Department of Applied Mechanics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Faculty
Abhijit ChaudhuriAssociate Professor
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Email: abhijit.chaudhuri[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4074
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Water waves
- Geo-thermal extraction systems,
- Carbon Sequestration
- Ground water modeling
Anubhab RoyAssistant Professor
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Email: anubhab[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4080
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Microhydrodynamics
- Living fluids - Dynamics of swimming cells
- Hydrodynamic stability
- Geophysical flows
- Perturbation methods
Anuradha BanerjeeProfessor
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Email: anuban[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4075
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Fracture Mechanics
- Composites
- Elasticity-Plasticity
Arockia Rajan AProfessor
Email: aarajan[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4070
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Smart materials and structures
- Composites
- Bio-materials
Arul Prakash KAssociate Professor
Email: arulk[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4066
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- CFD and Heat transfer
- Cooling Technologies
- LES and related techniques
- Thermal Hydraulics
- Bio-fluid dynamics
Arun K. ThittaiAssociate Professor
Email: akthittai[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4053
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Biomedical ultrasound imaging
- Ultrasound Elastography
- Multi-modality imaging
Baburaj APAssociate Professor
Email: apbraj[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4065
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Near wall phenomena in turbulent convection
- Interfacial phenomena and Transport at small scales
Ganesh TamadapuAssistant Professor
Email: gt[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4081
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Nonlinear Mechanics
Ilaksh AdlakhaAssistant Professor
Email: ilaksh.adlakha[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4082
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Hydrogen Embrittlement, Grain Boundary Engineering
- Plasticity, Stress Assisted Corrosion, Radiation Damage
- Nanocrystalline Material, Lightweight Alloys
- Data Science for Mechanics of Materials
Lakshmana Rao CProfessor
Email: lakshman[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4059
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Fracture Mechanics
- Crack width prediction in RC structures using fracture Mechanics
- Interface Fracture using Element Free Gallerkin Methods
Mahesh PanchagnulaProfessor
Email: mvp[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4056
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Thermo Fluid Sciences
- Wetting and Surface tension
- Liquid Fuel Atomoization and Combustion
Manivannan MProfessor
Email: mani[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4064
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Haptics
- Virtual Reality
- Computational Physiology
Pijush GhoshAssociate Professor
Email: pijush[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4060
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Nanomechanics
- Molecular Mechanics
- Biomaterials
Prasad Patnaik B S VProfessor
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Email: bsvp[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4068
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Passive and active Flow Control
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Flow-Induced Vibrations
Ramakrishnan SProfessor and Head of the Department
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Email: sramki[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 5052
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest:
Application of soft computing techniques to enhance the diagnostic relevance of medical instruments and design and development of medical devices for the assessment of tissue and bone mechanics.
Ramasubba Reddy MProfessor
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Email: rsreddy[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4057
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Biomedical Image Processing
- Biomedical Signal Processing
Raghavendra Sai V VAssociate Professor
Email: vvrsai[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4076
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Biosensors
- Surface (Chemical) Functionalization
- Fiber Optics
- Nanotechnology
Ramesh KInstitute Chair Professor
Email: kramesh[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4058/4050/5072
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Computer Application in Experimental Mechanics
- Digital Photoelasticity
- Fracture Mechanics
Rinku MukherjeeAssistant Professor
Email: rinku[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4069
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Applied Aerodynamics
- Free Surface Hydrodynamics
- CFD
- Offshore structures
Sarith P SathianAssociate Professor
Email: sarith[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4062
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Thermo Fluid Sciences
- Gas Dynamics
- Microfluidics
- Nanofluidics
- Molecular Dynamics
Satyanarayanan SAssistant Professor
Email: satya[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4072
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Aerosol Mechanics
- Absorption Spectroscopy
- Air pollution monitoring and control technologies
- Industrial Energy Use Assessment
- control and recovery
Saumendra K BajpaiAssistant Professor
Email: sbajpai[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4072
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Single-bond characterization
- Biomimetic systems design
- Cell-mechanics
- Biophysical forces in disease progression
- Vascular biomechanics
Sayan GuptaProfessor
Email: sayan[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4055
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Structural Dynamics
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Random Vibrations
Shaikh Faruque AliAssociate Professor
Email: sfali[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4054
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Vibration Control
- Control of nonlinear systems
- Feedback linearizationg
- Energy Harvesting
- Structural Dynamics
Sivakumar M SrinivasanProfessor
Email: mssiva[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4061
Specialization: Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Smart Structures
- Inelasticity/plasticity
- Fatigue of Materials
- Computations
Sujatha NProfessor
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Email: nsujatha[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4067
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Applications of optical spectroscopic techniques for in vivo detection of tissue pathologies and physiology
- Non destructive imaging of tissue using laser speckle techniques
- Bio-optical signal / image processing
- Miniaturized optical instrumentation for clinical applications
- Modelling of light tissue interaction
Vagesh D. NarasimhamurthyAssociate Professor
Email: vagesh[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4079
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- CFD
- Direct numerical simulation (DNS)
- Turbulence
- Transition
- Bluff-body flows
- Gas- and particulate-dispersion
- Premixed combustion
- Gas-explosion safety
- High-performance computing (HPC)
Varadhan S K MAssistant Professor
Email: skm[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4071
Specialization: Biomedical Engineering
Area of Interest
- Neuromechanics
- Motor Behavior and Motor Learning
- Rehabilitation
- Understanding Action and Perception
Vengadesan SProfessor
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Email: vengades[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
Phone: +91 44 2257 4063
Specialization: Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- CFD
- Turbulence modeling
- LES and their applications