Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Compact Heat Exchangers, Energy and Environmental Impact on Society, Evaporative Cooling, Experimental Thermo-Fluid Science, Fluid and Thermal Engineering, Hybrid Vehicle Thermal Management, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Hyderabad Campus Jawahar Nagar, Kapra Mandal Dist.-Medchal-500 078 Telangana, India
Research grant funded by BITS Pilani, Hyderbad Campus under Outstanding Potential for Excellence in Research and Academics (OPERA) (22 Lakhs) (December 2018-December 2023) as PI
Completed Projects
Harvesting of Energy from Underwater Currents through Coupled Vortex Induced Vibration, Flapping Dynamics, Electro-Magnetic Induction and Piezoelectric Effects, funded by SERB under Startup Research Grant (SRG) (27.36 Lakhs) (October 2019 - October 2021) as PI
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Insect/Bird Flight Inspired Flexible Flapping Wing Propulsion, funded by BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus under Advanced Competitive Research Grant (ACRG) (9.5 Lakhs) (September 2019 - September 2021) as PI
Flow induced vibration/flapping dynamics of multi-layered flexible foil in a uniform flow, funded by BITS Pilani, Hyderbad Campus under Research Initiation Grant (RIG) (2 Lakhs) (March 2019- March 2021) as PI
Development of heterogenous MPI-CUDA based parallel 3D fluid-structure solver, funded by NVIDIA under Hardware Grant Program (October 2021 - October 2022) as PI