Atul Sharma's Academic Activities

Courses Taught

@ Raipur Institute of Technology, Raipur (C.G.), August, '95 - July, '96.

Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Drawing and General Mechanical Engineering

@ Regional Engineering College, Hamirpur (H.P.), January, '98 - July, '00.

Core Courses: Heat Transfer, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, and Alternate Sources of Energy
Elective Courses: Computational Methods in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Computer Aided Design

@ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, June, '04 - till date

UG Courses: ME204 - Fluid Mechanics II, ME210-Heat Transfer
PG Courses: ME651 - Fluid Dynamics, ME704-Computational Methods in Thermal and Fluid Engineering and ME415-Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Students Guidance (@ IIT Bombay)

DD Projects

Shashi Ranjan Kumar: Low Reynolds Number Flow around Row of Square Cylinders, 2006.
Dheeraj K. Singh: Numerical Simulation of Dentritic Solidification using Sharp-Interface Level Set Method, 2007.
Sumedh Padhgane: Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in a Wavy Channel, 2007.

M.Tech. Projects

K. Ravi: Characterization of Leak Rates Through Cracks, 2005.
Pankaj Sharma: A Physics based Finite Volume Method in Cylindrical Coordinates for Unsteady State Conjugate Heat Transfer, 2008.
Narendra Kumar: 3-D Level Set Method for Simulation of Two-Fluid Stratified Flow in a Pipe, 2008.
Nayan Pandya: A Semi-Explicit Immersed Boundary Method and its Application to Flow across a Transversely Oscillating Cylinder, 2008.
L. Vamsi Krishna (Guide: Dr. A Agrawal): Lattice Boltzmann Method based Simulation of Flow around a Transversely Oscillating Square Cylinder, 2008.
Tanveer Ahmed (Co-Guide: Dr. C. S. Solanki): CFD Simulation of Efficient Coooling of Solar Cells using Light Concentration, 2008.
Arvind Limje: CFD Simulation of Two-Fluid Stratified Developing Flow in a Plane Channel and a Pipe, 2008.
Ajay Singh Parihar: Numerical Simulation of Granular Materials through Bins using Discrete Element Method, 2009.
Dhruv Dhaval: Finite Volume Method Based Simulation of Combined Conduction Radiative-Convective Heat transfer in Developing Flow through a Pipe with a Rod, 2009.
Rahul Verma: Development and Comparison of Various Flow Solvers for Film-Boiling Simulations (Ongoing).
Sagar Chavan: Analytical Study for Fully-Developed and Numerical Study for Developing Steam-Water Stratified Flow in a Plane Channel (Ongoing).

Ph.D.

Sachin Paramane: Numerical Investigation of Free Stream Flow across a Rotating and Rotationally Oscillating Cylinder with Forced and Mixed Convection Heat Transfer (Defended, July 2009).
D. Dutta (Co-Guide: Dr. K. Iyer): Analytical and Level Set Method Based Numerical Study for Simulation of Two-Phase Stratified Flow in a Plane Channel Dissipating Uniform Heat Flux and a Square Duct (Submitted, February 2010).
Vinesh H. Gada: A Novel Level Set Method based 2-D and 3-D Simulation of Film Boiling over a Superheated Surface and over a Heat Generating Rod in a Pipe.
C. M. Sewatkar (Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): Numerical Simulation of Flow past a Row of Square Cylinder.
Mausam Sarkar (Co-Guide: Dr. S. V. Prabhu): Numerical Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy Channels.
Kaushal Prasad (Co-Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): Numerical Investigation of Flow across a Rotating Cylinder in a Plane Channel with Forced and Mixed Convection Heat Transfer.
Mukul Srivastava (Co-Guide: Dr. A. Agrawal): A Novel- Level Set Method based Immersed Boundary Method for Moving Boundary Computations and its Application to CFD Simulation of Fish-Like Locomotion.
Absar M. Lakdawala: Level Set Method Based Simulation of Drop and Spray Formation from Liquid Jets

Other Academic Activities

Attended Professional Development Course on "Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics" on 20th-25th July, '98 at IIT, Kanpur.

Delivered Expert Lecture on "Introduction to MATLAB for Scientific Computation" organized by Indian Society of Technical Education chapter of REC, Hamirpur (H.P.) on 8th April, '99.

Attended Mid-Year Meeting of Indian Academy of Science held on 16th- 17th July '99 at Bangalore as an Invited Teacher.
Taught CFD Course to students of Collage of Engineering, Pune through Center for Distance Engineering Education Programme (CDEEP), IIT Bombay, on Jan.-April, 2007 & 2008.
Taught CFD Course to remote participants through LIVE WEBCAST from CDEEP, IIT Bombay, on Jan.-April, 2009.

Delivered a series of Invited Lectures in the

ISTE Sponsored STTP on Application of CFD in Mech. Engg. organized by Parul Institute of Engg. & Technology, Vadodara om May 10, 2010.
AICTE Sponsored STTP on CFD, SVNIT, Surat on Feb. 2, 2010 and July 10 , 2008.
CEP course on Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) organized by Dept. of Mech. Engineering, IIT Bombay on 23rd-29th November, 2009, 17th-21st November, 2008 and 21st-22nd Febraury, 2007.
Training on Finite Element Analysis organized by Applied Materials, Bangalore, 30th July- 1st August, 2009.
TEQIP Sponsored Short Term Course on CFD organized by VJTI Mumbai on 29th-31st December, 2008.
CEP Course on Rapid Product Development and Rapid Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Engg., IIT Bombay on July 23 and October 1, 2008.
CEP Course on Computational Fluid Dynamics for the industry of the Future in Mumbai on August 7 and in New Delhi on August 8, 2008.
CEP Course on CFD Analysis in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engg., IIT Bombay on July 9, 2008.
A Short Term Course on CFDHT at IITB Golden Jublee Extension Center, Gujarat (L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad) from 5th-9th May, 2008.
AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Programme on "Numerical Computation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer" organised by Govt. College of Engg., Karad on 12th-14th December, 2006.
TEQIP Sponsored Short Term Course on "CFDHT" organised by National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (H.P.) on 28th & 29th June, 2006.
Short Term Course on "CFD for Industrial Applications" organised by IIT Bombay on 2nd May, 2006.

Short Term Training Programme on "Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer" organised by Collage of Engineering, Pune on January 3rd & 4th, 2005.

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