DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MECHANICS
& BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras

Arul Prakash K

Professor

Ph.D., in Mechanical Engineering, Specialization in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, 2006, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

M.E., Specialization in Thermal Engineering, 2000, First Class with Distinction, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.



B.E., in Mechanical Engineering, 1998, First Class, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

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 Research Areas

 The broad areas of my research are as follows:
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Turbulent flows
  • Heat transfer and Numerical methods
 Specific topics of research currently being pursued are as follows:
  • Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
  • Cooling Technologies.
  • Thermal hydraulics.
  • Aerodynamics.
  • Optimization and Parallel computing.

 Office Location

  FMB 203,
  Fluid Mechanics Building,
   Department of Applied Mechanics & Biomedical Engineering,
  Email: arulk@iitm.ac.in
  Ph: 044 2257 4066.

 Teaching and Research

  March 2019 - Present

   Professor

  Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036.

  July 2014 – March 2019

   Associate Professor

  Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036.

  July 2008 – July 2014

  Assistant Professor

  Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600036.

   November 2006-July2008

   Post-doctoral fellow

  MOST (Modelisation and Simulation of Turbulence) of the Laboratory of Geophysical and Industrial Fluid Flows (LEGI), Grenoble, France.

  August 2006-October 2006

   Project Senior Research Associate

  Department of Atomic Energy Project working at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

  July2001-August 2006

   Doctoral student

   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

  July2003-August 2006

   Project Senior Research Associate

   Department of Atomic Energy Project working at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

  December 2000-May 2001

   Lecturer

   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karunya University, Coimbatore, India.

 Industrial

  Aug 1998-June 1999

   Junior Engineer (Plant)

  M/s Gammon India Ltd, Mumbai, India-400 025.

 International (Total 18, list is only representative)

  1. Vishnu M and K. Arul Prakash, “Numerical investigation of fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics over double backward-facing step with obstacles”, 2023, Heat Transfer Engineering, DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2023.2220474
  2. B Gopalakrishnan, GS Kumar, K. Arul Prakash, “Parametric analysis and optimization of gas-particle flow through axial cyclone separator: A numerical study”, 2023, Advanced Powder Technology, 34 (2), 103959.
  3. S Ramakrishnan, J Johnson, M Muzwar, R Chetty, K. Arul Prakash, “Numerical modeling of nanofibrous filter media and performance characteristics”, 2022, Chemical Engineering Science, 262, 118019.
  4. RC DiviaHarsha Vardhini, K. Arul Prakash, G Rajesh, “An all-speed formulation using a modified gamma-model for the prediction of boundary layer transition and heat transfer”, 2022, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 195, 123121.
  5. I Paul, K. Arul Prakash, S Vengadesan, “Reduced-order modeling of noncanonical laminar wakes”, 2022, Journal of flow visualization and Image Processing, 29 (4).
  6. M Kampili, GV Kumar, S Kelm, K. Arul Prakash, HJ Allelein, “CFD Simulations of stratified layer erosion in Mini Panda facility using the tailored CFD solver containmentFOAM”, 2022, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 178, 121568.
  7. V Puliyeri, S Vengadesan and K. Arul Prakash, “Effect of cylinder arrangement on fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics past four elliptic cylinders, 2021, Heat Transfer Engineering 42 (21), 1789-1810.
  8. G V Kumar, LMF Cammiade, S Kelm, K. Arul Prakash, Eva M Gross, Hans-Josef Allelein, Reinhold Kneer, Wilko Rohlfs, “Implementation of a CFD model for wall condensation in the presence of non-condensable gas mixtures”, 2021, Applied Thermal Engineering, 187, 116546.
  9. A Coccarelli, S Saha, T Purushotham, K. Arul Prakash, P Nithiarasu, “On the poro-elastic models for microvascular blood flow resistance: An in vitro validation”, 2021, Journal of Biomechanics, 117, 116546.
  10. S Kelm, M Kanpilli, X Liu, A George, D Schumacher, C Duka, S Struth, Astrid Kuhr, Lucian Ramacher, Hans-Josef Allelein, K. Arul Prakash, G Vijaya Kumar, Liam MF Cammiade, Ruiyun Ji, “The Tailored CFD Package ‘containmentFOAM’ for Analysis of Containment Atmosphere Mixing, H2/CO Mitigation and Aerosol Transport, 2021, Fluids, 6 (3), 100.
  11. C Koushik and K. Arul Prakash, “Steady and Unsteady forced convective heat transfer analysis in 180 degree bend, 2020, Heat Transfer Engineering, 41 (22), 1901-1920.
  12. G V Kumar, M Kampili, S Kelm, K. Arul Prakash, Hans-Josef Allelein, “CFD modeling of buoyancy driven flows in enclosures with relevance to nuclear reactor safety”, 2020, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 365, 110682.
  13. C Koushik and K. Arul Prakash, “Steady and Unsteady numerical investigations of laminar fluid flow and heat transfer in a 180 degree bend, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 151, 119357.
  14. P. A. Fuaad and K. Arul Prakash, “Enhanced drag reduction over superhydrophobic surfaces with sinusoidal structures: A DNS study”, 2019, Computers & Fluids, 122, 31-44.
  15. V. Pulletikurthi, Immanuvel Paul, K. Arul Prakash and S. Vengadesan, “Analysis and characterization of momentum and thermal wakes of elliptic cylinders”, 2019, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 31 (2), 023604.

  Present Students

   Ph.D.
  • Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam (Thesis Topic)
  • Soumya Sunakareneni
  • Parameswar Rao Nakkina
  • Fuaad P A
  • Koushik Chandramouli
  • Vivek P
  M.S.
  • K. Jeevananthan
  • Jawahar P
  • Sandeep Naik
   M.Tech.
  • Balakrishnan
  • Anshaath

  Past Students

   M.S.
  • S Kalyanaraman (Currently at General Motors)
  • Immanuvel Paul (Currently at Imperial College London)
  • S Ravishankar (Eaton Technologies, Pune)
  • Ravi Kumar Pulipaka (MRF Limited)
  • Siva Sai (National University of Singapore)
  • Sairajesh (Tata Motors)
   M.Tech.
  • Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam (Research Scholar, IIT Madras)
  • Rajesh Chavalam (Neyveli Lignite Corporation)
  • Salahudeen (Mahindra Technologies)
  • Nidheesh P (Lecturer)
  • Vivek P (Research scholar, IIT Madras)

 Computational and Experimental Thermo-fluid dynamics Laboratory

 Sponsored Projects

  • Development of an immersed boundary Navier-stokes solver for simulating insect flight dynamics.
    Sponsoring Agency : Aeronautical Development and Research Board (Aerodynamics Panel)
    Status : Completed
    Amount : 11.08 Lakhs
  • Development of a Navier-stokes solver for simulating fluid flow past a rectangular cylinder to study the effect of flow induced vibrations.
    Sponsoring Agency: Aeronautical Development and Research Board (Aerodynamics Panel)
    Status : Completed
    Amount : 9.41 Lakhs
  • Investigations on the aerodynamics of insect hovering in inclined stroke plane.
    Sponsoring Agency : Special Interest Group on Micro Aerial Vehicles
    Status: Completed
    Value: 11.495 Lakhs
  • Design, development and Flight Testing of transition MAV (TMAV).
    Sponsoring Agency: Special Interest Group on Micro Aerial Vehicles
    Status : Completed
    Amount : 17.542 Lakhs
  • Numerical simulation and experimental prediction of high reynolds number turbulent flows in complex geometries.
    Sponsoring Agency : Department of Science and Technology
    Status : Completed
    Amount : 20.95 Lakhs
  • Next Generation Heat Exchangers Design Using Additive Manufacturing and Shape
    Optimization
    Sponsoring Agency: DST through IMPRINT.
    Status : Completed
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Amount : 342 Lakhs
  • Next Generation Heat Exchangers Design Using Additive Manufacturing and Shape Optimization
    Sponsoring Agency: DST through IMPRINT.
    Status: Completed
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Amount: 342 Lakhs
  • Technology Demonstration of Nano Filter Media for Self-Cleaning Air Filtration System and Performance Prediction Using Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation
    Sponsoring Agency: DRDO, New Delhi
    Value: Rs. 99.96 Lakhs
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Status: Completed
  • Development of Novel Low Cost Heat Spreader for High-Power Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) Amplifiers
    Sponsoring Agency: Department of Science and Technology through IMPRINT 2
    Value: Rs. 112.64 Lakhs
    Role: Co-Investigator
    Status: Completed
  • Estimation of Thermal Load Due to Mixing in 10 T Vertical Mixer
    Sponsoring Agency: SDSC SHAR (ISRO)
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Value: 24.76 Lakhs
    Status: Completed
  • Ionogel Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (IEMFC) with Plasma Electrolytic Nitride (PEN) Metallic Bipolar Plate and Effective Flow Field Design
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Value: 98.93 Lakhs
    Sponsoring Agency: DST
    Status: Completed
  • Design and Development of WBG Device Based High Current Converters for Industry Applications
    Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY)
    Value: 96.96 Lakhs
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Status: Ongoing
  • Development of WBG Based Integrated Drive System for Electric Vehicles (eVIDS)
    Sponsoring Agency: CDAC
    Value: 74.68 Lakhs
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Status: Ongoing

 Consultancy Projects

  • Development of an Immersed Boundary Navier-Stokes Solver for Simulating Insect Flight Dynamics
    Sponsoring Agency: LNV Technology Limited
    Value: Rupees: 1.108 Lakhs
    Status: Completed
  • Vetting of Operating Conditions for the Given Pump Performance Curves and Hydraulic Analysis for Open Channel Flow - Kopal II LIS Project – KBJNL
    Sponsoring Agency: L&T Construction Limited
    Value: Rupees: 0.5 Lakh
    Status: Completed
  • Orifice Tool Design for Caterpillar Trucks
    Sponsoring Agency: Caterpillar
    Value: Rupees: 6.75 Lakhs
    Status: Completed
  • Energy Efficient Tyre Curing Process
    Sponsoring Agency: Apollo Tyres Limited
    Value: Rupees: 40.15 Lakhs
    Status: Ongoing
  • BMS for LTO Battery
    Sponsoring Agency: CDAC
    Value: Rs. 4 Lakhs
    Status: Ongoing
  • Aerodynamic Characterization of Garuda 1 Configuration
    Value: Rs. 28 Lakhs
    Status: Ongoing

 Granted:

  1. 49736: A Novel heat exchanger based on the 3D space filling curve
  2. 515458: A gyroid tube design for fluid-to-fluid heat exchange application

 Contributions in Edited Books:

  1. I Paul, V Pulletikurthi, K. Arul Prakash, S Vengadesan, “Study of momentum and thermal wakes due to elliptic cylinders of various axis ratios using Immersed Boundary Method”, 2020, Immersed Boundary Method Development and Applications, 317-333.

  1. India–UK Research Exchange fellowship 2014 from Royal Academy of Engineering. (Collaborator: Prof. P. Nithiarasu, Swansea University)
  2. Distinguished Alumnus Award from Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore
  3. Awarded DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Stay fellowship to carry out research project at Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg. (Collaborator: Prof. Michael Breuer)
  4. Post-doctoral research grant from CNES (France Space Research Organization) for a period of two years starting from October 2006 for working at LEGI (Laboratory for Industrial and Geophysical Flows), Grenoble, France
  5. Young Scientist Research Grant, DST, Govt. of India under SERC Fast-Track Scheme (2014-)

Programme Ongoing Completed
PhD 10 08
MS (By Research) 04 10

  • Serving as Advisor (Sports) for the Institute.
  • Initiated MoU between IIT Madras and Universita “Parthenope”, Napoli, Italy, University of Grenoble, France for research exchange of students.
  • Conducted many AICTE sponsored short-term courses, GIAN courses at IIT Madras and continuing education courses, invited talk at RWTH Aachen University, invited talk at Technical University, Naples, invited talk at various national and international conferences.
  • Hosted VAJRA faculty at IIT Madras.
  • Organizer of International workshop on “Challenges in Cardio-vascular modeling” December 21-22, 2016.
  • Technical Committee Chairman for “2021 International Heat and Mass Transfer Conference” December 17-20, 2021, IIT Madras.
  • Reviewer for many reputed national and international journals, conferences, project proposals, etc.
  • Participated in confidential work for National and International Exams.
  • Head of the Laboratory (2015-2018).
  • Served as Warden, Ganga Hostel (2014 – 2018).