Prof. J.C. Mandal
Prof. J.C. Mandal
Email
mandal[at]aero.iitb.ac.in
Phone
25767129
Room No
208F
Profile Website
https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~mandal/
Specialization
Aerodynamics
Awards & Fellowships

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany (2002-2003)

J.R.D. Tata Fellowship, IISc, Bangalore, India (1987-1990)

R&D Areas/Projects

Research Areas:

Development of novel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) algorithms for

  • Incompressible flows involving
    • Multiphase flows
    • Heat transfer
  • Compressible flows involving
    • Hypersonic flows with real gas effect
    • All Mach number formulation
    • Multiphase flows
  • Deformation of solids and wave propagation in solids
  • Fluid-Structure interactions
  • Semi-analytic method

 

Sponsored Projects Undertaken as PI:

  1. Computations of Flows Through . . Compressor Cascades (AR&DB)(1995- 1999) 
  2. Computation of viscous incompressible flows inside calandria of a Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)(Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy)(1996-2000) 
  3. Upgradation of Associate CFD Center of Excellence (AR&DB) (2004-2009) 
  4. Flow Computations on Unstructured Grids with Improved Accuracy: An Investigation (AR&DB) (2006-2008) 
  5. Steady/Unsteady Low Speed Viscous Flow Computations on Static/Moving Grids (AR&DB) (2009-2011) 
  6. Upgradation of Associate CFD Center of Excellence (AR&DB) (2009-2012) 
  7. Development of High Resolution Schemes for Flow Computations on Space Vehicle Configurations using Unstructured Grids (ISRO) (2009-2012) 
  8. Unsteady Incompressible Turbulent Flow Computations on Static/Moving Grids (AR&DB) (2011-2013) 
  9. Shock Instability and Carbuncle Phenomenon in Numerical Computations: Analysis and Cure (AR&DB) (2012-2015) 
  10. Level set method for propagating interfaces (AR&DB) (2015-2017)
  11. Study of reinitialization techniques used in conservative level set method for accurate computation of multiphase flows (AR&DB) (2019-2020)
Courses Taught

Computational Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Continuum Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Basic Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws, Numerical Methods for Engineers, Matrix Computation.