Personal Information
Full Name: Prof. V. Menezes
Room No: 201-D, Aero Main
Phone: 25767130
Email: viren[at]aero.iitb.ac.in
Website: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~viren

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
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.

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.

PhD TA Topics: 

    1. Effect of surface roughness on the heating rates of hypersonic blunt bodies.

    2. Development of a shock-wave-driven, needle-free, liquid-vaccine injector.

    3. Design of a scramjet intake.

    4. Effect of surface roughness on hypersonic shock-boundary layer-interactions.

    5. Control of hypersonic buzz on large angled, spiked, blunt cones.

    6. Analyses of skin friction and heat transfer under hypersonic shock-boundary layer-interactions.

Teaching
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.