Arun M.

Designation: 

Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Friday, July 5, 2013

Professional Experience: 

Total 20 Years and at NITK 13+ Years

Contact Details

E-mail: 

m.arun1978 [at] gmail.com

Telephone: 

Extn. 3675
Academic Background

• PDF – Fire Safety Engineering Group, University of Greenwich, London (2007-2012)
• Ph.D –Combustion CFD (University of Greenwich, London in 2007)
• M.S - Aerospace (IIT Madras, 2003)
• B.E- Mechanical (SVNIT Surat, 1999)

Areas of Interest

BioFluid Dynamics, CFD, Turbulence, MagnetoRheological fluids, Combustion, Multi-phase flows

Significant Projects

Completed Projects: 6

Sl. No Title of the Project File No. Funding Agency Status (whether ongoing/completed) Amount (in Rs.)
1 Standalone evaporative air cooler- Pump flow and fan speed controller using solar energy TMD/CERI/BEE/2016/064 DST 2017-2020 47 Lakhs
2 Design and testing of robust, high efficient, low polluting LPG porous burners for household applications File No. SP/YO/2019/1577
DST 2019-2022 33 Lakhs
3 Particle migration and margination in bidspersed fluid flow through constricted channel CRG/2020/003868 DST-SERB 2022-2025 30 Lakhs
4 Smart Electric Vehicle supply Equipment with improved Re-configurability, Economic, Availability and Performance (REAP) CRG/2020/001848 DST-CRG 2022-2025 60 Lakhs
5 Design of shock mounts for typical LRU of aircraft using conventional shock mounts and Magneto Rheological shock mounts Project No. 2036 ARDB- DRDO 2022-2025 32.53 Lakhs
6 Design and development of Semi-Active prosthetic knee using cost-effective Magneto Rheological Brake to assist Trans-Femoral Amputees SEED/TIDE/2019/644/G DST 2022-2024 23.98 Lakhs

Supervision of Ph.D

3 PhD (ongoing)
7 PhD (completed) - 2 solo guide and 5 combinedly guided

Significant Publications

(1) SH Bhat, RK Choudhary, H Kumar, A Mahalingam, (2026), Design, development and characterization of novel multi-layer multi-pole hybrid radial flux MR damper for vehicular application, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering.
(2) Shrivatsa H Bhat, Vinayak Gupta, Subash Acharya, Hemantha Kumar, Arun Mahalingam, (2026), Comparative study on the performance of an optimized T-shaped magnetorheological brake with unimodal, bimodal and commercial MR fluid, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, pp. 174259
(3) SH Bhat, A A, S Naveen, H Kumar, Arun M., (2025) Experimental investigation of rotor wound multi disc magneto-rheological fluid brake, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 36 (6), 398-410
(4) R.V. Vaidyanatha, Shrivatsa H. Bhat, Hemantha Kumar, Arun M., (2025), Design and development of Multi-mode Magneto-Rheological Fluid Mount for Structural Vibration Isolation, Journal of Vibration engineering and technologies, vol. 13 (6), pp. 439, Springer.
(5) Shrivatsa H Bhat, Shivarama Naveen, Hemantha Kumar & Arun M., (2025), Experimental investigation of rotor wound multi disc magneto-rheological fluid brake, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 36 (6), pp. 398-410. Sage publication.
(6) Ashok Kumar Kariganaur, Hemantha Kumar, Arun Mahalingam (2024), Experimental investigation on thermal stability of dual particle magnetorheological fluid and performance, J. Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 15 (17-18), pp. 1606-1618, Taylor & Francis.
(7) Ashok Kumar Kariganaur, Hemantha Kumar, Arun Mahalingam, (2024). Experimental investigation on feasibility of using stokes settling law for batch settling at different temperatures and performance analysis of magnetorheological fluids using magneto-rheological damper. Challenges and Opportunities in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering: A Progressive Research Outlook. pp. 481- 491, CRC Press (Book Chapter)
(8) AK Kariganaur, H Kumar, M Arun, (2024). Study on operational temperature of magneto-rheological fluid and design dimensions of magneto-rheological damper for optimization, Engineering Research Express 6 (2), 025510
(9) Kariganaur, A. K., Kumar, H., & Arun, M. (2023).Experimental Investigation on Thermal Stability of Dual Particle Magnetorheological Fluid and Performance, Heat Transfer Engineering, pp. 1- 13.
(10) Sivanandan A., Arun Mahalingam, Anish Surendran (2023). Influence of Bulk Volume Fraction on Shear-Induced Diffusion Using the Multi-Fluid Volume-of-Fluid Model, Chemical Engineering Technology.DOI:10.1002/ceat.202200494
(11) Thimmaiah, S., Wahidi, T., Yadav, A.K. and Arun Mahalingam(2023). “Numerical assessment of stability behaviour in supercritical CO2 basedNCLS configured with heater, heat exchanger and isothermal wall as heat sources”. Journal of Thermal Engineering. DOI: 10.18186/thermal.1285268.
(12) Kariganaur, A. K., Kadam, S., Kumar, H., & Arun, M. (2023). Effect of reduced geometric dimensions on torque generation in two plate rotor magnetorheological brake with in-house magnetorheological fluid. Smart Materials and Structures, 32(3), 035026.
(13) Kariganaur, A. K., Kumar, H., & Arun, M. (2022). Impact of increased particle concentration on magnetorheological fluid properties and their damping performance. Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, 1-16.
(14) Kariganaur, A. K., Kumar, H., & Arun, M. (2022). Influence of temperature on magnetorheological fluid properties and damping performance. Smart Materials and Structures, 31(5), 055018.
(15) Thimmaiah, S., Wahidi, T., Yadav, A.K. and M. Arun., “Comparative computational appraisal of supercritical CO2-based natural circulation loop: effect of heat-exchanger and isothermal wall. J Therm Anal Calorim 141, 2219–2229 (2020).
(16) Vishweshwara, P. S., N. Gnanasekaran, and M. Arun., “Inverse approach using Bio-inspired algorithm within Bayesian Framework for the estimation of heat transfer coefficients during solidification of casting”, ASME – Journal of heat transfer, 12403-1-11,Vol. 142, (2020).
(17) N Srinivasa, TM Gurubasavaraju, H Kumar, M Arun, “Vibration analysis of fully and partially filled sandwiched cantilever beam with Magnetorheological fluid”, - J Eng Sci Technol, 2020.
(18) Buradi, Abdulrajak, and Arun Mahalingam. "Impact of coronary tortuosity on the artery hemodynamics." Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 40.1 (2020): 126-147.
(19) Buradi, A., and A. Mahalingam. "Effect of Stenosis Severity on Wall Shear Stress Based Hemodynamic Descriptors using Multiphase Mixture Theory." Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics 11.6 (2018).
(20) Buradi, Abdulrajak, Sumant Morab, and Arun Mahalingam. "Effect of Stenosis Severity on Shear-Induced Diffusion of Red Blood Cells in Coronary Arteries." Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology 19.05 (2019): 1950034.
(21) TM, Gurubasavaraju, Hemantha Kumar, and Arun Mahalingam. "Performance analysis of a semi-active suspension system using coupled CFD-FEA based non-parametric modeling of low capacity shear mode monotube MR damper." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering 233.5 (2019): 1214-1231.
(22) Vishweshwara, P. S., N. Gnanasekaran, and M. Arun. "Inverse Estimation of Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficient During the Solidification of Sn-5wt% Pb Alloy Using Evolutionary Algorithm." Advances in Materials and Metallurgy. Springer, Singapore, 2019. 227-237.
(23) Vishweshwara, P. S., N. Gnanasekaran, and M. Arun. "Estimation of Interfacial Heat Transfer Coefficient for Horizontal Directional Solidification of Sn-5 wt% Pb Alloy Using Genetic Algorithm as Inverse Method." Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Springer, Singapore, 2019. 447-459.
(24) Vishweshwara, P. S., N. Gnanasekaran, and M. Arun., Simultaneous estimation of unknown parameters using a-priori knowledge for the estimation of interfacial heat transfer coefficient during solidification of Sn–5wt%Pb alloy—an ANN-driven Bayesian approach, Sadhana, Vol. 44(4), 1-15, 2019.
(25) Gurubasavaraju T.M, Hemantha Kumar and Arun M., An approach for characterizing twin-tube shear-mode magnetorheological damper through coupled FE and CFD analysis, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 3, pp. 139 (SCI-IF 1.23), February 2018.
(26) Gurubasavaraju T.M, Hemantha Kumar and Arun M., Evaluation of optimal parameters of MR fluids for damper application using particle swarm and response surface optimisation, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Volume 39, Issue 9, pp. 3683–3694 (SCI-IF 1.23), September 2017.
(27) Gurubasavaraju T.M, Hemantha Kumar and Arun M., Optimisation of monotube magnetorheological damper under shear mode, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Volume 39, Issue 6, pp. 2225–2240 (SCI-IF 1.23), June 2017.
(28) Mahalingam, Arun, et al. "Numerical analysis of the effect of turbulence transition on the hemodynamic parameters in human coronary arteries." Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy 6.3 (2016): 208
(29) Arun M, Jia, F., Wang, Z., Patel, M.K., and Galea, E.R., ‘Numerical investigation of tube furnace toxicity measurement method (ISO 19700),’ Fire and Materials, Vol. 36 (1), pp. 17-30, 2011.
(30) Arun M, and Tulapurkara, E.G., ‘Computation of turbulent flow inside and enclosure with central partition,’ Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, an Int. Journal (PCFD), pp. 455-465, vol. 5, 8, 2005.
(31) M. Arun, Tulapurkara, E.G., and Sundararajan, T., ‘Computation of flow through an annular diffuser and volute exhaust,’ Defence Science Journal, Vol. 56, 2, pp. 147-158, April 2006.

Achievements

Borealis AB - PhD Scholarship (2003), UK

 

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