Prof. V. Raghavan

Dr. Vasudevan Raghavan is currently working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. He obtained his PhD degree from IITM and has carried out his post-doctoral research in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, microgravity droplet combustion simulations. His areas of research include Computational Fluid Dynamics applied to reacting flows, laminar flames, fire modelling, evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, flame spread and liquid fuel pool combustion, gasification and combustion of coal and biomass. Prof. Raghavan has graduated 10 PhD students and 18 MS students till July 2020. He has authored about 112 international peer reviewed journal articles, 60 international conference articles and a book on Combustion Technology – Essentials of Flames and Burners, published by ANE Publishers and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., UK, 2016. He teaches graduate courses such as Theory of Fire Propagation, Fundamentals of Combustion, Combustion Technology and Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in IITM.
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