Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras

JUN

2015

Dr. Babu Viswanathan

by Babu Viswanathan

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Professor

Office : Thermodynamics and Combustion Engineering Lab
Tel: (O) : +91 44 2257 4688
Email :
Personal webpage: https://mech.iitm.ac.in/Faculty/vb/home.php

Biography

Prof.Babu Viswanathan’s research interests include high performance computing, supersonic combustion, simulation of flows using lattice Boltzman method, numerical simulation of flows using CFD, computational aeroacoustics, simulation of high speed chemically reacting flows and plasmas and prediction of noise from subsonic and supersonic jets.

Selected Publications

P. K. Shijin, S. Somasundaram, V. Raghavan and V. Babu, Numerical Investigation of Laminar Cross-flow Non-premixed Flames in the Presence of a Bluff-body, Combustion Theory and Modelling (to appear).
Anand Raj Hariharan and V. Babu, Transverse injection into a supersonic cross-flow through a circular injector with chevrons, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 136, No. 2, 2014, pp. 021204-1.
S. Soma Sundaram and V. Babu, Numerical investigation of combustion instability in a V-gutter stabilized combustor, ASME Journal for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 135, No. 12, 2013, pp. 121501-1.

Mr. Arnab Chakraborty received INAE's Innovative Student Project Award at Master's Level for the year 2022. He is one of the 8 awardees in 2022 and the only recipient from IIT Madras. The department is proud of this achievement and congratulations to Arnab and his research advisor Dr. Srikrishna Sahu

Congrajulation to Dr. Vimal Edachery, Department of Mechanical Engineering on receiving the "Young Tribologist Award" for excellence in research in the area of Tribology for young researcher, sponsored by Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation (TTRF Japan) at the IndiaTrib-2022.

Congratulation to Prof. Chakravarthy Balaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering on being invited to serve as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Elsevier for the period 2023-2025.

A book entitled "ஆராய்ச்சி என்றும் ஆனந்தம்” (The Joy of Research, Tamil edition)" by Prof. Chakravarthy Balaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering has been published by Ane Books Private Limited, New Delhi.

Prof. Arvind Pattamatta and Dr. Kameswararao Anupindi, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research

Prof. K. Arul Prakash, Department of Applied Mechanics and Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal'.

Prof. Dhiman Chatterjee and Dr. Shyama Prasad Das, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 'International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment'.

A book 'Vapour-liquid Two Phase Flow and Phase Change' by Profs. Sarit Kumar Das and Dhiman Chatterjee, Department of Mechanical Engineering has been published by Ane Books.

Congratulations to Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan on being bestowed the 'National Tech Excellence Award 2022' under the category Woman Scientist in Translational Research (Senior) by the Technology Development Board, a Statutory Body under Department of Science & Technology.

Dr. Babu Viswanathan

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