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Prof. Sreedhara

Professor (former Head of the department)

ME Department
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S 35 Second floor MECH-building

sreedhara[dot]s[at]iitb.ac.in

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Prof. Sreedhara Sheshadri

  • Heat Transfer, Combustion and Energy Systems

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulent Combustion, Engine Combustion, LES/DNS of complex turbulent reacting flows, soot modelling



  1. Secured ninth rank in B.E during 1990 for Bangalore University.
  2. Senior research fellow (SRF) from CSIR for about 2 years during 2000-2001.
  3. Post-doctoral  fellow at POSTECH, Korea from 2004 to 2007. 
  4. Departmental award of excellence in teaching (2018), based on course feedback given by students over the last 5 years.  IIT Bombay
  5. Distinguished Alumni from NITK (Surathkal), 2019
  6. Dr. A Jaganmohan award for professional development (2020)  IIT Bombay
  7. Prof. S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021), based on course feedback given by students over the last 10 years.  IIT Bombay


PhD, IISc Bangalore, 2003, M.Tech, NIT, Karnataka, 1992,
B.E, BMSCE, Bangalore, 1990

Navaneethakrishnan, P and Sarangi, Asish Kumar and Dilip Khedkar, Nikhil and Khan, Yasar and Singh, Arvind Kumar and Sreedhara, Sheshadri,
Effects of injector configurations on RCCI mode of combustion in a light-duty diesel engine, International Journal of Engine Research, 27, 3, 2026, 353-374,
Sharma, Ashutosh and Sreedhara, Sheshadri and Khatamifar, Mehdi and Lin, Wenxian ,
Comparative investigation of different liquid-cooled battery thermal management systems (LC-BTMS) designs for battery module of electric vehicle , Applied Thermal Engineering, 2026, 130436,
Rao, Thota SS Bhaskara and Manimaran, Rajayokkiam and Sankar, Prabakaran and Sreedhara, Sheshadri and Kottala, Ravi Kumar and Guntreddi, Venkataramana,
Sustainable Gossypium arboreum biodiesel production using an industrial waste heterogeneous catalyst for RCCI engine applications, Scientific Reports, 15, 1, 2025, 38069,
Duvvuri, Pavan Prakash and Shrivastava, Rajesh Kumar and Sreedhara, Sheshadri,
Soot coagulation due to pulsating flow in diesel engine exhaust: a numerical investigation, The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2025, 1-7,
Kumar, Subhash and Thakkar, Kartikkumar and Sreedhara, Sheshadri,
NUMERICAL STUDY OF TRANSITION TO THERMOACOUSTIC INSTABILITY IN A RIJKE TUBE: IMPACT OF ENERGY INPUT AND TRIGGERING PARAMETERS, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 32, 1, 2025,