I have completed a PhD in the CFD laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, under the guidance of Professors Vinayak Eswaran and Abhijit Kushari, on a research problem related to spray combustion. Previously, during my master's research, I worked in the Combustion, Gasification, and Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under the guidance of Dr. N. K. S. Rajan, on a research problem related to producer gas engines.

A) BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Sumer Dirbude, Nashit Khalifa, and Laltu Chandra, Chapter 9 on "Selective Design of an Experiment for Evaluating Air-Water Hybrid Steam Condenser for Concentrated Solar Power," Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Technologies: Recent Trends and Applications, First Edition, Eds. Chandra, Laltu, Dixit, Ambesh, pp. 89-102, 2018, Springer, Singapore. [eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4576-9; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4576-9; Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4575-2; Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5173-0 Series ISSN: 2352-2534].

2. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V. and Kushari, A., Chapter 8 on "Numerical Modeling and Study of Vaporization of Single Droplet and Mono-Dispersed Spray under Mixed Convection Conditions," In: Chandrasekhar U., Yang L.J., Gowthaman S. (eds), Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering (I-DAD 2018), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 73-82, 2019, Springer, Singapore. [ E Book ISBN: 978-981-13-2697-4; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2697-4_8; HardcoverISBN: 978-981-13-2696-7].

3. Basu, S., Dirbude, S.B. (2024). Flow, Thermal, and Mass Mixing Analysis in a T-Shaped Mixer. In: Sikarwar, B.S., Sharma, S.K. (eds) Scientific and Technological Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2481-9_17

4. Dirbude, S., Koshy, S.J. (2024). Investigations on Micro-combustor for Its Performance Enhancement. In: Sikarwar, B.S., Sharma, S.K. (eds) Scientific and Technological Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2481-9_39

5. Dirbude, S., Iyer, P. (2024). Numerical Investigation of Damped Vibrations in Slender Flexible Structures. In: Kumar, R., Phanden, R.K., Tyagi, R.K., Ramkumar, J. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing and Materials. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3173-2_4

6. M. H. Asnan, Sumer B. Dirbude, Numerical Investigations of Air-Conditioning Inside a Passenger Compartment. In B. S. Sikarwar et al. (eds.), Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, 2026. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8500-4_50

B) BOOK/S PUBLISHED

1. Sumer Dirbude, Solar-Thermal Energy Storage: Introduction to Fundamentals and Applications of Phase Change Materials, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Mauritius, 2019. ISBN: 978-613-9-44540-0.

C) JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V., and Kushari, A. (2012). "Droplet Vaporization Modelling of Rapeseed and Sunflower Methyl Esters," Fuel, Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 171-179. (CiteScore: 5.40, Impact Factor: 4.908, 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.033, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 2.127, SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.891). [DOI:10.1016/j.fuel.2011.07.030] [ISSN: 0016-2361].

[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236111004273].

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2. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V., and Kushari, A. (2011). "Numerical Modelling of Droplet Evaporation with Convection for n-alkanes, and Kerosene Fuel," Atomization and Sprays, Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 787-798. (Impact Factor: 1.189, 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.596, SJR: 0.814, SNIP: 1.18, CiteScore: 1.6) [ISSN Print: 1044-5110ISSN Online: 1936-2684][DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.2012004161]. [http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6a7c7e10642258cc,3ca32fb40c63ad5e,2c716 3d837b5853c.html].

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3. Dirbude, S. and Maurya VK, (2018). "Numerical Study of Solidification and Heat Transfer in the Cavity Weld Pool," International Journal of Advanced Research in Science and Engineering ISSN 2319-8354, Volume 7, Number 3, Pages 464-469. (Impact Factor: Not Known).

[http://www.ijarse.com/images/fullpdf/1521284644_ICSSR321ijarse.pdf].

4. A. Akarsh, Sumer Dirbude, "Effect of HTF flow direction, mass flow rate, and fins on melting and solidification in a latent-heat-based thermal storage device", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2054 012049, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2054/1/012049

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5. L Hanmant Rao and Sumer Dirbude (2022), Numerical modelling and optimization of packed-bed thermal-energy storage system, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2178, 2022. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2178/1/012003.

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6. Sumer Dirbude, Nashid V.K., Arun Chand H., Development of an analytical method of estimation of drag coefficient for flexible structures, Materials Today: Proceedings, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.12.2629.

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7. Dirbude, S., (2011). "Simulations of Mixed Convection with Internal Heat Generation Source in Two-Sided Lid-Driven Cavity," International Journal of Advances in Thermal Sciences and Engineering, Volume 2, Number 1, Pages 67-71. (Impact Factor: Not Known).

[http://serialsjournals.com/serialjournalmanager/pdf/1332330684.pdf] or [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274008665_Simulations_of_Mixed_Convection_with_Internal_Heat_Generation_Source_in_Two_Sided_Lid_Driven_Cavity].

8. Dirbude, S. and Maurya VK, (2018). "Effect of a Magnetic Field on Heat Transfer in Phase-Change-Material-Based Thermal Storage Device, " International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research, ISSN:2349-5162, Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 631-634. (Impact Factor: Not Known). [http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805113.pdf].

9. Dirbude S. B. and Shelke D. S., (2018). "Numerical assessment of suitability of phase-change materials in a concentric PCM-module for thermal storage applications," International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, ISSN 0973-4562, Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages 5-11. (Special Issue)(Impact Factor: Not Known, Scopus Indexed Journal during 2010-17). [https://www.ripublication.com/ijaerspl2018/ijaerv13n8spl_02.pdf].

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10. Sumer Bharat Dirbude, Vivek Kumar Maurya, (2019). "Effect of Uniform Magnetic Field on Melting at Various Rayleigh Numbers," Emerging Science Journal (Previous title: The Italian Journal of Science and Engineering), vol. 3, no. 4, Pages 263-273. [ISSN:2610-9182] DOI: 10.28991/esj-2019-01189(Impact Factor: Not Known). [https://ijournalse.org/index.php/ESJ/article/view/166].

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11. Dirbude S. B. and Shelke D. S., "Numerical Study of Melting and its Effect on a Heat Transfer in a Concentric PCM-Module," American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conference Proceedings, Volume 2039, Pages 020066-1-020066-5 (2018);https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5079025.[ISBN: 978-0-7354-1765-6] [Indexed in Scopus and Web of Science]

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12. Shahul V Hameed, Sumer B Dirbude, "Equilibrium modelling of gasification process of plastic solid waste: A Gibbs free energy minimization approach using a novel genetic algorithm," Fuel, Volume 422, 2026, 139177, ISSN 0016-2361, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2026.139177

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236126009312]

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D) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Asnan M A and Sumer Dirbude, (2024) "Numerical investigations of air conditioning inside a passenger compartment, "4th Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering" (FLAME-2024), to the publisher for publishing the proceedings under the LNME Series Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering Select Proceedings of FLAME 2024 (Scopus Indexed) Springer Nature.

2. Dirbude, S., Koshy, S.J. (2024). Investigations on Micro-combustor for Its Performance Enhancement. In: Sikarwar, B.S., Sharma, S.K. (eds) Scientific and Technological Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2481-9_39

3.  Basu, S., Dirbude, S.B. (2024). Flow, Thermal, and Mass Mixing Analysis in a T-Shaped Mixer. In: Sikarwar, B.S., Sharma, S.K. (eds) Scientific and Technological Advances in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversions. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2481-9_17

4. Dirbude, S., Iyer, P. (2024). Numerical Investigation of Damped Vibrations in Slender Flexible Structures. In: Kumar, R., Phanden, R.K., Tyagi, R.K., Ramkumar, J. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing and Materials. FLUTE 2023. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3173-2_4

5. Sumer B. Dirbude, Shahul H V, and Niveditha K V V S K (2023). Combustion Instability Analysis in Rotating Detonation Engine Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition. Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 14-17, 2023, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India.DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2023.2030
pages 1243-1248.

6. Nashid V. K., Arun Chand H., and Sumer Dirbude, "Development of Analytical Method of Estimation of Drag Coefficient for Flexible Structures," FLAME 2022 (conference under the Scopus Indexed LNME series of Springer Nature), 2022

7. A. Akarsh, Sumer Dirbude, “Heat transfer enhancement in a PCM-based shell-and-tube-type thermal-energy storage device with nano-particle enhancement, addition of triangular annular fins, fin pitch, and HTF flow reversal”, 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IHMTC 2021, 17-20 December 2021, pages 1343-1350.DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2021.2030

8. Sreenath, T. R., Sumer Dirbude, and Simon Peter, “Numerical Analysis of Steady Uniform Incompressible flow Past a Rotating Cylinder,” Second International Conference on Technological Convergence in Engineering, Energy, and Sustainability (ICTCEES-2020), July 18–19, 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, India-670632

9. Dirbude, S. B. and Maurya V. K., "Numerical simulation of melting under the influence of magnetic field at various Rayleigh numbers," International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing, July 19-21, 2018, Indian Institute of Technology Indore.

10 Dirbude S. B. and Shelke D. S., "Numerical assessment of suitability of phase-change materials in a concentric PCM-module for thermal storage applications," International Conference on Advances in Science & Technology (ICAST-2018), 04-05 May, 2018, SwamiKeshvanand Institute of Technology, Management & Gramothan, Ramnagaria, Jagatpura, Jaipur-302017, Rajasthan, India.

11. Dirbude S. B. and Maurya V. K., "Numerical study of solidification in a V-joint butt weld pool of stainless steel," International Conference on Advances in Science & Technology (ICAST-2018), Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management &Gramothan, Ramnagaria, Jagatpura, Jaipur-302017, Rajasthan, India, 04-05 May, 2018.

12. Dirbude S. B. and Singh P., "Numerical Characterization of Producer-Gas and Air Mixing in T-Type Mixer Geometries," International Conference on Advances in Science & Technology (ICAST-2018), Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management &Gramothan, Ramnagaria, Jagatpura, Jaipur-302017, Rajasthan, India, 04-05 May, 2018.

13. Dirbude S. B. and Maurya V. K., "Effect of a magnetic field on heat transfer in phase-change-material-based thermal storage device," International Conference on Appropriate Technology for Sustainable Development (ICATSD-2018), 27-28 March, 2018, JD College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, India.

14. Dirbude S. B. and Maurya V. K., "Numerical Study of Solidification and Heat Transfer in the Cavity Weld Pool," Proceedings of International Conference on Research Developments in Applied Science, Engineering and Management,(ICRDAEM-2018), 18 March 2018, The Indian Council of Social Science Research, Panjab University Campus, Chandigarh, India, pp. 132-137.

15. Dirbude, S., Kodela, C., and Eswaran, V., "Numerical Simulations of Two-Phase Turbulent Gas-Particle Flow using Eulerian-Eulerian Model," Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME-2011), 6-8 June 2011, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395 007, Gujarat, India, pp. 447-451.

16. Dirbude, S., "Simulations of Mixed Convection with Internal Heat Generation Source in Two-Sided Lid Driven Square Cavity," Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME-2011), S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395 007, Gujarat, India, 6-8 June 2011.

17. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V., and Kushari, A., "Droplet Evaporation Modelling of Some Conventional and Alternative Fuels at Low Pressure," Thirty-Seventh National and Fourth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power,16-18 December 2010. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

18. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V., and Kushari, A., "Droplet Evaporation Modelling of Vegetable Oil Derived Biofuel-Rapeseed Methyl Ester," Fifth International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, 27-29 December 2010.Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. [ISBN:93-80813-03-1]

19. Dirbude, S. B., Tikekar, A. N., and Rajan, N. K. S., 'Experimentations on Lambda Sensor Based Producer Gas Engine Carburetor," International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Technology Management, ICAMTM-2007, ICAMTM-2007, 18-20 January 2007, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Parshvanath College of Engineering, Thane, Mumbai (India), pp 614-621.

20. Dirbude, S., Khalifa, N., and Chandra, L., "Selective Design of an Experiment for Evaluating Air-Water Hybrid Steam Condenser for Concentrated Solar Power," National conference on solar thermal energy technologies, 26-28 February 2016, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

21. Nihal Raj and Sumer Dirbude, Thermal Striping in Tee Junction Pipes: Impact of Velocity Ratio and Temperature Difference on Thermal Fatigue Frequencies, 1^st International Conference on Thermofluids Engineering (INCOTHERM-2025),  IIT Dhanbad, October 10-12, 2025.

22) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, Cooperative Game Theoretic Approach for Life Cycle Assessment of Plastic: A Guide for Policy Makers, Second Global Conference on Decarbonizing India --Towards Achieving Net Zero,  National Institute of Technology Calicut, March 06 to 08, 2025.

23) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, Physics-Informed Neural Network-Based Approach for Simulation of Plasma Process in a Radio Frequency Plasma Torch, 28th National and 6th International ISHMT ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 9-12, 2025, IIT Jodhpur. Proceedings of the 28th National and 6th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 9-12, 2025, IIT Jodhpur, Karwar-342030, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), India, ISSN Online :2688-7231, ISBN Online:
978-1-56700-487-8,  Publisher: Begel House Inc., pp. 1575-1580, DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2025.2420).

(https://ishmtdigitallibrary.com/conferences/587c7d3679ede81c,2ef0b2e331dc56a8,22ebc30f3d0582aa.html)

24) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, “A Novel Approach for Modelling Gas-solid Fluidization in a Fluidized Bed Gasifier” International Conference on Thermal Sciences and Sustainable Energy (ICTSE-2026), January 23-24, 2026, NIT Warangal, India.

25) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, “Plastic waste disposal management through gasification: A physics-informed neural network based approach” International Conference on Advanced Materials & Manufacturing for Sustainability (ICAMMS-2026), during 12-14 March 2026 at VNIT Nagpur, India. [Best Paper Award]

26) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, “CFD Modeling of Plastic Gasification in a Fluidized-Bed Gasifier: A Detailed Study of Drag Model Influence on Syngas Quality,” International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICAMCFD 2026), MNNIT Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, from January 30-February 01, 2026. [Springer]

27) Varun Dhinachandra, Sidharth S, and Sumer Dirbude, "NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN MICRO-MIX COMBUSTOR," International Conference on Fluid and Thermal Engineering (ICFTE 2026), January 19-21, 2026, BITS Pilani, Pilani, India. [Abstract]

28) Vratesh Mukadam, Sumer Dirbude, "CFD Optimization of Valve Head-Seat Designs for Improved Leakage Control and Pressure-Drop Performance," 6^th International Conference on “Advanced Engineering Optimization Through Intelligent Techniques (AEOTIT), 26-28 February 2026, SVNIT Surat, India. (Springer)

28) Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, “Artificial Neural Network-based Drag Modelling for enhanced Syngas Quality in a Platic Gasifier,” International Conference on Advances in Aerospace and Energy Systems (IAES 2026), ISHMT-RCT, ISRO Propulsion Complex Mahendragiri, India, from April 16-April 18, 2026. [Abstract]

F) POSTER PRESENTATIONS

1. Dirbude, S., Eswaran, V., and Kushari, A., "An Effective Reynolds Number Based Droplet Evaporation Model," Poster-Innovation and Design Section-IIT Kanpur REACH symposium, 10-12 October 2010.

2. Shelke, D. S. and Dirbude, S. B., "Solidification and Melting in a Phase-Change-Material-based Thermal Storage Device," Poster presented at the 3rd Edition of Research Scholar's Day, National Institute of Technology, Delhi-40, December 2017. [Winner of the Best Poster Award]

3. Maurya, V. K. and Dirbude, S. B., "Fluid flow and heat transfer in the weld pool," Poster presented at the 3rd Edition of Research Scholar's Day, National Institute of Technology, Delhi-40, December 2017.

4. Shahul H V and Sumer Dirbude, Second Global Conference on Decarbonizing India--Towards Achieving Net Zero, March 06 - 08, 2025, Organized by Centre for Clean Energy and Circular Economy (C-CECE), Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), National Institute of Technology Calicut. [Winner of the Excellence Award]

Video lectures on Computaional Fluid Dynamics (CFD):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh4MZjjf97VtNR6l1daj5w

Note: It also includes video lectures from the self-sponsored online SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAMME on MODERN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) WITH INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS February 1, 2021 – February 5, 2021 https://sites.google.com/nitc.ac.in/mcfdiea-2021

1. 2017-18, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee (DPGC) Convener, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi.

2. 2017-18, Member of Technical club, Faculty-in-charge for Mechatronics and Robotics club, National Institute of Technology Delhi.

3. 2017-2018, Lab-in-charge, Engineering Visualization Laboratory, National Institute of Technology Delhi.

4. Winter 2020- Winter 2022, Lab-in-charge, Heat Engines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

5. 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, B. Tech. Project Evaluation Committee,  Member, Thermal/ Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut.

6. 2020-2023 Faculty Advisor (FA), E1 (First Year)/E(1-30) (Second to Fourth Year)-Batch, B Tech ME (2019-2023 Batch), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

7. Winter 2020- Winter 2023, Lab-in-charge, Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Machinery Laboratory and CFD Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

8. Winter, 2021-till date, Department Web Manager & Faculty-in-Charge of Information and Facilitations, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut. 

9. Winter 22-2-2021, Committee Member, Centre for Computational Modelling and Simulation (CCMS), National Institute of Technology Calicut. 

10. 2022 to 2023, Faculty in Charge-Office computers, accessories, and Audio-Video Equipments, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut

11. 2023-till date Faculty Advisor (FA), ME02-Batch, B Tech ME (2023-2027 Batch), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

12. Monsoon, 2025-till date, Centre for Public Relations, Information and Media Exchange (C-PRIME), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

13. Monsoon, 2025-till date, Center for Quality Assurance and Enhancement [CQAE], NBA Evaluation form submission, pre-qualifier data collection, NIRF data collection, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala.

14. Monsoon 2026-till date, Lab in-charge, Centre for Advanced Studies in Cryogenics (CASC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut. 

15. Monsoon 2026 till date,  ME67 - Logistics & Supply Chain Management, M. Tech. Project Evaluation Committee,  Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut.

16. Monsoon 2026-2027: Class Committee Chairpersons, Semester-I, PE & Electives offered by MED 

DOCTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER/ THESIS EVALUATION

1. External member of the Doctoral Advisory Committee, VIT, Vellore – 632 014, Tamil Nadu, India. (VIT – Recognised as an Institution of Eminence (IoE) by the Government of India), 2020-2021 till date.

2. External Examiner for Ph. D. thesis, 05 April 2024, MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune, Vishwaraj Baug, Loni Kalbhor, Pune - 412 201, India (https://mituniversity.ac.in/).

SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCE/ TRAINING PROGRAMS ORGANIZED

1. Organizing secretary, One-Day National Symposium on Paradigm Shift in Mechanical Sciences (PSMS-2018), 23 January 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi. (No. of Participants: 100 from the institutions and 30 from the Industries)

2. Coordinator, Five-Days training program on ANSYS software, 4-8 December 2017, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi. (No. of Participants: 25 )

3. Convenor, a Half-Day workshop-cum-training program on Experimental Techniques in Fluid Dynamics--Particle Image Velocimetry and Laser Doppler Velocimetry, 14 March 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi. (No. of Participants: 26 )

4. Coordinator, Two-Days visit to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, 8-9 November 2017. (No. of Participants: 21 )

5. Coordinator, One-Day Industrial Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, 11 December 2017. (No. of Participants: 21 )

6. Co-Coordinator, Five Days Training Program on CATIA software, 4-9 April 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi. (No. of Participants: 26 )

7. Coordinator, SHORT TERM TRAINING PROGRAMME (Virtual Mode) on MODERN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) WITH INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS, February 1, 2021 – February 5, 2021, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut (No. of participants 37 students + 7 faculties + 5 NPCIL Scientists + 5 BEML managers)

Web Link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh4MZjjf97VtNR6l1daj5w

[List of Instructors: Dr. Akshai K Runchal, ACRi, USA; Dr. Murali Damodaran, NUS Singapore; Dr. Madhukar M Rao, ACRi; Mr. Chakrapani, ACRi; Mr. Rajagopal, ACRi; Prof. M. Sekhar, IISC Bangalore; Prof. Prabhu Ramchandran, IIT Bombay; Prof. Ashoke De, IIT Kanpur; Prof. Amaresh Dalal, IIT Guwahati; Prof. Manas Das, IIT Guwahati; Prof. Pradeep Kumar, IIT Mandi; Prof. Sumer Dirbude, NIT Calicut]

INVITED TALK/S

1. Computational Fluid Dynamics in Manufacturing Sciences in a One-Day National Symposium on Paradigm Shift in Mechanical Sciences (PSMS-2018), 23 January 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi.

2. CFD of Multiphase Flows with Phase-change, A D Patel Institute of Technology (A Constituent College of CVM University) [Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2kX32zwxU]

3. Introduction and Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Manufacturing Sciences, Poornima College of Engineering, Rajasthan. [Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcm2N1lvEFs]

4. Conference session chair talk: SV National Institute of Technology-Surat

5. Talk on "Finite Volume Methods" at the  DST-STUTI ICT training program, organized by ICT Mumbai and the Department of Mathematics at NITC during July 24-30, 2023

6.  A CFD Approach to Multiphase Flow and Phase Change, 8 March 2025, Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MMTTP) UGC on “Computational Fluid Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering” From Feb, 28-February, 11-March, 2025,  Organized by Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand-826004.

Professional Membership

1. Life Member of The Combustion Institute (Indian Section) [LMC-1098]

2. Life Member-National Society for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power [LM-503]

3. Life Member- Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer [ISHMT No: 635]

4. Life Member- Indian Society for Technical Education [LM-50003]

5. Life Member- Solar Energy Society of India [LM/1432/2010]

6. Senior Individual Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2025-2026) [INAE/Ind M/172]

7. Member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) [Membership No.: 22079779360]

Skills

Software: ANSYS-FLUENT, ANSYS-CFX, OpenFOAM, PRO-ENGINEERING, AutoCAD, AutoDESK INVENTOR Professional-11

Programming: FORTRAN, C, MatLab.,

Others: Qualified Maharashtra State Certificate in Information Technology (MS-CIT) [Knowledge of Windows office software], Linux OS, LATEX, Gambit, ICEMCFD, Tecplot, enGauge, WinDig, AdobePHOTOSHOP.

Course Material on CHT:

Please click on the link for the video lectures on Computational Heat Transfer Course.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOvcpqQMeGoKZVJS64pnUCyvaecYkTOK3

PH. D. THESIS GUIDANCE:

1. Mr. Shahul Hameed V.:

Modeling of Biomass Gasifier, CFD, Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Plasma Dynamics (2022-undergoing)

2. Mr. Anish P Krishnan:

Modern hybrid internal combustion engines (Co-guide, 2025-undergoing)

Looking for a self-motivated student with a background in Thermo-Fluid sciences, having good analytical, computational, and technical communication skills. Knowledge of C/C++ programming, as well as other computational or programming tools (such as MATLAB, Python, and Scilab), and CFD software (both open-source and commercial) will be an advantage. You are welcome to write me for discussions at sumer@nitc.ac.in or call me at 7755054943.

M. TECH. THESES:

1. Shelke S. Dnyaneshwar: Numerical Simulations of Solidification and Melting in a Phase Change Material-based Energy Storage Module, 2018 (Completed). [Doing a job in an Engineering College, Pune]

2. Maurya Vivek Kumar: Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Magneto-Hydrodynamics (MHD) in a Fusion Welding Weld Pool, 2018 (Completed). [Doing entrepreneurship]

3. Singh Pradeep: Numerical Study of Mixing of Producer Gas (Fuel) and Air (Oxidizer) in Different Mixer Geometries, 2018 (Completed). [Doing entrepreneurship.]

4. Sreenath, T. R. (M180095ME): Numerical Analysis of Rotating Cylinder in a Uniform Flow of Viscous Medium, 2020 (Completed) [Doing job in Indian Railways]

5. Hanmant Rao L (M190466ME): Numerical analysis of a Packed-bed Storage System, 2021 [Completed] [Doing job in Cummins, Pune]

6. Atidev Gautam (M190595ME): Numerical Study on evaporation of multi-component droplets of biofuels and their blends with fossil fuels, 2021 [Completed][Doing job in Engineering College, UP]

7. Akarsh A (M190435ME): Numerical Study on Heat Transfer Enhancement in PCM-based latent heat energy storage system, 2021 [Completed] [Doing job in TCS, Bengaluru]

8. Vratesh Mukadam (M210574ME), Performance Improvement of Wastegate Control Valve (WGCV) of Wastegate Turbocharger, 2022-23 (Completed) [CFD Engineer's Job in Atlas Copco, Pune ]

9. Sagar Darpe (M210575ME), Design and Development of Plate-Fin Heat Exchanger for Cooling of Ethylene-Glycol based Water Mixture, 2022-23 (Completed) [Job in SANAPAR Industries Pvt Ltd., Bengaluru]

10. Srinjoy Basu (M210565ME), Development of T-Type Mixer for Producer Gas (PG)-Air Mixing, 2022-23 (Completed) [Job in Siemens Gamesa, Bengaluru]

11. Premkumar Iyer (M220516ME): On the experimental Investigations of Freezing Transitions in Coated Droplets (Completed) 2023-2024. [ IISc Bengaluru, Job: PhD at IIT Hyderabad ]

12. Asnan M H (M220534ME): Numerical Analysis of Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning System for a Cabin of Locomotive Operator (Completed) 2023-2024. [Wabtec Corporation Inc., Bengaluru, Job: Lennox India, Chennai]

13. S Roopesh Kumar (M230853ME), Modelling of Bubbling Fluidized Bed gasifier (Completed) 2024-2025 [WSP Global, Bengaluru].

14. Ashwanth Kumar (M250700ME), Numerical Analysis of Strut-Based Scramjet Combustor (Ongoing) 2026-2027 

B. TECH. THESIS

1. Thaju K Habeeb ( placed in WIPRO), Sreerag S Nair (Capgemini Technologies), Vishnu Santosh Kumar (UPSC Exam Preparation), and Umer Muqthar P (ICICI Lombard): 

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of PCM Incorporated Hybrid Heat Sink for Electronic Cooling (2020-2021; Completed).

2. Muhammed Nasim (Placed in Bharat Electronics), Mohammed Roshan (Vedanta), Samik Mohan (Preparing for Higher studies), Arun Chand H (Aditya Birla-Ultratech), Rifa Seethi R M (John Deere): 

Fluid-structure interaction using the  immersed boundary method and Machine Learning (2021-2022; Completed)

3. AVV Sri Hari Priya (John Deere); D Sai Vivek (joining Ph.D.); KVVSK Niveditha (Quantiphi); P Revathi (Axis Bank, Mumbai): 

Study of Instabilities in Continuously Rotating Detonation Combustor (2022-23; Completed)

4. Kesari Kumar (TATA Projects Ltd.); Sanket Meena; Santo Jacob Koshy (Maruti Suzuki Ltd.):

Investigations on the micro-combustor for its performance enhancement. (2022-23; Completed)

5. Keshav Rawat (GLS Ltd., UAE): 

MAGNETIC TURBINE BRAKING SYSTEM FOR OIL-WELL DRILLING EQUIPMENT. (2022-23, Completed).

6. Priyanshu Rai (Bajaj Auto Ltd.): 

DURABILITY TEST CYCLE AND TEST SETUP FOR HYDRAULIC CONTROL UNIT OF ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEMS. (2022-23, Completed)

7. K. Komal Singh (placed in Caterpillar), Yerram Sri Aditya (placed in Honeywell); Makwana Dikshit Mahendrabhai (Start-up: CURELY); Shriram S. (placed in MRF):

Study of Storage and Combustion in a Cryogenic Propulsion System under Varying Gravity (2023-24; Completed).

8. K. Shanu Burnval (ACC Limited, West Bengal); Ravi Shankar (placed in JSW Steel); Shakti Subhankar Mahal (placed in Auronova ); Roy Saurabh Ram Manohar (PalTech):

Development of Physics-Informed Neural Network Model for Heat-based Biomedical Treatments (2023-24; Completed).

9.  ARUN S KUDAKASSERIL (ExxonMobil, Bengaluru), DRISSYA M T (Semens, Mumbai), NIHAL N RAJ (JBM Group, Faridabad), SAAYAN MANOJ, A M MAHEEDHAR (Maruthi Suzuki, Gudgaon):

Analysis of Thermal Stripping in Tee Junction and Parallel Jets (2024-25; Completed).

10. VARUN DINACHANDRA (placed in ExxonMobil: Natural gas company, Bengaluru), SIDDHARTH AYYAPPATH SATHEESAN ( placed in Titan Company Limited, Bengaluru), VIRAJ P ( placed in Titan Company Limited, Bengaluru), and SOUMYA MATHEW (placed in ExxonMobil: Natural gas company, Bengaluru):

Modeling of Hydrogen Micromix Combustion for Real-Time NOₓ Prediction and Combustor Optimization  (2025-26; Completed).

11. 

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Note for Postdoctoral Researchers: Please email me your CV and research proposal. We will strongly support your application for the prestigious National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NPDF) sponsored by the SERB.

You are welcome to write me for discussions at sumer@nitc.ac.in or call me at 7755054943.

Note for Summer interns: Interested candidates may send their CVs and motivation letters. They can apply for the Summer Internship on the NIT-Calicut website. The following students have completed a 2-month internship:

1. ANAND MISTRY, M Tech Mechanical Engineering Department, A. D. Patel Institute of Technology, anand.m@aspiredesigns.net, Ph. No.:+919727067546.

2. HARSHAD RAGHUWANSHI, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Mechanical Engineering Department, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Info4harsh@gmail.com, Ph. No.: 7415290109.

3. GANAMATAYYA. K. HIKKIMATH, Ph.D. Research Scholar, School of Mechanical Engineering Department, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, ganamatayya@gmail.com, Ph. No.: 7795237055.

4. VAKATI POOJITH KUMAR, M Tech Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Poojithkumarvakati@gmail.com, Ph. No.: 7993327722.

The students' names who underwent the Summer Internship Program (through CCMT):

Sidharth S Menon (2026), K.B. Sheneshivar (2026), Abhinav (2025), Shine (2025), Anami Prashad Roy Chowdhury (2024), Devarshi Bhawale (2024), and Deepthy Ajith K (2024).

You are welcome to write me for discussions at sumer@nitc.ac.in or call me at 7755054943.

EDUCATION

1. Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, Kanpur, India 

Dissertation: Numerical Modeling of Spray Vaporization for Non-premixed Flames.

Advisors: Professor Vinayak Eswaran (eswar@iith.ac.in) and Professor Abhijit Kushari (akushari@iitk.ac.in)

2. Master of Engineering in Mechanical-Heat Power

Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India 

Dissertation: Design Confirmation and Performance Evaluation of Lambda-sensor based Producer Gas Engine Carburettor [Thesis conducted at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore].

Advisors: Dr. N. K. S. Rajan (nksr@cgpl.iisc.ernet.in) and Dr. (Miss) Anjali Tikekar (Retired)

3. Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

Nagpur University, Nagpur, India 

Project: Design of Air-Conditioning System.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

1. National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, Kozhikode, India.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (August, 2019 – January 2020)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (February, 2020 – till date)

2. National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Delhi, Delhi, India.

Assistant Professor (on contract), Department of Mechanical Engineering (August 2017-May 2018)

3. Centre for Solar Energy Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Scientist-C (October 2015 to September 2016)

4. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Senior Student Research Associate (2010-2014)

5. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Full-time Graduate Student (April 2010-July 2012)

6. S. R. E. S. College of Engineering (CoE), Kopargaon, Maharashtra State, India.

Lecturer (January 2006-July 2007)

7. P. V. G. College of Engineering and Technology (CoET), Pune, Maharashtra State, India.

Lecturer (September 2005-November 2005)

8. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Combustion, Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL), Bangalore, India M.E. Project Student (August 2004-July 2005)

9. Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, Maharashtra State, India.

Full-time Graduate Student (August 2003-July 2005)

10. Government Polytechnic (GP), Sakoli, Maharashtra State, India.

Lecturer (July 2002-April 2003)

Course Work
1. Credit courses at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
1) ME600: Communication Skills for Engineers (taught by Professor Vinayak Eswaran).
2) ME630: Numerical Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer (taught by Professor Vinayak Eswaran).
3) ME631: Viscous Flow Theory (taught by Professor Vinayak Eswaran).
4) ME634: Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (taught by Professor Vinayak Eswaran).
5) ME639: Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Technology (taught by Professors S. Khandekar and M. Groll, University of Stuttgart, Germany).
6) ME641: Conduction and Radiation (taught by Professor K. Muralidhar).
7) ME642: Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (taught by Professor P. Ghoshdastidar).

8) ME681: Mathematics for Engineers (taught by Professor P. M. Dixit).
9) AE621: Turbulence (taught by Professor D. Das).
10) AE696: Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids (taught by Professor E. Rathakrishnan).
11) AE753: Theory of Combustion (taught by Professor Abhijit Kushari).

2. Audit courses at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
1) ME647: Introduction to Turbulent Fluid Mechanics (2009-10, Sem I), taught by Professor A. K. Saha.
2) ME648: Computer-Aided Design of Thermal Systems (2008-09, Sem I), taught by Professor P. Ghoshdastidar.
3) ME726: Hamiltonian Mechanics and Symplectic Algorithms (2010-11, Sem II) [for one month, initial classes], taught by Professor B. L. Sharma.
4) PHY672: Physics of Turbulence (2009-10, Sem II), taught by Professors M. K. Verma and O. Matthews.
5) AE615: Advanced Computational Methods in CFD (2009-10, Sem II), taught by Professors T. K. Sengupta and Michel Deville (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne).
6) AE618: Finite Element Methods for Fluid Dynamics (2008-09, Sem II), taught by Professor S. Mittal.
7) AE 658: Numerical Modelling of Chemically Reacting Flows (2012-13, Sem II), taught by Professor A. De

Senior Individual Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2025-2026)

Journal Editorial Board member:

a) Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Mechanics & Computational Fluid Dynamics

1. Reviewer for:

a7) Reviewer, FMFP, 2026

a6) Reviewer, GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks), 2026

a5) Reviewer for International Conference on Sustainable Technologies and Advanced Research (2025), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

a4) Reviewer for 1^st International Conference on Thermofluids Engineering (INCOTHERM-2025), IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.

a3) Reviewer for International Conference on Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems (ICFTES'24), 13 March 2025

a4) Energy Journal (December-2025), Elsevier; Journal of Engineering (December-2025), Wiley

a2) International Conference on Advances in Aerospace and Energy Systems (IAES- 2024), Dates: 4th to 6th April 2024 at LPSC, Valiamala Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Organised by: Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer - RCT and Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre - ISRO

a1) Energy Journal (September, 2022;January 2023), Elsevier;

a0) Reviewer for NCTEC2021: National Conference on Turbomachines, Energy and Combustion, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, India, November 29-30, 2021

b) Scientific Reports-Nature (a nature's research journal) (January 2019), Springer Nature;

c) Emergent Materials (November 2018), Elsevier;

d) Energy Journal (January and February 2019, March 2018, February 2015), Elsevier;

e) Advances in Mechanical Engineering (March 2016), SAGE;

f) Journal of Combustion, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, USA;

g) Fuel Journal (December 2014), Elsevier;

h) The Second International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy System (NEFES 2017) [June 2017];

i) Fourth International Conference on Advances in Clean Energy Research (ICACER 2019), Coimbra, Portugal [January 2019]

j) Session Chair and Reviewer: International Conference on Computational Sciences- Modelling Computing and Soft Computing (CSMCS 2020), 10-12 September 2020, Department of Mathematics, NIT Calicut 673601, Kerala, India

k) Reviewer for 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC 2021), 17-20 December 2021, IIT Madras.

l) Reviewer: Energy Journal (February 2020), Elsevier.

m) Reviewer for 27th National and 5th International ISHMT - ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 14-17, 2023, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India

2) Technical Program Committee Member at:

a) International Conference on Thermology, January 13-15, 2018, Sanya, China;

b) Springer Academic Conference, the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development of Water and Environment (ICSDWE2019), Jan 22-23, 2019, Hong Kong;

c) Fifth International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy-Related Materials, October 22-28, 2019, Oludeniz, Fethiye/ Mugla-TURKEY.

3) Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2002.

4) Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Scholarship for master's research, 2003-2005.

5) Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Scholarship for doctoral research, 2007-2011.

6) Research cash prize award by IIT Kanpur for publication in reputed journals (2011-12).

7) Marquis Who's Who in the world-2013.

8) Guest Post-Graduate (Masters) researcher at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, CGPL, Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, from July, 2004- July, 2005.

9) Guest Ph. D. researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, from July 2011- July 2012.

10) National Advisory Committee Member for: a) International Conference on Mechanical and Materials Science Engineering: Innovation and Research (ICMMSE:IR-2018), 5-6 July 2018, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre (SITRC), Sandip Foundation's/Sandip University, Nashik, India.

11) Committee Member of NESD 2020, The 2020 International Conference on New Energy and Sustainable Development (NESD 2020), August 21-23, 2020 in Changchun, China, Organized by Academic Exchange Information Centre (AEIC). 

[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/619/1/011001/pdf]

Symposium & Workshops Attended

1.  National Workshops

1)   State Level Workshop on Non-Conventional Energy Resources, Department of Mechanical Engineering, S. V. M. College of Engineering, Chincholi, Nashik, Maharashtra State, India, 14-15 February 2007.

2) Short-term course on “Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Technologies and Applications,” IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 8-9 January 2016.

3)   National Symposium on “Paradigm Shift in Mechanical Sciences (PSMS – 2018)”, 23 January 2018, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Delhi.

4) Five-day workshop on “Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Approaches for Non-Linear Boundary Value Problems” (FMNA-BVP), October 5-9, 2019, Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode-673 601.

2.  International Workshops and Symposium

1) International Workshop on Recent Trends in Flow Visualization, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, December 29-31, 2009.

2) International Symposium on New Paradigms for Energy Policy and Regulation, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 8, 2010.

3) International Workshop on Civilian Nuclear Energy, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 9, 2010.

4) International Workshop on Advances in Combustion and Transportation, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 10-12, 2010.

5) International Symposium on Photovoltaic Science and Technology, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 13, 2010.

6) International Symposium on Hydrogen and Energy Storage, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 14, 2010.

7)   International DST-SERC Workshop on Smart Energy Delivery Systems, Energy Conclave 2010, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 15, 2010.

8) International Workshop on Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India, August 31-September 2, 2010.

9) Five-day technology workshop on Heterogeneous Computing—CPU/GPU HPC Cluster—Algorithms and Performance of Application Kernels (HeGaPa 2012) [Initiative on Power Efficiency—Green Computing], organized by the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, at CMSU-UoH, Hyderabad, July 16-20, 2012.

10) Five-day workshop on "Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Approaches for Non-linear Boundary Value Problems (FMNA-BVP 2019)," organized by the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode-673601, Kerala, 5-9 October 2019.

11) International Workshop on Energy, Environment, and Multiphase Flows (IWEEM-2020) (11th workshop in a series on the status of combustion in India), jointly organized by the University of Maryland, College Park; the University of Illinois at Chicago; ACRI CFD; and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 24-26 February 2020.

12) TEQIP III sponsored Symposium on Biomicrofluidics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 19-20 February 2021.

13) Introduction to Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Udemy Certificate, Instructor: Dr.Akshai Runchal (Experts in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Machine Learning)

14) NPTEL E-Learning—Masterclass: Dispersed Multiphase Flow Fundamentals by Prof. S. "Bala" Balachandar, William F. Powers Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida, 4-6 October 2024.

15) Capacity Building Program on Cybersecurity—Intermediate Course, organized by Teaching Learning Center (TLC), IIT Madras, and conducted by IITM Pravartak, from February 24 to 28, 2025. (The program is under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, through the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Program.)

16) NPTEL E-Learning—Masterclass: Particle-Based Flow Diagnostics: From Field Measurements to 3D Holographic Imaging "by Prof. Jiarong Hong, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, 15th, 22nd, and 29th March, 2025.

17) NPTEL E-Learning—Masterclass: "Introduction to Hydrodynamic Stability" by Prof. Anirban Guha, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Dundee, 14th, 15th, 21st, and 22nd June 2025.

18) International Conference on Frontier Areas of Science & Technology (ICFAST 2025) on October 10–11, 2025, in collaboration with the Indian JSPS Alumni Association, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).

19) Implementation of NEP 2020: Moving Towards Academic Excellence, 25-26 April 2025. NIT Calicut.

20) NPTEL E-Learning—Masterclass: "Introduction to Fluid-Structure Interaction using OpenFOAM." by Dr. Kadapa,17th, 18th, 24th & 25th April 2026.

21) Rashtriya Karmayogi Large Scale Jan Seva Program, Capacity Building Commission with Knowledge Partner - Illumine Knowledge Resources on 23 January 2026, Department of Personnel and Training, GoI.

Training Programs/Courses attended

1.      Industrial Training for 15 days on “Captive Power Plant (30 MW),” Sunflag Iron and Steel, Bhandara—441905 (Maharashtra State), 8-22 July 2004.

· A 30 MW Captive Power Plant (CPP) has two turbine sets and two boilers. One boiler operates on waste gas from the Direct Reduction Plant and another on Coal Fluidized Bed Technology.

2.      Three days of training on “AutoDESK INVENTOR Professional-11,” Aura Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRES College of Engineering, Kopargaon (Maharashtra State), 5-7 January 2007.

3.      TEQIP Online Certification (Funded by Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India), Powered by “SWAYAM,” Two-Week Course on “Digital Transformation in Teaching Learning Process,” April 6th–April 22^nd, 2020, IIT Bombay, India.

4. Online workshop on “How Teachers Can Make a Difference,” Teaching Learning Center (TLC), IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, India, July 19-24, 2021.

1. Completed: A RESEARCH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)  FOR FOUR STUDENTS. (Rs. 0.5 Lacs) during 2022.

2. Completed: Faculty Research Seed Grant (FRG)-2022 (Rs. 5.0 Lacs) on Mixing characterization, 2022-2024.

• I am teaching UG and PG students of Mechanical and Production Engineering at NIT Calicut. I do like on-board teaching with chalk and talk; this inspires a mix of knowledge (know) and mastery (show). I do not take any paper notes in class for theory; for tutorials, I keep a problem and solution sheet. I give project-based assignments in the "independent" courses. Generally, students will benefit from the courses I offer. My motive in teaching is to make students "learn, how to learn".
• Knowledge and experience gained in thermal and fluid sciences through extensive coursework at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, with special emphasis on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its applications.
• Research and development experience leading to expertise in alternative fuel utilization and numerical modeling of chemically reacting single and multiphase flows for combustion devices.
• Interested in CFD (FDM, FVM, FEM, LBM) code development and orientation towards the use of commercial (ANSYS-Fluent) and open source (OpenFOAM) CFD simulation software knowledge for industrial problems.
• Interested in application of Machine Learning (ML) for fluid flow and heat transfer.
• Knowledge of High-performance computing and Programming languages for CFD applications.
• Interested in the teaching and research areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Machine Learning-PINNS, Combustion, Energy Systems and Fire Safety, Multi-phase Flows, Bio-fluid Dynamics, and Experimental Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

OpenFOAM: Programming and User Guide: Is a free and powerful CFD software.

ANSYS Fluent: Commercial (Not Free), powerful, multifaceted, long-standing CFD software. 

Machine Learning: A modern tool for developing data-driven models.

Machine Learning and Fluids: Very much helpful in reducing tedious computations or in solving backward/inverse problems. 

ParaView Tutorials: Free and powerful post-processing software for CFD data.

Python Programming And Numerical Methods: A Guide For Engineers And Scientists