Dr. A. Salih
Professor
- R-129
- salih [at] iist.ac.in
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+91-471-2568443
Department
Research interests
Numerical simulation of multiphase flows, level set methods, bubble and drop simulations, sloshing dynamics, simulation of waterhammer phenomena, Rayleigh-Benard convection
- Professor : Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (Since July 2017).
- Associate Professor : Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (2011-2017).
- Assistant Professor : Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram (2008-2011).
- Sr. Lecturer : National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (1997-2008).
- Lecturer : National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (1991-1997).
- Design Engineer : Crompton Greaves Hydro-Division, Chandigarh (1989-1991).
Education
- Ph.D. (IIT Bombay / IIT Kharagpur)
- M.Tech. (IIT Madras)
- B.Tech. (NIT Calicut)
Teaching Interest
At IIST
- Undergraduate: Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Thermodynamics.
- Master’s: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics.
At NIT Trichy
- Undergraduate: Engineering Graphics, Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Hydraulic Machinery, Heat Transfer, Turbomachines, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Method.
- Master’s: Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Method.
- Streamfunction-Vorticity formulation
- The Method of Multiple Scales
- Method of Lagrange multipliers
- A brief overview of tensor
- Description of stress at a point in space
- Dynamic boundary condition at the fluid interface
- Cauchy-Stokes decomposition
- Equations of Fluid Dynamics
- An exact solution of Navier-Stokes equations
- Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
- Taylor-Green vortex
- Tridiagonal Matrix Algorithm
- Finite difference methods for parabolic PDEs
- Work-Energy Principle
- Inviscid Burgers Equation
- Burgers Equation
- Method of Characteristics
- Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Canonical Forms
- Dirac-Delta Function
- Eigenvalue Problem
- Weighted Residual Methods
- d'Alembert's Solution of Wave Equation
- Richardson Extrapolation
- Finite Element Method
- Dimensionless Numbers in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
- Fluid Mechanics Booklist
- Gas Dynamics Booklist
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Booklist