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Dr. Sunil Kumar
Associate Professor Department: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Certificate Views : 583 Followers : 0| Name: | Dr. sunil kumar |
| Designation: | Associate Professor |
| Department: | Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| Research Area: | Heat & Mass Transfer, Thermal Hydraulics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerosol Technology, HVAC systems, Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Power Plant operations, Electronic cooling, Multi-Phase CFD simulations |
| Organization: | Texas A&M University |
| Contact: | Contact Reviewer |
| Qualification: | PostDoc |
| About: | In my present role as Associate Research Scientist and previously a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University, my research work includes both experimental and computational studies. The main contributions of my research work are 1) Prediction of contaminated sneeze droplets dispersion in the indoor environment of a hospital room, fabrication room of a meat facility, and a full-scale meat plant under different HVAC configurations; 2) Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations to incorporate localized environmental effects for characterizing evaporation-condensation process considering the meniscus shapes; 3) CFD studies for drying of porous materials such as cotton to control the drying rate in conveyance system, 4) Experimental analysis of heat exchanger efficiency enhancement using phase change materials, 5) CFD modeling of multiphase electronic chip cooling, 6) Permeability prediction of micropillar arrays in different arrangements to enhance heat transfer capabilities for small devices. My Ph.D. thesis focused on the suppression of thermal stratification in a large pool of water with an immersed isolation condenser. Thermal stratification does not allow the mixing of hot and cold water leading to degradation of immersed condenser performance. I performed experiments, thermal-hydraulic analysis using system code RELAP, developed a scaled experiment setup, performed Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) studies, and CFD analysis of the experiments. My research proposed the installation of plastic nonconductive shrouds resulting in effective circulation and mixing of hot and cold water for efficient suppression of thermal stratification. As a research associate at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, I worked on the experimental development of a notch filter. The filter screened Li6 ions from the beam of Lithium ions. As an intern at CERN, I performed experimental characterization and analysis of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors on the electronic |
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Journal
| Author: | Sunil Kumar, R. B. Grover, P. K. Vijayan, Umasankari Kannan |
| Title: | Numerical investigation on the effect of shrouds around an immersed isolation condenser on the thermal stratification in large pools |
| Publication Year: ISSN: Volume: Issue: |
2017 0306-4549 110 |
| Indexing: | SCOPUS, SCI-E, UGC-CARE, ABCD-Index, |
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| Author: | Sunil Kumar, R.B. Grover, H. Yadav, P.K. Vijayan, U. Kannan, A. Agrawal |
| Title: | Experimental and numerical investigation on suppression of thermal stratification in a water-pool: PIV measurements and CFD simulations |
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2018 1359-4311 138 |
| Indexing: | SCOPUS, SCI-E, UGC-CARE, ABCD-Index, |
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| Author: | Sunil Kumar, Maria D. King |
| Title: | Numerical investigation on indoor environment decontamination after sneezing |
| Publication Year: ISSN: Volume: Issue: |
2022 0013-9351 213 |
| Indexing: | SCOPUS, SCI-E, UGC-CARE, ABCD-Index, |
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| Author: | Sunil Kumar, P. K. Vijayan, Umasankari Kannan, Manish Sharma, D. S. Pilkhwal |
| Title: | Experimental and computational simulation of thermal stratification in large pools with immersed condenser |
| Publication Year: ISSN: Volume: Issue: |
2017 1359-4311 113 |
| Indexing: | SCOPUS, SCI-E, UGC-CARE, ABCD-Index, |
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