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Pranesh Kumar S R

Name  Pranesh Kumar S R         
Designation    Assistant Professor
Qualification  B.E (Aeronautical Engineering), M.Tech (Aerospace Propulsion Technology)
Experience      Teaching: 2 Years ; Research: 2 Years
Area of Interest   Aircraft Propulsion, supersonic combustion, Gas Dynamics
Date of Joining RVCE   18th Aug 2016
Email  praneshkumarsr@rvce.edu.in

Project Guided :

Number of UG projects guided: 02
Number of PG projects guided: 01

List of National Conference publications:

  1. Pranesh Kumar SR, PS Kulkarni,  B Vasudevan , A Yoganand  “Experimental  and Numerical Analysis on  Hypersonic  Nozzle" at Mach No 8”,17th AeSI CFD symposium, 2014
  2. Manjunatha S, Mukesh M, Pranesh SR , Anand S , PS Kulkarni,“Numerical investigation of Aerodynamic parameters of All Electric Mini Air Vehicle (UAV) and effect of winglets on its performance”, 14thAeSI CFD symposium, 2012.

Summary:

  • Hands on experience in Grid Generations

  • Good knowledge on solver techniques and validation methods

  • Hands on experience in designing the nozzle for high pressure.

  • Working knowledge on Catia V 5 Design software

R&D Areas/ Projects:

  1. Design and Development of Lighter-than- Air systems for monitoring the pollution in collaboration with Prof R. K Pant IIT Bombay. (On-going)
  2. Design and Development of injector for bio diesel used in gas turbine combustor.(On-going)
  3. Working on waste to energy conversion from the waste plastic and biodegradable materials. (On-going)

M.Tech Project

Project Title :“Experimental and Numerical Analysis on Hypersonic Nozzle at Mach No 8”

Project Guide : Prof. Vasudevan, Prof. Prakash S Kukarni.

The project involves modelling and numerical analysis of C-D NOZZLE. The objective of the analysis was to validate the computational results with the experimental results. It involves Grid independence study, Iterative convergence study and Selection of turbulence model. The geometry was modelled using CATIA V5 and mesh generated using ICEM-CFD. ANSYS FLUENT, STAR CCM+ software was used to obtain the computational results. At the end successfully validated the results with the experimental and theoretical calculation result.

Key Projects handled in Previous Organization:

  • Gas turbine Combustor CFD analysis: To determine flow and fuel mass diffusion distribution in the combustor chamber for cold flow analysis and also comparison result between various parametric models.

  • Gas turbine Combustor Cone cooling flow CFD analysis: To determine flow and temperature distribution in the combustor cone cooling holes and also find cooling effect on the combustor cone surface for the three scenarios.

  • Effect of Vortex Generators (VG) on LCA wing: A research project on Indian Defense Aircraft (LCA). The complete study on effect of vortex generators on drag reduction is carried out with optimization of shape, Size, Location and angles of VG’s.

  • Heat transfer through Façade: To determine effect of façade wall in monitoring temperature inside a building. A detailed study is carried out for the variation of temperature in 24 hours with sun rise and sun set.

  • Drag reduction of UAV wing using Winglet: To determine the reduction in Induced drag due to addition of winglets to UAV is studied with different turbulence models

  • CFD Analysis on Re-Entry Body: To determine the heating flow over the re-entry body and decreasing the aerodynamic heating of the body using spike. So that the temperature will decrease outer the body surface.

  • CFD Simulation of Anti Icing using Bleed Air: A conjugate heat transfer analysis was performed with a three dimensional Navier-Strokes computer code to investigate the performance of a hot air anti-icing system installed inside the leading edge of the wing model

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