Faculty
Santosh Kapuria Head, Applied Mechanics
Contact Info
- R.No. 237, Block IV
- 26591201
- hodam@admin.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Ajeet Kumar PhD (Cornell) Professor
IV 342B
ajeetk@am.iitd.ac.in
Mechanics of solids and nano-structures
Ajeet Kumar PhD (Cornell) Professor
Contact Info
- IV 342B
- 26591244
- ajeetk@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Mechanics of solids and nano-structures
Area of Interest
- Nonlinear elasticity theory of Rods, Plates and Shells; Stability and Bifurcation; Crystal elasticity; Computational materials science; Mechanics of helical nano-structures (carbon nanotubes, DNA, bio-molecules, etc.) ;Multi-objective optimization
Amitabh Bhattacharya PhD (UIUC) Professor
R.No. 234, Block III
bhattach@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Amitabh Bhattacharya PhD (UIUC) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 234, Block III
- 26591249
- bhattach@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Fluid Mechanics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Multi-phase Flows, Turbulence
Anupam Dewan PhD (IISc Bangalore) Professor
R.No. III 237
adewan@am.iitd.ac.in
http://web.iitd.ac.in/~adewan
Anupam Dewan PhD (IISc Bangalore) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. III 237
- 26591217
- adewan@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- http://web.iitd.ac.in/~adewan
Area of Interest
- Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, LES, RANS, Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) approach, turbulent jet impingement heat transfer, turbulent plume, heat transfer over a square cylinder, heat transfer enhancement in microchannel, binary
Arghya Samanta PhD (UPMC) Associate Professor
R.No. IV 336
arghya@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Arghya Samanta PhD (UPMC) Associate Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 336
- 26591271
- arghya@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Falling film instability, Twolayer channel flow, Flow transport through porous media.
Arjun Sharma PhD (Stanford) Assistant Professor
Room No. IV 351B
arjunsharma@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Arjun Sharma PhD (Stanford) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room No. IV 351B
- 26596385
- arjunsharma@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Compressible flows, Numerical simulations, Large-eddy simulation, turbulent flows and acoustics
B.P. Patel PhD (MNNIT, Allahabad) Professor
R.No. 246, Block IV
bppatel@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
B.P. Patel PhD (MNNIT, Allahabad) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 246, Block IV
- 26591232
- bppatel@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Finite Element Method, Plates & Shells, Composite Mechanics, Non-linear Dynamics, Post-buckling Analysis, Smart Structures, Continuum Damage Mechanics
Cdr Subir Kumar Singh PGDIIT (IIT Delhi) PSC & MSc (DSSC Wellington) Adjunct Faculty
Room No 351D, Block IV
sksnavy@am.iitd.ac.in
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Cdr Subir Kumar Singh PGDIIT (IIT Delhi) PSC & MSc (DSSC Wellington) Adjunct Faculty
Contact Info
- Room No 351D, Block IV
- 26591233
- sksnavy@am.iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Area of Interest
- Warship Design, Submarine Design
Gaurav Singh PhD (Imperial College London) Associate Professor
IV 255
gsingh@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Gaurav Singh PhD (Imperial College London) Associate Professor
Contact Info
- IV 255
- 26591184
- gsingh@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Fracture Mechanics, Composite Mechanics, Contact Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics
Hari Vemuri PhD (Imperial College London) Assistant Professor
Room 4B-18, Block IV
hari@iitd.ac.in
Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Aeroacoustics
Hari Vemuri PhD (Imperial College London) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room 4B-18, Block IV
- 26548477
- hari@iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Aeroacoustics
Area of Interest
- Experimental aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, Boundary-layer receptivity, Flow stability and transition, Flow control, Noise control, System identification, Modern robust control
Lt Cdr Navneet V Saxena M Tech (IIT KGP), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
R.No. 355, Block IV
nsaxena@iitd.ac.in
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Lt Cdr Navneet V Saxena M Tech (IIT KGP), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Contact Info
- R.No. 355, Block IV
- 26596694
- nsaxena@iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Area of Interest
- Marine Hydrodynamics, Warship and Submarine Design
Lt Cdr Pankaj K Mishra M Tech (IIT Madras), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Room No. 352 A, Block IV
mishrapankaj@am.iitd.ac.in
Naval Architecture and Ocean Structures
Lt Cdr Pankaj K Mishra M Tech (IIT Madras), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Contact Info
- Room No. 352 A, Block IV
- 26596258
- mishrapankaj@am.iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Structures
Area of Interest
- Warship and Submarine Design
Lt Cdr Ravi Kumar M Tech (IIT KGP), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Room No 355, Block IV
raviksingh15@am.iit.ac.in
Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Lt Cdr Ravi Kumar M Tech (IIT KGP), DIIT (IIT Delhi) Adjunct Faculty
Contact Info
- Room No 355, Block IV
- 26596259
- raviksingh15@am.iit.ac.in
Specialization
- Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Area of Interest
- Marine Hydrodynamics, Warship Design, Submarine Design
M.K. Singha PhD (IITKgp) Professor
R.No. IV 251
maloy@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
M.K. Singha PhD (IITKgp) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 251
- 26596445
- maloy@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Lightweight Structures, Structural Stability, Dynamics and optimization of structures, Composite Structures.
Md Rushdie Ibne Islam PhD (IIT KGP) Assistant Professor
R.No. 4B-19, Block IV
rushdie@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Md Rushdie Ibne Islam PhD (IIT KGP) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 4B-19, Block IV
- 26548736
- rushdie@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Fracture Mechanics, Computational Damage Mechanics, Dynamic fracture and explosion using Meshfree Methods, Behaviour of composite structures under extreme loading, Molecular Dynamics, Multiscale Modelling, Fluid Structure Interaction.
Murali R. Cholemari PhD (IISc Bangalore) Associate Professor
Room No. IV 248
murali@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Murali R. Cholemari PhD (IISc Bangalore) Associate Professor
Contact Info
- Room No. IV 248
- 26591177
- murali@am.iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Turbulent flows, Optical flow measurement, Applied fluid mechanics
Narsing Kumar Jha PhD (IISc Bangalore) Assistant Professor
Room No. 233, Block III
narsingjha@am.iitd.ac.in
Experimental Fluid mechanics
Narsing Kumar Jha PhD (IISc Bangalore) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room No. 233, Block III
- 26548424
- narsingjha@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Experimental Fluid mechanics
Area of Interest
- Two-phase turbulence, Fluid-structure interaction, Biological and complex/polymeric fluid flows, Environmental flows, Flow Instabilities, Micro-fluidics
Nikhil Walani PhD (Univ. of Houston) Assistant Professor
Block IV, Room 4B-16
nwalani@am.iitd.ac.in
Mechanics of living surfaces
Nikhil Walani PhD (Univ. of Houston) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Block IV, Room 4B-16
- nwalani@am.iitd.ac.in
Specialization
- Mechanics of living surfaces
Area of Interest
- Bio-mechanics, Cell Mechanics, Cosserat surfaces, Elastic fluid shells, Variational principles in mechanics
Pradyumna S. PhD (IITKgp) Professor
R.No. IV 252
pradyum@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Pradyumna S. PhD (IITKgp) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 252
- 26591222
- pradyum@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Structural Dynamics, Composite Structures, Functionally Graded Materials,Dynamic Stability
Prapanch Nair PhD (IISc, Bangalore.) Assistant Professor
Room 235, Block III
Prapanch.Nair@am.iitd.ac.in
Numerical Fluid Mechanics
Prapanch Nair PhD (IISc, Bangalore.) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room 235, Block III
- 26591226
- Prapanch.Nair@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Numerical Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Numerical methods for fluid flow and multiphysics, meshless methods, high performance computing, machine learning in fluid mechanics
Prateek Gupta PhD (Purdue) Assistant Professor
Room 342B, Block IV
prgupta@am.iitd.ac.in
Computational Fluids and Molecular Physics
Prateek Gupta PhD (Purdue) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room 342B, Block IV
- 26548566
- prgupta@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Computational Fluids and Molecular Physics
Area of Interest
- nonlinear waves in fluids, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, computational statistical mechanics, multiscale modeling techniques, shock waves, high order methods for fluid mechanics and PDEs, electrohydrodynamics, high performance computing.
Puneet Mahajan PhD (Montana State) TRIPP Chair Professor
R.No. 250, Block IV
mahajan@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Puneet Mahajan PhD (Montana State) TRIPP Chair Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 250, Block IV
- 26591229
- mahajan@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Finite Element Methods, Composites and low velocity impact behavior, Snow mechanics.
Rajdip Nayek PhD (Waterloo) Assistant Professor
Block IV, Room No B-24
rajdipn@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Rajdip Nayek PhD (Waterloo) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Block IV, Room No B-24
- 26548596
- rajdipn@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Structural dynamics and mechanical vibration, Uncertainty quantification, Reduced-order modeling, Scientific Machine Learning, System identification, Structural Health Monitoring
Ritabrata Thakur PhD (TIFR, Bengaluru) Assistant Professor
Room 4B-15, Block IV
ritabrata@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography
Ritabrata Thakur PhD (TIFR, Bengaluru) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room 4B-15, Block IV
- 26591201
- ritabrata@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography
Area of Interest
- Stratified ocean dynamics, fluid nonlinear non-modal stability, transition to turbulence, biological mixing, internal waves, role of oceans in the Indian monsoon
Ritwik Bandyopadhyay PhD (Purdue) Assistant Professor
Room 4B-17, Block IV
ritwik@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid mechanics and design, structures and materials
Ritwik Bandyopadhyay PhD (Purdue) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room 4B-17, Block IV
- 26591181
- ritwik@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid mechanics and design, structures and materials
Area of Interest
- Crystal plasticity, Fatigue, Synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Uncertainty quantification, Structural dynamics and vibration
S.V. Veeravalli PhD (Cornell) Professor
R.No. 232, Block IV
svrvalli@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
S.V. Veeravalli PhD (Cornell) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 232, Block IV
- 26591182
- svrvalli@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Flows, Pollutant Dispersion, Stability Theory, Design Methodology of Dams.
Sabyasachi Chatterjee PhD (CMU) Assistant Professor
Block IV, Room 4B-23
sabyasachi@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid mechanics
Sabyasachi Chatterjee PhD (CMU) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Block IV, Room 4B-23
- 26548716
- sabyasachi@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid mechanics
Area of Interest
- Continuum dislocation mechanics, Inelastic behavior of solids, multiscale materials modeling, high temperature, creep and fatigue resistant materials, Discrete Dislocation Dynamics
Sanjeev Sanghi PhD (City Univ.) MoUD Chair Professor
R.No. IV 241
sanghi@am.iitd.ac.in
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence
Sanjeev Sanghi PhD (City Univ.) MoUD Chair Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 241
- 26591230
- sanghi@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence
Area of Interest
- Numerical and Analytical Studies of Turbulent Flows, Chaos and Dynamical Systems, Finite Element Method (FEM), Educational Software, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition.
Santosh Kapuria PhD (IITD) Professor
R.No. 233, Block IV
kapuria@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Santosh Kapuria PhD (IITD) Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. 233, Block IV
- 26591218
- kapuria@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Smart composite and sandwich structures, Functionally graded material (FGM) structures, Piezothermoelasticity, Active vibration control, Finite element method, offshore pipelines and structures, Pressure vessels.
Sawan S. Sinha PhD (Texas A&M) Professor
IV 344
sawan@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Sawan S. Sinha PhD (Texas A&M) Professor
Contact Info
- IV 344
- 26591245
- sawan@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Compressible turbulence: Theory and Modeling, Hypersonic Flows, Turbulence-Chemistry Interactions, Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) Method, Boltzmann Equation-based Solvers
Sitikantha Roy PhD (Utah State) Professor
IV-243
sroy@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechancs
Sitikantha Roy PhD (Utah State) Professor
Contact Info
- IV-243
- 62591220
- sroy@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechancs
Area of Interest
- Biomechanics of tissue damage, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, Soft Robotics, Bioinspired engineering, Mechanics of soft active material, Smart structures and control, Composite structures.
Souvik Chakraborty PhD (IITR) Assistant Professor
Block IV, Room No 342C
souvik@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Souvik Chakraborty PhD (IITR) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Block IV, Room No 342C
- 26548483
- souvik@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Deep learning, Digital twin, stochastic mechanics, stochastic dynamics, reliability analysis, design under uncertainty, multi-scale systems, inverse problems
Sriram Hegde PhD (IITD) Sr. System Manager (SG)
R.No. 346, Block IV
hegde@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Computations
Sriram Hegde PhD (IITD) Sr. System Manager (SG)
Contact Info
- R.No. 346, Block IV
- 26591231
- hegde@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Computations
Area of Interest
- Computer Aided Design (CAD), Design Optimization , Hydrodynamic Stability and transition delay, Finite Element Applications, Heat Transfer.
Sushma Santapuri PhD (Ohio State) Associate Professor
R.No. IV 234
ssantapuri@am.iitd.ac.in
Solid Mechanics
Sushma Santapuri PhD (Ohio State) Associate Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 234
- 26597393
- ssantapuri@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Solid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Mathematical modeling of functional/smart/advanced materials; Electrodynamics of continua; Asymptotic theories for smart composite structures; Thermodynamics of functional materials; Rod and plate theories; Multiferroic materials and their applications.
Vamsi K. Chalamalla PhD (UC San Diego) Assistant Professor
Room no. 236, Block III
vchalama@am.iitd.ac.in
Fluid Mechanics
Vamsi K. Chalamalla PhD (UC San Diego) Assistant Professor
Contact Info
- Room no. 236, Block III
- 26597976
- vchalama@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- Fluid Mechanics
Area of Interest
- Computational Fluid Dynamics, Ocean Modeling, Stratified Turbulence, Ocean Engineering
Vikrant Tiwari PhD (South Carolina) Associate Professor
R.No. IV 256
tiwariv@am.iitd.ac.in
High strain rate events, Mechanics of solids
Vikrant Tiwari PhD (South Carolina) Associate Professor
Contact Info
- R.No. IV 256
- 25697323
- tiwariv@am.iitd.ac.in
- Personal webpage
Specialization
- High strain rate events, Mechanics of solids
Area of Interest
- Fracture mechanics, Impact and shock mechanics, Composite materials, Material characterization, Digital Image Correlation, Environmental factors.