan@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Flow instability, computational fluid dynamics, eccentric rotating cylinders
Research Topic: Stability of shear-driven flow between an inner rotating cylinder and a complex enclosure
Ananthu J P
- BTech: College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET), 2016
- MTech: College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET), 2019
Email: ananthu.jp@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: CFD, compressible flows, stability
Research Topic: Flow characteristics in Spherical Couette flows
Prasanth P Nair
- BTech: University of Kerala, 2014
- MTech: APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, 2017
Email: prasanth.n@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, aerospace engineering, computational fluid dynamics
Research Topic: Mixing characteristics in scramjet engines
Harvansh Dandelia
- BTech: NIT Raipur, 2018
- MTech: IIT Gandhinagar, 2020
Email: harvansh.dandelia@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Hydrodynamic Stability, Control of Instabilities
Research Topic: Nonparallel stability of unsteady flows
Abishek Sarkar
- BTech: NIT Arunachal Pradesh, 2020
- MTech: IIT Gandhinagar, 2022
Email: abisheks@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Aerodynamics, acoustics
Research Topic: Noise generation through vortex-airfoil interactions
MTech students
Abishek Sarkar
- BTech: NIT Arunachal Pradesh, 2020
Email: abisheks@iitgn.ac.in
Research Interest: Aerodynamics, acoustics
Research Topic: Noise generation through vortex-airfoil interactions
Alumni
PhD students
Rameshkumar Bhoraniya (2018) – Global stability in axisymmetric boundary layers
Ravi Kant (2020) – Active flow control of transient instabilities
MTech students
Manish Pillai (2014) – CFD based coal combustion and erosion modelling for a super-critical boiler
Abhishek Joshi (2016) – CFD analysis of aerodynamics of high altitude airships
Milan Vachchani (2016) – Flow control in adverse pressure gradient boundary layers using vortex generators
Swapnil G (2016) – Magnetohydrodynamics flow in concentrated rotating cylinders
Tibin Thomas (2016) – Heat transfer in nanofluidics using MD simulations
Kamal Tiwari (2017) – Active noise control in duct flows (jointly with Prof. Nithin George)
Siddarth Rath (2017) – Active Control of wakes behind bluff bodies
Akash Unnikrishnan (2019) – Signature of laminar instabilities in transitional boundary layers
Arun Cherkkil (2019) – Active Control of two-dimensional acoustic waves in a room (jointly with Prof. Nithin George)
John Sheriji Syriac (2019) – Control of BWI nose in helicopter wings
Rasik Jain (2019) – Active Control of vibration on a two dimensional plate
Suyash Gupta (2019) – Active Control of subsonic jet noise
Harvansh Dandelia (2020) – Active control of instabilities in Taylor-Couette flows.
Paritosh Karva (2021) Control of boundary layer instabilities by localized heating/cooling