• Virkeshwar Kumar, Susmita Dash, “Patterns during Evaporative Crystallization of a Saline Droplet” Langmuir, 33, 10265-10273, 2022. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c01535

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Ketan S., Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Convection-induced bridging during alloy solidification” Physics of Fluids, 34, 5, 053605, 2022. DOI: doi.org/10.1063/5.0088590

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Susmita Dash, “Evaporation-based low-cost method for the detection of adulterant in milk” ACS Omega, 6, 27200-27207, 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c03887,
  Note: Highlighted by many Media houses such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Time of India, and IISc Press release.

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Role of microstructure and composition on the natural convection during ternary alloy solidification” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 913, A41, 2021. DOI: org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1

• Virkeshwar Kumar, G. S. Abhishek, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “On the mechanism responsible for unconventional thermal behaviour during freezing” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903, A32, 2020. DOI: org/10.1017/jfm.2020.630

• Aniket Monde, Oaj Chawla, Virkeshwar Kumar, Shyamprasad Karagadde, and Prodyut Chakraborty, “Shrinkage induced flow during directional solidification of pure substance in a bottom cooled cavity: A study on flow reversal phenomena”, Physics of Fluids, 32, 047104, 2020. DOI: org/10.1063/5.0002953

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde “Characteristics of solidification-driven double-diffusive layers in mixtures” Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 27, 427-451, 2020. DOI: org/10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.2020032771

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Generalized regimes for the existence of stratified regions during freezing of multi-component mixtures” Physics of Fluids, 31,12, 123602, 2019. DOI: org/10.1063/1.5125852.

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Do the intrusive probes alter the characteristic length-scales of natural convection?” Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 25, 3-4, 207-228 (2018). DOI: org/10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.2018027287.

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Compositional dependency of double-diffusive layers during binary alloy solidification: Full-field measurements and quantification” Physics of Fluids, 29, 113603 (2018). DOI: org/10.1063/1.5049135 Note: Featured Article in the journal, with AIP media coverage via SciLight doi.org/10.1063/1.5081144)

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Mitesh Kumawat, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde “Mechanism of flow reversal during solidification of an anomalous liquid” Physics of Fluids, 29, 123603 2017. DOI: org/10.1063/1.5005139

• Virkeshwar Kumar, Atul Srivastava, Shyamprasad Karagadde, “Real-time observations of density anomaly-driven convection and front instability during solidification of water” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 140, 042503, 2018. DOI: org/10.1115/1.4038420

• Excellence in Ph.D. Research Award for 2018-2020, IIT Bombay (58th Convocation, 2020).

• C V Raman Post-Doc Fellowship, IISc Bangalore, 2020.

• Won 2^nd Prize in image contest, Mechanical Department Annual Research Student Symposium, IISc Bangalore, July 2021.

• Ph.D. Annual Progress Seminar Award (2017-18), Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Bombay

• International Travel Support (ITS) grant to attend ICASP-5 & CSSCR-5 conference at Salzburg Austria: 2019

• Assistant Professor (July 2022-Present) IIT Kanpur, Department of Mechanical Engineering

• C. V. Raman Postdoc Fellow (July 2020 July 2022) IISc Bangalore, Department of Mechanical Engineering The research focused on evaporation-based experiments such as crystallization, detection of adulterants in milk, and boiling.

• Research Associate/Project Research Associate (Dec 2019-July 2020) IIT Bombay, Department of Mechanical Engineering FSI during the phase change process using Ansys and experimental methods Project agency: Mercedes-Benz R&D India (MBRDI)

• Teaching Assistant (Jan 2016 Dec 2019) IIT Bombay, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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