DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Shaligram Tiwari

Professor

205, Refrigeration & Airconditioning Laboratory

PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

+91- 44 -2257- 4729

shaligt[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Fluid-structure Interaction.
  • Flow Transitions and Heat Transfer Enhancement.
  • Rayleigh-Benard and Marangoni convection; Interfacial instabilities.
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning systems.
  • Vortex Flows: Kinematics and interaction; Chaotic advection and mixing.
  • Bird flight simulation.
  • Numerical simulation of human circulation system.

  1. R Jayakrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, “On three-dimensional flow structures and oscillatory instability due to free surface heat loss in half-floating zones under microgravity”, Advances in Space Research, (pages 1-22), 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.02.006..
  2. Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of cross-confinement on unsteady wake characteristics of circular cylinder immersed in shear flow”, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, (In Press), 2021.
  3. Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effects of size ration and inter-cylinder spacing on wake-transition in flow past finite inline circular cylinders mounted on plane surface”, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 33, 2021.
  4. Gurubalan, A., M.P. Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, “Performance characterization of a novel membrane-based liquid desiccant air conditioning system”, International J. Refrigeration, Vol. 120, pp. 445-459, 2020.
  5. Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, “Wake transition for surface mounted rectangular cylinder due to incoming shear flow”, International J Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 85, 2020.
  6. S. Harikrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, "Unsteady flow and heat transfer characteristics of primary and secondary corrugated channels", Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), Vol. 142, 031803, pp. 1-12, March 2020.
  7. Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effects of size and position of upstream cylinder on wake transition in flow past two inline square cylinders”, Journal of Flow Visualisation and Image Processing, Vol. 27, 2020.
  8. Gurubalan, A., M.P. Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, "Experiments on a novel membrane-based liquid desiccant dehumidifier for hybrid air conditioner” International J. Refrigeration, Vol. 108, pp. 271-282, 2019.
  9. R Jayakrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, “Influence of coaxial air flow and volume ratio on thermocapillary convection in half-floating-zones”, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 179, pp. 248-264, 2019.
  10. Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effects of incoming shear on unsteady wake in flow past surface mounted polygonal prism”, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 31, 113607, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5123672, 2019.
  11. S. Harikrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, "Heat transfer characteristics of sinusoidal wavy channel with secondary corrugations", Int. J. Thermal Sciences, Vol. 145, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.105973; pp. 1-15, 2019.
  12. Prashant Kumar, Neeraj P Manelil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effects of shear intensity and aspect ratio on three-dimensional wake characteristics of flow past surface mounted circular cylinder”, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 31, 043602, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5081795, 2019.
  13. Neeraj P Manelil, Shaligram Tiwari, "Wake characteristics of a sphere performing transverse rotary oscillations", European Journal Mechanics/ B Fluids, Vol. 77, pp. 148-161, 2019.
  14. K.M. Arun, Shaligram Tiwari, A. Mani, "Three-dimensional numerical investigations on rectangular cross-section ejector", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.02.014, Vol. 140, pp. 43-49, 2019.
  15. Umesh Vasu, Shaligram Tiwari, Srikrishna Sahu, “Effect of side wall conditions and aspect ratio on convective pattern formation in Rayleigh-Benard convection”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.ijthermalsci.2019.01.031, Vol. 139, pp. 246-268, 2019.
  16. Neeraj Paul M, Shaligram Tiwari, "On wake analysis of flow past rotating downstream cylinder using Hilbert-Huang transformation", Journal Applied Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 175-186, 2019.
  17. Amit Soni, Shaligram Tiwari, "Three-dimensional numerical study on aerodynamics of non-flapping bird flight", Sadhana, https://doi.org./10.1007/s12046-018-1018-4, Vol. 44, Number 2, pp. 1-15, 2019.
  18. Neeraj Paul M, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of downstream cylinder rotation on wake dynamics of two inline circular cylinders", Sadhana, https://doi.org./10.1007/s12046-018-0975-y, Vol. 44, Number 1, pp. 1-15, 2019.
  19. S. Ananth Pai, Shaligram Tiwari, T. Sundararajan, Mihir Sen, "On equilibrium points and bifurcations in fixed equi-triangular arrangement of three Rankine vortex filaments", Int. J. Fluid Mechanics Research (DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.2018025272), Vol. 46(2), pp. 127-149, 2019.
  20. Neeraj M P, Shaligram Tiwari, "Wake characteristics of a sphere performing streamwise rotary oscillations", European Journal Mechanics/ B Fluids, Vol. 72, pp. 485-500, 2018.
  21. Gurubalan Annadurai, Shaligram Tiwari, M.P. Maiya, "Experimental performance comparison of adiabatic and internally-cooled membrane dehumidifiers, International J. Low Carbon Technologies, Vol. 13, pp. 240-249, 2018.
  22. Hemant Naik and Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of aspect ratio and arrangement of surface-mounted circular cylinders on heat transfer characteristics”, Journal Enhanced Heat Transfer, Vol. 25, Issue 4-5, pp. 443-463, 2018.
  23. Roam Simenthy, Vasudevan Raghavan, Shaligram Tiwari, "On dynamic and energy transfer characteristics of flow past transversely oscillating circular cylinder in the wake of stationary cylinder", Int. J. Fluid Mechanics Research (DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.2018020738), Vol.45, Issue 6, pp. 509-529, 2018.
  24. Raghu Vamsee G, Shaligram Tiwari, Thirumalachari Sundararajan, Vasudevan Raghavan, "Effect of height ratio on wake transition in unsteady flow past isosceles trapezoidal cylinder", Int. J. Fluid Mechanics Research (DOI: 10.1615/InterJFluidMechRes.2018020767), Vol.45, Issue 6, pp. 531-552, 2018.
  25. Hemant Naik, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of rectangular winglet pair in common flow down configuration on heat transfer from an isothermally heated plate", Heat Transfer Engineering (DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2017.1388946), Vol. 39, Issue 20, pp. 1774-1789, 2018.
  26. R. Jayakrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of ambient conditions on flow and heat transfer in a liquid bridge", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2018.
  27. M G Mithun, Prashant Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, "Numerical investigations on unsteady flow past two identical inline square cylinders oscillating transversely with phase difference", Journal Applied Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 847-859, 2018.
  28. Hemant Naik, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of winglet location on performance of fin-tube heat exchangers with inline tube arrangement", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 125, pp. 248-261, 2018.
  29. Hemant Naik, Harikrishnan S., Shaligram Tiwari, “Numerical investigations on heat transfer characteristics of curved rectangular winglet placed in a channel”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 129, pp. 489–503, 2018.
  30. S. Harikrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of skewness on flow and heat transfer characteristics of a wavy channel", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 120, pp. 956-969, 2018.
  31. Arpan Das, Shaligram Tiwari, "Aerodynamics of plunging airfoil in wind gust", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, DOI: 10.1108/AEAT-01-2017-0023, Vol. 90, No.7, pp. 1050-1064, 2018.
  32. A. Gurubalan, M.P. Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, "Performance characterization of membrane dehumidifier with desiccants in flat plate arrangement", Energy and Buildings, Vol. 156, pp. 151-162, 2017.
  33. K.M. Arun, Shaligram Tiwari, A. Mani, "Three-dimensional numerical investigations on rectangular cross-section ejector", International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 122, pp. 257-265, 2017.
  34. R. Deepakkumar, S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, "A comparative study on effect of plain and wavy wall confinement on wake characteristics of flow past circular cylinder", Sadhana, Issue 6, pp. 963-980, 2017.
  35. S. Ananth Pai, Shaligram Tiwari, T. Sundararajan, "Effect of external pulsation on kinematics of fluid particles in the field of Lamb-Oseen vortex pair", Sadhana, Vol. 42, Issue 4, pp. 489-504, 2017.
  36. Aditya Vamsikrishna, Arun D Mahindrakar, Shaligram Tiwari, "Numerical and experimental implementation of leapfrog algorithm for optimal control of a mobile robot", 2017 Indian Control Conference (ICC), IEEE, 2017.
  37. R Deepakkumar, S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, "Cross flow past circular cylinder with waviness in confining walls near the cylinder", Journal Applied Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 183-197, 2017.
  38. Hemant Naik, Shaligram Tiwari, "Three-dimensional flow characteristics near a circular cylinder mounted on horizontal plate at low Reynolds number", Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 102-113, 2017.
  39. G. Raghu Vamsee, Shaligram Tiwari, T. Sundararajan, "Effect of base elongation of circular cylinder on its wake characteristics", Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 232-250, 2016.
  40. R Deepakkumar, S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, "Computational study of fluid flow characteristics past circular cylinder due to confining walls with local waviness", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 759, 2016.
  41. B. Shaji Mohan, Shaligram Tiwari, Prakash maiya Manoor, "Experimental investigations on liquid desiccant-vapor compression hybrid air conditioner", Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 77, pp. 153-162, 2015.
  42. Hemant Naik, Shaligram Tiwari, “Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics from finite height circular cylinder mounted on horizontal plate”, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 71–78, 2015.
  43. Gautam Ghaisas, Swapnil Kadam, Aniraj C R, Shaligram Tiwari, "Experimental study of pool boiling at low heat flux in water miscible binary mixtures", Procedia Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 455-461, 2015.
  44. Kamal Kant Yadu, Shaligram Tiwari, M.P. Maiya, "Comparison of heat and mass transfer characteristics of R134a in DMAC and DMF for a falling film horizontal tube absorber", ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering), Vol. 8A, pp. V08AT10A072 (8 pages), doi:10.1115/IMECE2014-37221, 2014.
  45. A. Yadav, Gaurav Kumar, A.B.O. Soboyejo, R.S. Gaur, Shaligram Tiwari, A. Plappally, "Empirical models for change in pH and temperature within gravity-based reactor columns", Desalination and Water Treatment, doi: 10.1080/19443994.2014. 959736, pp. 1-15, 2014.
  46. M. G. Mithun and Shaligram Tiwari, "Flow past two tandem square cylinders vibrating transversely in phase", Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 46, 2014.
  47. S.V. Diwakar, Shaligram Tiwari, Sarit Kumar Das, T. Sudararajan, "Stability and resonant wave interactions of confined two-layer Rayleigh-Benard systems", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 754, pp. 415-455, 2014.
  48. S. Ganga Prasath, M. Sudharshan, V. Vinodh Kumar, S.V. Diwakar, T. Sundararajan, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of aspect ratio and orientation on the wake characteristics of low Reynolds number flow over triangular prism", Journal Fluids and Structures, Vol. 46, pp. 59-76, 2014.
  49. G. Raghu Vamsee, Maria Luca de Tena, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of arrangement of inline splitter plate on flow past square cylinder", Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp.277-293, 2014.
  50. Jagmohan Singh, Shaligram Tiwari, "Effect of side ratio on wake characteristics of channel confined rectangular cylinder in cross flow", Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 94-102, 2013.
  51. L. Harikrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, M.P. Maiya, "Effect of solution temperature and absorber pressure in R134a-DMAC system using horizontal tubular absorbers", Int. J. Low Carbon Technologies, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 20-28, 2013.
  52. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, "Advection transport model of vortex enhanced heat transfer", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 54, pp. 3273-3287, 2012.
  53. Seik Mansoor Ali, Raghavan Vasudevan, K. Velusamy, Shaligram Tiwari, "A numerical study of concurrent flame propagation over methanol pool surface", J. Heat Transfer (ASME), Vol. 134, 0412022, 2012.
  54. B. Shaji Mohan, Shaligram Tiwari, M.P. Maiya, "Parametric studies on coupled columns of liquid desiccant-vapor compression hybrid air conditioning system", Int. J. Low Carbon Technologies, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 149-158, 2012.
  55. L. Harikrishnan, M.P. Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, “Experimental investigations on heat and mass transfer characteristics of falling film horizontal tubular absorber”, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 54, pp. 2609-2617, 2011.
  56. L. Harikrishnan, Shaligram Tiwari, M.P. Maiya, “Numerical study of heat and mass transfer characteristics on a falling film horizontal tubular absorber for R134a-DMAC”, Int. J. Thermal Sciences, Vol. 50, pp. 149-159, 2011.
  57. Seik Mansoor Ali, Vasudevan Raghavan, Shaligram Tiwari, “A study of steady laminar diffusion flame over methanol pool surface”, International J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 53, pp. 4696-4706, 2010.
  58. Shaligram Tiwari, Koichi Nishino, “Numerical study of steady thermocapillary convection in cylindrical half-floating zone”, International Journal Fluid Mechanics Research, Volume 37, Issue 6, pp. 506-529 , 2010.
  59. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “On the unsteady wake for flow past transversally vibrating square cylinder”, International Journal Fluid Mechanics Research, Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 325-342, 2010.
  60. Shaligram Tiwari, Koichi Nishino, “Effect of confined and heated ambient air on onset of instability in liquid bridges of high Pr fluids”, Fluid Dynamics and Material Processing, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 109-136, 2010.
  61. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of tube spacing on heat transfer performance of staggered tube bundles in presence of vortex generators”, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, Vol. 17, No.3, pp. 1-20, 2010.
  62. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, Gautam Biswas and Mihir Sen, “Kinematics of a fluid particle due to interaction of fixed vortex filaments in presence of external translation and pulsation”, International Journal Fluid Mechanics Research, Vo. 37, No. 2, pp. 149-161, 2010.
  63. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Three-dimensional numerical investigations on flow and heat transfer for flow past a channel confined square cylinder”, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 146-156, 2010.
  64. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of vortex generators and integral splitter plate on heat transfer and pressure drop for laminar flow past channel confined tube banks”, Heat Transfer Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 383-394, 2010.
  65. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Finite volume algorithm to study the effect of tube separation in flow past channel confined tube banks”, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-57, 2009.
  66. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Numerical investigation of incompressible flow past circular tubes in confined channel”, CFD Letters, Vol. 1, pp. 1-14, 2009.
  67. L. Harikrishnan, M.P. Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, A. Wohlfeil, F. Ziegler, Heat and mass transfer characteristics of absorption of R134a into DMAC in a horizontal tube absorber, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 45, pp.1483-1491, 2009.
  68. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Numerical study of heat transfer and pressure drop for flow past inline and staggered tube bundles”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 931-949, 2009.
  69. Shaligram Tiwari, Gautam Biswas, Mihir Sen, “Interaction of inviscid vortices having orthogonal orientations”, International Journal of Dynamics of Fluids, Vol. 5, pp. 93-117, 2009.
  70. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of longitudinal and transverse vibrations of upstream square cylinder on vortex shedding behind two inline square cylinders”, Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 41, pp. 1-26, 2009.
  71. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Numerical investigation of laminar unsteady wakes behind inline square cylinders confined in a channel”, Engineering Application of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 3, pp. 369-386, 2009.
  72. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Computation of flow past complex geometries using MAC algorithm on body-fitted coordinates”, Engineering Application of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 15-27, 2009.
  73. S. Jayavel, Shaligram Tiwari, “Numerical study of flow and heat transfer for flow past inline circular tubes built in a rectangular channel in the presence of vortex generators”, Numerical Heat Transfer: Part A, Vol. 20, Issue 8, 2008.
  74. S. Jayavel, Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Interaction of a skewed Rankine vortex pair”, Physics Fluids, Vol. 20, 083601/1-9, 2008.
  75. Pratish P. Patil, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of blockage ratio on wake transition for flow past a square cylinder”, Fluid Dynamics Research, Vol. 40, pp. 753-778, 2008.
  76. B. Shaji Mohan, M. Prakash Maiya, Shaligram Tiwari, “Performance characterization of liquid desiccant columns for a hybrid air-conditioner”, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 28, Issue 11-12, pp. 1342-1355, 2007.
  77. Shaligram Tiwari, Koichi Nishino, “Numerical study to investigate the effect of partition block and ambient air temperature on interfacial heat transfer in liquid bridges of high Prandtl number fluid”, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 300, Issue 2, pp. 486-496, 2007.
  78. Koichi Nishino, Shaligram Tiwari, “Effect of Heat Loss on Marangoni Convection in a Liquid Bridge”, J. Jpn. Soc. Microgravity Appl., Vol. 24, No. 1, 2007.
  79. S. Tiwari, D. Chakraborty, G. Biswas and P.K. Panigrahi, “Numerical Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Channel in the Presence of a Built-in Circular Tube With and Without Integral Wake Splitter”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 48, pp. 439-453, 2005.
  80. S. Tiwari, G. Biswas, P.L.N. Prasad and S. Basu, “Numerical Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Rectangular Channel with a Built-in Circular Tube”, Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), Vol. 125, pp. 413-421, 2003.
  81. S. Tiwari, P.L.N. Prasad and G. Biswas, “A Numerical Study of Heat Transfer in Fin-Tube Heat Exchangers using Winglet-Type Vortex Generators in Common-Flow-Down Configuration”, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 3, pp. 32-41, 2003.
  82. S. Tiwari, D. Maurya, G. Biswas and V. Eswaran, “Heat Transfer Enhancement in Crossflow Heat Exchangers using Oval Tubes and Multiple Delta Winglets”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 46, pp. 2841-2856, 2003.