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IIT Madras

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Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, Prentice Hall of India,New Delhi, ISBN -81-203-1262-7

List of Research Publications / Conference Papers Presented

  1. Swernath S, Benny Malengier and Pushpavanam S, "Effect of Korteweg stress on viscous fingering of solute plugs in a porous medium " , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Article in Press

  2. Sreenath K,Pushpavanam S, "Issues in the Scaling of exothermic reactions: From micro scale to macro scale", CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL , Volume: 155, Issues 1-2, Pages 312-319 , DEC 1 2009

  3. Cherlo SKR, Sreenath K, Pushpavanam S,"Screening, Selecting, and Designing Microreactors" , INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 48 , Issue: 18 , Pages: 8678-8684 , SEP 16 2009

  4. Rao SK, Imam R, Ramanathan K, Pushpavanam S, "Sensitivity Analysis and Kinetic Parameter Estimation in a Three Way Catalytic Converter" , INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 48 , Issue: 8 , Pages: 3779-3790 , APR 15 2009

  5. Selvaraju N, Pushpavanam S , "Adsorption characteristics on sand and brick beds", CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL , Volume: 147 , Issue: 2-3 , Pages: 130-138 , APR 15 2009

  6. Kumar MV, Kienle A, Zeyer KP, Pushpavanam S, "Nonlinear analysis of the effect of maintenance in continuous cell cultures" , MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION , Volume: 79 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 728-748 , DEC 1 2008

  7. Ali BA, Kumar CS, Pushpavanam S , "Analysis of liquid circulation in a rectangular tank with a gas source at a corner" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL , Volume: 144 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 442-452 , NOV 1 2008

  8. Harini M, Sriram S, Deshpande AP, Pushpavanam S, "Variation of spatial and temporal characteristics of reactive flow in a periodically driven cavity: Gelation of sodium acrylate " ,PHYSICAL REVIEWE , Volume: 78 , Issue: 3 , SEP 2008

  9. Sriram S, Deshpande AP, Pushpavanam S , "Characterization of viscoelastic fluid flow in a periodically driven cavity: Flow structure, frequency response, and phase lag" , POLYMER ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE , Volume: 48 , Issue: 9 , Pages: 1693-1706, SEP 2008

  10. Gigras A, Pushpavanam S ,"Early induction of secondary vortices for micromixing enhancement " , MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS , Volume: 5, Issue: 1 , Pages: 89-99 , JUL 2008

  11. Balasubramanian P, Pushpavanam S , "Model discrimination in hydrocracking of vacuum gas oil using discrete lumped kinetics " , FUEL , Volume: 87 , Issue: 8-9 , Pages: 1660-1672 , JUL 2008

  12. Swernath S, Pushpavanam S , "Instability of a vertical chemical front: Effect of viscosity and density varying with concentration " , PHYSICS OF FLUIDS , Volume: 20 , Issue: 1 , Article Number: 012101 , JAN 2008

  13. Swernath S, Pushpavanam S , "Viscous fingering in a horizontal flow through a porous medium induced by chemical reactions under isothermal and adiabatic conditions " , JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS , Volume: 127 , Issue: 20 , Article Number: 204701 , NOV 2007

  14. Balleda A, Pushpavanam S, Deshpande A, " Experimental and numerical investigation of liquid circulation induced by a bubble plume in a baffled tank " , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 62 , Issue: 17 , Pages: 4689-4704 , SEP 2007

  15. Bandaru KSVSR, Kessler LC , Wolff MW, Reichl U , Seidel-Morgenstern A, Pushpavanam S , "Hydrodynamic characteristics and expansion behavior of beds containing single and binary mixtures of particles " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH ,Volume: 46 , Issue: 13 , Pages: 4686-4694 , JUN 2007

  16. Krishnamoorthy CP, Deshpande AP, Pushpavanam S , " Effect of periodic and continuous irrigation on water transport through porous media " , JOURNAL OF IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING-ASCE , Volume: 133 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 100-109 , MAR-APR 2007

  17. Zeyer KP, Kulkarni AA, Kienle A, Kumar MV, Pushpavanam S, "Nonlinear behavior of reactor-separator networks: Influence of the energy balance formulation" , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 46 , Issue: 4 , Pages: 1197-1207 , FEB 2007

  18. Thirupathi G, Krishnamoorthy CP, Pushpavanam S , "Adsorption characteristics of inorganic salts and detergents on sand beds " , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL , Volume: 125 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 177-186 , JAN 2007

  19. Kumar MV , Raju VSR , Pushpavanam S , Kienle A ,"Effect of the minimum flux condition in the settler on the nonlinear behavior of the activated sludge process " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 45 , Issue: 17 , Pages: 5996-6006 , AUG 2006

  20. Sriram S, Deshpande AP, Pushpavanam S , " Analysis of spatiotemporal variations and flow structures in a periodically driven cavity " , JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME , Volume: 128 , Issue: 3 ,Pages: 413-420 , MAY 2006

  21. Vetukuri SRR, Pushpavanam S, Zeyer KP, Kienle A, " Nonlinear behavior of coupled reactor-separator systems with azeotiropic vapor-liquid equilibriums (VLEs): Comparison of different control strategies " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 45 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 1019-1028 , FEB 2006

  22. Balasubramanian P, Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, Balaraman KS, "Effect of delay on the stability of a coupled reactor-flash system sustaining an elementary non-isothermal reaction " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 44 , Issue: 10 , Pages: 3619-3625 , MAY 2005

  23. Painuly A, Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, "Steady state behavior of coupled nonlinear reactor-separator systems: Effect of different separators " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 44 , Issue: 7 , Pages: 2165-2173 , MAR 2005

  24. Thomas S, Pushpavanam S, Seidel-Morgenstern A, "Performance improvements of parallel-series reactions in tubular reactors using reactant dosing concepts " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 43 , Issue: 4 , Pages: 969-979 , FEB 2004

  25. Balasubramanian P, Bettina SJ, Pushpavanam S, Balaraman KS, " Kinetic parameter estimation in hydrocracking using a combination of genetic algorithm and sequential quadratic programming " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 42 , Issue: 20 , Pages: 4723-4731 , OCT 2003

  26. Balasubramanian P, Kosuri MR, Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, "Effect of delay on the stability of a coupled reactor-separator system " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 42 , Issue: 16 , Pages: 3758-3764 , AUG 2003

  27. Zeyer KP, Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, " Nonlinear behavior of reactor-separator networks: Influence of separator control structure " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 42 , Issue: 14, Pages: 3294-3303 , JUL 2003

  28. Waschler R, Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, " Multiple steady states in two-phase reactors under boiling conditions" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 58 , Issue: 11 , Pages: 2203-2214 , JUN 2003

  29. Sagale AA, Pushpavanam S , " A comparison of control strategies for a nonlinear reactor-separator network sustaining an autocatalytic isothermal reaction " , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH" , Volume: 41 , Issue: 8 , Pages: 2005-2012 , APR 2002

  30. Pushpavanam S, Kienle A, " Nonlinear behavior of an ideal reactor separator network with mass recycle" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 56 , Issue: 8 , Pages: 2837-2849 , APR 2001

  31. Zeyer KP, Pushpavanam S, Mangold M, Gilles ED, "The behavior of the iron(III)-catalyzed oxidation of ethanol by hydrogen peroxide in a fed-batch reactor " , PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS , Volume: 2 , Issue: 16 , Pages: 3605-3612 , 2000

  32. Srinivas B, Pushpavanam S , "Determining parameters where pressure drop oscillations occur in a boiling channel using singularity theory and the D-partition method", CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 55 , Issue: 18 , Pages: 3771-3783 , SEP 2000

  33. Srinivas B, Pushpavanam S, "Steady state behavior of boiling channels: a comprehensive analysis using singularity theory", NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN , Volume: 190 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 303-316 , JUN 1999

  34. Rao VNS, Pushpavanam S , " Effect of noise on the behavior of a zeroth-order reaction in a continuous stirred tank reactor", INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 39 , Issue: 4 , Pages: 926-932 , APR 2000

  35. Pushpavanam S, Rao S, Khan I,"Optimization of a biochemical fed-batch reactor using sequential quadratic programming", INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 38 , Issue: 5 , Pages: 1998-2004 , MAY 1999

  36. Jayant A, Pushpavanam S , " Optimization of a biochemical fed-batch reactor-transition from a nonsingular to a singular problem ", INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 37 , Issue: 11, Pages: 4314-4321 , NOV 1998

  37. Narayanan S, Srinivas B, Pushpavanam S, Bhallamudi SM," Non-linear dynamics of a two phase flow system in an evaporator: The effects of (i) a time varying pressure drop (ii) an axially varying heat flux", NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN , Volume: 178 , Issue: 3, Pages: 279-294, DEC 1997

  38. Shukla PK, Pushpavanam S ,"Optimisation of biochemical reactors - an analysis of different approximations of fed-batch operation" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 53 , Issue: 2, Pages: 341-352, JAN 1998

  39. Shukla PK, Pushpavanam S, Khanna A, Harmon JL, " Experimental implementation of a recursive algorithm to control the temperature trajectory of an exothermic batch reactor" , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Volume: 36 , Issue: 1 , Pages: 122-129 , Published: JAN 1997

  40. Shukla PK,Pushpavanam S , "Parametric Sensitivity, Runaway, and Safety in batch reactors-Experiments and Models" , INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH , Volume: 33 , Issue: 12 , Pages: 3202-3208 , DEC 1994

  41. KONNUR R, Pushpavanam S , "The dynamics of a fed batch reactor -The transition from the batch to the CSTR" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 49 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 383-392 , FEB 1994

  42. Pushpavanam S , "The D-Partition method- An application to the 1st order irreversible exothermic reaction in a CSTR " , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 47 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 502-504 , FEB 1992

  43. Pushpavanam S , Narayanan R, "Critical conditions for natural convection induced by a surface reaction " , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER , Volume: 33 , Issue: 9 , Pages: 2056-2059 , SEP 1990

  44. Pushpavanam S , Narayanan R, "Ignition and extinction in a model problem with parallel endothermic and exothermic reactions" , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 44 , Issue: 11 , Pages: 2611-2618 , 1989

  45. Pushpavanam S , Narayanan R, "Comparison results for ignition in conjugate systems" , IMA JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS , Volume: 40 , Issue: 1 , Pages: 37-51 , 1988

  46. Pushpavanam S , Narayanan R, "Uniqueness conditions for steady solutions in the case of m-th order reactions -Non isothermal pellets with variable transport coefficients " , CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE , Volume: 43 , Issue: 2 , Pages: 394-396 , 1988

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