Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Vinod Narayanan

Department : Mechanical Engineering

vinod@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests

● Flow instabilities and transition to turbulence
● Compressible fluid flow
● Convective heat transfer

Professional Summary

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Feb 2020 – Present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (May 2010 – Feb 2020)
Scientist, Metacomp Technologies Pvt Ltd., Chennai (Dec 2008 – May 2009)
Post-doc, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA (May 2007 – Aug 2008)
Post-doc, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, INDIA, Braunschweig, Germany (Oct 2005 – Apr 2007)

Publications

1. Global stability analysis of spatially developing boundary layer:Effect of streamwise pressure gradients, Ramesh Bhoraniya and Narayanan Vinod, Fluid Dynamics, (to appear in 2019).
2. Control of optimal growth of instabilities in Jeffery-Hamel flow, Ravi Kant and Narayanan Vinod, AIP Advances, (to appear in 2019).
3. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layers, Ramesh Bhoraniya and Narayanan Vinod Theoretical and Computatiional Fluid Dynamics, Volume 32, Issue 4, pp 425-449, 2018.
4. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone, Ramesh Bhoraniya and Narayanan Vinod, Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 063901 (2017).
5. Global stability analysis of axisymmetric boundary layer over a circular cone, Ramesh Bhoraniya and Narayanan Vinod, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 822 012018, 2017.
6. N. Vinod and R. Govindarajan “Secondary instabilities in axisymmetric, boundary layers”, Journal of Fluid Engineering, ASME, J. Fluids Eng. 134, 024503 (2012).
Complete List of Publications