Research Topics

Topics available for undergraduate and postgraduate

A) Computational Wind Engineering (CWE)

  1. Air flow around an idealized vegetation canopy.
  2. Air flow around a cubic model by means of large eddy simulation (LES).
  3. Design and development of wind catcher for indoor ventilation.

B) Fluid Mechanics

  1. Design and development of flow straightener device in water tunnel.
  2. Fluid-flow studies in water tunnel.
  3. Flow model and dynamic characteristics of a swing check valve.
  4. Flow field characteristics of twin jet flow in a generic car cabin.
  5. Analysis of flow and pressure drop across a generic car HVAC duct.

C) Heat Transfers

  1. A novel vortex generators for enhancing convective heat transfer in a rectangular straight channel.
  2. Nanoparticle added thermal paste as passive coolant on the cooling performance of CPU.
  3. Analysis on the cooling performance of CPU using nanofluids as a coolant in a water cooling system.
  4. Thermal behavior inside a generic car cabin during thermal soak.
  5. Thermal behavior inside a generic car cabin during cooldown.

NOTE:

1) Blue colored: NEW topics

2) I may consider other research topic proposed by you as long as the topics are related to my area of expertise.