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

Mahesh Panchagnula

Professor

Ph.D., Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN, U.S.A(May - 1998).

M.S., Mechanical Engineering Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN, U.S.A (August -1994).

B.Tech., . Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (July - 1992).

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 Areas of Specialization

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Spray Nozzle and Drying.
  • Injector.
  • Atomization.
  • Combustion.

 Contact

   Mahesh V Panchagnula
   Professor of Applied Mechanics
   Indian Institute of Technology Madras
   Office: Fluid Mechanics Lab, Room 209B
   Phone: 2257 4056
   Fax: (44) 2257 4052
   E-mail: mvp@iitm.ac.in

 February 2020 to Present

  Dean

  Alumni and Corporate Relations, IIT Madras.

 Sep 2018 to Feb 2020

  Dean

  International & Alumni Relations, IIT Madras.

 July 2018 to July 2021

  Faculty In-charge

   IIT Madras Incubation Cell.

 October 2017 to July 2021

  Director

   IIT Madras Incubation Cell.

 July 2014 to Present

  Professor

  Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

 Aug 2010 to Jul 2014

  Associate Professor

  Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

 July 2010 to July 2010

  Associate Professor

  Tennessee Technological University.

 August 2005 to July 2010

  Assistant Professor

  Tennessee Technological University.

 2004 to 2005

  Research Fellow

  Lehigh University.

 August 2002 to March 2004

  General Manager

  Excel India.

 Dec 1997 to Aug 2002

  Research And Development Engineer

  Goodrich Aerospace.

 Articles

  • Inhalation of virus-loaded droplets as a clinically plausible pathway to deep lung infection
  • On asymmetric and incomplete bronchial trees
  • Exhaled human breath analysis using machine learning
  • Design of a walk-in lab test for lung morphometry characterization
  • Order-stampede transitions in human crowds: The role of individualistic and cooperative forces
  • Pulmonary drug delivery and retention: A computational study to identify plausible parameters based on a coupled airway-mucus flow model
  • Spatio-temporal microstructure of sprays: data science-based analysis and modelling
  • Fluid dynamic insights into virus deposition and transport in the deep lung
  • Bifurcations in the motion of articulated tubes conveying fluid, with an end mass
  • An experimental study of respiratory aerosol transport in phantom lung bronchioles
  • Breakup morphology of expelled respiratory liquid: From the perspective of hydrodynamic instabilities
  • Lévy walking droplets
  • Experimental and computational investigations of gas entrainment in SFR due to rotation of partially submerged pump shaft
  • Machine learning analysis of the exhaled human breath
  • Dynamics of inertial particles in the respiratory airways in the small-Stokes, small-Péclet regime
  • Fluid dynamic insights into the deposition of virus in deep lung
  • Phase Doppler particle analyser (PDPA) characterization and modeling of sprays from orthogonally interacting water and air jets
  • Destabilization characteristics of three dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor mechanism on a cylindrical interface
  • Aerosol transport in a breathing alveolus
  • Analysis and classification of droplet characteristics from atomizers using multifractal analysis

  • ME6900: Special Topics – Mech. Engr. - Combustion
  • ME6010: Conduction Heat Transfern
  • ME3720: Fluid Mechanics
  • ME4751: Energy Systems Laboratory
  • ME3210: Thermodynamics I
  • AM2530: Foundations of Fluid Mechanics
  • AM5650: Nonlinear Dynamics
  • AM5530: Advanced Fluid Mechanics
  • AM5113: Atomization and Sprays
  • ID5061: Engineering Skills I: Fabrication
  • ID5060: First Principles Tools in Engineering
  • AM5600: Computational Techniques in Applied Mechanics
  • AM5117: Analytical Methods in Engineering Mechanics
  • AM5610: Measurements in Mechanics

 Atomization, Sprays and Aerosols

  • MEMS Based Microsprays - Dhivyaraja Kumaran,Ph.D Scholar
  • Dynamics of rocket injector sprays - K.S Siddharth, Ph.D.Scholar
  • Aerosol deposition in the lungs - Arnab Mallik, MS research scholar
  • Lung morphometry caterization - Karthiga Devi, Ph.D. scholar
  • Aerosol Deposition in Inner Human Lungs - Experimental Study - Arnab Kumar Mallik, M.S Scholar
  • Aerosol Transport in the Deep Lung - Numerical Study - Dr. Aranyak Chakravarty, Post doctoral researcher
  • Optimization of liquid injectors - Dr. Kushal Ghate, Post doctoral researcher

 Interfacial phenomenon

  • Phase separation dynamics - Harinadha Gidituri - Ph.D. scholar
  • Marangoni Propulsion - Dr. Sathish Akella, Postdoc scholar
  • Sessile drop behaviour - Nachiketa Janardan, PhD scholar
  • Active Fluid Dynamics - Ajinkya Mukund Kulkarni, MS scholar
  • Dynamics of natural oil films - K Swaminathan, Ph.D. Scholar

 Data Analytics meets Fluid Dynamics

  • Classification of diabetes - Vignatha Yenugutala, Dual Degree Student
  • Brachistochrone Fluid Dynamics - Srikanth Sarma(B.Tech), Sharan Raja(B.tech)
  • Time series analysis of spray data - Akshay Acharya(Dual Degree Student), Srivallabha Deevi(Postdoctoral Researcher)
  • Escape Dynamics of Human Crowd During Panic - Ahmed Syed, Ph.D. Scholar
  • Human breath analysis using Machine Learning techniques - Mukesh K, Ph.D. Scholar

 Current Research Group

  Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Kushal Ghate

  Ph.D. students

  • Prabhash Kumar
  • Navaneeth Krishnan
  • Ahmed Syed
  • Mukesh K
  • Faizan Ulla Khan

  Masters Students

  • Avinash Gupta
  • Debjit Kundu

  Lab Staff

  • Haripriya
  • Selvaganapathy

 Alumni

  • Bhaskar Vempati
  • Sahithi Kandlakunta
  • Shiva (Nagaraj) Perisetty
  • Viktor Orekhov
  • Anoop Kota
  • Srimani Bhamidipati
  • Neeharika Anantharaju
  • Prasad Rayapati
  • Bharadwaj Prabhala
  • Vimal Thomas
  • Udaikiran Mylabathula
  • Anil Sayana
  • Pavan Bonkinpillewar
  • Rohit Supekar
  • M. Vadivukkarasan
  • Nachiketa Janardan
  • Sriharsha Aravalli
  • Ajinkya Kulkarni
  • Sri Vallabha Deevi
  • K. Swaminathan
  • Srikanth Sarma
  • Sharan Raja
  • Raghav Tibrewala
  • Anand Joseph Michael
  • Vignatha Yenugutala
  • Akshay
  • Karthiga Devi
  • Sathish Akella
  • Harinadha Gidituri
  • K.S. Siddharth
  • Samadhan Pawar
  • Rahul Tripathi
  • Tushar Pratim Sarma
  • Arnab Kumar Mallik
  • Aranyak Chakravarty
  • Dhivyaraja K
  • Shraddha Sharma