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Prof. Avishek

Assistant Professor

ME Department
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avishekr [at] (iitb's domain)

(+91)-22-25769362

Prof. Avishek Ranjan

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.



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

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)

R Kant, A Ranjan, A Srivastava , Velocity measurement on a heated vertical wall under a transverse magnetic field using ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry, Sadhana, 2024,
S Soni, A Ranjan, T Gohil, Evaluating approaches to accurately compute electro-vortex flows in liquid metal electrodes, Computers and Fluids, 2024,
P A Davidson and A Ranjan, The connection between the equatorial temperature bias and north-south helicity segregation in numerical simulations of the geodynamo, Geophysical Journal International, 2023,
A Jha, A Ranjan, S Karagadde, A Gupta, Magnetohydrodynamic instability with bichromatic perturbations in aluminum reduction cells, Physics of Fluids, 2023,
P. A. Davidson, O. Wong, J. Atkinson, A. Ranjan, Magnetically-driven flow in a liquid-metal battery, Physical Review Fluids, 2022,