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Dr. M. Deepu
Professor and Head

  • R-107

Department
Aerospace Engineering

Research interests

Modeling of turbulent, compressible, reacting flows in propulsion systems, heat & mass transfer enhancement, heat transfer in microchannels, and heat transfer in phase changing materials.

  • Professor and Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (July 2023-Present).
  • Professor in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (January2021-Present).
  • Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (January 2015 -January 2021)
  • Research Fellow in Energetics Research Institute (EnRI), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (October 2012-September 2013)-On Sabbatical from IIST
  • Assistant Professor in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (January 2009 -December 2014).
  • Reader in Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (March 2008 – January 2009).
  • Senior Lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, February 2006-February 2008.
  • Lecturer in Department of Mechanical Engineering, NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad, February 2001-February 2006.

Education

  • Ph.D. (National Institute of Technology, Calicut)
  • M.Tech. (College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram)
  • B.Tech. (Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam)

  • Undergraduate: Heat transfer,  Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Gas dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, IC Engines & Gas Turbines, and Engineering Graphics.
  • Postgraduate: Fluid dynamics, Advanced heat transfer, Microscale&Nanoscale heat transfer, Fluid Dynamics, Compressible  Flow, Convective heat transfer

Ph.D. (Completed)

2020

Aravind G. P. "Numerical Studies on Mass Transfer Enhancement by Vortex Generators"

Ph.D. (Ongoing)
Regular
Mulani Feroze Osman "Studies on Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a performance-enhanced phase changing material-based thermal energy storage system"

Akhil Sivadas "Heat transfer effects on unsteady free shear layer in dual throat nozzles"

Navaroj K.M. "Analysis of high speed compressible flows involving boundary heat transfer and structural interaction"

Abhijith Vijayan "Studies on passive Rayleigh-Bénard convection enhancement"

Sponsored/Part-time
Abhilash Narayan "Studies on supersonic free shear layer in altitude adaptive dual throat nozzles"

Dinesh D. "Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Convective Heat Transfer Enhancements in Rotating Perforated Metallic Discs"
M.Tech (Thermal and Propulsion) 

2025

Gunja Lalitha Maheswari, "Flow Separation Transition in Thrust Optimized Contour Nozzle"

Sonu Maruti Harijan , "Heat transfer enhancement in supercritical helical heat exchanger by geometric modification and flow pulsation"

Manisha kumari, "Solid Propellant Gas Generator"

2024

Rijin K. V. "Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical Methane in Regenerative Cooling Systems"

Prince Nallathambi K. "Finite Element Method based Modeling and Simulation of PCM melting in confined space" (Won thesis award by ISHMT-RCT)

2023

Shashank shekhar, "Numerical Simulation of Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction on Mass Evolving Flat Plate"

Keerthana Raghu "Evaluation of Lagrangian based and SPH based methodology for prediction of snow accumulation"

2022

Mukesh R. "Experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer enhanced tubings in PCM"

2019
Swathi V.V.  "Heat Transfer Enhancement Studies on Taylor-Couette Flow" (Best thesis award by ISHMT RCT)

Adarsh V. R.  "Numerical Study of the Geometrical Aspects of Rectangular Regenerative Cooling Channels"

2018
Gokul S.  "Heat and Mass Transfer Enhancement Studies on Taylor Couette-Poiseuille Flows"

2017
Nandakrishnan S. L. "Passive heat transfer enhancement in diverging microchannels"

Mithun Krishna P. M. "Heat transfer enhancement with wavy microchannels"

Vishnu A. S.   "Experimental and numerical studies on wall heat transfer effects in cavity exposed to supersonic flow"

2015
Priyanka Shukla  "Experimental and numerical studies on thermal ignition of energetic materials" 

Dhrishit M. P.  "Numerical  study  of  secondary  injection  to supersonic flow using AUSM+-UP  scheme"

B. Tech (Aerospace Engineering) 

2025

Prashil Khare, "Effect of Intermittent Liquid Injection in Rayleigh–Benard Convection Augmentation"

Prabhash Singh, "Heat Transfer Enhancement in Supercritical Helical Heat Exchanger with Square Tube Inserts"

Mali Anjali Sachin, "Sizing and Thermodynamic analysis of tri-propellant engine"

Abdullah Thoaha Yaseen Y, "Effect of tangential gas inlet on effervescent injectors"

2023

Pankaj Singh "Study of Shock transitions and hysteresis in a dual throat nozzle"

Pratyaksh Maru "Experimental and numerical investigations of micro-particle laden Rayleigh -Bénard Convection"

2021

Sai Nanda Krishna Devarakonda "Numerical simulation of a performance enhanced latent heat storage system"

Hemant Kumar "Numerical Analysis of a High-Speed Mixing Layer"

Ankur Jain "Heat Transfer Enhancement using Reentrant Regenerative Cooling Channels for High Area Ratio Rocket Nozzle"

2020

Kunal Garg "Vortex Flow Characterization for Mass Transfer Enhancement in Hybrid Rocket Engine"

Monika Chouhan "Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Characteristics in Helical Coils with Sinusoidal Wavy Walls"

Shaik Riyazuddin "Numerical study of Natural Convection in Horizontal Cylinder with External Radial Fins"

Kadira Manisha "Numerical study of Laminar Flow and heat transfer in sinusoidal lobed Channel"

2019
Madhu Swapnika Chundru "Numerical Studies on Laminar Flow and Heat Transfer in Regenerative Cooling Channels"

2018
Jayakrishnan S.  "Off-Design Performance Evaluation of Dual Throat Nozzle"

2017
Aishwary Mishra  "Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Hypersonic Re-entry Flows with Air Dissociation Effects"

Fahd Bin Abdul Hasis "Numerical Study of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Twisted Wavy Microchannels"

Muhammed Rafi K. M. "Numerical Study on Effects of Thermal and Geometric Variations on Micro-thruster Performance using Coupled NSF-DSMC Approach"

Sreekanth M. N.  "Flow Separation Control Using Periodic Excitation"

Amogh Auknoor  "Numerical Studies on Flow Boiling in Microchannels"

2016
Nandan Kumar Vidyarthi "Effect of Heat Transfer in Flow Separation"

Sourabh Rangari  "Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Choked Flame Tube"  

2012
Arjun Das  "Numerical simulation of a scramjet combustor"

Nithin Chandy Joseph "Numerical simulation of high pressure flows"

2011
Rahul Anand

Nakul Kukar "Experimental and numerical simulation of Pulsejet engine"

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