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About the Department

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest departments in the Institute, with 62 full-time faculty membes and over 50 full-time administrative and technical support staff. The department offers B.Tech., B.Tech. + M.Tech. (Dual Degree), M.Tech., and Ph.D. degree programs, with over 650 undergraduate, 200 M.Tech. and 250 Ph.D. students on roll. The department has over 30 instructional and research laboratories, equipped with some of the state-of-the-art scientific instruments and systems.

The vision of the department is to be one of the top rated departments in the world. To achieve this goal, the department strives to generate high quality graduates through rigorous coursework and cutting-edge research activities. The students in the department are exposed to the problems faced by today’s societies, and are trained to address those problems through innovative thinking to develop appropriate technological solutions. The faculty members of the department drive these activities through their teaching and diverse research programs, covering numerous facets of Mechanical Engineering Science and Applications. In addition to the regular academic work, the students of the department are encouraged to participate in co-curricular activities.

The department has evolved over time to keep up with the ever-increasing challenges in technology development, while maintaining a strong base in the fundamental aspects of Mechanical Engineering. While much of today’s research in Mechanical Engineering is of interdisciplinary nature requiring knowledge from numerous other science and engineering disciplines, the research work of the faculty members of the department is categorized into three broad streams: Thermal and Fluids Engineering, Design Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering.

News & Events

PhD viva-voce examination of Ritesh Dadhich 
Title of the thesis: Development of a spectral solver for crystal plasticity

Chairman : Prof. Chandra S. Yerramalli, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay
External Examiner : Prof. Anoop Krishnan, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi
Internal Examiner : Prof. Tanmay K. Bhandakkar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Supervisor : Prof. Alankar Alankar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay

08 Feb 2024 | ME Dept Auditorium

Department outreach inviting participants from across the country to engage
in our research facilities at ME @ IITB
https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~research_day

05 Jan 2024 |

Prof. Shyamprasad Karagadde has been awarded the Faculty Award for Research Excellence (FARE) instituted by the class of 1973 on the occasion of Golden Jubilee.

12 Feb 2024 |

Seminar of Taaresh Taneja (PhD student, University of Minnesota) on Non-Equilibrium Plasma and its Use in Combustion: A Modeling Perspective

Abstract:

Non-equilibrium or Low Temperature Plasma is a state of a gas which is characterized by a
difference in the energies of the electrons and other heavy species of the gas. Such a plasma
typically constitutes of gas molecules, a relatively lower density of ions and rotational, vibra6onal, and electronic excited states, neutral radicals, along with free electrons. Non-equilibrium plasmas can exist at various gas pressures ranging from 0.1 – 106 Pa and gas temperatures, ranging from 100 – 10000 K. Across these wide range of conditions, the physical and chemical properties of the plasma can vary substantially – which make them extremely useful in diverse technological areas such as semiconductor manufacturing, water treatment, medical equipment sterilization, nanomaterial synthesis, chemical reforming, combustion assistance, etc. Between 104 - 106 Pa and 300 – 5000 K, these non-equilibrium plasma discharges can be used for assis6ng combustion. This assistance is provided majorly through two channels – gas hea6ng and chemical radical production. Both these channels can be used to ignite renewable and carbon-free fuels such as ammonia (NH!), which is very difficult to burn, and stabilize flames in challenging conditions such as gas turbines, scramjet, and rocket combustors. Moreover, the chemical pathways introduced by the non-equilibrium of the gas, can also help to lower, or completely prevent emissions from combustion, such as unburned hydrocarbons, soot, CO2, CO and NOx. High fidelity computational simulations (DNS / LES) of non-equilibrium "plasma assisted combuston" (PAC) face various constraints due to the wide- ranging temporal (10-15 – 10-2 s) and spa6al (10-6 – 10-1 m) scales of this problem, which make the system of governing equations very s6ff. Furthermore, the highly coupled interaction of electrostatics, plasma chemistry, combustion chemistry, and turbulent flow renders PAC its mul6-physics nature. This talk will provide an overview of the governing physics, the mathematical formulation of different models, and a few technological applications of non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion.

 

 

 

Brief Bio-data of speaker:
Taaresh Taneja is a 5th year PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota (UMN), Twin Ci>es,
who is currently focused on modeling non-equilibrium plasma assisted combus>on. He works
with Prof. Suo Yang, in the Computa>onal Reac>ve Flow and Energy Laboratory (CRFEL) at UMN.
For his research, he has received the UMII MNDrive Fellowship, NSF Supplemental Funding
Opportunity and the UMN Doctoral Disserta>on Fellowship, along with other travel grants for
presen>ng his work at conferences. Taaresh has also interned at the Na>onal Renewable Energy
Laboratory, Colorado and at Sandia Na>onal Laboratory, California during his PhD. Before joining
UMN for his PhD in 2019, Taaresh worked as a CFD engineer at Johnson Controls India Pvt. Ltd.,
Pune (2017 - 2019). He received his B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani, Goa
Campus in 2017.

 

 

 

13 Mar 2024 | ME Dept Auditorium

Traditional Thermal and Fluids Engineering aimed to enhance (or reduce) heat transfer, reduce pressure drop in fluid flow, and in general obtain enhanced efficiency from power producing devices (hydropower plants, gas and steam power plants, automobile engines) as well as refrigeration devices. A knowledge of thermodynamics an...

Mechanical Engineers are often expected to have the ability to analyse and design systems based on the ability to predict the motion and/or deformation of rigid bodies and deformable distributed mass systems. The Design Engineering stream at IIT Bombay is aimed at providing students exposure, at various levels, to build such ability in...

Product development activities worldwide are facing several challenges due to stringent demands on product quality, reliability and productivity. Globalization has added a new dimension to this scenario, needing interoperability between distributed cyber physical systems. To meet these challenges, manufacturing engineers are f...

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