Mechanical Engineering

Visiting Faculty

Dr. P A Lakshminarayanan (PhD, IIT Madras)

FB 354 (Faculty Building)

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Experience
40 years of experience in the design and development of Cylinder Heads, Ports, Manifolds, Piston Cavity, Combustion System and Matching Fuel Injection Equipment of Diesel Engines. Dr. Lakshminarayanan has also held several leading positions in the industry, such as General Manager (R&D) Kirloskar Oil engines, Head Engines Ashok Leyland etc.

Former Adjunct Faculty

	Dr. Vishwanath Prasad (PhD, University of Delaware) Ex-VP (Research) and Professor, Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, University of North Texas, US
	E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Convective heat transfer, heat transfer in porous media, materials processing (crystal growth, plasma spray coating and thin film processing), microelectronics, energy systems, and computational and experimental methods.
	Amitava Gupta (PhD Jadavpur University) Power Plant Engineering, Jadavpur University Adjunct Professor, NETP/ME, IIT Kanpur (31.03.14 to 30.03.16)
	School of Nuclear Studies & Applications, Jadavpur University, Salt Lake Campus, LB-8, Sector 3, Salt Lake, Calcutta-700098, India 033 233 55 813 (Office) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Networked Control Systems, Distributed Real-time Simulation, Control of Nuclear Reactors

Former Visiting Faculty

	Dr. Roger A. Sauer (PhD, UC Berkeley) Associate Professor, RWTH Aachen University
	FB 302 (Faculty Building) 0512-259-4771 (O) 0512-259-8180 (R) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Advanced finite element methods; contact, adhesion and friction; shells and membranes; fluid-structure interaction; multiphysics of interfaces
	Dr. Ramesh Narayanaswamy (PhD, IIT Madras) Associate Professor, Curtin University, Australia
	NL 1-301 (Northern Lab) 0512-259- (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics.
	Syed Fahad Anwer (PhD, IIT Delhi) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, AMU, Aligarh
	NL 205 (Northern Lab) 0512-259-6679 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Turbulence, High Temperature Gradient: Low Mach Number Flows, Insect Aerodynamics, Fluid Structure Interaction.

	Prashant Shukla (PhD, IIT Kanpur) Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IITBHU
	NL 302 (Northern Lab) 0512-259-xxxx (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests CFD, Heat Transfer.
	Om Pal Singh (PhD, IIT Delhi) Principal Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering
	FB 439 (Faculty Building) 0512-259-6712 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Reactor Physics, Reactor Kinetics and Stability Analysis, Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Assessment of nuclear reactors, Current interests include dynamic analysis of high temperature gas cooled reactors and conceptual studies of travelling wave reactors.

INSPIRE Faculty

	Dr. Bhuvana T. (PhD, JNCASR, Bangalore)
	214 Northern Lab. I, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 208016 0512 259 6494 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Nanolithography, nanomaterials, Electrodes for microfuel cells, bioplastics and Surface interaction between liquids and soft solids.
	Dr. Arshad Afzal (PhD, Inha University, South Korea)
	202, Old SAC Building, IIT Kanpur 208016 0512 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Microfluidics, Gas Turbine Cooling, Thermal-Fluid Design Optimization, Surrogate Modeling and Optimization.
	Dr. Vashi Mant Sharma (PhD, IIT Bombay)
	202, Old SAC Building, IIT Kanpur 208016 0512 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST), Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), Optics of Concentrators, Renewable Energy.

SERB National Postdoctoral Fellow

	Dr. Ram Krishna Upadhyay (PhD, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad)
	Solidification Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 208016 0512 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Surface Engineering, Thin Films and Coatings, Tribology, Mechanical Behavior of Materials.

Postdoctoral Fellows

	Samarjeet Chanda (PhD, IIT Madras)
	Interferometry Lab (fluid Mechanics Laboratory) NL1, department Of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 0512 259 7709 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Personal homepage	Research Interests transport property estimation using inverse techniques, Inverse problem solutions using evolutionary techniques like Genetic Algorithm, design of appropriate instrumentation for carrying out measurements in vacuum environment, Interferometric measurements, Interfacial phenomena

INSPIRE Faculty

	Dr. Bhuvana T. (PhD, JNCASR, Bangalore)
	214, Northern Laboratories I 0512 259 6494 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Nanolithography, nanomaterials, Electrodes for microfuel cells, bioplastics and Surface interaction between liquids and soft solids.
	Dr. Vashi Mant Sharma (PhD, IIT Bombay)
	202, Old SAC Building 0512 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Research Interests Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST), Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), Optics of Concentrators, Renewable Energy.
	Dr. Aman Kumar (PhD, IIT Kharagpur)
	362, Faculty Building 0512 259 7668 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Dynamics and Vibration

Postdoctoral Fellows

	Dr. Madhusree Kole (PhD, IIT Kharagpur)
	109, Southern Laboratories +91 9732229378 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Thermophysical Properties, Heat Transfer, Nanofluids, Ferrofluids.
	Dr. Kamal Raj Sharma (PhD, IIT Roorkee)
	Water Tunnel Facility Southern Laboratories +91 9557145767 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Bluff Body Aerodynamics, Passive flow control, Fluid-structure interaction
	Dr. Sykam Surendra Varma (PhD, IIT Bombay)
	Water Tunnel Facility Southern Laboratories 0512 259 6530 (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Optical Instrumentation, Heat and Mass Transfer, Nanofluids, Crystallization, Double-diffusive Convection
	Dr. Vandana Jain (PhD, VNIT, MH, India)
	301, Northern Laboratories 0512 259 4793 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Embedded System Design, Internet on Things, Lab-on-Chip, Microfluidic, Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) Devices, MEMS
	Dr. Mriganka Shekhar Chaki (PhD, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad)
	367, Faculty Building +91 8051154648 - (O) E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests Vibroacoustic study of musical instruments, Elastic wave propagation, Micro-continuum solid mechanics.