Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Undergraduate Term Projects

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Dropwise condensation on textured surfaces and multi-scale modeling

Dropwise condensation is a heterogeneous
phase-change process in which vapor
condenses in the form of discrete
liquid drops

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Droplet Hydrodynamics during Lysozyme Protein Crystallization

A team of researchers at IIT Kanpur
has studied experimentally the fluid
flow pattern inside the droplet

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Energy optimal walk of an 8 DOF compliant biped robot

A team of researchers at IIT Kanpur
have designed and experimentally evaluated
a new 8-DOF biped robot

Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. We started our journey in the year of 1960. Over the last six decades, we have grown our expertise and competence in the core Mechanical Engineering curriculum and research.... - Read More

-Prof. Ashish Dutta
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Announcements

PG Admissions

  • List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New
  • Syllabus for the PhD entrance exam [Link]

Postdocs and Faculty positions

Syllabus: Introduction to the Course and Some Applications of Difference Equations in Engineering, Preliminaries in linear algebra and analysis, Analogies between differential and difference equations, Elementary Difference Operations: the Difference and the Shift operators, The Difference and Summation Calculus, Linear difference equations

Syllabus: The success of a product in the market depends on many factors. These include cost, reliability and time to market. With globalization, companies need to devise techniques in order to remain competitive in the current scenario. To this end, design and manufacturing operations no longer function in isolation but have to interact closely.

Prerequisites: TA 202 or equivalent

Syllabus:Introduction: Examples of turbulent flow, modeling and their applications, Review of fluid mechanics: Mass, momentum and energy equations, boundary layer theory; Theory of turbulent flow: Introduction and statistical description of turbulence, scales of turbulence, energy cascade, Reynolds Equations (SRANS and Unsteady RANS), Reynolds Stress (RS) Equations and closure problems, Turbulent kinetic energy equations, wall bounded, and free-shear turbulent flows, Dynamics of turbulence, coherent and incoherent structures; Review of computational method: Aspects of Finite Difference Equation (FDE) (stability, convergence, order of accuracy, truncation error etc. using modified equations), FDM Solution of Incompressible Viscous Flows (SIMPLE and MAC)

Credits:9

Syllabus: Diesel Engine management: cylinder charge control systems, principles of diesel fuel injection, mixture distribution, diesel fuel injection systems, governors and control systems, discrete cylinder systems, single plunger fuel injection pumps, unit injector systems, and unit pump systems, common rail systems, injection nozzles, minimizing emissions inside the engine, electronic diesel control (EDC), electronic control unit (ECU);

 

Syllabus: Combustion and Fuels: Combustion process in SI and CI engines, Petroleum based liquid fuels and refining; Liquid alternative fuels such as vegetable oils, biodiesel, and emulsified fuels, lubricating oils composition and effect of alternate fuels; Gaseous alternative fuels such as hydrogen, compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, dimethyl ether, and hythane

 

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ME Fast Facts

42
Faculty
474
B.Tech Students
35
Dual degree students (B.Tech-M.Tech)
254
M.Tech. Students
48
M.S. by research Students
200
PhD Students