Dr. Ashwani Assam Assistant Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering R308 Block 3 Academic Area Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihta, Bihar - 801106 E-mail: aashwani@iitp.ac.in Phone: +91-611-523-3829 Google Scholar ResearchGate Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6865-3011

Biography

Ashwani Assam is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the IndianInstitute of Technology (IIT), Patna. Formerly, he was a DST Inspire Faculty in the department. He did his post-doc at IIT Palakkad. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical in 2012 from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India, and his M-Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was recipient of Institute Gold and Silver Medal during his M-Tech at IIT Hyderabad. His research interest includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Compressible fluid flow, Micro and Nano Flows, Rarefied Gas Dynamics,Turbulence, Machine Learning, Drone Aerodynamics, and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Simulation. He has been involved in developing in-house CFD codes. He has also been working with openSource CFD codes such as OpenFOAM and SU2.

•     INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India (2020-2025)
•     Institute gold and silver medal for securing highest CGPA in M-Tech (in all Departments and in Mechanical Engineering)
•     Academic excellence award for the Year 2012-13 in the Mechanical M-Tech category
•     Laureate certificate for academic performance in the year 2008
•     Member of Open FOAM user group at IIT Hyderabad

Membership of Professional Bodies

•     Life member to the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT)

Post-Doctoral Work

•   DST Inspire Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Patna. (Time duration: July 2020 to February 2022)
•   Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow at IIT Palakkad, Kerala.  (Mentor: Dr. Ganesh Natarajan. Time duration: July 2019 to July 2020)

Educational Qualifications

• Faculty Advisor: B-Tech 2020 (Mechanical Engineering, IITP)
• Faculty Advisor: M-Tech (Mechanical) 2021 (Mechanical Engineering, IITP)
• Programme Director: Executive M-Tech Program in Mechatronics, IITP
• Department Secretary (October 2022 – March 2023)
• Design of New Course/Program:
• Executive M-Tech Program (along with Dr Atul Thakur, IITP)
• B-Tech in Aerospace Engineering (along with Dr M. Pathak, IITP) (In progress)
• M-Tech in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Thermo-Fluid (along with Dr Kaleem Khan, IITP)
• Designed a new elective course, “Gas Dynamics and Propulsion” (along with Dr Deepu)
• Designed a new undergraduate course, “Data Analytics and Machine Learning Tools for Engineers” (along with Dr Rishi Raj and Dr Atul Thakur)
• Core Member,27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2023), December 14-17, 2023, held at IIT Patna
• Design of Google Form and API script based prospective Faculty assessment form for Faculty shortlisting round
• Professor In Charge - GIAN & SPARC (Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2023)
• Nodal Officer - Visvesvaraya Ph.D Scheme (Sep. 2022 - Sep. 2023)
• Professor In Charge - Training & Placement Cell (March 2023 - March 2025)
• Core Member,27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2023), December 14-17, 2023, held at IIT Patna
• Served as session chair in 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2023), December 14-17, 2023, held at IIT Patna
  
• Participated in Manak Pravardhak, Two-day BIS workshop for the Engagement of Young Professionals held on 27-28 March 2024 at BIS National Institute of Training for Standardization (NITS), Noida
• Coordinated "Introduction to ANSYS Multiphysics Training" at IIT Patna from 08th to 15th September (Online mode)
• Organized (as PIC TnP) the 37th All IIT’s Placement Committee (AIPC) Meeting on September 23, 2023, held at IIT Patna
  
• Coordinated "Advanced Training on Ansys Structural and Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Tools" at IIT Patna from 08th to 15th September (Offline mode)
• Department Website Coordinator (May 2024 -- till date)
• Organized two-day "TPO Meet" for Training and Placement Officer or In-charge of Government Polytechnic Colleges of Bihar on 17th and 18th January 2025. (As Professor-In-Charge TnP along with Director Office, IIT Patna)
  
• Coordinated the workshop "Essentials of CFD using ANSYS Fluent" at IIT Patna on 21st January, 2025
  

Journal Articles

1. Alam, M. Q., Upadhyay, A., Assam, A., & Raj, R. (2025). On the origin and nature of acoustic emissions from bubbles departing an underwater nozzle. Physics of Fluids, 37(4). (Link)
   
2. Kumar, V., Ranjan, A., Assam, A., & Prabhakaran, D. (2024). Dynamics of a hot flexible cantilever plate under natural convection heat transfer in a square cavity. Physics of Fluids, 36(11). (Link)
   
3. Amit, K., Assam, A., & Raj, A. (2024). Heat transfer characteristics of pulsatile flow through microchannel with heat-spots: Mimicking heat generation in the blood vessels. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 159, 108296. (Link)
   
4. Kumar, R., Kumar, A., & Assam, A. (2024). Investigating forced convection in porous media-filled cavities for designing supplementary passive cooling systems. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 55, 102914. (Link)
   
5. Ajaya Kumar, A., & Assam, A. (2024). Addressing performance improvement of a neural network model for Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes solutions with high wake formation. Engineering Computations. (Link)
   
6. Amit, K., Assam, A., & Raj, A. (2024). Droplet migration through deformable stenosed microchannel: Dynamics and blockage. Physics of Fluids, 36(5).( Link)
7. Upadhyay, A., Hazra, S. K., Assam, A., & Raj, R. (2023). Review of the current status and the potential of machine learning tools in boiling heat transfer. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 1-44. ( Link)
   
8. Amit, K., Assam, A. & Raj, A. Pressure-flow characteristics of a microchannel combining super-hydrophobicity and wall compliance. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 27, 64 (2023). ( Link)
   
9. Kumar, V., Assam, A., & Prabhakaran D. (2023). Dynamics of a wall-mounted cantilever plate under low Reynolds number transverse flow in a two-dimensional channel. Physics of Fluids, 35 (8), 083605. (Link)
   
10. Sharma, V., & Assam, A. (2023) Aero-Thermal Analysis of Rarefied Flow Over Inverse Cone Shaped Objects Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Analysis. ASME Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, 145(10), 101801. (Both Author Contributed Equally) (Link)
    
11. Shah, M. S., Gupta, D., Saha, P., Assam, A., & Sarkar, C. (2023) A novel flushing technique to improve micro-EDM dressing process stability: assessment through analyzing debris evacuation. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 127, 775–794. (Link)
    
12.  Kumar, S., & Assam, A. (2023). Effect of rarefaction on thermal and chemical non-equilibrium for Hypersonic flow with different enthalpy and catalytic wall conditions. ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 15(7), 071012. (Link)
13.  Deka, M., Assam, A., & Natarajan, G. (2023). A least squares perspective of Green–Gauss gradient schemes. Physics of Fluids, 35(3), 031710. (Link)
14. Sharma, V., & Assam, A. (2022). Evaluation of novel wall function approach for supersonic flow problems involving separations induced by geometry and shocks. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 123, 75-88. (Link)
    
15. Assam, A., & Natarajan, G. (2021). A novel least squares finite volume scheme for discontinuous diffusion on unstructured meshes. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 96, 120-130. (Link)
16. Kalkote, N., Assam, A. & Eswaran, V. (2021), Toward the implementation of a multi-component framework in a density-based flow solver for handling chemically reacting flows, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 31 No. 10, pp. 3169-3195. (Link)
    
17. Kalkote, N., Kumar, A., Assam, A., & Eswaran, V. (2020), Performance of the k-kL model for aerodynamics applications, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 22 No. 8, pp. 3985-4011.( Link)
    
18. Assam, A., Nived, M. R., Kalkote, N. N., & Eswaran, V. (2020). A numerical study of shock and heating with rarefaction for hypersonic flow over a cylinder. Journal of Heat Transfer, 142(1), 014501. (Link)
19. Joshi, A., Assam, A., Nived, M. R., & Eswaran, V. (2019). A generalised wall function including compressibility and pressure-gradient terms for the Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model. Journal of Turbulence, 20(10), 626-660. (Link)
20. Kalkote, N., Assam, A., & Eswaran. V. (2019). Acceleration of later convergence in a density-based solver using adaptive time stepping. AIAA Journal, 57(1), 352-364.(Link)
21. Kalkote, N., Assam, A. & Eswaran, V. (2019), Towards developing an adaptive time stepping for compressible unsteady flows, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 487-503.(Link)
    
22. Assam, A., Kalkote, N., Dongari, N., & Eswaran, V. (2019). Investigation of non-equilibrium boundary conditions considering sliding friction for micro/nano flows. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 29(8), 2501-2523. (Link)
    
23. Assam, A., Kalkote, N., Dongari, N., & Eswaran, V. (2018). Comprehensive evaluation of a new type of Smoluchowski temperature jump condition. AIAA Journal, 56(11), 4621-4625. (Link)
24. Assam, A., Narayan Kalkote, N., Sharma, V., & Eswaran, V. (2018). An automatic wall treatment for Spalart–Allmaras turbulence model. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 140(6). (Link)

 Conference Articles

1. Kumar, V., Assam, A., & Prabhakaran, D. (2024). Numerical Investigations and Analysis of a Flexible Cantilever Plate in a 2D Closed Channel. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
   
2. Kumar, V., Assam, A., & Prabhakaran, D., Dynamics of 2D Elastic Cantilever Plate placed in a Channel at low Reynolds number transverse Flow, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-242, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
3. Raj, A., Alam Md. Q., Assam A., & Raj R., Numerical Validation of Acoustic Emissions from a Train of Bubbles Departing from an Underwater Nozzle, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-364, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
4. Alam Md. Q., Upadhyay A., Assam A., & Raj R., Improving Acoustic Emission Modeling of Underwater Bubble Detachment by Accounting for Compressibility Effects, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-415, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
5. Kumar A., Kumar S., K, & Assam, A., Validation of hypersonic CFD solver hy2FOAM with emphasis on the need for modelling chemical non-equilibrium, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-398, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
6. Kumar R., Tripath A., K, & Assam, A., Towards enhanced cooling techniques in the reservoir section of a closed-loop liquid cooling system, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-457, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
7. Amit, K, Assam, A., & Raj, A., Analysis of a Deformable Stenosed Microchannel for Cell Migration: A Guide for Blockage Prediction, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-332, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
8. Amit, K, Assam, A., & Raj, A., Heat Transfer Analysis in Pulsating Laminar Flow for Biological Applications, Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, (IHMTC), Paper ID: IHMTC2023-287, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India, December 14-17, 2023.
   
9. Assam, A., & Sharma, V., Numerical Analysis of Flow Properties on a Cone-Shaped Body in Rarefied Flow, 14th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics (ACFD) Conference, Paper No. 15, HAL Management Academy, Bengaluru, India, October 30th –  November 2nd, 2023.
   
10. Amit, K, Assam, A., & Raj, A., Search for a Durable Superhydrophobic Microchannel for Intesive Drag Reduction, Proceedings of the 1st Indian Conference on Micro Nano Fluidics (ICOM) 2023, Paper ID: ICOM0075, IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India, Sep 29 -- Oct 1, 2023.
11. Amit, K, Assam, A., Raj, A. Dynamics of droplet motion in stenosed deformable microchannel, 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF) , Paper No. 423, Kobe, Japan, April 2 – 7 , 2023. 
12. Alam Md. Q., Upadhyay A., Assam A., Raj R. Numerical Investigation of Passive Acoustic Emissions during Bubble Departure from an Underwater Orifice, CHEMCON 2022, HBTU Kanpur, India, 27th Dec – 30th Dec 2022.
    
13. Amit, K, Assam, A., Raj, A. Hydrodynamics resistance of stenosed deformable microchannel for droplet migration, 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Paper No. 2589, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, December 14-16, 2022.
    
14. Amit, K, Assam, A., Raj, A. Pressure flow characteristics of a deformable microchannel with a superhydrophobic wall, 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Paper No. 2897, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, December 14-16, 2022
    
15. Amit, K, Assam, A., Raj, A. Role of deformability and super-hydrophobicity in the microchannel, 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2022, Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 23-27 October, Hangzhou, China.
    
16. Ananthajit A, Assam, A., Training of Neural Network on Selectively Generated Data for flow over airfoils at higher angle of attack, 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Paper No. 202, BITS Pilani India, December 27-29, 2021.
17. Kalkote N., Nived M.R., Assam A., An Assessment of NL-LUSGS, Non-Linear Equation Solution Algorithm for Time-Accurate Marching in Compressible Flows on Hybrid-Unstructured Grid, 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2021), Paper No. 608, IIT Madras, December 17-20, 2021.
18. Boban, J., Ahmed, A., Assam, A. (2021). Effect of recirculation zone on debris evacuation during EDM deep hole drilling. Procedia CIRP, 102, 393-398.
    
19. Nived M.R., Kalkote N., Assam A., and Eswaran V., Applications of k − kl Turbulent Flow Model to The Engineering Flows, 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), Paper No.–664, IIT Roorkee, India, December 28-31, 2019.
    
20. Kalkote N., Nived M.R., Assam A., and Eswaran V., Stable implementation of k − kl turbulent flow model in unstructured grid CFD solver, 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), Paper No.–525, IIT Roorkee, India, December 28-31, 2019.
21. Assam A., Kalkote N., Nived M. R., Eswaran V., Performance of Various Convective Scheme for Hypersonic Flows. 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Paper no. 260, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, December 10-12, 2018.
22. Kalkote N., Assam A., Eswaran V., Application of Adaptive Time-Stepping for Steady/Unsteady Flows, 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD10), Paper No. 148, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-13, 2018.
23. Sharma V., Assam A., Eswaran V., Investigation Of Turbulent Mixing Layer With Compressibility Corrections For RANS Models, 10th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD10), Paper No. 168, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-13, 2018.
24. Kalkote N., Assam A., Nived M. R., Eswaran V., Investigation of All-Speed SLAU Scheme in Incompressible Limit. 5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems (THERMACOMP - 2018), Paper no. 76, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, July 9-11, 2018.
25. Assam A., Kalkote N., Dongari N., Eswaran V., Use of the Pressure Jump Boundary Condition in the High Speed Rarefied Gas Flows, 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems) (ECCM 6) and the 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), ECCOMAS, Paper No. 21, Glasgow, UK, June 11-15, 2018.
26. Assam A., Sharma V., and Eswaran V. Automatic Wall Treatment for Spalart-Allmaras Turbulence Model, 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), Paper No. 479, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, December 27-30, 2017.
27. Athkuri S. S. C., Sharma V., Assam A., Eswaran V., Performance of Convective Schemes in Density-Based Solver, 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), Paper No. 174, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, December 27-30, 2017.
28. Sharma V., Assam A., Eswaran V., Numerical Simulation of Turbulent High-Speed Plane Jets - A Validation with Experimental Results, 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), Paper No. 62, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India, December 27-30, 2017.
29. Assam A., Kalkote N., Dongari N., Eswaran V., Computation of Rarefied Gas Flows in Nano/micro Devices using an Indigenous developed Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver, International Conference on Nanotechnology: Ideas, Innovations & Initiatives (ICN:3I). Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering & Centre of Nanotechnology, Paper No. 498, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, December 6-8, 2017.
30. Sharma V., Assam A., Eswaran V., Development of All Speed Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Unstructured Grids, 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Paper No. 21, Allahabad, India, Dec. 15-17 2016.
31. Gijare H., Assam A., Dongari N., Aero-Thermodynamics Optimization of Reentry Capsule in the Slip Flow Regime, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2015), Paper No. 487, LPSC, ISRO, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, December 17-20, 2015.

1. Ananthajit, A., & Assam, A. (2023). Training of Neural Network on Selectively Generated Data for Flow over Airfoils at Higher Angle of Attack. In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 3) Select Proceedings of FMFP 2021 (pp. 1-6). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. (Link)
   
2. Boban, J., Ahmed, A., & Assam, A. (2021). Effect of recirculation zone on debris evacuation during EDM deep hole drilling. Procedia CIRP, 102, 393-398. (Link)

Invited Talks/Workshop/Symposium

1. Presented CFD results titled "Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Intake using SU2" at the SPICES 4 Workshop, part of SAROD 2024, held in Thiruvananthapuram, December 12–14, 2024.
   
2. Expert Lecture, "Introduction to CFD in Multiphase Problems" in the SERB Workshop on "Emerging Trends in Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Heat Transfer" organised by Dr. Rishi Raj at IIT Patna. Date: July 17, 2023
   
3. Invited to deliver a talk on "Emerging Teaching Skills" as a guest faculty to Assitant Professors in three groups on 13th July 2023, 21st July 2023, 29th July 2023, and 05th August 2023. Bihar Institute of Public Administration & Rural Development, Gaya.
   
4. Interactive talk on "User-Defined Functions: An Introduction" under Coding and Machine Learning club of Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Patna, 31st Oct 2021.
   
5. "Growing as an Inspire Awardee" under the theme of Human Capacity Building, Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, Bihar Council on Science and Technology, 29th Oct 2021.
   
6. Delivered an invited talk titled "Opportunities and Benefits of Postgraduate Studies in Materials Science" at MaterialSpark 2025, organized by the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME), Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), on March 22, 2025.
   

Present Students

Doctoral

• Vivek Kumar (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Deepu P, ME)
• Kumar Amit (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Abhishek Raj, ME)
• MD Quamar Alam (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Rishi Raj, ME)
• Prashant Kumar (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Rishi Raj, ME)
• Santosh Kumar
  

 Masters

• Akshay Kumar
• Vivek Muktieh
• Pragvansh Sharma (Co-Guide, Guide: Prof. Mayank Tiwari, ME)

 Bachelors

• Awantika Singh
  
• Hitin Bajaj
  
• Aditya Kumar

Past Students

 Masters

• Aditya Kumar, 2024
  
• Thesis title: Predicting Aerothermodynamic Effect of Surface Dents on Blunt Bodies at Hypersonic Speeds
  
• Rajiv Kumar, 2024
  
• Thesis title: Investigation of Different Cooling Methods in the Reservoir Part of a Closed-Loop Liquid Cooling System
• Sanjay Kumar, 2023
  
• Thesis title: Role of Jameson-Schmidt-Turkel (JST) Coefficients in Hypersonic Computations
  
• Anubhav Dwivedi, 2023
  
• Thesis title: Implementation of a Novel Least Squares Finite Volume Scheme for Discontinuous Diffusion in OpenFoam
• Ashok Das, 2022 (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Abhishek Raj, ME)
  
• Thesis title: CFD Analysis of Wall Condensation in Convective Flow in Presence of Non-Condensable Gases
• Monisha Daimari, 2022 (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr. Rishi Raj, ME)
• Thesis title: Bubble Acoustics Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
• Shubham Kumar, 2022 (Best Masters' Project-MTP)
  
• Thesis title: Numerical Study of Non-Equilibrium Multi-Species Hypersonic Flows

Bachelors

• Tarun Meruga and Macharla Venkata Bhanu, 2024  (Co-Guide, Guide: Dr Anirban Bhattacharya, ME)
• Thesis title: Application of Inverse heat transfer approach in Friction stir welding
• Danish Raza and Md. Owais Siddiquei, 2024
• Thesis title: Development of Robust Euler Solver IN SU2
• Shresth Verma and Kartikay Gupta, 2024 (Jointly with Dr Atul Thakur, ME)
• Thesis title: Drag Analysis of Payload Cover Shapes for Delivery Drones
• Anand Tripathi, 2023
• Thesis title: Investigating the Effect of Porous Media on Fluid Flow and Heat​ Transfer in Microchannels and Macro-Cavities​
• Manoj Kumar Madugula and Rahul Preetham Kandukuri, 2023
• Thesis title: Study on Reducing Wind speeds using wind barriers
• Neeraj Kumar Gond and Nikhil Anand, 2022
• Thesis title: Study of Rarefied Gas Flows in Microchannels

   Major Codes Developed

• 3D Unstructured density based CFD Solver for external aerothermodynamics and rarefied flows
• 3D Structured finite volume compressible flow module in ANUPRAVAHA: General purpose in-house CFD Solver
• A novel and robust least-square method-based Poisson solver with discontinuous coefficients. (Both in an in-house code and OpenFOAM)