Faculty members at IIT Madras carry out research in their areas of interests, often in collaboration with research scholars, doctoral scholars and other researchers. The Institute has ongoing research collaborations with several universities, governments and industries. The research expertise available at the Institute is organized below by department.
Please use this slide deck to get an idea of the research areas studied by our faculty members.
Research Topics by Faculty Member
- Amitava Ghosh
- cBN grinding technology,Development of single layer abrasive tools,High efficiency deep grinding of exotic materials,Application of hard and soft tribo coating on cutting tools,Environment friendly machining,metal-ceramic joining
- Anand Krishnasamy
- Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Low Temperature Combustion Engines,Automotive Fuel Surrogate Modeling,Establishing Fuel Effects on Engine Combustion and Emission Formation,Investigating Engine Emissions Reduction through Fuel Modification Techniques
- Anand TNC
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD),Laser-based Diagnostics of Sprays and Combustion,I. C. Engines
- Arunn Narasimhan
- Convection Heat Transfer,Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Porous Media,Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Biological Systems
- Arvind Pattamatta
- Nanoscale Energy Transport,Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer,Turbulence Modeling and Simulations,Parallel and Scientific Computing
- Ashis Kumar Sen
- Microfluidics and Microsystems, Interfacial Phenomena, LOC Diagnostics
- Babu Viswanathan
- High performance computing,Supersonic combustion,Simulations of flows using lattice Boltzmann method,Numerical simulations of flows using CFD,Computational Aeroacoustics,Simulations of high speed chemically reacting flows and plasmas,Predictions of noise from subsonic and supersonic jets
- Chakravarthy Balaji
- Computational Heat Transfer,Inverse Heat Transfer,Computational Radiation,Satellite Meteorology,Atmospheric Science,Stochastic Optimization
- Chandramouli P
- Non-linear Dynamics,Vibration and Noise Control,Fluid-Structure-Acoustic Interactions
- Dhiman Chattarjee
- Fluid Mechanics,Turbomachines,Cavitation,Microscale flows,Biological application of Ultrasound
- Gnanamoorthy R
- Advanced materials and design, multi-material product design and manufacturing, mechanical behaviour polymer and nanocomposite materials, engineering the surfaces, fatigue and fracture mechanics, damage tolerant design, tribo design, behaviour of bio materials
- Krishna Kannan
- Macromolecular Chemistry,Modeling of vulcanization process,Plasticity,Mixture Theory,Aging of Polymeric Materials,Elasticity,Thermodynamics,Mathematical Modeling of the behavior of Materials,Mathematical modeling of Crystallization and Glass Transition of Polymeric materials,Continuum Mechanics,Viscoelasticity
- Krishnan Balasubramanian
- Ultrasonics and Acoustics,Structural Health Monitoring,Micro and Nano Imaging,Nondestructive Evaluation,Materials Characterisation,Wave Propagation
- Krithika Narayanaswamy
- Chemical kinetic modeling of transportation fuel surrogates, Development of compact kinetic schemes and reduction methods, Reactive flow simulations with accurate finite rate chemistry
- Mani A
- Compression refrigeration, Absorption refrigeration, Ejector refrigeration, Solar energy, Desalination, Liquid Effluent concentration system, Heat pipe, Heat and mass transfer, alternate refrigerant
- Manivannan PV
- Instrumentation & Control system,Automotive Electronics / Engine Control System,Mechatronic & Embedded Systems,Mobile Robotics and Sensor Network
- Manoj Pandey
- Nonlinear dynamics of MEMS, Finite Element based multiscale modeling and Homogenization , Fluid Structure Interation in MEMS
- Narasimhan Swaminathan
- Radiation damage (Atomistic to Continuum), Material properties using atomistic methods, Finite Element Method, Fuel cell materials, Thermodynamic modeling of multiphysics phenomenon
- Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
- Surface engineering and wettability patterning,Open surface microfluidics,Multiphase flow,Single and multiphase heat transfer
- Parag Ravindran
- Continuum Mechanics,Viscoelasticity,Elasticity