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Prof. Avishek Ranjan


Assistant Professor
ME Department | S 20
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Computational fluids and magnetohydrodynamics (CFMHD) lab

Academic Background

Ph.D., Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, 2015,
M.S. (by research), I C Engines Lab, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, India, 2011,
B.Tech (Mechanical), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar, Punjab, India, 2007

Professional Experience

1. Assistant Manager at Tata Cummins Limited, Jamshedpur (2007-2008)
2. Project Associate at IIT Madras (2008-2011)
3. Postdoctoral research associate in the department of Engineering, Cambridge (2015-2018)

Research Interests

Thermofluids engineering, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and its applications (e.g. liquid metal battery, continuous casting of steel, aluminum reduction cells, vaccum arc remelting, electromagnetic propulsion, flow in the Earth's outer core);  Rotating, Buoyancy-driven and Geophysical flows; Internal waves in Fluids (e.g. generation and propagation of inertial waves and internal gravity waves); Rotating flows in engines, turbines and compressors;  Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flows - effect of rotation, buoyancy and magnetic field; Turbulent transport of particles More here.

Publications:

P. A. Davidson, O. Wong, J. Atkinson, A. Ranjan, Magnetically-driven flow in a liquid-metal battery, Physical Review Fluids, 7, 074701, 2022, ,

A. Ojha, M. Anas, A. Ranjan, P. Joshi, M. K. Verma, Helicity segregation by Ekman pumping in laminar rotating flows with gravity orthogonal to rotatio, Physical Review Fluids, 7, 034801 , 2022, ,

A Ranjan, P A Davidson, Columnar heat transport via advection induced by inertial waves, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 87, , 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2020.108703, 108703

1. A Ranjan, P A Davidson, U R Christensen, J Wicht, On the generation and segregation of helicity in geodynamo simulations, Geophysical Journal International, , 221, , 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa011, 741-757

A. Ranjan, P. A. Davidson, Columnar heat transport via advection induced by inertial waves, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, (accepted), , 2020, ,

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