Visakh Vaikuntanathan
Assistant Professor School of Engineering
School of Engineering
Email: visakh.v@snu.edu.in
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Research Overview
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Education
2016 Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2011 M.Sc, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2007 B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Experience
12/21-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR 05/19-11/21, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 05/17-04/19, Post-Doctoral Research Associate (DROPIT), Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics (ITLR), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany 03/16-01/17, IISc Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 08/15-02/16, Junior Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 05/07-06/07, Summer Research Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc-INSA-NASI), Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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A numerical study of ellipsoidal particle interactions and droplet streams with shape oscillations
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Arad, A.; Katoshevski, D.; Vaikuntanathan, V.; Ibach, M.; Bar-On, R.; Kumar, M.; Greenberg, J.B.; Weigand, B. | International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 190 | 2025 | 0 |
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Computational fluid dynamical analysis of a Savonius vertical axis wind rotor array
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Kumar, S.; Mitra, S.; Mishra, N.; Vaikuntanathan, V. | Physics of Fluids, 37(1) | 2025 | 2 |
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Estimation of energy available in rain droplets from meteorological rainfall data
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Gupta, A.; Vimalraj, S.R.; Vaikuntanathan, V. | Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2856(1) | 2024 | 0 |
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Splash Droplet Size in Drop Impact on Solid Surfaces: Applicability of Classical Fluid Mechanical Instabilities
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Vimalraj, S.R.; Vaikuntanathan, V. | Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 177-187 | 2024 | 0 |
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Effect of Acoustics on Droplet Grouping Behaviour in a Single Stream of Droplets
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Kumar, M.; Vaikuntanathan, V.; Ibach, M.; Arad, A.; Bar-On, R.; Weigand, B.; Katoshevski, D.; Greenberg, J.B. | Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2766(1) | 2024 | 1 |
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Comparison of Analytical Wake Models with CFD Study of Savonius Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
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Kumar, S.; Vaikuntanathan, V.; Mishra, N.; Mitra, S. | Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 45-59 | 2024 | 1 |
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A NUMERICAL STUDY OF DROPLET GROUPING AND ITS POTENTIAL CONTROL USING ACOUSTIC STANDING WAVES
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Arad, A.; Vaikuntanathan, V.; Ibach, M.; Katoshevski, D.; Greenberg, J.B.; Weigand, B. | Atomization and Sprays, 33(7), 29-69 | 2023 | 3 |
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Investigation of droplet grouping in monodisperse streams by direct numerical simulations
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Ibach, M.; Vaikuntanathan, V.; Arad, A.; Katoshevski, D.; Greenberg, J.B.; Weigand, B. | Physics of Fluids, 34(8) | 2022 | 2 |
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An Analytical Study on the Mechanism of Grouping of Droplets
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Vaikuntanathan, V.; Ibach, M.; Arad, A.; Chu, X.; Katoshevski, D.; Greenberg, J.B.; Weigand, B. | Fluids, 7(5) | 2022 | 5 |
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Awards & Honors
- 2017 Prof. A. K. Rao medal for the Best PhD thesis in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (2015-16). 2016 - 2017 IISc Research Associateship 2012 - 2013 International travel support for presenting research paper in international conferences abroad from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. 2010 - 2015 Scholarship from the Government of India for pursuing Ph.D. 2009 International travel support for presenting research paper in international conferences abroad from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. 2007 - 2010 Scholarship from the Government of India for pursuing M.Sc. (Engg). 2007 Summer Research Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc-INSA-NASI).
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