Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Qualification	Specialization	University	Year
Postdoctoral Fellow	Product design	IISc Bangalore	2021
Ph.D	Thermal and Fluids	IIT Madras	2019
M. Tech	Thermal Engg.	IIT Madras	2012

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Teaching Experience	3 years

Industrial Experience	10 months

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Experimental and computational methods in fluid dynamics and heat transfer, Atomization and sprays, droplets and spray diagnostics, gas turbine injectors, laser techniques, image processing.

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Papers in Journals	6

Papers in Conferences	11

Pal, C.L., Netam, N. and Manish, M., (2023). Thermal comfort assessment during summer in rural Indian kitchens in tropical regions. Advances in Building Energy Research, pp.1-21.

Printu Prakash, Ruben Jose Tom, G Venugopal, Kiran Kumar and M Manish, (2023). A simple and low-cost method for determining the thermal conductivity of insulators at moderate temperatures. 1st International Conference on Mechanical Engineering : Researches and Evolutionary Challenges, ICMech-REC-2023 (23 - 25 JUNE 2023), National Institute of Technology, Warangal.

Pal, C.L., Netam, N. and Manish, M., 2023. Thermal comfort assessment during summer in rural Indian kitchens in tropical regions. Advances in Building Energy Research, pp.1-21.

Aravind V A, Manoj Kumar M, Manish M, Antony J K, Philip K Cherian, Gautam G Krishna (2022). Computational Study of Cooling Strategies in a High Frequency Compact Transformer, Second International Conference on Next Generation Intelligent System (ICNGIS 2022), July 29-31, 2022. RIT Kottayam.

Manish, M., Harikrishnan, S., (2022). Ventilating respiratory droplets from makeshift isolation enclosures: Effect of supply inlet locations. First International Conference in Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems (ICFTES’22), June 9-11, 2022. National Institute of Technology Calicut.

Sijo Thomas., Manish, M. (2022). Scope of Lean Six Sigma for the Furtherance of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises in India. Fourth International Conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Applications, ICAIEA 2022, JUNE 2-4, 2022. Anna University, Chennai.

Harikrishnan, S., Manish, M. (2022). Influence of Supply Inlet Jet Angle on Ventilating Respiratory Droplets from Makeshift Isolation Enclosures. In: Popat, K.C., Kanagaraj, S., Sreekanth, P.S.R., Kumar, V.M.R. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science. ICAMEMS 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore.

M Manish and S Harikrishnan (2021), Effect of supply inlet location on ventilating respiratory droplets from makeshift isolation enclosures, International Conference on Energy Conversion and Thermofluid Systems (i-CONECTS 2021), MNIT Jaipur, 19-20 November 2021.

Manish, M. and Sahu, S., (2021). Optical characterization of droplet clusters and group combustion in spray diffusion flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 38(2), pp.3409-3416.

Manish M, Sahu S. (2021) “Optical characterization of droplet clusters and group combustion in spray diffusion flames”, 38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, Jan 24- 29, 2021.

S Harikrishnan and Manish M (2020). “Characteristics of respiratory droplets in ventilated makeshift isolation enclosures”, 20th Annual conference on liquid atomization and spray systems (ILASS) Asia ILASS-ASIA 2020, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, Oct 23rd -26th, 2020.

Boddapati, V., Manish, M. & Sahu, S (2020). “A novel approach for conditional measurement of droplet size distribution within droplet clusters in sprays”, Experiments in Fluids 61, 42 (2020).

Manish, M., & Sahu, S. (2019). “Droplet clustering and local spray unsteadiness in air-assisted sprays”. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 100, 89-103.

Manish, M., & Sahu, S. (2018). “Analysis of droplets clustering in air-assist sprays using Voronoi tessellations”. Physics of Fluids, 30, no. 12 (2018).

Manish M, Sahu S. (2018) “Analysis of droplet clustering in air-assist sprays using Voronoi diagrams”. ICLASS 2018, 14th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Chicago IL, USA, July 22-26, 2018.

Sahu S., Manish M., Hardalupas Y. (2018) Two-Phase Characterization for Turbulent Dispersion of Sprays: A Review of Optical Techniques. In: Basu S., Agarwal A., Mukhopadhyay A., Patel C. (eds) Droplets and Sprays. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore.

Mallela Jagadeesh, Manish M, Sahu S. (2017) “Effect of air coflow and swirl on droplet dispersion in reacting sprays”. ASPACC 2017. 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, The University of Sydney, NSW Australia, December 2017.

Manish M, Sahu S. (2016) “Experimental investigation of droplet collision and dispersion in interacting sprays”, 18th Annual conference on liquid atomization and spray systems (ILASS) Asia, Chennai, India, November 06-10 (2016).

Manish M, Sahu S, (2016) “Experimental study of droplet clustering in polydisperse sprays”, 18th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics Lisbon, Portugal, 04-07 July (2016).

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Approved Research Supervisor (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, since 2023)

Collaborator: Reusable Building Systems to ensure sustainability of expanding urban infrastructure. Coordinators (Dr. Binumol Tom, Prof. Arch. and Dr. Mini Koshy, Asst.Prof., CE)

Co-Investigator: Seed Money project titled, “Simple and inexpensive method for determining thermal conductivity of insulators” with
Prof. Kiran Kumar (Principal-Investigator).
Amount 2 Lakhs. Status - Completed.

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Staff Advisor 2022-2026 Mechanical Batch
Department Member (since 2022): Center of Excellence in Emerging Material and Infrastructure.
Department Member (since 2022): Collaborative Research and Learning (CoRAL)
TEQIP R&D committee member
Grievance Redressal cell member for faculty /staff.
Grievance Redressal cell member for student.
Department Member (since 2023): ISTE Chapter, RIT.
Institutional Mentor(IPC), Young Innovators Program - Kerala
Faculty Mentor - Team Mavericks (SAE), RIT.

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APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University Financial Assistance to Student Projects 2022-23: Hari Krishnan, Akash Antony, Ambady Krishnanath and Sradha S.
Co-Investigator: Dr. Swapanesh S.
(Amount: 50,000)

Centre of Excellence For Disability Studies, Financial Assistance for Student Research Work -RAC 2023-24 "Development of Trolly with Motorized Transfer": Student Investigators- Devanand Mohankumar, Dinesh T, Govind D, Sherrie John
Principal-Investigator: Dr. Swapanesh S.
(Amount: 50,000)