Assistant Professor
ME Department
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S 20avishekr [at] (iitb's domain)
(+91)-22-25769362
Prof. Avishek Ranjan
- Solid and Fluid Mechanics
Magnetohydrodynamics and its engineering applications (liquid metal battery, aluminum reduction cells, nuclear fusion blankets)
Geophysical flows (atmosphere, ocean, Eath's core)
DNS of turbulent flows with rotation, buoyancy/stratification and magnetic field
Liquid metal cooling
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,