RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Rarefied gas flows, Nano/Micro scale gas flows, Gas-surface interaction properties, Nano/Micro-fluidics

Research Experience and Technical Skills

• Expertise with molecular dynamics modelling and computational nano-technology

• Discrete computing techniques

• Modelling of micro/nano-scale systems

• High performance computing

• Composites

• Interferometry

FUNDED PROJECTS

Project Title:

DETERMINATION OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM ACCOMMODATION COEFFICIENTS FOR A PRESSURE DRIVEN FLOW IN A RAREFIED MEDIUM USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS

Broad Area : Computational Nanotechnology

Funding Agency : DST - SERB

Amount : 29.6 Lakhs

Duration : 3 Years

Manpower : 1 JRF

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Sooraj K. Prabha

Associate Professor,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Vidya Academy of Science and Technology,

Thrissur.

Junior Research Fellow:

Abdul Gafoor C P

Project Title:

PREDICTION OF PROCESS INDUCED DEFORMATIONS AND RESIDUAL STRESSES IN FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES LAMINATES

Broad Area : FRP Composites

Funding Agency : ISRO - RESPOND

Amount : 13.14 lakhs

Duration : 2 years

Manpower : 1 JRF

Principal Investigator

Dr. Sooraj K Prabha

Associate Professor, MED

Vidya Academy of Science and Technology

Co-Principal Investigator

Mr. Praveen A P

Assistant Professor, MED

Vidya Academy of Science and Technology

Co-Investigator

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar

CMSE, VSSC, ISRO

Department of Space Government of India

Junior Research Fellow:

Shins K.

Peer- reviewed Journals

• Transport behavior of pressure-driven gas flow in a nanochannel and the variation of thermal accommodation coefficient, Sooraj K. Prabha, C.P.A. Gafoor, Sarith P. Sathian, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 177, 2021, 121528,

• Variation of momentum accommodation coefficients with pressure drop in a nanochannel, Sooraj K. Prabha, Abdul Gafoor C. P., and Sarith P. Sathian. Physical Reviewe. (Accepted).

• The effect of characteristic length on mean free path for confined gases, PDS Hari, SK Prabha, SP Sathian, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015.

• Velocity distribution and velocity correlation of mixture of gases in a nanochannel, SK Prabha and SP Sathian, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 81, 52-58, 2014.

• The effect of system boundaries on the mean free path for confined gases, SK Prabha, PD Sreehari, SP Sathian, AIP Advances, 3(10), 102107, 2013.  

• A Molecular Dynamics Study of Energy and Momentum Accommodation Coefficients in the Transitional Knudsen Numbers, S Prabha and S Sathian, International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport (3-4), 107-116, 2013.

• Calculation of thermo-physical properties of Poiseuille flow in a nano-channel, SK Prabha, SP Sathian, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 58 (1), 217-223, 2013.

• Determination of accommodation coefficients of a gas mixture in a nano-channel with molecular dynamics, SK Prabha, SP Sathian, Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 13 (6), 883-890, 2012.

• Computational study of thermal dependence of accommodation coefficients in a nano-channel and the prediction of velocity profiles, SK Prabha and SP Sathian, Computers & Fluids, 68, 47-53, 2012.

• Molecular-dynamics study of Poiseuille flow in a nanochannel and calculation of energy and momentum accommodation coefficients, SK Prabha, SP Sathian, Physical Review E, 85 (4), 041201, 2012.

International Conference

• Remedial measures for the Spring-in effect in L-angled FRP composites, Praveen A.P., Shins K., Sooraj K. Prabha, International Conference on Integration of Advanced Technologies for Industry 4.0 (ICIATI), 12-13 June 2020, KCG College of Technology, Chennai, India.

• Measurement of residual strain in FRP laminates. Sooraj K. Prabha, Shins K., Praveen A.P., International Conference on Trends in Material Science and Inventive Materials (ICTMIM – 2020), 9-10 April 2020, JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.

• Velocity correlation of pressure-driven flow in a nanochannel, Sooraj K. Prabha, Abdul Gafoor C. P., Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), 28-31 December, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India.

• A molecular dynamics study of energy and momentum accommodation coefficients in the transitional Knudsen numbers, Sooraj K. Prabha, Sarith P. Sathian, Proceedings of the 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 28-31, 2013, IIT Kharagpur, India.

M.Tech

Study and Acceptance Testing of Polyimide Pipelines in a Cryogenic stage of GSLV

B.Tech

Design and fabrication of a Press-tool

CFD analysis of von-Karman vortex street