Research

RESEARCH GUIDANCE

Ongoing Ph.D Works:

Name of the Student	Thesis Title	Name of Co-guide
J. Dhanalakshmi	Concentration of Nitric Acid	Prof. P.S.T. Sai
M. Aravinthan	Flow Boiling in Minichannels	Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
Chandu Babu Konikineni	Entropy Generation minimization on Natural Convection Heat Transfer	NIL

Thesis Advisor for Completed Ph.D Thesis

Name of the Student	Thesis Title	Year	Name of Co-guide
M. Venkatesan	Flow Boiling Heat Transfer inside Narrow Tubes	2011	Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
R. Sindhuja	Boiling Heat Transfer Studies of Non-azeotropic Binary Mixtures with Applications to Heat Pumps	2008	Prof. S. Srinivasa Murthy
P. Rajashekar	Convective Heat Transfer and CHF in Heat Exchangers subject to Low Frequency Oscillations	2008	Prof. Sreenivas Jayanthi
K. Aparna	Microwave Processing of Materials	2007	Dr. Tanmay Basak
G. Sateesh	Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Pool Boiling on Inclines Surfaces	2007	Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
B. R. Vijayarangan	Studies on Boiling and Two Phase Flow near the Critical Point	2005	Prof. Sreenivas Jayanti
L. Muruganandam	Hydrodynamics of Packed Beds with Radial Flow	2002	Nil
M. Vijayan	Effect of Tube Diameter on Flooding in Two Phase Counter-current Annular Flow	1999	Prof. Sreenivas Jayanthi
J. E. B. Nelson	Studies on Heat Transfer in Thermally Stratified Chilled Water Storage Systems	1998	Prof. S. Srinivasa Murthy
K. B. Radhakrishnan	Studies on Melt Crystallization of Eutectic Forming Binary Organic Mixtures	1998	Nil
S. Madhusudana Rao	Enhancement of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer on Cylinders using Interference Sleeves	1997	Nil
R. J. Benjamin	Pool Boiling Heat Transfer of Pure Liquids and Binary Mixtures: Effect of Surface Microroughness and Surface and Liquid Physical Properties	1996	Nil
D. Venkatanarasaiah	A Study of Dispersed Phase Holdup, Drop Size Distributions and Mass Transfer in Liquid Pulsed Column	1996	Prof. Y. B. G. Varma
P. P. Thomas	Drying of Solids in Batch and Continuous Fluidised Beds	1994	Prof. Y. B. G. Varma
M. Sadasivam	Studies on Packed Bed Liquid Desiccant Dehumidifiers	1993	Nil

Thesis Advisor for Completed M.S. Thesis:

Name of the Student	Thesis Title	Year	Name of Co-guide
G. Vinayak Rao	Pool Boiling Heat Transfer of Multicomponent Mixtures	2004	Nil

Thesis Advisor for Completed M.Tech Thesis:

Name of the Student	Thesis Title	Year	Name of Co-guide
V. Ramachandiran	Effect of Surface Properties on Boiling Heat Transfer of Ternary Mixture in Nucleate Pool Boiling	2005	Nil
Kilaru Harsha Vardhan	A Capacitance Probe for Measurement of Void Fraction in Two-phase Gas-Liquid Upflow in Vertical Tubes	2004	Nil
Pallav C. Shah	Design and Development of Capatiance Probe for Void Fraction Measurement for Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows	2003	Nil
Rasesh. R. Kotdawala	Gas Absorption in Packed Beds using Structured Packings	2002	Nil
E. Nageswara Reddy	Heating Surface - Liquid Interactions in Nucleate Pool Boiling	2001	Nil
D. Janardhana Rao	Development of a Capacitance Probe to Measure the Void Fraction in Gas-Liquid Two Phase Flows	2001	Nil
P. Janardhana Rao	Separations using Pervaporation	2000	Nil
M. P. Srikanth	Studies on Separation by Pervaporation of Ethanol - Water System using Cellulose Nitrate Membrane	1999	Nil
B.B.K. Uma Maheswara	Enhanced Pool Boiling Heat Transfer using Interference Plates	1999	Nil
A. J. Girish	Saturated Pool Boiling Heat Transfer over Interference Plates	1998	Nil
B. Vijaya Laxmi	Heat Transfer in Counter-current Gas-Liquid Flow in Packed Beds	1998	Nil
S. Pal	Effect of Surface Characteristics on Pool Boiling	1997	Nil
Shamsheer	Modelling of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer inside Tubes	1996	Nil
B. Ramanjayneyalu	Gas Side Heat Transfer Coefficients in Packed Beds with Gas - Liquid Counterflow	1996	Nil
N. Krishnan	Modelling and Simulation of Pulsed Sieve Plate Liquid Extraction Columns	1995	Mr. P. G. Selvaraj, IGCAR, Kalpakkam
N. Ranga Rao	Plate and Frame Heat Exchanger Design by ε - NTU Method	1995	Nil
J.V.L. Durga Prasada Rao	Heat Transfer Coefficients in Direct Contact Gas-Liquid Systems	1995	Nil
Rama Swaminathan	Studies on Adiabatic Packed Bed Absorbers with Large Heat Effects	1994	Nil
C. Hari	Kinetic Studies on Fluid Catalytic Cracking	1993	Dr. K. S. Balaraman, Madras Refineries Ltd.
H. Subramanya	Heat Transfer in Gas-Liquid Flow in Packed Beds	1993	Nil
N. Kalaiarasu	Heat Pump Assisted Distillation of Multicomponent Mixtures	1992	Nil
K. B. Radhakrishnan	Numerical Studies on Heat Transfer in Phase Change Material for Thermal Energy Storage	1991	Nil
M. A. Salim	Dynamic Simulation Studies of Heat Pump Assisted Distillation	1990	Nil