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Dr. K Sivan
Chairman, ISRO

Publications

  Prof. B. Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Design of a smart inflated torus and antenna membrane." ( STC/ME/2014086 ).

Conference

  1. Vibration Transmissibility based identification of soft viscoelastic system(2015): A. A. Kulkarni, R. Srivastava, B. Bhattacharya, ISSS National Conference on MEMS Smart Materials, Structures and Systems September 23-25, 2015, Kochi, India view

  2. Vibration analysis of inflated torus structure using frequency response transmissibility(2016): A. K. Sharma, B. Bhattacharya and A. C. Mathur, ISSS National Conference on MEMS Smart Materials, Structures and Systems September 28-30, 2016, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India view


  Prof. A. Guha , Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Numerical investigations on surface gravity waves and internal tides." ( STC/ME/2016176 ).

Conference

  1. Instabilities in long and narrow two-layered lakes undergoing double circulation(2016): Mihir Shete, Anirban Guha, Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India view

  2. Instabilities in long and narrow two-layered lakes undergoing upper-layer circulation(2016): Mihir Shete, Anirban Guha, Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India view

  3. Numerical simulation of the interfaces of a jet stream(2016): Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Anirban Guha, Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India view

  4. A study on wave breaking and wave interaction(2016): Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Raunak Raj, Anirban Guha, Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India view

Journal

  1. Non-linear dynamics induced by linear wave interactions in multi-layered flows: Anirban Guha,Firdaus E. Udwadia, accepted in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.


  Prof. D. Goswami , Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is partially supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Free space Optical Communication with Acousto-Optical Modulator based Transmitter" ( SPO/STC/EE/2014087 )

Journal

  1. A. Kumar, D. Goswami, “Effect of zinc substitution on molecular dynamics of protoporphyrin-IX”, Indian Journal of Physics,(2015), DOI 10.1007/s12648-015-0689-5 view

  2. D. Mondal, D. Goswami, “Controlling local temperature in water using femtosecond optical tweezer”,Biomedical Optics Express, 1 Sep 2015 | Vol. 6, No. 9 | DOI:10.1364/BOE.6.003190 view

  3. P. Kumar, D. Goswami, “Importance of Molecular Structure on the Thermophoresis of Binary Mixtures”, JPCB, (2014),dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp5079604 | J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 14852−14859 view

  4. P. Kumar, S. Dinda, D. Goswami, “Effect of molecular structural isomers in thermal lens spectroscopy”, CPL, 601, 163–167 (2014). view

  5. I. Bhattacharyya, P. Kumar, D. Goswami, “Effect of isotope substitution in binary liquids with Thermal-Lens spectroscopy”, CPL, 598, 35–38 (2014). view

  6. D. Goswami, “Quantum Distributed Computing Applied to Grover’s Search Algorithm”, Springer LNCS 8808, pp. 192–199, 2014.| DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13350-8 14. view

  7. S. Dindha, S.N. Bandyopadhyaya and D. Goswami, “On the interferometric coherent structures in femtosecond supercontinuum generation”, Appl. Phys. B 122, 148 (2016) | DOI 10.1007/s00340-016-6432-x. view

Chapters in Books

  1. D. Goswami, “Lasers and their Applications”, Book Chapter in “Light and its Many Wonders”, NASI-IYL Special Tribute (2016). view

  2. D. Goswami, “Advanced Optical developments for inter-Satellite Communications”, Directions 2015 Vol. 15 No.1 view


  Prof. K. V. Srivastav, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Microwave Metamaterial Absorber" ( SPO/STC/EE/2014087 )

Conference

  1. "An Ultra-thin Dual-Band Polarization-Independent Metamaterial Absorber for EMI/EMC Applications", P. Munaga, S. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharyya, D. Chaurasiya, K. V. Srivastava, in 9th European conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2015) at Lisbon, Protugal, 12-17 April, 2015. view

  2. "An Ultra-Thin Triple Band Polarization-Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber for C-Band Applications," D. Chaurasiya, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Ghosh, P. Munaga and K. V. Srivastava, in National Conference on Communications (NCC) at IIT Bombay, 27 February - 1 March, 2015. view

  3. "A Broadband Wide Angle Metamaterial Absorber for Defense Applications," S. Bhattacharyya, S. Ghosh, D. Chaurasiya and K. V. Srivastava, in IEEE International Microwave & RF Conference (IMaRC) 2014, 15-17 December, 2014, Bangalore, India. view

  4. "A Broadband Polarization-Insensitive Circuit Analog Absorber using Lumped Resistors," S. Bhattacharyya, S. Ghosh, D. Chaurasiya and K. V. Srivastava, in IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference 2015 (AEMC 2015), IIT Guwahati, India, 18-21 December, 2015. view

Journal

  1. P. Munaga, S. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharyya and K. V. Srivastava, "A Fractal based Compact Broadband Polarization Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber using Lumped Resistors," in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 343-347, Feb. 2016. view

  2. A. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Ghosh, D. Chaurasiya and K. V. Srivastava, "An Ultra-thin Penta-Band Polarization-Insensitive Compact Metamaterial Absorber for Airborne Radar Application," in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 57, no. 11, pp. 2519-2524, November 2015. view

  3. S. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharyya, D. Chaurasiya and K. V. Srivastava, "Polarization-insensitive and Wide-angle Multilayer Metamaterial Absorber with Variable Bandwidths," in IET Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 14, pp. 1050-1052, 2015. view

  4. D. Chaurasiya, S. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharyya, and K. V. Srivastava, "An Ultra-thin Quad-Band Polarization-Insensitive Wide-Angle Metamaterial Absorber," in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 697-702, March 2015. view

  5. S. Ghosh, S. Bhattacharyya, D. Chaurasiya, and K. V. Srivastava, "An Ultra-wideband Ultra-thin Metamaterial Absorber Based on Circular Split Rings," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 14, pp. 1172-1175, 2015. view

  6. S. Ghosh, and K. V. Srivastava, "An Equivalent Circuit Model of FSS Based Metamaterial Absorber using Coupled Line Theory," in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 14, pp. 511-514, 2015. view

  7. S. Ghosh, and K. V. Srivastava, "Polarization-Insensitive Single and Broadband Switchable Absorber/ Reflector and its Realization using a Novel Biasing Technique," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 3665-3670, 2016. view


  Prof. M. Jaleel Akhtar, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Microwave Active Remote Sensing of Buried Objects" ( STC/EE/2015100 )

Journal

  1. A. Raj, M. A. H. Ansari, A. K. Jha, M. J. Akhtar and S. Panda, “Metamaterial-inspired microwave sensor for measurement of complex permittivity of materials”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 58, No. 11, Nov. 2016, pp. 2577–2581. view

  2. S. Panda, N. K. Tiwari and M. J. Akhtar, “Computationally intelligent sensor system for microwave characterization of dielectric sheets”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, No. 20, Oct. 2016, pp. 7483-7493. view

  3. Z. Akhter and M. J. Akhtar, “Free-space time domain position insensitive technique for simultaneous measurement of complex permittivity and thickness of lossy dielectric samples,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 65, No. 10, Oct. 2016, pp. 2394-2405. view

  4. M. Bhaskar, E. Johari, Z. Akhter and M. J. Akhtar, “Gain enhancement of the Vivaldi antenna with band notch characteristics using zero-index metamaterial," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2016, pp. 233-238. view

  5. Z. Akhter, B. N. Abhijith and M. J. Akhtar “Hemisphere lens-loaded Vivaldi antenna for time domain microwave imaging of concealed objects,” Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 30, No. 9, 2016, pp. 1183-1197. view


  Prof. S. Khnadekar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "Development of integrated heat pipe based passive thermal Management platforms with vibration isolation capability." ( STC/ME/2015105 )

Journal

  1. T. Jaipurkar , P. Kant , S. Khnadekar , S. Paralikar , B. Bhattacharya , Thermo-Mechanical Design and Characterization of Flexible Heat Pipes, Applied Thermal Engineering, Accepted for publication, January, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2017.01.036 view


  Prof. Y. S. Chauhan, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, SAC under Project "HEMT Modelling for broad temperature and frequency ranges" ( STC/EE/2015110 )

Conference

  1. S. Ghosh, S. A. Ahsan, A. Dasgupta, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "GaN HEMT Modeling for Power and RF Applications using ASM-HEMT", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Mumbai, India, Dec. 2016. view

  2. S. Ghosh, A. Dasgupta, A. K. Dutta, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Physics based Modeling of Gate Current including Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling in GaN HEMT", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Mumbai, India, Dec. 2016. view

  3. S. A. Ahsan, S. Ghosh, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Statistical Simulation for GaN HEMT Large Signal RF performance using a Physics-based Model", IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Mumbai, India, Dec. 2016. view

  4. A. Dasgupta, S. Ghosh, S. A. Ahsan, S. Khandelwal, N. Defrance, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Modeling DC, RF and Noise behavior of GaN HEMTs using ASM-HEMT Compact Model", IEEE International Microwave and RF Conference (IMaRC), Delhi, India, Dec. 2016. view

  5. S. Ghosh, S. A. Ahsan, S. Khandelwal and Y. S. Chauhan, "Modeling of Source/Drain Access Resistances and their Temperature Dependence in GaN HEMTs", IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), Hong Kong, Aug. 2016. view

  6. S. A. Ahsan, S. Ghosh, S. Khandelwal and Y. S. Chauhan, "Modeling of Kink-Effect in RF Behaviour of GaN HEMTs using ASM-HEMT Model", IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC), Hong Kong, Aug. 2016. view

Journal

  1. S. A. Ahsan, S. Ghosh, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Analysis and Modeling of Cross-Coupling and Substrate Capacitance in GaN HEMTs for Power-Electronic Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (Special Issue), Vol. 64, Issue 3, 2017. view

  2. S. A. Ahsan, S. Ghosh, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Pole-Zero Approach to Analyze and Model the Kink in Gain-Frequency Plot of GaN HEMTs", accepted in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2017. view

  3. S. A. Ahsan, S. Ghosh, A. Dasgupta, K. Sharma, S. Khandelwal, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Capacitance Modeling in Dual Field Plate Power GaN HEMT for Accurate Switching Behaviour", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 63, Issue 2, Feb. 2016. view


  Prof. Ashoke De, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Numerical characterization of strut-ramp injector for supersonic combustion using large eddy simulation (LES)." (STC/AE/20130054)

Journal

  1. R.K. Soni, A. De, “Investigation of strut-ramp injector in a Scramjet combustor: effect of strut geometry, fuel and jet diameter on mixing characteristics”, J. of Mechanical Science and Technology, 31(3), 2017, pp. 1169-1179. view

  1. R.K. Soni, N. Arya, A. De, “Characterization of turbulent supersonic flow over a backward facing step through POD”, AIAA Journal, 2017, (in press).


  Prof. K. Balani, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Plasma Exposure Damage of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics." (STC/MET/20130094)

Journal

  1. A.Gupta, V.Kumar, J. Nair, A.Bansal, Kantesh Balani, “Abridgment of nano and micro length scale mechanical properties of novel Mg–9Li–7Al–1Sn and Mg–9Li–5Al–3Sn–1Zn alloys using object oriented finite element modeling." J. of Alloys and Compounds Vol. 634 (2015), pp. 24-31. view

  1. V.Kumar, R.Shekhar, Kantesh Balani, “Corrosion Behavior of Novel Mg-9Li-7Al-1Sn and Mg-9Li-5Al-3Sn-1Zn Alloys in NaCl Aqueous Solution." J. of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 24 No. 10 (2015), pp 4060-4070. view


  Prof. N. P. Gurao, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Effect of crystallographic texture and microstructure on Mechanical Properties of lightweight aluminum-lithium alloys." (STC/MET/2014099)

Journal

  1. Nayan N., Gurao N.P, NarayanaMurty S.V.S., Jha A.K., Pant B., Sharma S.C., George K.M. "Microstructure and micro-texture evolution during large strain deformation of an aluminium-copper-lithium alloy AA 2195" J. of Materials and Design, 65, (2015) pp. 862-868. view

  2. Nayan N., Gurao N.P., NarayanaMurty S.V.S., Jha A.K., Pant B., George K.M. "Microstructure and micro-texture evolution during large strain deformation of Inconel alloy IN718" J. of Materials Characterization, 110, (2015) pp. 236-241. view

Conference

  1. Patra L., Mishra S., Gurao N.P., "Effect of Strain Path Change on Deformation and Recrystallization Texture Evolution in Al-Mg Alloy." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth, Pittsburgh, USA (2016) pp. 231-238.


  Prof. K. Kulkarni, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Kinetics of Microstructure Evolution in Brazing Joints of 0.07C-16Cr-6Ni Steel and Silver Obtained with Ag-Cu-Sn Filler Metal." (STC/MET/2014094)

Conference

  1. S. Gangadharan, D. Sivakumar, T. Venkateswaran, K. Kulkarni, "Evolution of Microstructure in Brazed Joints of Austenitic-Martensitic Stainless Steel with Pure Silver Obtained with Ag-27Cu-5Sn Brazing Filler Material.", The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-016-3787-x, 6148—VOLUME 47A. view


  Prof. Rakesh K. Mathpal, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Development of a multi-scale, multi physics particle-based Flow solver." (STC/AE/20130055)

Journal

  1. A. K. Chinnappan, G. Malaikannan, Rakesh Kumar, "Insights into flow and heat transfer aspects of hypersonic rarefied flow over a blunt body with aerospike using direct simulation Monte-Carlo approach." Aerospace Science and Technology 66(2017) 119–128. view

  2. G. Malaikannan, Rakesh Kumar, "Hybrid Particle–Particle Numerical Algorithm for High Speed Non-equilibrium Flows." Accepted for publication in Computer and fluid .


  Prof. D. P. Mishra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, LPSC under Project " Experimental Studies on Kerosene Gel-propellant Spray Loaded with Nano-Aluminum Particle."(STC/AE/2014095)

Journal

  1. Swarup Y. Jejurkar, Geetanjali Yadav, and D.P. Mishra, "Visualizations of sheet breakup of non-Newtonian particulate gels." Submitted to Physics of Fluids 2016. Under Revision.

  2. Swarup Y. Jejurkar, Geetanjali Yadav, and D.P. Mishra, "Characterization of impinging jet sprays of particulate gels in the impact wave regime." submitted to International Journal of Multiphase Flows.

  3. Swarup Y. Jejurkar, Geetanjali Yadav, and D.P. Mishra, "Instability and breakup of a shear thinning sheet formed by oblique impingement of low Weber number jets." Under Preparation.


  Prof. Raj Ganesh Pala, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Doped oxides as anodes for hydrogen generation via water electrolysis."

Journal

  1. “Enhanced water oxidation activity of Co3O4 electrocatalyst on earth abundant metal interlayered hybrid porous carbon support.”, K. Kishor, S. Saha, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, ChemElectroChem,3,1899-1907 (2016)

  2. “Roughened Zn-doped Ru-Ti oxide water oxidation electrocatalysts by blending of active and activated passive components”, K. Kishor, S. Saha, M. K. Gupta, A. Bajpai, M. Chatterjee, S. Sivakumar and R. G. S. Pala, ChemElectroChem, 2 (11), 1839-1846 (2015)

  3. “Rational design strategy for optimization of clamping pressure to minimize contact resistance while preserving porosity of electrode in water electrolyzers” K. Kishor, A. Parashtekar, S. Saha, S. Sivakumar, J. Ramkumar and Raj Ganesh S Pala (Under Review)


  Prof. Samit R. Chaudhuri, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Stress concentration Factors(SCFs) in curved plates for Space Application." (STC/CE/2015109)

Conference

  1. K. Chawla, Samit R. Chaudhuri, "Effect of cross-section and discontinuities on damping enhancement in composites: An Experimental study.", Paper accepted in Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering Structure, EVACES 2017, July 12-14, San Diego, California

  2. K. Chawla, Samit R. Chaudhuri, "Effect of Cut-Out and Delamination on Modal Properties of Singly and Doubly-Curved Composite Plates.", Paper accepted in Conference EuroDyn 2017, Rome, Italy.

  3. K. Chawla, Samit R. Chaudhuri, "Effect of Cut-Out and Delamination on Modal Properties of Singly and Doubly-Curved Composite Plates.", Paper to be submitted to Engineering Structures, Elsevier.


  Prof. Sri Sivakumar, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Highly stable Nanoparticles-Nafion Nanocomposite via Click Chemistry for fuel Cell Applications." (STC/CHE/2014080)

Journal

  1. D. Haridas, Arun P. Upadhyay, Dilip K. Behara, G. Mishra, A. Sharma, *R. Ganesh Pala, *Sri Sivakumar, "Long Term Durable Pt Nanoparticles-loaded Carbon Nanocapsules for Improved Three Phase Boundary in Oxygen Reduction Reaction", Submitted


  Prof. Mainak Das, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur

  • This work is partially supported by ISRO, VSSC under Project "Developing Biomedical Technologies To Counter The Deleterious Effects Of Microgravity On The Rod And Cone Photo-receptor Network Of The Retina."

Journal

  1. Neelima Bhargava, Vellasamy Shanmugaiah, Manav Saxena, Manish Sharma, Niroj K. Sethy, Sushil K. Singh, Karuppiah Balakrishnan, Kalpana Bhargava, & Mainak Das, "Nano cerium oxide increases the survival of adult rod and cone photoreceptor in culture by abrogating hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress." Biointerphases. 2016 Sep 16;11(3):031016 view

  2. Neelima Bhargava, Vellasamy Shanmugaiah, Karuppiah Balakrishnan, Janakarajan Ramkumar, & Mainak Das, "Comparing the adhesion and survival of adult rod and cone photoreceptor neurons on ‘poly-d-lysine’ and ‘concanavalin-A’ substrate." Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Vol. 5,No. 6, 431–438, 2015 view