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Prof. V. Menezes
Prof. V. Menezes
Email
viren[at]aero.iitb.ac.in
Phone
25767130
Room No
201-D
Specialization
Aerodynamics
Awards & Fellowships

IROAST Visiting Professor, Kumamoto University, Japan (Oct. 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018).

Hotchand Lala Award for Teaching Excellence, 2016, IIT Bombay.

R&D Areas/Projects

1. Experimental hypersonic aerothermodynamics.

2. Hypersonic test facilities and measurement techniques.

3. Medical applications of shock waves.

4. Drug delivery devices.

Courses Taught

AE 153M: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering.

AE 236: Compressible Fluid Mechanics.

AE 312: Aerodynamics Laboratory.

AE 611: Aerodynamics Laboratory.

AE 624: Hypersonic Flow Theory.

AE 705: Introduction to Flight.

Publications

1. N. Battula, V. Menezes and H. Hosseini, A miniature shock wave driven micro- jet injector for needle-free vaccine/drug delivery. Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2016), Vol. 113, No. 11, pp.2507-2512.

2. J. Sura, S. Kumar and V. Menezes, Thermal and inertial parameters of the flow field of a scramjet engine. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (2015), Vol. 29, No. 11, pp.4943-4950.

3. V. Menezes, H. Hosseini, S. Moosavi-Nejad, K. J. Irimpan and H. Akiyama, Motion of free-surface of shock-compressed water on emergence of rarefaction. Applied Physics Letters (2015), 107, Article ID 143701, pp.1-5.

4. P. Singh, V. Menezes, K. J. Irimpan and H. Hosseini, Impulse force balance for ultra-short duration hypersonic test facilities. Shock and Vibration (2015), Article ID 803253, pp.1-8.

5. Fluid Injection Device-Version 5. United States Patent No. 9289228, dated 22/03/2016. Inventors: Takeshi Seto, Kazuyoshi Takayama, Atsuhiro Nakagawa and Viren Ivor Menezes. Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.