K. Muralidhar

PhD (University of Delaware)

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization


Research Interest

 

Education

  • PhD, University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA April 1985
  • Master of Technology (Mechanical Engineering), 1981, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), 1979, Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur, India)

Website(s)

CV

  • Praveen Somwanshi, Three dimensional imaging of coalescence dynamics of drops underneath textured surfaces (in progress).

  • Ganesh Shirsath, Design and performance of an improved solar still using membranes (in progress).

  • Krishna Chandran, Accelerators for linear solvers in three dimensional CFD (in progress).

  • Raghavendra Singh, Analysis of methane recovery techniques and CO2 sequestration in the K-G basin (in progress).

  • Supriya Upadhyay, Electrically controlled coalescence of droplets on mesh-like hydrophobic surfaces (in progress).

  • Abdullah Usmani, Imaging oscillatory flow in deforming arterial bifurcations (January 2018).

  • Narendra Gajbhiye, Numerical Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamics Flow and Heat Transfer in Enclosures and Ducts (2016).

  • Yogesh Nimdeo, Mass diffusivity of solutions and sol/gel forming colloidal suspensions (2016).

  • Susheel Bhandari, Determination of thermophysical properties of soft glassy materials using laser interferometry (July 2013).

  • Sushanta Biswal, Subcritical and transcritical open channel flow in right angled compound channel junctions (2012).

  • Basant Sikarwar, Multiscale modeling of dropwise condensation over inclined textured surfaces (December 2012).

  • Anamika S. Gupta, Optical visualization and analysis of protein crystal growth process (April 2012).

  • Trushar Gohil, Flow Control in circular and square jets using helical and dual mode perturbations (December, 2010).

  • Sunil Verma, Convection, concentration, and surface feature analysis during crystal growth from solution using shadowgraphy, interferometry and tomography (May, 2008).

  • Chanpreet Singh, Unsteady convective heat transfer in liquid saturated and unsaturated porous media with reference to an energy storage system (October, 2007).

  • Sushanta Dutta, Sensitivity of a square cylinder wake to orientation and oscillations in the intermediate Reynolds number regime (December, 2006).

  • Atul Srivastava, Schlieren tomographic measurements of flow and transport around a crystal growing from its aqueous solution, (March, 2006).

  • J. Banerjee, Modeling of the Czochralski crystal growth process, role of magnetic fields and influence on the thermomechanical properties, (August 2004).

  • Andallib Tariq, Heat transfer enhancement and fluid flow transport behind surface mounted solid and permeable ribs (August 2004).

  • Sunil Punjabi, Interferometric Study of Convection in Superposed Gas-Liquid Layers, (2002).

  • Tanuja Sheorey, Numerical modeling of enhanced oil recovery from porous and fractured formations, (2002).

  • Arun K. Saha, Dyamical Characteristics of the Wake of a Square Cylinder at Low and High Reynolds Numbers, (February, 1999).

  • Debasish Mishra, Experimental Study of Rayleigh-Benard Convection using Interferometric Tomography,(September, 1998).

  • Subbarao, P.M.V., Experimental Study of The Effect of Stable Thermal Stratification on a Class of Turbulent Shear Flows, (October, 1995).

  • Inverse measurement of local and average heat fluxes during coalescence of liquid drops on a solid surface (2015).

  • Effect of Intracranial Pressure and Fluid loading on the Hemodynamics of a Cerebral Aneurysm (2015).

  • Measurement of viscosity and drag coefficient using unsteady motion of a spherical particle (2014).

  • Effect of coil embolization on fluid loading in a cerebral aneurysm (2014).

  • A generalized Lagrangian model of drop spreading on textured surfaces (2014).

  • Pulsatile flow in porous media with applications in aortic and cerebral aneurysms (2013).

  • Determination of mass diffusivity of a binary liquid system using shadowgraph technique (2013).

  • Modeling methane recovery from gas hydrate reservoirs jointly with CO2 sequestration (2013).

  • Wake dynamics of a square cylinder subjected to mild longitudinal shear (2013).

  • Simulation and experimental study of a digital off-axis holographic system (2013).

  • Simulation of oscillatory flow in rigid and flexible tubes with a bulge (2012).

  • Understanding drop coalescence through simulation and experiments (2012).

  • Imaging oscillatory flow in arterial models (2012).

  • Interferometry- website and implementation of the phase-shifting algorithm (2012).

  • Imaging fluid flow during impingement of differentially heated jets over a flat surface (2012).

  • Numerical simulation of flow and transport in curved tubes and T-junctions (2011).

  • An educational website on interferometry (2011).

  • Mathematical modeling of methane recovery from gas hydrates reservoirs (2011).

  • Imaging oscillatory flow in straight compliant tubes and bifurcations (2010).

  • Experimental study of heat transfer from a plate placed inside a rotating enclosure (2010).

  • Study of heat transfer through soft glassy materials using laser light interferometry (2010).

  • Dropwise condensation over inclined surfaces (2009).

  • Vapor-liquid equilibrium of systems containing organic phosphates (2009).

  • Laminar and turbulent boundary layer manipulation using synthetic jet actuation (2008).

  • Computational investigation of jet mixing in a tubular reactor (2008).

  • Imaging convective transport using coherent gradient sensing interferometry (2008).

  • Understanding ageing dynamics in colloidal glasses (2008).

  • Schlieren interferometry study of a square cylinder wake: influence of buoyancy and orientation (2008).

  • Simulation of flow in a laser dye cell (2007).

  • Amplitude modulated synthetic jet actuator array for control of turbulent channel flow (2007).

  • Study of heat transfer distribution during dropwise condensation using liquid crystal thermography (2007).

  • Study of aging behavior of the aqueous laponite suspensions by an interferometry technique (2007).

  • Imaging hanging drops on inclined textured surfaces (2007).

  • Color schlieren imaging of solutal concentration around a KDP crystal growing from its aqueous solution (2006).

  • Wake interactions at intermediate Reynolds numbers for an oscillating square cylinder placed in a uniform stream (2006).

  • Interface deformation and convective transport in differentially heated AIR-oil layers (2006).

  • Turbulence characteristics of boundary-perturbed channel flow: experiments at low and high frequencies (2006).

  • Interferometric study of Steady and Unsteady Convection in Cylindrical and Eccentric annuli (2005).

  • Modeling Flow Within a Liquid Drop Sliding on an Flat Inclined Surface, (2003).

  • Assessment of a Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Algorithm for Matrix Inversion and its Application to Solutal Transport in a Crystal Growth Process, (2003).

  • Estimation of the Forced Convection Heat Transfer Coefficient from Flat and Ribbed Surfaces by an Inverse Technique, (2003).

  • Role of Unsteadiness in Heat Transfer Enhancement from a Ribbed Surface, (2003).

  • Visualization and Analysis of Convective Fields using a Schlieren Technique, (2003).

  • Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer in Low Pressure CVD Reactors, (2002)

  • Parallelization of a 3-D Finite Volume Incompressible Navier-Stokes Solver for a Complex Geometry, (2002).

  • Modeling Drop Shapes above and below Horizontal and Inclined Surfaces, (2001).

  • Experimental Study of Convective Heat Transfer from Flat and Ribbed Surfaces, (2001).

  • Buoyancy-driven Convection in Superimposed Air-Water Layers, (2001)

  • Simulation and Correction of the Beam hardening Effect in X-ray Tomography, (2000).

  • Laser Interferometric Study of Rayleigh-Benard Conevction in an Axisymmetric Differentially Heated Fluid Layer, (2000).

  • Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Diffusion Problems using Inverse Techniques, (2000).

  • Analysis of Pulse-tube Cryocoolers using the Method of Characteristics, (in progress) at Kyoto University, Japan.

  • Numerical Analysis and Thermodyanmic Modeling of a Stirling Cycle Cryocooler, (1999) at Kyoto University, Japan.

  • Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery from Porous Formations, (1999).

  • On the Determination of the Viscosity of AFM Media, (1999).

  • Iterative Methods in Computerized Tomography, (1999).

  • Experimental Study of Rayleigh-Benard Convection in an Intermediate Aspect Ratio Enclosure (1998).

  • Comparison between Direct and Non-intrusive Measurements of the Temperature Fields in Rayleigh-Benard Convection, (1997).

  • Tomographic reconstruction of Axisymmetric Temperature Fields using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, (1997).

  • Experimental Study of Turbulent Fluctuations in Depth and Base Pressure in a Hydraulic Jump, (1996).

  • Investigations on Extent of Thermally Generated Noise in Interferometric Images, (1996).

  • Wake Interference and Vortex Shedding a Pair of Circular Cylinders in Cross-flow, (1996).

  • Interferometric Study of Rayleigh - Benard Convection in a Square Cavity Including Three Dimenisonal Reconstruction, (1995).

  • Development of a FEM-based Operator-Splitting Code with Domain Decomposition for Advection-diffusion Problems, (1995).

  • Development of a Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method for Transient Diffusion Problems in Complex Geometries, (1995).

  • Experimental Study of Forces and Moments Induced on a Circular Cylinder by Regular and Random Waves, (1994).

  • Experimental Study of Transformation of Regular and Random Surface Waves in a Variable Depth Liquid Layer, (1994).

  • Interferometric Study of Transient Rayleigh - Benard Convection using Digital Image Processing (1993).

  • Numerical Study of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Surfactants, (1993).

  • Interferometric Study of Cooling of Electronic Equipment Using Digital Image Processing (1993).

  • Force and Displacement Spectra for Sluice Gates Placed in Open Channel Liquid Flow (1993).

  • An Experimental Study of the Effect of Heating on Flow Past Cylinders (1992).

  • Experimental Study of Dynamic Performance of Flow Transducers (1992).

  • Experimental Study of Cooling of Electronic Components (1991).

  • Decay of Turbulence in a Homogeneous Stably Stratifed Flow (1990), Operator Splitting Algorithms for Convection- Diffusion Problems (1990).

  • Study of Free Stream Turbulence in an Adverse Pressure Gradient Flow (1989).

  • Applications of a PC- Based Data Acquisition System to frequency Measurement in Fluid Flows (1989).

  • Thermosyphon-based water purification system (2015).

  • Developing a Stirling refrigerator with built-in engine for utilization of waste heat (2014).

  • A compact pulse tube cryocooler (2013).

  • An enhanced solar still for water purification (2013).

  • Functional flow generator (2011).

  • A flow facility for studying oscillatory flow in aortic aneurysms (2010).

  • An attachment for uniaxial testing suitable for anisotropic specimens (2007).

  • Vortex generation in micro-, mini-, and macro-channels at low Reynolds numbers (2007).

  • Artifical heart machine for testing aortic valves (2006).

  • An experimental set-up to study interaction of curvature with rotation in a channel flow geometry (2006).

  • Tomographic crystal growth apparatus for laser interferometry (2003).

  • Control of convection in a low-temperature Czochralski crystal growth test cell (2003).

  • Monitoring a crystal growth apparatus using the schlieren technique (2001).

  • FPFD cryocooler with an energized displacer (2001).

  • Piston-driven miniature cryocooler (2000).

  • Linear motor driven free piston, free displacer cryocooler (2000).

  • Stirling cryocooler for laboratory-scale demonstration (1999).

  • Nonlinear fluidic device exhibiting chaos (1999).

  • A linear pneumatic drag measuring apparatus (1991).

  • A diaphragm-pump as a heart machine (1990).

  • Imaging and interferometric analysis of protein crystal growth (2007; Cochin University of Science and Technology).

  • Applying operator splitting algorithms to the advection-diffusion equation as applied to Stirling cryocoolers (2005; University of Karlsruhe, Germany).

INTERNATIONAL

  • Enhancing blood flow images using computational fluid dynamics, jointly with ETH Zurich, WO 2010/022762 A3 (filed in August 2008, international publication date, March 2010); K. Muralidhar, G. Szekeley, D. Szczerba, and R. McGregor.

INDIAN

  • Functional flow generator for multi-drug delivery system, (functional and design) patents filed (May 2011, reference: 1557/DEL/2011); K. Muralidhar, A. Jain, R. Dwivedi, Rama Rao, P. Khanna, and Manoj Sharma.

  • Non-invasive technique for evaluation of flow rates and identification of vascular deformation, K. Muralidhar, Abhinav Parashar, Rahul Singh, Manoj Sharma, P. K. Panigrahi, patent filed (February 2013, reference: PD008489-IN-SC 363/ DEL/ 2013).

  • Water purification system using an enhanced solar still, K. Muralidhar, A. Anand, A. Bhandari, S. Prakash, Manoj Sharma, Raj G. Pala (patent filed; 2894/DEL/2013).

  • Light streak imaging technique for determining mass diffusivity in a binary diffusion process, K. Muralidhar, Y. Nimdeo, Subhajit Kar, Y.M. Joshi (patent filed; 904/DEL/2014).

  • Unsteady wall heat flux sensor for extreme applications, Ravindra Sonawane, S. Khandekar, K. Muralidhar (patent filed application number 3977/DEL/2014 dated 29th December 2014.

  • Spherical tri-leaflet heart valve, Kamal K. Kar, Malay Das, Sutapa Mandal, K. Muralidhar, application number 201711043075, dated 30th November 2017.

Awards

  • Nominated as keynote speaker from India in International Heat Transfer Conference held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (2014).

  • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (2014).

  • Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (2006).

  • University rank holder and degree with distinction in the undergraduate program (1979).

  • Awarded the Institution Prize of Institution of Engineers (India) for paper on enhanced oil recovery (1995).

  • Awarded the M.G. Deshpande Best Paper Prize in the National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference held at IIT Kharagpur, (1999).

  • Received letters of commendation from Director, IIT Kanpur for the following courses: Conduction and radiation, Experimental techniques in thermal sciences, Programming and Numerical methods.

  • University of Delaware Fellowship holder during the entire Ph.D program (1981-1985).

  • Awarded Institute Medal and Dr Sengupto Prize for standing First in the Master's program at IIT Madras, India (1981).

Invited Lectures

  • Invited Lecture entitled UNDERSTANDING OSCILLATORY FLOW IN ARTERIAL MODELS, to be presented on 14th March 2017 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.

  • Invited lecture entitled MODELIING DROPWISE CONDENSATION AND COALESCENCE OF DROPS, to be presented on 15th March 2017 at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.

  • Keynote speaker for a talk entitled FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER DURING COALESCENCE OF DROPS ON A HYDROPHOBIC SURFACE, to be presented during ACTS2017, Jeju Islands, South Korea.

  • Keynote Lecture entitled TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EXTRACTION OF METHANE FROM UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON RESOURCES, delivered during the KDMIPE Day celebrations of ONGC Dehradun, 19th December 2015.

  • Keynote lecture entitled FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER DURING DROP SPREADING OVER A HORIZONTAL SURFACE, ASCHT2015, Busan, S. Korea (November 2015).

  • SHAPE AND MOTION OF A LIQUID DROP PLACED OVER A TEXTURED SURFACE, Keynote lecture, 17th ISME Conference, 3-4 October 2015, held at IIT Delhi.

  • Invited Lecture entitled FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA WITH APPLICATIONS, presented on 19th March 2015 at The Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan.

  • A Nominated as KEYNOTE SPEAKER from India in International Heat Transfer Conference held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (2014).

 

REVIEW ARTICLES

  • P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Visualization of Convective Heat Transfer, in Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering, edited by F. A. Kulacki, 2017; 45 pages (Springer).

  • K. Muralidhar, Imaging unsteady three dimensional transport phenomena, Pramana (J. Phys.), Vol. 82(1), (invited article) pp. 3-14, 2014.

  • Atul Srivastava, K. Muralidhar, and P. K. Panigrahi, Optical Imaging and Three Dimensional Reconstruction of the Concentration Field around a Crystal growing from Aqueous Solution: A Review, Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials, Vol. 58, pp. 209-278, (2012).

  • S. Verma and K. Muralidhar, Imaging convection, concentration, and surface morphology during crystal growth from solution using optical diagnostics, in Recent Research Developments in Crystal Growth, Vol. 5 (2009), pp. 141-314, Transworld Research Network, India, ISBN: 978-81-7895-198-0.

  • K. Muralidhar, Atul Srivastava and P. K. Panigrahi, Optical Imaging and Control of Convection around a Crystal growing from its Aqueous Solution in New Developments in Crystal Growth Research, [ISBN: 1-59454-539-1] pp 1-89, Nova Publishers, USA, 2005.

  • K. Muralidhar, Temperature Field Measurement in Buoyancy-driven Flows using Interferometric Tomography, Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Vol. 12, pp. 265-376, 2001

  • M. F. Manzoor, P. Yadav, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Image Reconstruction of Simulated Specimens using Convoluted Back Projection for Computerized Tomography, Defence Science Journal, Vol. 51(2), pp 175-187, 2001

  • K. Muralidhar, A Review of Free, Forced and Mixed Convection in a Saturated Porous Annulus, Sadhana, Vol. 15, pp 1-41, 1990.

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

  • Samarjeet Chanda and K. Muralidhar, Joint estimation of thermal and mass diffusivities of a solute-solvent system using ANN-GA based inverse framework, International J. Thermal Sciences , Vol. 123, pp. 27-41 (2018).

  • Y. Nimdeo, Y.M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Diffusion of charged nano-disks in aqueous media: Influence of competing inter-particle interactions and thermal effects, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 164, 8 June 2017, Pages 71–80.

  • Y. Nimdeo, Y.M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Refractive Index Measurement of Sol Forming Laponite JS Dispersion Using Interferometry, Vol. 123, pp. 272-278, Applied Clay Science (2016).

  • Y. Nimdeo, Y.M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Measurement of Mass Diffusivity by Light Streak Imaging, Chemical Engineering Research and Design , Vol. 102, pp. 207–215 (2015).

  • Y. Nimdeo, Y. M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Measurement of mass diffusivity using interferometry through sensitivity analysis, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Vol. 53, pp. 19338-19350 (2014).

  • S. S. Bhandari, K. Muralidhar, and Y.M. Joshi, Thermal diffusivity and viscosity of suspensions of disc-shaped nanoparticles, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Vol. 52, 15114−15123, (2013).

  • S. S. Bhandari, K. Muralidhar, and Y. M. Joshi, Enhanced thermal transport through a soft glassy nanodisc paste, Physical Review E, Vol. 87, pp. 022301(1-6) 2013.

  • N. V. N. Ravi Kumar, K. Muralidhar, Yogesh M. Joshi, On Refractive Index of Ageing Suspensions of Laponite, Applied Clay Science, Vol. 42, pp. 326-330, (2008).

  • A. Agrawal, V. K. Jain and K. Muralidhar, Experimental determination of viscosity of abrasive flow machining media, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol. 7(2-4), pp. 142-156 (2005).

  • V.K. Jain, C. Ranganath and K. Muralidhar, Evaluation of Rheological Properties of Medium for AFM Process, Machining Science and Technology, Vol. 5(2), pp 151-170 (2001).

  • K. Muralidhar, Flow and Transport in Single Rock Fractures, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 215, pp 481 - 502 (1990).

  • K. Muralidhar, Equivalent Conductivity of a Heterogeneous Medium, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 33, No. 8, pp 1759 - 1765 (1990).

LASER AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS

  • P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Visualization of Convective Heat Transfer, in Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering, edited by F.A. Kulacki, 2017 (Springer).

  • K. Muralidhar, Life with Experiments, in The Mind of an Engineer; a publication of INAE, pp. 359-361, Springer, edited by P. Gosh and Baldev Raj (2015).

  • Y. Rathee, B.R. Vinoth, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Imaging flow during the impingement of differentially heated jets over a flat surface, Nuclear Engineering and Design Vol. 294, pp. 1-15, December (2015).

  • Sunil Verma and K. Muralidhar, Determination of forced convection parameters by interferometric imaging of the concentration field during growth of KDP crystals, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 49(7), pp. 915-923, (2011).

  • Adnan Qayoum, Vaibhav Gupta, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Perturbation of a laminar boundary-layer by a synthetic jet for heat transfer enhancement, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, pp. 5035-5057, Vol. 53, (2010).

  • A. Kakade, S. K. Singh, P. K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Schlieren investigation of the square cylinder wake: Joint influence of buoyancy and orientation, Vol. 22(5), 054107-1 to -18, DOI: 10.1063/3415228, Physics of Fluids (2010).

  • Gagan Deep Bansal, Sameer Khandekarand K. Muralidhar, Measurement of Heat Transfer during Dropwise Condensation of Water on Polyethylene, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Vol. 13(3), pp. 184-201 (2009).

  • S. Punjabi, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Buoyancy-induced convection in differentially heated superposed fluid layers in a rectangular cavity, Proc. IMechE, Part C: J. Mechanical Engineering Science, 222 (C6), 919-933 (2008).

  • S. K. Singh, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Effect of Buoyancy on the Wakes of Circular and Square Cylinders: A schlieren-interferometric study, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 43, pp. 101-123 (2007).

  • S. K. Sahu, K. Muralidhar, and P. K. Panigrahi, Interface deformation and convective transport in a horizontal differentially heated air-oil layer, Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing, Vol. 3(3), pp. 265-286 (2007).

  • S. Punjabi, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Influence of layer height on thermal buoyancy convection in a system with two superposed fluids confined in a prismatic cavity, Journal of Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing, Vol. 2(2), pp. 95-106 (2006).

  • Atul Srivastava, S. Dutta, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Visualization of the Convective Field above a Heated Cylinder by a Laser Schlieren Technique, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32(3-4), pp. 520-528, February 2005.

  • A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Interferometric study of buoyancy-driven convection in a circular fluid layer, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 41(4), pp. 353-359, February 2005.

  • Sunil Punjabi, K. Muralidhar and P.K. Panigrahi, Buoyancy-driven Convection in Superposed Fluid Layers in an Octagonal Cavity, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 43(9), pp. 849-864, 2004.

  • A. Srivastava, A. Phukan, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Imaging of a Convective Field in a Rectangular Cavity using Interferometry, Schlieren and Shadowgraph, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 42(4), pp. 469-485, 2004.

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Interferometric Study of Rayleigh-Benard Convection at Intermediate Rayleigh Numbers, Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 25(5), pp 231-255, (1999).

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, A Robust MART Algorithm for Tomographic Applications, Numerical Heat Transfer B (Fundamentals) Vol. 35 (4), pp 485-506 (1999).

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Isotherms in a Horizontal Differentially Heated Cavity at Intermediate Rayleigh Numbers, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 26(5), pp 729-738 (1999).

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Interferometric Study of Rayleigh-Benard Convection using Tomography with Limited Projection Data, Experimental Heat Transfer, Vol. 12(2), pp 117-136, (1999).

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Performance Evaluation of Fringe Thinning Algorithms for Interferometric Tomography, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 30, pp 229-249, (1998).

  • P. M. V. Subbarao, P. Munshi and K. Muralidhar, Performance of Iterative Tomographic Algorithms applied to Non-destructive Evaluation with Limited Data, NDT & E International, Vol. 30(6), pp 359-370, (1997).

  • P. M. V. Subbarao, P. Munshi and K. Muralidhar, Performance Evaluation of Iterative Tomographic Algorithms applied to Reconstruction of a Three Dimensional Temperature Field, Numerical Heat Transfer B (Fundamentals), Vol. 31 (3), pp 347-372, (1997).

  • M. N. Darbhe and K. Muralidhar, Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Discrete Protruding Surface, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 23 (3), pp 417-426, (1996).

  • K. Muralidhar, Vivek Patil and R. Kashyap, Interferometric Study of Transient Convection in a Square Cavity, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp 321-333, (1995).

DROPWISE CONDENSATION

  • Aashutosh Mistry and K. Muralidhar, Spreading of a pendant liquid drop underneath a textured substrate, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 30(4), 18 pages (2018).

  • Praveen Somwanshi, K. Muralidhar, and Sameer Khandekar, Dropwise Condensation Patterns of Bismuth Formed on Horizontal and Vertical Surfaces, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 122, pp. 1024-1039 (2018).

  • M. R. Gunjan, P. Somwanshi, Ayush Agarwal, S. Khandekar and K. Muralidhar, Recoil of drops during coalescence on super-hydrophobic surfaces, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat transfer, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 1–18 (2015).

  • Aashutosh Mistry and K. Muralidhar, Axisymmetric model of drop spreading on a horizontal surface, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 27, 092103, 26 pages (2015).

  • B.S. Sikarwar, K. Muralidhar and S. Khandekar, Dropwise condensation of metal vapour underneath inclined textured substrates, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer (Kutataladze special issue) Vol. 3(1), pp. 85-113 (2015).

  • B.S. Sikarwar, K. Muralidhar, and S. Khandekar, Effect of drop shape on heat transfer during dropwise condensation underneath inclined surfaces, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat transfer, Vol. 1(4), pp. 339-356 (2013).

  • Gaurav Bhutani, K. Muralidhar, Sameer Khandekar, Determination of apparent contact angle and shape of a static pendant drop on a physically textured inclined surface, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, Vol. 1 (1), pp. 29–49 (2013).

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Mathematical Modeling of Dropwise Condensation on Textured Surfaces, Sadhana (Springer), special issue on MULTI-PHASE FLOW AND PHASE CHANGE PHENOMENA,Vol. 38(6), pp. 1-37, 2013.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Simulation of flow and heat transfer in a drop sliding underneath a hydrophobic surface, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 57, pp. 786-811(2013).

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekar, Smita Agrawal, Sumeet Kumar and K. Muralidhar, Dropwise Condensation Studies on Multiple Scales, special issue on Advances in Heat Transfer in Heat Transfer Engineering, pp. 301-341, Vol. 33(4-5) (2012).

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, N. K. Battoo, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Dropwise Condensation underneath Chemically Textured Surfaces: Simulation and Experiments, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 133, pp. 021501-1 to 21501-15 (2011).

CRYSTAL GROWTH

  • Anamika S. Gupta, Rajive Gupta, P. K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Imaging transport phenomena during lysozyme protein crystal growth by the hanging drop technique, Journal of Crystal Growth Vol. 372, pp. 19-33 (2013).

  • Anamika S. Gupta, P. K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Color schlieren deflectometry for characterization of crystal growth processes: KDP and protein crystals, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 312, pp. 817-830 (2010).

  • A. Srivastava, Dhruv Singh, and K. Muralidhar, Reconstruction of Time-dependent Concentration Gradients around a KDP crystal growing from its Aqueous Solution, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 311, pp. 1166-1177 (2009).

  • A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Measurement of three-dimensional concentration gradients around a crystal growing from its aqueous solution using laser schlieren, Crystal Research and Technology, Vol. 42(8), pp. 778-790 (2007).

  • J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Simulation of transport processes during Czochralski growth of YAG crystals, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 286(2) pp. 350-364, (2006).

  • J. Banerjee, R. Bharadwaj and K. Muralidhar, Experimental study of convection in a model Czochralski crucible using liquid crystal thermography, Journal of Visualization, Vol. 9(1), pp. 111-119 (2006).

  • J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Role of internal radiation during Czochralski growth of YAG and Nd:YAG crystals, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 45(2), pp. 151-167, (2006).

  • S. Verma, K. Muralidhar and V. K. Wadhawan, Flow visualization and modeling of convection during growth of KDP crystals, Ferroelectrics, Vol. 323(1), pp. 25-37, (2005).

  • A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Reconstruction of the concentration field around a growing KDP crystal using schlieren tomography, Applied Optics, Vol. 44(26), pp. 1-12, (2005).

  • A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, A schlieren study of the effect of ramp arte and rotation on convection around a crystal growing from an aqueous solution, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 27(1-2), pp. 191-208 (2005).

  • A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Comparison of interferometry, schlieren and shadowgraph for visualizing convection during the growth of a KDP crystal from its aqueous solution, Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 267(1-2), pp. 348-361 (2004).

  • A.K. De, K. Muralidhar, V. Eswaran and V. K. Wadhawan, Modeling of Transport Phenomena in a Low Pressure CVD Reactor, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 267(3-4), pp. 598-612 (2004).

TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA

  • K. Muralidhar and Malay K. Das, Hydrate Reservoirs – Methane Recovery and CO2 Disposal, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, special issue on Energy, Vol. 81(4), edited by Baldev Raj, Kamachi Mudali, and I. Manna (2015).

  • Abhishek Khetan, Malay K. Das, and K. Muralidhar, Analysis of Methane Production from a Porous Reservoir via Simultaneous Depressurization and CO2 Sequestration, Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media, Vol. 4(3), pp. 237-252 (2013).

  • Chanpreet Singh, R. Tathgir and K. Muralidhar, Energy storage in fluid saturated porous media subjected to oscillatory flow, Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung, Vol. 45(4), p. 427 (2009).

  • Chanpreet Singh, R. Tathgir and K. Muralidhar, Experimental Validation of Heat Transfer Models for Flow through a Porous Medium, Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung, Vol. 43 (1), pp. 55-72 (2006).

  • Tanuja Sheorey and K. Muralidhar, Non-isothermal Oil-water Flow and Viscous Fingering in a Porous Medium, International J. Thermal Sciences, Vol. 42, pp 665-676, (2003).

  • Tanuja Sheorey, K. Muralidhar and P. P. Mukherjee, Numerical Experiments in the Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Int. J. Thermal Sciences, Vol. 40(11), pp 981-997, 2001.

  • K. Muralidhar and Debasish Mishra, Determination of Dispersion Coefficients in a Porous Medium using the Frequency Response Method, Experimental Heat Transfer, Vol. 10, pp 109-118, (1997).

  • K. Muralidhar and Jyoti Swarup Theoretical Study of Interphase Heat and Mass Transfer in Saturated Porous Media, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 35(2), pp 171-185,(1997).

  • A. Chatterjee and K. Muralidhar, Numerical Study of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Surfactants, International J of Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 5, pp 301 - 312, (1995).

  • K. Muralidhar and J. Swarup, Analytical Solution of an Adsorption - Desorption Problem, ASME J Applied Mechanics, Vol. 61, pp 740 - 742, (1994).

  • K. Muralidhar and M. Verghese, Analysis of Adsorption and Desorption Processes in a Porous Medium, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 20, pp 43-52 (1993).

  • K. Muralidhar, Near-Field Solution for Heat and Mass Transfer From Buried Nuclear Waste Canisters, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 36, pp 2665-2674 (1993).

  • K. Muralidhar, Study of Heat Transfer From Buried Nuclear Waste Canisters, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 35, pp 3493- 3495 (1992).

  • K. Muralidhar, Mixed Convection Flow in a Saturated Porous Annulus, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 32, pp 881 - 888 (1989).

  • K. Muralidhar and F. A. Kulacki, Non-Darcy Natural Convection in a Saturated Horizontal Porous Annulus, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 110, pp 133 - 139 (1988).

  • K. Muralidhar, R. A. Baunchalk and F. A. Kulacki, Natural Convection in a Horizontal Porous Annulus With a Step Distribution in Permeability, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 108, pp 889 - 893 (1986).

TURBULENT FLOWS

  • M.G. Visakh, A.K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Effect of spanwise shear on flow past a square cylinder at intermediate Reynolds numbers, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 28, 033602, 31 pages (2016).

  • S.K. Biswal, P.K. Mohapatra, and K. Muralidhar, Hydraulics of combining flow in a right-angled open channel junction, to appear in Sadhana (2016).

  • S.K. Biswal, P.K. Mohapatra, and K. Muralidhar, Transitional flow in a right-angled compound open canal junction, accepted for publication in Irrigation and Drainage (2016); available on wileyonlinelibrarty.com.

  • Trushar Gohil, A.K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Simulation of blooming phenomenon in forced circular jets, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 783, pp. 567-604 (2015).

  • Trushar Gohil, A.K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Direct numerical simulation of free and forced square jets, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 52, pp. 169-184 (2015).

  • Trushar Gohil, A. K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Large eddy simulation of a free circular jet, ASME J. Fluids Engg., Vol. 136, 051205-1 to -14 (2014).

  • Trushar Gohil, A. K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Direct numerical simulation of forced circular jets: effect of varicose perturbation, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 44, pp. 524-541 (2013).

  • Trushar Gohil, A. K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Numerical Study of Instability Mechanisms in a Circular Jet at Low Reynolds Numbers, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 64, pp. 1-18 (2012).

  • Trushar Gohil, A. K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Direct numerical simulation of a naturally evolving free circular jet, ASME J. Fluids Engineering Vol. 133, pp. 111203-1 to 111203-11 (2011).

  • Adnan Qayoum, Vaibhav Gupta, P. K. Panigrahi, K. Muralidhar, Influence of amplitude and frequency modulation on flow created by a synthetic jet actuator, in Sensors and Actuators: A (physical) Vol. 162, pp. 36-50 (2010).

  • Trushar Gohil, A. K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Control of Flow in Forced Jets: a Comparison of Round and Square Cross-sections, Journal of Visualization, Vol. 13(2), pp. 141-149 (2010).

  • Sushanta Dutta, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Experimental Investigation of Flow Past a Square Cylinder at an Angle of Incidence, Trans. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 134(9), pp. 788-803, (2008).

  • Sushanta Dutta, P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Sensitivity of a Square Cylinder Wake to Forced Oscillations, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 129(7), pp. 852-870, (2007).

  • A. Tariq, P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Flow and Heat Transfer in the Wake of a Surface-mounted Rib with a Slit, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 37, pp. 701-719, (2004).

  • Sushanta Dutta, K. Muralidhar and P. K. Panigrahi, Influence of the Orientation of a Square Cylinder on the Wake Properties, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 34, pp 16-23, 2003.

  • A. K. Saha, K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas, Investigation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Models of Transitional Flow Past a Square Cylinder, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 129(11), pp 1320-1329, 2003.

  • A. K. Saha, G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, Three Dimensional Study of Flow Past a Square Cylinder at Low Reynolds Numbers, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 24, pp 54-66, 2003. [This article has been declared as one of the most cited by the publisher for the period 2002-2005.]

  • A. K. Saha, G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, Two Dimensional Study of the Turbulent Wake behind a Square Cylinder subjected to Uniform Shear, Trans ASME, J. Fluids Engineering, Vol. 123, pp 595-603, 2001

  • A. K. Saha, K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas, Experimental Study of Flow Past a Square Cylinder at High Reynolds Numbers, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 29, pp. 553-563, (2000).

  • A. K. Saha, K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas, Transition and Chaos in the wake of a Square Cylinder at intermediate Reynolds numbers, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, pp 523-532, Vol. 126(5), (2000).

  • A. K. Saha, K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas, Vortex Structures and Kinetic Energy Budget in Two-Dimensional Flow Past a Square Cylinder, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 29, pp 669-694, (2000).

  • P. M. V. Subbarao and K. Muralidhar, Experimental Study of Isothermal and Stably Stratified Wakes of a Circular Cylinder, Int. J. Fluid Mechanics Research, Vol. 26(2) pp 208-227, (1999).

  • A. K. Saha, G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, Numerical Study of the Turbulent Unsteady Wake behind a Partially Enclosed Square Cylinder using RANS, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 178, pp 323-341 (1999).

  • A. K. Saha, G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, Effect of Inlet Shear on Flow Past a Square Cylinder, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 125(3), pp 359-363 (1999).

  • P. M. V. Subbarao and K. Muralidhar, Experimental Study of Turbulence in Isothermal and Stably Stratified Homogeneous Shear Flow: Mean Flow Measurements, Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 21(6), pp 431-454, (1997).

BIOFLUID MECHANICS

  • Abdullah Usmani and K. Muralidhar, Flow in an intracranial aneurysm model: effect of parent artery orientation, Journal of Visualization 26 pages (April, 2018).

  • Shivam Patel, A. Usmani and K. Muralidhar, Effect of aorto-iliac bifurcation and iliac stenosis on flow dynamics in an abdominal aortic aneurysm, Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 49, 035513 (29pp) (2017).

  • Abdullah Usmani and K. Muralidhar, Pulsatile flow in a compliant stenosed asymmetric model, Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 57:186, pp. 1-24 (2016).

  • A. Usmani and K. Muralidhar, Oscillatory flow in an enlarged compliant vasculature, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Vol. 2, paper 025016 (17 pages) (2016).

  • Chandan Paul, M. K. Das, and K. Muralidhar, Three-dimensional simulation of pulsatile flow through a porous bulge, accepted for publication in Transport in Porous Media Vol. 107(3), pp. 843-870 (2015).

  • Vishal Agarwal, Chandan Paul, M. K. Das, and K. Muralidhar, Effect of coil embolization on blood flow through a saccular cerebral aneurysm, accepted for publication in Sadhana (Springer) Vol. 40(3) pp. 875-888 (2015).

  • Abhinav Parashar, Rahul Singh, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Chaotic flow in an aortic aneurysm, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 113, pp. 214909 (1-14), (2013).

  • Trushar Gohil, R. McGregor, D. Szczerba, K. Burckhardt, K. Muralidhar, and G. Szekely, Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in an Aortic Bifurcation using FVM and FEM: A Comparative Study, accepted for publication in International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 66(8), pp. 1037-1067, (2011).

NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES

  • Sachin K. Singh, Mahesh Yadav, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Estimation of Time-dependent Wall Heat Flux from Single Thermocouple Data, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 115, pp. 1-15 (2017).

  • Kathrin Burkhardt, Dominik Szczerba, Esra Neufeld, K. Muralidhar, Niels Kuster, Parallel smoothing pressure correction solver for biomedical flow problems: Convergence criteria, preconditioning, scalability, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 16(4), pp. 201-215 (2016).

  • A. P. Singh, A. K. De, V. K. Carpenter, V. Eswaran and K. Muralidhar, Flow past a transversely oscillating square cylinder in free stream at low Reynolds numbers, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 61, pp. 658-682, (2009).

  • Robert Widura, M. Lehn, K. Muralidhar and R. Scherer, Operator splitting approach applied to oscillatory flow and heat transfer in a pulse tube cryocooler, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 211(2), pp. 115-130 (2008); available online since January 2007.

  • K. Ramakrishna, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Beam-hardening in Simulated X-ray Tomography, Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation International, Vol. 39, pp. 449-457, 2006.

  • M. K. Das, A. Tariq, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Estimation of Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient from Transient Liquid Crystal Data using an Inverse Technique, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, Vol. 13(2), pp. 133-155 (2005).

  • K. Muralidhar, A. Chatterjee and B. V. Nagabhushana Rao, Application of Domain Decomposition in Modeling Flow and Heat Transfer Problems, Proceedings, IMechE, Part C: (Mech. Engg. Science) Vol. 210, pp 519-528 (1996).

  • Debasish Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. S. Ghoshdastidar, Computation of Flow and Heat Transfer around a Vertical Discrete Protruding Heater using Operator-Splitting Algorithm, Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 28, pp 103-119 (1995).

  • K. Muralidhar, M. Verghese and K. M. Pillai, Application of an Operator-Splitting Algorithm for Advection-Diffusion Problems, Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, No 1, pp 99-114 (1993).

  • K. M. Pillai and K. Muralidhar, Numerical Study of Oil Recovery Using Water Injection Method, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 24, No 3, pp 305 - 322 (1993).

  • K. Muralidhar and F. A. Kulacki, Stability of Mixed Convection Flow, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 8, pp 228 - 234 (1987).

  • K. Muralidhar and S. I. Guceri, Comparative Study of Two Numerical Procedures For Free Convection Problems, Numerical Heat Transfer, Vol. 9, pp 631 - 638 (1986).

CRYOGENICS

  • K. Muralidhar and K. Suzuki, Heat Transfer from an Array of Cylinders in Oscillatory Flow, International Journal of Heat Exchangers, Vol. 5, pp 239-264, December 2004.

  • K. Muralidhar and K. Suzuki, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of a Regenerator Mesh with Non-Darcy Thermally Non-equilibrium Model, Trans. JSME, Vol. 67, No. 653 pp 171-178, 2001 (in Japanese).

  • K. Muralidhar and K. Suzuki, Analysis of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Regenerator Mesh using a Non-Darcy Thermally Non-equilibrium Model, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 44, pp 2493-2504, 2001

  • K. Muralidhar, Pulsatile Flow Past a Thermally Participating Cylinder: A Regenerator Model, Numerical Heat Transfer Part A, Vol. 33, pp 653-671, (1998).

  • K. Muralidhar and K. Suzuki, Regenerator Models for Stirling Cycles, Thermal Science and Engineering (JSME), Vol. 5(3), pp 31-40, (1997).

PUBLICATION IN INDIAN JOURNALS

  • S. K. Biswal, P. K. Mohapatra, and K. Muralidhar, Flow separation at an open channel confluence, ISH Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, special issue, pp. 89-98, Vol. 16(3), 2010.

  • S. Verma and K. Muralidhar, Imaging transport phenomena and surface micro morphology in crystal growth using optical techniques, National Academy Science Letters, Vol. 33(5-6), pp. 107-121, 2010.

  • S. K. Singh, P. K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, A schlieren-interferometric study of wakes of heated cylinders, Kiran – A bulletin of the Indian Laser Association, pp. 34-39, Vol. 20(2), 2009.

  • J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Growth of YAG crystals in a Czochralski process, Annals of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Vol. 5, pp. 63-70, 2008.

  • Chanpreet Singh, R. G. Tathgir and K. Muralidhar, Assessing experimental and numerical data using sensitivity functions, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Vol.87, pp. 54-61, 2006.

  • S. Verma, A. Srivastava, V. Prabhakar, K. Muralidhar and V. K. Wadhawan, Simulation and experimental verification of solutal convection in the initial stages of crystal growth from an aqueous solution, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, Vol. 43, pp. 24-33, January 2005.

  • S. Dutta, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Effect of orientation on the wake of a square cylinder at low Reynolds numbers, Indian Journal of Engineering and Material Sciences, Vol. 11, pp. 447-459, December 2004.

  • K. K. Mishra, A.M. Quraishi, S. Mishra, Ashwani Kumar, A. Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Beam hardening in X-ray CT, Journal of Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 2(3), pp. 13-18, December 2003.

  • Chanpreet Singh, R.G. Tathgir and K. Muralidhar, Comparison of 1-equation and 2-equation models for Convective Heat Transfer in Saturated Porous Media, Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India), Vol. 84, pp. 104-113, 2003.

  • Rajneesh Bharadwaj, J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Effect of Radiation Losses in the Growth of Optical Crystals by the Czochralski Process, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Vol. 62, pp 1164-1175, 2003.

  • A. Sethia, Sunil Punjabi and K. Muralidhar, Buoyancy-driven Convection in Superposed Air-Water Layers: Numerical and Experimental Study, Institution of Engineers (India) Journal, Mechanical Engineering Division, Vol. 84, pp 31-35, 2003.

  • Sunil Punjabi, A. Sethia and K. Muralidhar, Convection in Differentially Heated Superposed Air-Water Layers, Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences (Special issue on Fluid Mechanics), Vol. 9, pp 455-463, 2002.

  • Suneet Singh, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Projection Data using Combined CBP-ART Algorithm, Defence Science Journal, Vol. 52(3), pp 303-316, 2002.

  • Amit Kumar, Jyotirmay Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Thermal Modeling of Crystal Growth by the Czochralski Method including Radius Control, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Vol. 61, pp 607-616, 2002.

  • V. Saxena, K. Muralidhar and V. Eswaran, Computation of Flow and Thermal Fields in a Model CVD Reactor, Sadhana, Vol. 27(6), pp 1-17, 2002.

  • Tanuja Sheorey and K. Muralidhar, Modeling of Enhanced Oil Recovery on Parallel Computers, Paryavaran Patrika, pp 1-5, September 2001, (in Hindi).

  • Tanuja Sheorey and K. Muralidhar, Application of Domain Decomposition to the Simulation of Oil Recovery on a Parallel Computer, Institution of Engineers Journal, Chemical Engineering Division, Vol. 82, pp 24-29, 2000

  • K. Muralidhar and P.S. Venkatesh, Experimental Determination of Transport Properties of Single Rock Fractures, Journal of Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 22, pp 121-128, 2000.

  • D. Mishra, K. Muralidhar and P. Munshi, Laser Interferometry for Measurement of Three Dimensional Temperature Fields in Fluids using Tomography, Defence Science Journal, Vol. 49, pp 243-355, (1999). [Note: The cover of this issue carries a photograph of our laboratory.]

  • R. Bhushan Kumar, S. Surya Rao and K. Muralidhar, Depth and Bottom Pressure Fluctuations in a Hydraulic Jump, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Civil Engineering Division, Vol. 79, pp 1-5, 1998.

  • K. Choudhary, S. Kishor, R. K. Singh, A. M. Datar, S. G. Dhande and K. Muralidhar, Computer-aided Design and Heat Transfer Analysis of Handguard of a Gun, Defence Science Journal, Vol. 46(3), pp 161-169, 1996.

  • K. Muralidhar and Jyoti Swarup, An Analytical Solution for Adsorption and Desorption Problems in Porous Media, J of Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 18(2), pp 87-96, (1996).

  • R. K. Jain and K. Muralidhar, An Experimental Study of the Dynamic Response of a Pitot Tube, J. of Aeronautical Society of India, Vol. 46, No 1, pp 30-35, 1994.

  • K. M. Pillai, K. Muralidhar and P. S. Ghoshdastidar, Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Journal of Institution of Engineers (India), Chemical Engineering Series, Vol. 75, pp 17-24, 1994.

  • K. Muralidhar, Computer-Aided Instruction in Fluid Mechanics, Indian Journal of Technical Education, Vol. 15, No 1, pp 31 - 36, 1992.

  • K. Muralidhar, A Review of Free, Forced and Mixed Convection in a Saturated Porous Annulus, Sadhana, Vol. 15, pp 1-41, written on invitation by the Editor of the journal, 1990.

  • K. Muralidhar and F. A. Kulacki, Stability of Internally Mixing Flow, Sadhana, Vol. 13, No. 51, pp 215-222, (1988).

INTERNATIONAL

  • P. Somwanshi, K. Muralidhar, and Sameer Khandekar, Dropwise Condensation over Textured Surfaces: Influence of Drop Shape and Coalescence, Keynote Lecture, International Heat Transfer Conference – 15 (IHTC15-KN13), held at Kyoto Japan (August 2014).

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, K. Muralidhar and Sameer Khandekar, Effect of drop shape on heat transfer during dropwise condensation underneath inclined surfaces, paper number ASCHT0040-T02-1-A, The 4th Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2013.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekarand K. Muralidhar, Coalescence of Pendant Droplets on an Inclined Super-hydrophobic Substrate, 7th International Symposium onMultiphase Flow, Heat Mass Transfer and Energy Conversion, Xi'an, China, 26-30 October 2012, Paper No. MF-38; published in AIP Conference Proceedings 1547 (pp. 505-512).

  • S.S. Bhandari, Y.M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Laser interferometric determination of thermal diffusivity of transparent soft glassy materials, paper number FEDSM2012-72228, Proceedings of the ASME2012 Summer Fluids Engineering Conference held during 8-12 July 2012, Puerto Rico.

  • A. Kulkarni, K. Jathar, M. Wankhede, V. Singh, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, OpenFoam based virtual laboratory for optical measurements, paper number HT2012-58544, Proceedings of the ASME2012 Summer Heat Transfer Conference held during 8-12 July 2012, Puerto Rico.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekarand K. Muralidhar, Effect of surface hydrophobicity on heat transfer during dropwise condensation: a numerical study, ECI 8th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, held at EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) in June 2012.

  • S.K. Biswal, P. Mohapatra, and K. Muralidhar, Hydrodynamic behavior of combining flows in an open channel, presented at the 7th IAHR symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM2011, paper number B3002, pp. 869-878, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing (September 2011).

  • S. Chakraborty, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Effects of frequency and Reynolds number in abdominal aortic models, paper id-41, proceedings of the Asian Symposium of Computational Fluid Flow and Heat transfer, held during 22-26 September 2011 at Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan).

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekarand K. Muralidhar, Dropwise condensation on horizontal substrates with ad without a wettability gradient, Keynote lecture, VIII Minsk International Seminar Heat Pipes, Heat Pumps, Refrigerators, Power Sources, Minsk, Belarus, September 12–15, 2011.

  • Trushar Gohil, A.K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Modal decomposition of free and forced circular jets at low and high Reynolds numbers, paper number T9(2), presented at the Annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society, held at Dallas, Texas during 21-25 March 2011.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Dropwise condensation of liquid metal vapor underneath a flat inclined surface, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Flow and Heat Transfer, held during 18-22 July 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Flow and thermal fields in a pendant drop moving on a lyophobic surface, paper number IHTC14-22520, Proceedings of the 14th International Heat Transfer Conference in Washington DC (2010).

  • Nirmal K. Battoo, Basant S. Sikarwar, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Mathematical modeling and simulation of dropwise condensation on inclined surfaces exposed to a vapor flux, paper number 346, Proceedings of the 9th International ISHMT-ASME conference held at IIT Bombay during 4-6 January 2010.

  • Basant S. Sikarwar, K. Muralidhar, and S. Khandekar, Flow and heat transfer in a pendant liquid drop sliding on an inclined plane, paper number 345, Proceedings of the 9th International ISHMT-ASME conference held at IIT Bombay during 4-6 January 2010.

  • K. Muralidhar, Trushar Gohil, and A.K. Saha, Direct numerical simulation of forced jets, paper number LD3, presented at the 62nd Annual APS Meeting of the Division of Fluid Mechanics, held at Minneapolis, Minnesota during 22-24 November 2009.

  • S. Dutta, K. Muralidhar, and P.K. Panigrahi, Feedback control of vortex shedding behind a square cylinder with inline oscillations, paper number AT-9 (p54), Proceedings of ExHFT-7 {7th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics} held at Krakow, Poland during 28 June – 03 July 2009.

  • R. H. P. McGregor, D. Szczerba, K. Muralidhar, and G. Szekely, A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow, MICCAI-2009 (12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention) held during 20-24 September 2009 in London, UK.

  • K. Burckhardt, D. Szczerba, J. Brown, K. Muralidhar, and G. Szekely, Fast Implicit Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in Human Abdominal Bifurcation using a Schur Complement Preconditioner, in the Proceedings of Euro-Par 2009 - Topic 10 held in August 2009, Delft, Netherlands.

  • Atul Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and K. Tsukamoto, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Tomography Analysis of Concentration Gradients around a KDP Crystal Growing in Mixed Convection Regime, Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Process Tomography (IWPT-3), held at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, April 17-19 2009.

  • S. Dutta, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Feedback Control of Vortex Shedding behind a Square Cylinder with Inline Oscillations, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 7th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, held in Krakow, Poland in June 2009.

  • Sunil Punjabi, Atul Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P.K. Panigrahi, Interferometric tomography for reconstruction of temperature field in a buoyancy-induced convection during superposed fluid layers, Paper number 61, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Process Tomography (IWPT-3) held at Tokyo, Japan during April 17-19, 2009.

  • Atul Srivastava, K. Muralidhar, P.K. Panigrahi and K. Tsukamoto, Schlieren investigation of the effect of controlled crystal rotation on convective field around a KDP crystal growing from its aqueous solution, presented at Japan-Netherlands Symposium on Crystal Growth -Theory and in-situ Measurements-, Sapporo, Japan, October 20-23, 2008.

  • Dhruv Singh, Atul Srivastava, and K Muralidhar,Tomographic reconstruction of unsteady fields using proper orthogonal decomposition, presented at ASME SHTC'08 (paper number 56443) in Florida USA during 10-14 August 2008.

  • R.H.P. McGregor, D. Szczerba, M. von Siebenthal, K. Muralidhar, G. Szekely, Exploring the Use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Enhancing Blood Flow Images via Computational Fluid Dynamics in MICCAI-2008 (11th International Conference in Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention) held during 6-10 September 2008 in New York University, USA (see Proceedings MICCAI 2008, pp. 782-289; editors: D. Metaxas et al., LNCS 5242 part II).

  • J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Simulation of Transport Phenomena and Interfacial Dynamics during Czochralski Growth of Oxide Crystals, to be presented at the 6th International Conference on Micro-channels, Nano-channels, and Mini-channels (session: Interfacial phenomena and surface tension driven transport processes), organized by ASME New York and held at Darmstadt, Germany during 23-25 June 2008.

  • Ranjini Raghunandan, Anamika S. Gupta, and K. Muralidhar, Imaging and interferometric analysis of protein crystal growth, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6991, 69912H, presented at the SPIE conference entitled Biophotonics: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care during 8-10 April 2008 at Strasbourg France.

  • K. Muralidhar, A. Srivastava and P.K. Panigrahi, Schlieren Imaging of Salt Concentration gradients around a KDP Crystal Growing from its Aqueous Solution presented at the Optical Society of America annual meeting held at Rochester New York in October 2006.


NATIONAL

  • Vishal Agarwal, Malay K. Das, and K. Muralidhar, Effect of coil embolization of blood flow through a saccular cerebral aneurysm, FMFP2013-21, presented at the 40th FMFP Conference held at NIT Hamirpur, December 2013.

  • Praveen Somwanshi, K. Muralidhar, and S. Khandekar, Experimental investigation of wall shear stress developed during coalescence of two pendant drops, FMFP2013-20, presented at the 40th FMFP Conference held at NIT Hamirpur, December 2013.

  • Aashutosh Mistry and K. Muralidhar, Study of Front Tracking Methodology for Simulation of Multiphase Flow, FMFP2013-17, presented at the 40th FMFP Conference held at NIT Hamirpur, December 2013.

  • Gaurav Bhutani, S. Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Contact Angles of pendant drops on rough surfaces, FMFP2012-60, presented at the 39th FMFP Conference in SVNIT Surat, December 2012.

  • Veena Singh, Richa Dubey. P. K. Panigrahi, K. Muralidhar, An educational website on interferometry, paper number 207, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technology Enhanced Education, held at Amrita University, Amritapuri, January 2012 (doi: 10.1109/ICTEE.2012.6208611, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0725-4).

  • Basant Sikarwar, Sameer Khandekar, and K. Muralidhar, Simulation of Dropwise Condensation underneath a Chemically Textured Substrate with a Wettability Gradient, paper IND_16_035, Proc. 21st National and 10th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Chennai, India, December 27-30, 2011

  • Rahul Singh, Sumeet Kumar, and K. Muralidhar, Study of oscillatory flow in a tube, paper number AM12, 38th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference, held at MANIT Bhopal, December 2011

  • Trushar Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Numerical simulation of forced circular jets, Proceedings of the 13th AeSI Annual CFD symposium, held at IISc Bangalore during 11-12 August 2011 (paper number IP3, 12 pages).

  • Trushar Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Modal analysis of free and forced circular jets at low and high Reynolds numbers, Proceedings of the 37th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference, held at IIT Madras in December 2010, paper number 76 (FMFP10-HT-12).

  • Trushar Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Effect of forcing frequency on flow control of a square jet, Proceedings of the 36th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference 2009, held at College of Engineering, Pune, paper number 40-FC-

  • Trushar Gohil, K. Muralidhar, and Dominik Szczerba, Effect of frequency and Reynolds number on flow in a tubular bifurcation, Proceedings of the 36th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference 2009, held at College of Engineering, Pune, paper number 03-FM-

  • Trushar Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, Control of Flow in Forced Jets: Comparison of Round and Square Cross-sections, Proceedings of the 35th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference 2008, held at PESIT Bangalore, Editor: K. N. Seetharamu (pp. 198-297).

  • Trushar Gohil, K. Muralidhar, and Dominik Szczerba, Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in an Aortic Bifurcation, Proceedings of the 35th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference 2008, held at PESIT Bangalore, Editor: K. N. Seetharamu (pp. 620-626).

  • S. K. Singh, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Schlieren-interferometric Study of the Wake of a Heated in-line Oscillating Square Cylinder, presented at the 8th ASME-ISHMT Heat and Mass Transfer conference during 3-5 January 2008 at JNTU Hyderabad.

  • Sushanta Dutta, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Control of wake behind a square prism using forced oscillation: Effect of amplitude of oscillation at constant perturbation frequency, Flotek:g : Global conference and Exhibition entitled Towards Intelligent flow measurement and control system, pp. 908-928, September 26-28, 2007 held at FCRI, Kerala.


 

  • Malay K. Das, P.P. Mukherjee, and K. Muralidhar, Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media with Applications, Springer, November 2017; ISBN 978-3-319-69866-3, (258 pages).

  • K. Muralidhar and T. Sundararajan, Editors, Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer, published as a part of the IIT Kanpur Series (580 pages) by Narosa Publishers, New Delhi, Second edition (590 pages), July 2003, ISBN: 81-7319-522-6.

  • K. Muralidhar and G. Biswas, Advanced Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Narosa Publishers, third edition (630 pages), ISBN: 978-81-8487-385-6 (international: 978-1-84265-912-0) April 2014.

  • J. Banerjee and K. Muralidhar, Czochralski Growth of Oxide Crystals: Numerical Simulation and Experiments, Techscience Press, Georgia, USA, ISBN: 13-978-0-9717880-4-6, March 2007 (256 pages).

  • K. Muralidhar and J. Banerjee, Conduction and Radiation, Narosa Publishers, (479 pages), ISBN: 978-81-8487-080-0, February 2010.

  • P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Schlieren and Shadowgraph Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer, Springer Briefs in Thermal Engineering and Applied Science, Series New York, USA, (August, 2012)ISBN 978-1-4614-4534-0.Cover

  • P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Imaging Heat and Mass Transfer Processes - Visualization and Analysis, Springer Briefs in Thermal Engineering and Applied Science, New York, USA, (October, 2012) ISBN 978-1-4614-4790-0.Cover

  • Sameer Khandekar and K. Muralidhar, Dropwise Condensation on Inclined Textured Surfaces, Springer Briefs in Thermal Engineering and Applied Science, New York, USA, ISBN 978-1-4614-8446-2 (September 2013).Cover

  • A.K. Saha, Rajesh Srivastava, Debopam Das, P.K. Panigrahi, and K. Muralidhar, Editors, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power – Contemporary Research, Springer, 2015. Cover

  • Malay K. Das, Partha Pratim Mukherjee, and K. Muralidhar,Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media with Applications , Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-69864-9. Cover

  • Praveen Somwanshi, K. Muralidhar, and Sameer Khandekar, Coalescence Characteristics of Liquid Drops with Application to Dropwise Condensation, in Applications Paradigms of Droplet and Spray Transport, pp. 165-200, edited by S. Basu et al. (2018), for the series on Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Springer.

  • P.K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar, Visualization of Convective Heat Transfer, in Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering, edited by F.A. Kulacki, 2017 (Springer).

  • S. Verma, Y.M. Joshi, and K. Muralidhar, Optical interferometers: Principles and Applications in Transport Phenomena, in Interferometry - Principles and Applications, Edited by M. E. Russo, Nova Publishers, USA, Chapter 13, pp. 353-414, ISBN: 978-1-61209-347-5 (2012).

  • McGregor, R.H.P., Szczerba, D., von Siebenthal, M., Muralidhar, K., and Szekely, G., Exploring the use of proper orthogonal decomposition for enhancing blood flow images via computational fluid dynamics, LNCS 5242, pp. 782-789 (Editors: D. Metaxas et al.), Springer (2008).

  • D. Szczerba, R. McGregor, K. Muralidhar, and G. Szekely, Mechanism and localization of wall failure during abdominal aortic aneurysm formation, in Biomedical Simulation, pp. 119-126, edited by F,. Bello and P.J. Edwards, LNCS 5104, Springer (2008).

  • Three dimensional reconstruction of convective features during crystal growth from solution using computerized tomography, with S. Verma (pp. 103-114) and Reconstruction of concentration field around a growing KDP crystal using direct and iterative tomography algorithms with A. Srivastava and P.K. Panigrahi (pp. 115-128), in CT2008: Tomography Confluence, edited by P. Munshi, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 1050, New York (2008).

  • Atul Srivastava, K. Muralidhar and P.K. Panigrahi, Imaging buoyancy-driven convective field around a KDP crystal using schlieren tomography, pp. 133-147; Sunil Verma, K. Muralidhar and V.K. Wadhawan, Determination of the concentration field around a growing crystal using laser shadowgraphic tomography, pp. 158-175; both articles in Computerized Tomography for Scientists and Engineers, edited by P. Munshi, jointly published by Anamaya Publishers New Delhi and CRC Press, New York (2006).

  • K. Muralidhar, Introduction to turbulence, pp 1-40, Classical idealization of turbulent flows, pp 75-114, Introduction to experimental techniques, pp 141-178, in Turbulent Flows: Fundamentals, Experiments and Modeling, Edited by G. Biswas and V. Eswaran, Narosa Publishers, New Delhi, 2002.

  • K. Muralidhar, Equivalent thermal conductivity of a heterogeneous medium, in High Temperature Fiber Composite Materials, pp. 243-257, edited by V.K. Srivastava, Allied Publishers, New Delhi (2000).

  • G. Biswas and K. Muralidhar, Fundamentals and Modelling of Turbulent Flow, in Transport Phenomena in Metallurgical Processes, Edited by S Prakash and P R Rao, pp 25-43, National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, 1996.

  • K. Muralidhar and J.C.S. Long, A New Approach to Characterize Flow in Single Rock Fractures, in Flow and Transport Through Unsaturated Rocks, Edited by D. Evans and J. Nicholson, pp 115 - 120, Geophysical Monograph Series, No. 42, Washington DC (USA), 1987.

  • GENERATION OF SOLAR HYDROGEN, supported by the Technology Systems Development Program of DST, New Delhi for an amount of Rs. 8 crores (March 2012-December 2014).

  • INTERNET-BASED EXPERIMENTS, supported by MHRD, New Delhi (2009 onwards).

  • DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL PURPOSE CFD CODE, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Mumbai (2005-2010), Rs 3.2 crores, ; with V. Eswaran.

  • Development of a General Purpose CFD Solver over a Hybrid Unstructured Grid, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (2012-2015); with Amaresh Dalal (IIT Guwahati) and V. Eswaran (IIT Hyderabad).

  • FUTURISTIC MECHANICS RELATED TO FAST BREEDER REACTORS, supported by IGCAR Kalpakkam (phase I, 2009-2013; phase II, 2014 onwards).

  • Equipment grant of Rs 9.6 crores in the areas of microscale engineering, non-invasive measurements, new-era machines and energy, under the FIST scheme of Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (2006).

  • Modeling and Simulation of Methane Extraction from Gas Hydrates via Simultaneous Depressurization and CO2 injection, National Gas Hydrates Program (coordinated by ONGC Dehradun) (2014-2017); with Malay K. Das.

  • STATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MICRO DROPLETS FORMED ON TEXTURED SURFACES DURING CONDENSATION, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (2012-2015); with Sameer Khandekar.

  • A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF ANEURYSM DEVELOPMENT IN AN ARTERIAL BIFURCATION, Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi (2010-2013); with P.K. Panigrahi.

  • OPTICAL VISUALIZATION OF HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW PHENOMENA, supported as a part of the Internet-based experiments project of MHRD, New Delhi (2010-2012); with P.K. Panigrahi.

  • QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IN VIVO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DATA FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF VASCULAR DISEASES SUPPORTED BY CFD SIMULATION, Indo-Swiss project supported by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, (2006-2008).

  • EXPERIMENTS IN ACTIVE CONTROL OF BLUFF BODY DRAG USING SCHLIEREN VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE, ER and IPR (DRDO), New Delhi (2005-2008).

  • OPTICAL VISUALIZATION OF PROTEIN CRYSTAL GROWTH, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (2005-2008).

  • DROPWISE CONDENSATION AND HEAT TRANSFER ON AN INCLINED SURFACE EXPOSED TO A VAPOR FLUX, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (2005-2009).

  • RAINBOW SCHLIEREN TOMOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS DURING COMBUSTION OF GASEOUS FUELS SUCH AS HYDROGEN, MHRD (thrust area project) (2003-2004).

  • EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN VORTEX DOMINATED FLOWS USING LIQUID CRYSTAL THERMOGRAPHY, ARDB New Delhi (2002-2003).

  • BEAM HARDENING AND PHOTON STATISTICS, DRDL Hyderabad (2001-2002).

  • LASER INTERFEROMETRIC STUDY OF SOLUTAL TRANSPORT AND KINETICS OF CRYSTAL GROWTH IN AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, (2000-2003).

  • INTERFEROMETRIC STUDY OF BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION AND INTERFACIAL TRANSPORT IN SUPERPOSED HORIZONTAL FLUID LAYERS, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (2001-2004).

  • MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF THE CVD AND CZOCHRALSKI CRYSTAL GROWTH SYSTEMS, ROLE OF MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (2000-2003).

  • MODELING AND SIMULATION OF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY FROM POROUS AND FRACTURED FORMATIONS, Oil Industry Development Board, N. Delhi, (1998-2001).

  • UNSTEADY SEPARATED FLOW IN THE WAKE OF A SQUARE CYLINDER IN A CHANNEL: NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY, Aeronautics Research and Development Board (Aerodynamics panel), New Delhi (1998-2001).

  • NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY ON PARALLEL COMPUTERS, Department of Science and Technology New Delhi, (1997- 2000).

  • NOISE REMOVAL, THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION AND DATA RETRIEVAL FOR OPTICAL IMAGES OF STRATIFIED FLUIDS, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (1994 -1997).

  • LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS IN FRACTURED AND POROUS MEDIA, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (1992-1995).

  • EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDY OF FREE, FORCED AND MIXED CONVECTIVE COOLING OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (1991-1994).

  • 2NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF CONVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEMS WITHOUT USING UPWIND METHOD, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (1990-1993).

  • STUDY OF FLOW, HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER FROM BURIED NUCLEAR WASTE CANISTERS, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai (1989-1992).

  • LABORATORY STUDIES OF FREE STREAM TURBULENCE IN STRATIFIED SHEAR FLOWS USING HOT-WIRE ANEMOMETRY Aeronautics Research and Development Board, New Delhi (1989-1991).

  • Design and prototype development of a diamond colorimeter, Sahajanand Technologies, Surat (April 2013 onwards) with K. Pradeep Kumar.

  • Design of a Solar Still for water softening, Anglo-American Chile Ltd., Chile (September 2012 onwards); with R. G. Pala.

  • Technical advisor, CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, Siva Ventures Limited, Chennai (2012).

  • CFD SIMULATION OF MIXING IN A CRUCIBLE FOR MOLTEN LASER GLASS, Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute, Kolkata (2010); with V. Eswaran.

  • TOMOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANTS, Defence Research & Development Laboratory, Hyderabad (1999-2001); with P. Munshi.

  • THERMODYNAMIC AND TRANSPORT MODELS FOR STIRLING CRYOCOOLERS, Solid State Physics Laboratory, New Delhi (1999 – 2000).

  • CAE ANALYSIS OF FLIGHT DATA RECORDER (THERMAL ANALYSIS), Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Korwa 1999.

  • THERMAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSFORMER-RECTIFIER UNIT, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Lucknow 1996.

  • COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF HANDGUARD, Defence Materials Research and Development Establishment (1994-1995).

  • President, National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (2013-2015)

  • World Innovation Foundation

  • New York Academy of Sciences

  • American Physical Society

  • Optical Society of America

  • Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering

  • Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

  • Experimental Methods in Thermal Sciences

  • Measurement and Control of Flow Systems

  • Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Problem-Solving

  • Laser Measurement Techniques in Mechanical Engineering

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