Faculty

Dr. Girish Kumar Rajan

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Wave propagation
  • Interfacial Waves
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

Education

  • PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • MS (Mechanical Engineering), Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • MA (Mathematics), Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
  • BTech (Mechanical Engineering), National Institute of Technology, Trichy, TN, INDIA

Latest Publications

  • Rajan, G. K., Solutions of a comprehensive dispersion relation for waves at the elastic interface of two viscous fluids, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, Vol. 89C (2021), pp. 241-258, 2021, Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2021.05.012
  • Rajan, G. K., A three-fluid model for the dissipation of interfacial capillary-gravity waves, Phys. Fluids, Vol. 32(12), p. 122121, 2020. DOI: 10.1063/5.0030812
  • Rajan, G. K, Dissipation of interfacial Marangoni waves and their resonance with capillary-gravity waves, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 154, 103340, 2020. Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2020.103340
  • Rajan, G. K. and Henderson, D. M., Linear waves at a surfactant-contaminated interface separating two fluids: Dispersion and dissipation of capillary-gravity waves, Phys. Fluids, Vol. 30(7), 2018. DOI: 10.1063/1.5027709
  • Rajan, G. K. and Cimbala, J. M., Computational and theoretical analyses of the precessing vortex rope in a simplified draft tube of a scaled model of a Francis turbine, ASME J. Fluids Engineering, Vol. 139(2), 2017. DOI: 10.1115/1.4034693
  • Rajan, G. K. and Henderson, D. M., The linear stability of a wavetrain propagating on water of variable depth, SIAM J. Appl. Math., Vol. 76(5), 2016. DOI: 10.1137/16M1055700
  • Rajan, G. K., Bayram, S. & Henderson, D., Periodic envelopes of waves over non-uniform depth, Phys. Fluids, Vol. 28(4), 2016. DOI: 10.1063/1.4945048
  • Henderson, D., Rajan, G. K. & Segur, H., Dissipation of narrow-banded surface water waves, Hamiltonian PDEs and Applications, Fields Institute Communications, Vol. 75, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2950-4_6

0877 2503408
gkrajan@iittp.ac.in
Personal WebPage
Copyright ©2021 Department of Mechanical Engineering- IIT Tirupati. All Rights Reserved