Parthasarathy P

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, July 2, 2018

Professional Experience: 

Research experience:

Oct 2013 – July 2016
Scientific Staff - German Aerospace Center, Stuttgart, Germany.

Teaching experience:

July 2016 - June 2018
Assistant Professor - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.

Contact Details

E-mail: 

parthasarathy@nitk.edu.in

Telephone: 

+91-824-2473673
Academic Background

Ph.D. - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
M.Tech. in Thermal engineering - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
B.E. in Mechanical engineering - Anna University, India.

Areas of Interest

1. Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Porous Media
2. Porous media injectors for cryogenic engines.
3. Solar Fuels

Significant Projects

Ongoing:
1. ISRO-Respond: Design analysis and demonstration of the porous injector concept for throttling of liquid rocket engine.
2. DST: Design and testing of robust, high efficient, low polluting LPG porous burners for household applications.
3. SERB: Evaluation of macroscopic properties of ideal porous media for their use in solar reactors and low emission combustors with help of experiments and CFD simulations

Supervision of Ph.D

Ongoing:
1. Siddam Rambabu
2. Sushanth Ranjan
3. Shyam Raj

Significant Publications

International Journals:
1. P. Parthasarathy, P. Talukdar, V. Ratna Kishore, (2009). Enhancement of heat transfer with porous/solid insert for a laminar flow of participating gas in a 3-D square duct. Numerical Heat Transfer Part A, 56 , 764-784.
2. P. Parthasarathy, P. Habisreuther, N. Zarzalis, (2012). Identification of Radiative Properties of Reticulated Ceramic Porous Inert Media using Ray-tracing Technique. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 113, 1961-1969.
3. P. Parthasarathy, P. Habisreuther, N. Zarzalis, (2013). Evaluation of Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient in Open-Cell Foams Using Transient Direct Pore Level Simulation. Chemical Engineering Science, 90, 242-249.
4. P. Parthasarathy, P. Le Clercq (2015). Heat transfer simulation in a high temperature solar reactor Energy Procedia, 69, 1810-1818.
5. C. Bedoya, I. Dinkov, P. Habisreuther, N. Zarzalis, H. Bockhorn, P. Parthasarathy, (2015). Experimental study, 1D volume-averaged calculations and 3D direct pore level simulations of the flame stabilization in porous inert media at elevated pressure. Combustion and Flame, 162, 3740-3754.
6. P. Parthasarathy, P. Habisreuther, N. Zarzalis, (2016). A study of Pressure Drop in Reticulated Ceramic Sponges using Direct Pore Level Simulation. Chemical Engineering Science, 147, 91-99.
7. V. M. Latheesh, P. Parthasarathy, V. Baskaran and S. Karthikeyan, (2018). Design and CFD analysis of intake port and exhaust port for a 4 valve cylinder head engine. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 310, 012122.
8. S. Rambabu, K. Kartik Sriram, Siddharth Chamarthy, P. Parthasarathy and V. Ratna kishore, (2021). A proposal for a correlation to calculate pressure drop in reticulated porous media with the help of numerical investigation of pressure drop in ideal & randomized reticulated structures, Chemical Engineering Science, 237, 116518.

Conferences:
1. P. Parthasarathy, V. Ratna Kishore, P. Talukdar and A. Ray. Enhancement of Heat Transfer in a 3-D Rectangular Duct with Solid and Porous Inserts. In: Proceedings. ISHMT-ASME, IIT Bombay, India, 4th-6th January 2010.
2. P. Parthasarathy, P. Habisreuther and N. Zarzalis. Identification of radiative properties of a reticulated porous media using ray tracing technique. In: Proceedings. 25th Deutscher Flammentag, Karlsruhe, 14th and 15th September 2011.
3. P. Parthasarathy, P. Habisreuther, N. Zarzalis N. Fluid flow through ceramic porous inert media. In: Proceedings. 26 th Deutscher Flammentag, Duisburg-Essen, 11 th and 12 th September 2013.
4. P. Parthasarathy and P. Le Clercq. Heat transfer simulation in a high temperature solar reactor. In: Proceedings. Int. Conf. On Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES, Beijing, China, 16th -19th September 2014.
5. P. Parthasarathy and P. Le Clercq. Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in a 3D Cavity- Receiver. In: Proceedings. ASME - Power & Energy, San Diego, USA , 28 th June – 2nd July, 2015.
6. Denin Pius Joy, P.Parthasarathy and Shantanu Bhowmikb. Investigation on High Performance Polymeric Nano Composite to Develop Transparent Windshield. In: Proceedings. Materila today, Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Applications, Banglore, 17th-19th Aug. 2017.

 

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK, Surathkal
P. O. Srinivasnagar, Mangalore - 575 025
Karnataka, India.

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