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ISRO – IITM STC Funded Projects List (*As on 10.1.2023)

S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
1 Investigation Into Scientific Super Computing Pandu Rangan C Computer Science and Engineering 01/10/1986 30/09/1987 Closed
Rheological Characterisation Related To Study Curing
2 Reactions Of ISRO Polymers, HTPB And Epoxies Subramanian N Chemical Engineering 01/10/1986 30/11/1989 Closed
Studies On Iso Thermal Mixing Of Two
3 Axisymmertic Air Streams Damodaran K A Aerospace Engineering 01/10/1986 31/03/1992 Closed
Study Of Implemention Of Hologram Interferometry
4 And Speckle To Problem Of ISRO Interest Sirohi R S Physics 01/03/1988 31/08/1990 Closed
5 Interference Effects In Spray Combustion Natarajan R Mechanical Engineering 01/03/1988 31/03/1992 Closed
6 Automatic Lens Design For Space Applications Sharma D K Physics 01/03/1988 28/02/1994 Closed
Study Of The Effects Of Ultrasonic Vibrations In The
Heat Treatment Of Some Age Hardnable Alloys Of
7 (A) Aluminium (B)Mag Vasudevan R Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 01/12/1988 30/06/1993 Closed
End Capping Of Isocyanates For RBI-HTPB Binder
8 System Srinivasan M Chemistry 01/12/1988 30/11/1992 Closed
Migration Of Chemical Ingredients In Solid Rocket
9 Propellant Fuel Grains Srinivasan M Chemistry 01/12/1988 30/11/1992 Closed
Development Of Expert System For Indian Space
10 Programme Mahabala H N Computer Science and Engineering 01/12/1988 30/06/1995 Closed
11 Studies On Supersonic Combustion Damodaran K A Aerospace Engineering 01/03/1989 31/05/1993 Closed
12 Computation Of Supersonic Turbulent Base Flows Thulapurkara E G Aerospace Engineering 17/10/1990 31/03/1995 Closed
Application of Artifical Neural Networks in Remote
13 Sensing Yegnanarayana B Computer Science and Engineering 01/06/1991 31/12/1994 Closed
Study On Optical Methods Of Thermal Distortion
14 Measurement Sirohi R S Physics 01/01/1992 30/12/1994 Closed
Theoretical Studies In Composite Airbreathing
15 Propulsion For Space Applications Gokhale S S Aerospace Engineering 01/01/1992 30/04/1994 Closed
16 Turbulent Spray Combustion Natarajan R Mechanical Engineering 01/04/1992 30/06/1996 Closed
17 Ignition Studies On Solid Propellants Bhaskaran K A Mechanical Engineering 17/08/1992 31/07/1996 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
18 Vibrational Relaxation Effects In Gas Dynamics Bose T K Aerospace Engineering 24/08/1992 23/08/1994 Closed
Augmentation Of Vortex Formation During Discharge
Of Liquids From Containers Due To Distrubances
19 Induced On The Liquid Gowda B H L Applied Mechanics 24/08/1992 30/04/1996 Closed
Burning Rate Prediction In A-P/HTPB Propellants
20 With Burning Rate Modifiers Krishnan S Aerospace Engineering 24/08/1992 31/03/1996 Closed
Synthesis Of Copolymers Of HTPS And
21 Polyalkenamers By Anchored Metal Catalysts Sundararajan G Chemistry 24/08/1992 31/03/1996 Closed
Stability Of Thin Liquid Sheets Formed By Swirl
22 Injections Balakrishnan M Applied Mechanics 11/04/1993 31/03/1997 Closed
23 Analysis Of Flow Through An Air Augmented Rocket Ramakrishna M Aerospace Engineering 20/04/1993 19/04/1996 Closed
24 Nozzle Flow With Secondary Injection. Phase-II Bose T K Aerospace Engineering 20/04/1993 19/04/1995 Closed
25 Testing Of Ramjet Combustors Job Kurian Aerospace Engineering 20/04/1993 14/03/1995 Closed
26 Hydrogen Combustion In Supersonic Flows Shet U S P Mechanical Engineering 01/04/1994 31/03/1996 Closed
Development Of A Software For Spacecraft Thermal
27 Analysis Using The Finite Element Method Seetharamu K N Mechanical Engineering 01/04/1994 31/03/1997 Closed
Preliminary Design Study Of A Hypersonic
28 Airbreathing Flying Krishnan S Aerospace Engineering 01/04/1994 31/12/1995 Closed
Development Of Solid Fuel And Combustion
29 Chamber System For Hybrid Rocket Motor Krishnan S Aerospace Engineering 02/01/1995 01/01/1998 Closed
30 Studies On Plume Flows And Plume Impingentent Job Kurian Aerospace Engineering 02/01/1995 01/01/1998 Closed
Investigation Of Steady And Transient Injection And
31 Mixing In Liquid Rocket Combustors Natarajan R Mechanical Engineering 02/01/1995 01/01/1998 Closed
Feasibility Studies On Design And Implementation Of
32 Basic Dsp Building Blocks Srinivasan S Electrical Engineering 02/01/1995 31/03/1997 Closed
Study Of NN-Based Coding Schemes For
33 Compression Of Telemetry Data Eswaran C Electrical Engineering 02/01/1995 31/03/1997 Closed
Development Of Software For Russian - English
34 Translations Raman S Computer Science and Engineering 02/01/1995 31/03/1997 Closed
Single Interferogram Evaluation And Wavefront
35 Lifting Sharma D K Physics 02/01/1995 31/03/1997 Closed
Computation Of Performance Of Cryogenic Rockets
36 Using Detailed Chemical Reactions Bose T K Aerospace Engineering 02/01/1995 01/01/1998 Closed
Software Development For Content Based Search Of
37 Telemetry Data For Flight Analysis Raman S Computer Science and Engineering 02/01/1995 01/01/1996 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Statistical Energy Analysis Prediction of Structural
38 Acoustic Response of Launch Vechicle Structure. Narayanan S Applied Mechanics 01/09/1995 31/08/1997 Closed
Functional Testing for Launch Vehicle System
39 Software Raghavan S V Computer Science and Engineering 01/09/1995 31/08/1997 Closed
AE Studies on Aerospace Materials Such As Ti
40 Alloys/Al Alloy Krishna Murthy R Mechanical Engineering 01/09/1995 31/08/1997 Closed
Application of Electron Beam Welding Techniques on
41 Ti-6Al-4V Prasad Rao K Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 01/09/1995 31/08/1998 Closed
Expert System Application in Indian Space
42 Programme Deepak Khemani Computer Science and Engineering 01/01/1996 31/12/1997 Closed
43 Studies On Machining Of Fibre Reinforced Plastics Malhotra S K Aerospace Engineering 01/04/1996 31/03/1998 Closed
Studies On The Interaction Between Multiple
44 Supersonic Jets Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 01/11/1996 30/10/1998 Closed
Analysis Of Flow Over An Air-Breathing Aerospace
45 Vehicle Using Distributed Computing Ramakrishna M Aerospace Engineering 01/11/1996 31/10/1999 Closed
Computation Modeling Of The Three Dimensional
Unsteady Steady Viscous Compressible Flows
46 Associated With Cryogenic Steering Engine Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 01/11/1996 31/10/1998 Closed
Development And Testing Of A Piloted Two
47 Dimensional Supersonic Combuster Job Kurian Aerospace Engineering 01/11/1996 31/10/1998 Closed
Modelling of the combustion process in liquid rocket
48 engines Bhaskaran K A Mechanical Engineering 10/02/1999 31/03/2001 Closed
Boiling and two-phase flow studies of crygogenic
49 fluids Balakrishnan A R Chemical Engineering 10/02/1999 31/10/2004 Closed
Study of transient thermal response of a cryogenic
50 rocket turbopump assembly Srinivasa Murthy S Mechanical Engineering 10/02/1999 31/10/2001 Closed
Studies on stratification of cryogenic liquid
51 propellants Venkatarathnam G Mechanical Engineering 10/02/1999 31/10/2001 Closed
Discrete vortex simulation of oscillatory flow-
structure interaction in segmented large solid rocket
52 motors Sujith R I Aerospace Engineering 07/05/1999 31/08/2001 Closed
Development of software for spacecrqaft thermal
53 analysis using finite element method - phase 2 Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 07/05/1999 06/05/2000 Closed
54 New ARQ Protocols using Concatinated RD-Codes Vasantha W B Mathematics 10/05/1999 09/05/2000 Closed
Development of a general purpose computer program
for estimation of radiant heat flux in solid rocket
55 motor Venkateshan S P Mechanical Engineering 02/08/1999 31/01/2002 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
56 Design and analysis of hybrid pressure vessel Sivaprasad N Mechanical Engineering 28/03/2000 27/03/2002 Closed
SURFACE TENSION-DRIVEN GAS-LIQUID
FLOWS UNDER MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS:
57 MEASUREMENTS AND CFD PREDICTIONS Ramesh K Chemical Engineering 16/08/2000 15/08/2003 Closed
58 Investigations for onboard autonomy of spacecraft Deepak Khemani Computer Science and Engineering 16/05/2001 31/10/2004 Closed
Silver doped indium oxide thin films for space
59 application Subrahmanyam A Physics 16/05/2001 31/10/2004 Closed
Vibro-Acoustic response of launch vehicle structures
using statistical energy analysis-experimental studies
60 and structural fuzzy Narayanan S Applied Mechanics 16/05/2001 31/10/2004 Closed
Development of advanced phase unwrapping
61 algorithms in photomechanics Ramesh K Applied Mechanics 16/05/2001 31/07/2003 Closed
62 Investigations for ground based autonomy Deepak Khemani Computer Science and Engineering 16/05/2001 31/10/2004 Closed
Development of HDL cores for FPGA implementation
63 of demodulator for satellite data Srinivasan S Electrical Engineering 16/05/2001 31/12/2003 Closed
Development of an advanced ultrasonic NDE method
64 for imaging of tight cracks in thin shells Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 16/05/2001 31/08/2003 Closed
Pre-and post-deformation studies on superplastically
65 formed Ti-6Al-4V Bhattacharya S S Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 16/05/2001 31/12/2004 Closed
66 Expert systems for welding of aero-space alloys Prasad Rao K Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 16/05/2001 30/09/2003 Closed
Representation of composite materials in solid
modeling for finite element analysis through
67 PATRAN Prasanna Kumar T S Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 16/05/2001 15/05/2003 Closed
68 Nanocomposites as light sensors Pradeep T Chemistry 16/05/2001 15/01/2004 Closed
69 Laser induced fluorescence for spray diagnostics Sujith R I Aerospace Engineering 27/02/2002 30/11/2003 Closed
Development of a generalized radiative transfer model
including scattering for retrieval of geophysical
parameters from microwave remote sensing
70 observation from satellites Venkateshan S P Mechanical Engineering 27/02/2002 25/07/2004 Closed
Transient natural convection and stratification in
71 cryogenic propellant Tanks Prasad B V S S S Mechanical Engineering 27/02/2002 30/04/2005 Closed
Development of NDE techniques for bond interface
72 evaluation in rocket motor Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 27/02/2002 30/06/2006 Closed
Modelling propellant slurry flow during the casting of
73 a solid rocket motor Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 04/03/2002 31/03/2005 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Development of quality assured process technology
for ITO cotings on aluminized kapton films for space
74 applications Subrahmanyam A Physics 08/04/2002 31/03/2003 Closed
Nonlinear steepening of acoustic waves into shock
waves in variable area ducts in the presence of entropy
75 gradients Sujith R I Aerospace Engineering 04/09/2002 31/10/2004 Closed
Improvement of mechanical properties of 2219 al-
76 alloy welds Prasad Rao K Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 01/10/2002 31/03/2006 Closed
Development of a mixed refrigerant cryocooler for
77 electronic cooling Venkatarathnam G Mechanical Engineering 03/03/2003 30/09/2006 Closed
Digital photoelasticity using single shot data
78 acquisition Ramesh K Applied Mechanics 03/03/2003 31/07/2005 Closed
79 Flow boiling heat transfer inside narrow tubes Balakrishnan A R Chemical Engineering 03/03/2003 30/11/2007 Closed
Knowledge discovery system for spatial databases and
80 geographic information system Sundar S Mathematics 03/03/2003 30/09/2006 Closed
Hardware implementation of video imaging system
81 for launch vehicles Srinivasan S Electrical Engineering 01/10/2003 31/12/2005 Closed
Software engineering and parallelization of on-board
82 software for spacecraft Narayanaswamy N S Computer Science and Engineering 01/10/2003 31/10/2004 Closed
Development of a Generalized Radiative Transfer
Model including Polarization and Robust Retrieval
Algorithms toObtain Geophysical Parameters Over
Sea and Land Surfaces Using Microwave Remote
83 Sensing Data Venkateshan S P Mechanical Engineering 09/01/2004 31/07/2007 Closed
Development of NDE Techniques for the evaluation
84 of the bond integrity of honeycomb structures Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 04/03/2004 30/06/2006 Closed
Hardware-in-Loop Design, Fabrication and Testing of
85 a real-time closed-loop Micropump Srinivasa Y G Mechanical Engineering 17/05/2004 31/03/2007 Closed
Investigation of High-Frequency Ultrasound for
Destratification of Cryogenic Liquids Stored in
86 Insulated Containers Nagarajan R Chemical Engineering 01/09/2004 31/12/2006 Closed
Implementation of Phase Shifting Techniques for
87 Speckle Fringe Analysis Krishnamohan N Physics 01/09/2004 31/10/2006 Closed
88 Buckling Control of Nozzle Shell Using PZT Lakshmana Rao C Applied Mechanics 16/09/2004 31/07/2008 Closed
89 Control of Liquid Spray Using Hartmann Whistle Srinivasan K Mechanical Engineering 16/09/2004 30/09/2009 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for Temperature Sensor
and Thermal Control Applications : Exploratory
90 Studies Subrahmanyam A Physics 28/09/2004 30/09/2007 Closed
A Numerical Study of Multiple Jets with Particulate
91 Suspension Usha R Mathematics 01/02/2005 25/02/2008 Closed
92 Stress Separation in Digital Photoelasticity Ramesh K Applied Mechanics 11/03/2005 31/08/2007 Closed
Optimization of Water Injection System for Noise
93 Reduction During Launch Vehicle Lift-Off Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 11/03/2005 31/05/2008 Closed
Parameter Estimation and Inverse Solution of Non-
94 Linear Heat Conducting Problems Prasanna Kumar T S Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 11/03/2005 10/03/2008 Closed
Development of an Inspection Technique for Welded
95 Titanium Alloy Pressure Vessel Shells Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 11/03/2005 30/09/2007 Closed
96 Stability Analysis of Large Solid Rocket Motors Sujith R I Aerospace Engineering 09/09/2005 08/09/2008 Closed
Development of High Strength Ultra Fine Grained Al-
97 alloys Through Cryo Rolling Subramanya Sarma V Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 09/09/2005 31/10/2007 Closed
Microlidar Studies on Tropospheric Aerosols &
98 Clouds Subramaniamurthy V Physics 09/09/2005 08/03/2009 Closed
Modeling of Hydrogen Combustion in a Strut Based
Scram Jet Combustor and Study of Cavity-Assisted
99 Mixing/Combustion Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 09/09/2005 28/02/2008 Closed
Development of an Efficient Global SWE Model
100 Coupled with a Short Wave Model Murali K Ocean Engineering 09/09/2005 30/06/2009 Closed
101 Development of MEMS based Micro Valves Singaperumal M Mechanical Engineering 12/09/2005 30/09/2009 Closed
Design of a Knowledge Management System
102 Architecture for ISRO Ganesh L S Management Studies 12/09/2005 30/06/2008 Closed
Impedance Tube Technique for the Measurement of
Driving provided by Solid Propellants During
103 Combustion Instabilities Chakravarthy S R Aerospace Engineering 21/10/2005 20/10/2008 Closed
Exploratory Studies on a Cavitation-Induced Ignition
104 System for Non-Hypergolic Liquid Propellant Rockets Dhiman Chatterjee Mechanical Engineering 03/11/2005 30/04/2008 Closed
Investigation of Microstructure and Mechanical
105 Properties of Beta Titanium Alloy (15-3) Weldments Gandham Phanikumar Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 09/12/2005 06/11/2009 Closed
106 Software Libraries for Planners and Schedulers Narayanaswamy N S Computer Science and Engineering 13/01/2006 31/07/2008 Closed
107 Improving Reactant Distribution in a PEMFC Prathap Haridoss Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 21/03/2006 20/03/2008 Closed
Development of an online weld defect characterization
108 using thermal imaging techniques Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 14/03/2007 30/06/2010 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
109 Acoustic heating effects in hartmann whistle Srinivasan K Mechanical Engineering 14/03/2007 31/01/2011 Closed
Isoclinic unwrapping and colour adaptation in digital
110 photoelasticity Ramesh K Applied Mechanics 14/03/2007 31/12/2009 Closed
De-stratification of cryogenic fuels in insulated
111 storage containers using power ultrasound Nagarajan R Chemical Engineering 20/03/2007 30/06/2009 Closed
112 Turbulent mixing of multiple round jet Panchapakesan N R Aerospace Engineering 01/04/2007 30/08/2011 Closed
Implementation of time average phase modulation
113 technique in ESPI for vib ration fringe analysis Krishnamohan N Physics 01/06/2007 31/07/2009 Closed
Numerical studies on effect of coke deposition on heat
transfer in regenerative cooling of kerosene based
114 liquid rocket engines Amit Kumar Aerospace Engineering 14/11/2007 11/05/2010 Closed
Technology development of proportional solenoid
115 value for space applications Asokan Thondiyath Engineering Design 01/02/2008 30/09/2012 Closed
Measurement of electrical species for space
exploration applications by using laser-induced
116 breakdown spectroscopy technique Nilesh Jayantilal Vasa Engineering Design 28/03/2008 27/03/2011 Closed

117 Study of composite laminates under biaxial stress field Velmurugan R Aerospace Engineering 28/05/2008 30/11/2010 Closed
118 Exprimental studies on high speed air intakes Muruganandam T M Aerospace Engineering 28/05/2008 30/09/2012 Closed
Numerical computation studies on air breathing
119 propulsion system Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 28/05/2008 30/04/2011 Closed
Enhancement of atomization in effervescent
120 atomozers using ultrasonics Nagarajan R Chemical Engineering 28/05/2008 30/11/2009 Closed
Numerical predictions of evaporation rate constants of
kerosene droplets at elevated pressues and
121 temperatures in high pressure semi-cryogenic rockets Raghavan V Mechanical Engineering 22/10/2008 21/10/2010 Closed
122 Stress-state dependent ductile fracture model Anuradha Banerjee Applied Mechanics 22/10/2008 30/07/2011 Closed
Processing of preceramic polymers in the quaternary
Si-B-C-N system for ultra-high temperature
123 applications beyond 2000°C Ravikumar N V Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 22/10/2008 31/08/2011 Closed
124 Friction stir spot welding of aluminum alloy 2014 Durga Janaki Ram Gabbita Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 05/03/2009 04/07/2011 Closed
Development of mixed refrigerant cascade
refrigerators operating with non-flammable
125 refrigerants for cooling space simulation chambers Venkatarathnam G Mechanical Engineering 18/06/2009 31/12/2013 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Detection of non-linearities in atmospheric weather
data and statistical forecasting using multivariate
126 techniques Arun K Tangirala Physics 18/09/2009 31/05/2012 Closed
Experimental studies on non-linear effects of
127 piezoelectric materials Arockiarajan A Applied Mechanics 23/09/2009 22/09/2011 Closed
Detection and classification of algal blooms in Indian
coastal waters using Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM)
128 Data Shanmugam P Ocean Engineering 09/11/2009 31/12/2012 Closed
Buckling control of cylindrical/conical shells for
129 aerospace applications using PZT actuators Lakshmana Rao C Applied Mechanics 18/03/2010 31/03/2015 Closed
Estimation of anisotropic conductivity of plates using
130 the inverse heat transfer method Venkateshan S P Mechanical Engineering 26/03/2010 31/03/2013 Closed
Phased array inspection of Friction Stir Welded
131 (FSW) components Krishnan Balasubramanian Mechanical Engineering 27/10/2010 26/10/2012 Closed
CFD prediction of vortex formation and suppression
132 during the draining of liquid from toroidal tanks Prasad Patnaik B S V Applied Mechanics 09/11/2010 08/05/2013 Closed
Synthesis and multi-scale property evaluation of
multi-walled carbon nanotube reinforced aluminium
133 composites having improved dispersion Srinivasa Rao Bakshi Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 02/06/2011 31/03/2014 Closed
Non-precious metal catalyst for oxygen reduction
reaction in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
134 (PEMFC) with improved durability and activity Kothandaraman Ramanujam Chemistry 26/09/2011 25/09/2014 Closed
Modeling, Analysis, Design and Implementation of
135 2KW Battery Discharge Regulator Lakshminarasamma N Electrical Engineering 11/10/2011 10/04/2014 Closed
136 Near nozzle spray structure in semi-cryogenic sprays Mahesh Panchagnula Applied Mechanics 11/10/2011 10/10/2014 Closed
137 Large eddy simulation of multiple round jets Panchapakesan N R Aerospace Engineering 20/10/2011 18/04/2015 Closed
Characterization of metallic materials for biaxial
138 loading Velmurugan R Aerospace Engineering 16/11/2011 31/03/2015 Closed
Computation of strain and curvature from digital
139 image correlation data Sankara J Subramanian Engineering Design 17/10/2012 31/01/2015 Closed
Rare-earth silicate environmental barrier coatings for
140 SiC-based high temperature materials Kamaraj M Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 18/03/2013 31/03/2017 Closed
Development of an experimental methodology for the
estimation of anisotropic conductivity of plates using
141 the inverse heat transfer method Venkateshan S P Mechanical Engineering 18/03/2013 29/02/2016 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Numerical simulation of suppression of residual
flames and cooling of solid rocket motors using water
142 injection Raghavan V Mechanical Engineering 18/03/2013 29/06/2015 Closed
Experimental studies on high speed air intakes with
143 moving cowl Muruganandam T M Aerospace Engineering 18/03/2013 31/03/2016 Closed
Development of Bi-metallic joining technique and
144 realization of Bi-metallic adaptors for launch vehicles Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi Mechanical Engineering 18/03/2013 31/05/2016 Closed
Development of Electrospray Based MEMS
145 Microthruster Ashis Kumar Sen Mechanical Engineering 23/10/2013 30/06/2017 Closed
146 The high energy particle detector project Harishankar Ramachandran Electrical Engineering 29/10/2013 31/03/2015 Closed
Synthesis and thermo-mechanical processing effects
on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-
Al-Ni-Cr-Co-Fe based multi-component/high-entropy
147 alloys Srinivasa Rao Bakshi Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 31/10/2013 31/08/2017 Closed
Development of atmospheric correction algorithm for
Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM2) for optically complex
148 oceanic waters Shanmugam P Ocean Engineering 06/02/2014 05/08/2017 Closed
Processing and characteization of advanced metallic
thermal protection materials for reusable launch
149 vehicle applications Murty B S Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 28/03/2014 30/06/2017 Closed
Wide-band frequency selective surfaces (FSS) for
150 Quasi optical network Kavitha Arunachalam Engineering Design 28/03/2014 31/03/2017 Closed
Development of a laser assisted scribing technique to
151 generate strips of a parabolic antenna Nilesh Jayantilal Vasa Engineering Design 28/03/2014 31/12/2016 Closed
Optimization of hot workability and control of
microstructure in NI-base superalloys used in rocket
152 engine applications Ravi Sankar K Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 05/09/2014 31/12/2016 Closed
Contact stess parameter evaluation using digital
153 photoelasticity Ramesh K Applied Mechanics 05/09/2014 31/07/2017 Closed
Design, Fabrication and testing of programmable high
154 voltage power supply for space applications Lakshminarasamma N Electrical Engineering 23/02/2015 31/08/2018 Closed
155 Numerical Modeling of Arcjet Amit Kumar Aerospace Engineering 23/02/2015 22/08/2017 Closed
Mixed mode translaminar fracture of fibre reinforced
156 composites- Experiments and Simulations Anuradha Banerjee Applied Mechanics 23/02/2015 30/06/2018 Closed
157 Simulation of mixing layer in ratified medium Sameen A Aerospace Engineering 23/02/2015 22/02/2019 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Spatial disaggregation and inverse modelling to
quantify field level irrigation water distribution and
efficiency across a command area using an integrated
thermal remote sensing and crop growth modelling
158 approach Balaji Narasimhan Civil Engineering 23/02/2015 30/06/2019 Closed
Development of the multiscale modelling framework
159 for the fracture studies of textile composites Shantanu Shashikant Mulay Aerospace Engineering 23/02/2015 30/06/2018 Closed
Flow characterization studies and performance
160 analysis of an annular aerospike nozzle Rajesh G Aerospace Engineering 23/02/2015 22/02/2018 Closed
Hybrid rockets for sounding rocket applications using
161 hydrogen peroxide as oxidizer Ramakrishna P A Aerospace Engineering 23/02/2015 31/01/2019 Closed
Identification of mesoscale eddies in the Bay of
162 Bengal using Lagrangian coherent Structures Manikandan M S Aerospace Engineering 09/03/2015 30/09/2019 Closed
163 16 bit 5MS/s analog to digital converter Nagendra Krishnapura Electrical Engineering 12/10/2015 30/09/2022 Closed
Experimental investigation of ageing related issues in
164 composite solid propellants Murthy H S N Aerospace Engineering 29/02/2016 31/01/2022 Closed
Effect of thermo-mechanical processing on the
microstructure, texture and anisotrophy evolution in
various Ti alloy being used in various launch vehicle
165 programmes of ISRO Kanjarla Anand Krishna Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 01/03/2016 28/02/2019 Closed
Condition monitoring of aerospace structural materials
166 adopting multi-fusion sensor system Velmurugan R Aerospace Engineering 01/03/2016 30/08/2018 Closed
CFD studies on jet deflector duct of future launch pad
167 for advanced launch vehicles of ISRO Sundararajan T Mechanical Engineering 01/03/2016 30/06/2018 Closed
168 Weld repair of XH43 and XH67 superalloy castings Durga Janaki Ram Gabbita Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 07/06/2016 30/09/2018 Closed
169 Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Sloshing Dynamics Sumesh P Thampi Chemical Engineering 21/10/2016 30/09/2020 Closed
Probing Interstellar and Atmospheric Anions Through
170 Velocity Map Imaging Aravind G Physics 14/02/2017 31/03/2021 Closed
Design and Development of Five Axis Magnetic Field
Assisted Fluid Jet Polishing Machine for Nano-
Surface Generation on Optical, Metallic, CFRP
Composites & Hybrid Materials(with Composite
171 Backup Structure) Arunachalam N Mechanical Engineering 14/02/2017 28/02/2021 Closed
Heat and Mass Transfer Across Liquid-vapor Interface
in a Pressurized Cryogenic Tank with and without
172 Sloshing Shyama Prasad Das Mechanical Engineering 14/02/2017 30/04/2021 Closed
173 3D Numerical Modeling of Arcjet Thrusters Amit Kumar Aerospace Engineering 31/10/2017 31/01/2020 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Development and Characterization of 3D Graphene
174 foam as a Thermal Insulator for Space Applications Manu Jaiswal Physics 31/10/2017 30/06/2020 Closed
Assessment of Sea Surface Solar Radiation and pCO2
Fluxes in Coastal and Estuarine Waters using OCM-
175 2/OCM-2 Data Shanmugam P Ocean Engineering 31/10/2017 31/03/2021 Closed
Development of Silicon BiCMOS Technology for RF
176 Applications Anjan Chakravorthy Electrical Engineering 31/10/2017 31/03/2022 Closed
Development of Rotocraft UAV for Operation in
177 Martian Atmosphere Ranjith Mohan Aerospace Engineering 31/10/2017 31/03/2022 Closed
Development of paraffin based Gas Generator System
for Hot Flow Scale Model Tests Simulating Clustered
178 Semi Cryo Engines Ramakrishna P A Aerospace Engineering 22/03/2018 31/03/2021 Closed
Development of large area (100cm2) organic-
179 inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells Aravind Kumar Chandiran Chemical Engineering 22/03/2018 31/01/2022 Closed
Development of Zr,La,B and C Containing Single
Source Proceramic Polymer for High Temperature
180 Applications Ravikumar N V Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 01/11/2018 31/10/2020 Closed
Evaluation of Pyrolysis Behavior, Pyrolysis Kinetics
and Product Analysis of Thermal Protection System
181 (TPS) Materials Vinu R Chemical Engineering 01/11/2018 31/12/2020 Closed
A Non-linear Viscoelastic Constitutive Model for
182 Solid Propellants and Studies on Effects of Voids Parag Ravindran Mechanical Engineering 01/11/2018 30/04/2021 Closed
Design and Development of an Advanced Carbon
183 Fiber 3D Printable Printer Arunachalam N Mechanical Engineering 01/11/2018 31/03/2022 Closed

Design and Development of SPDT RF MEMS

184 Switches for Ku Band Applications Deleep R Nair Electrical Engineering 01/11/2018 31/03/2023 Ongoing

Energy - Efficient & Wide - range 15Mb/s-1.5Gb/s

185 SERDES Saurabh Saxena Electrical Engineering 01/11/2018 31/03/2023 Ongoing
Numerical Study of Performance of Inducer and Pump
used in Cryogenic Engines under Cavitating and Non-
186 cavitating Conditions Vengadesan S Applied Mechanics 01/11/2018 31/01/2022 Closed
187 Development of a Mixed Refrigerant J-T Cryocooler Venkatarathnam G Mechanical Engineering 01/11/2018 31/03/2022 Closed
Experimental Study of Combustion in Space
188 Environment Amit Kumar Aerospace Engineering 01/05/2019 30/10/2021 Closed

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S.No. Project Title Principal Investigator (Prof.) Department Start Date Close Date Project Status*
Estimation of Thermal Load Due to Mixing in 10T
189 Vertical Mixer Arul Prakash K Applied Mechanics 01/05/2019 28/02/2023 Ongoing
Relation between Pathogenic Bio-aerosol and Biotic
Stress of Crop - A Case Study for Yellow Rust Fungus
190 of Wheat Sachin S Gunthe Civil Engineering 01/05/2019 31/03/2022 Closed
Miniaturized Wideband Analog Phase Modulator
191 using Phase Locked Loop Saurabh Saxena Electrical Engineering 01/05/2019 28/02/2023 Ongoing
Feasibility studies and preliminary aerodynamic
192 design of autorotation based venus descent system Ranjith Mohan Aerospace Engineering 01/11/2019 31/03/2022 Closed
Development of Solid Propellant based low
temperature gas generator for inflatable aerodynamic
193 decelerator Ramakrishna P A Aerospace Engineering 17/03/2020 31/07/2022 Closed
Meso-microporous core-shell carbon-based materials
and electroactive diluent for long cycle life and high
194 energy density Li- S batteries Kothandaraman Ramanujam Chemistry 29/10/2020 28/10/2022 Closed
A Lagrangian Framework to Define the Spatio-
temporal Requirements of Measurement of Ocean
195 Surface Currents from Space-Borne Sensors Manikandan M S Aerospace Engineering 02/11/2020 01/05/2023 Ongoing
Polymer Derived Zr-B-C based Rare Earth Metal
Containing High Temperature Resistant Coatings For
196 Space Applications Ravikumar N V Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 02/11/2020 31/03/2023 Ongoing
197 Modelling of process parameters for 3D printing Gandham Phanikumar Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2022 Closed
Smoke Characterization of Flaming and Smouldering
198 Materials In Micro-Gravity Muruganandam T M Aerospace Engineering 23/07/2021 31/12/2022 Closed
Analysis of Passive Recirculation System for LOX
199 Feed Line of Semicryo Stage Raghavan V Mechanical Engineering 23/07/2021 22/10/2022 Closed
Experimental Study of Flame Spread Under
200 Convection In Micro-Gravity Amit Kumar Aerospace Engineering 23/07/2021 30/06/2023 Ongoing
High Performance Computing (HPC) Architecture For
201 Autonomous Space Systems Kamakoti V Computer Science and Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2023 Ongoing
Development Of Boron Based Ternary MAB Phase
202 Material For Thermal Control In Spacecrafts Kamaraj M Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2023 Ongoing
Experimental and Computational Study of
Microstructure evolution, Residual Stresses and
Mechanical Properties in Laser Additive
203 Manufacturing of Ti Alloys for Launch Vehicles Kanjarla Anand Krishna Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2023 Ongoing

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Synthesis and Characterization of Hexagonal Boron
Nitride Ceramic Aerogels as Thermal Insulation Layer
204 for Future Space Missions Manu Jaiswal Physics 23/07/2021 30/06/2023 Ongoing
Wind and Sea-swell Spectral Data Assimilation to
Improve Wind and Wave Prediction using Satellite
205 Data Sannasiraj S A Ocean Engineering 23/07/2021 22/12/2023 Ongoing
Investigations on the effect of back pressure
fluctuations on shock boundary layer interactions in
206 isolator Sriram Rengarajan Aerospace Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2023 Ongoing
Computational Modeling of Combustion Instability in
an Oxidizer-rich Staged Cycle using LOx and
207 Kerosene Varunkumar S Mechanical Engineering 23/07/2021 22/01/2023 Ongoing
Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interaction: A Missing
Link Between Cloud Droplet To Rain Droplet
208 Formation Sujith R I Aerospace Engineering 23/07/2021 22/07/2024 Ongoing
Thermo-mechanical response of polymer matrix
209 composites under high heating rates Shantanu Shashikant Mulay Aerospace Engineering 07/12/2021 06/01/2024 Ongoing
Physics-based AI-ML models for predicting crop yield
210 at different space-time scales Arun K Tangirala Chemical Engineering 06/01/2022 05/07/2024 Ongoing

Optical characterization and detection of micro/macro

plastics in oceanic waters using Volume Scattering
211 Function experiments and remote sensing techniques Shanmugam P Ocean Engineering 04/07/2022 03/07/2024 Ongoing

Uncertainty Quantification of Turbulence Models

212 through eigenspace perturbations of Reynolds stresses Nagabhushana Rao Vadlamani Aerospace Engineering 04/07/2022 03/07/2024 Ongoing
Development of low temperature gas generator for
213 filling CMUS inflatable floats Ramakrishna Aerospace Engineering 09/01/2023 09/01/2024 Ongoing
Optimization of the post-build heat treatment
schedule to achieve balanced high-temperature
mechanical properties while mitigating mechanical Metallurgical and Materials
214 anisotropy in additively manufactured Inconel 718 Ravi Sankar Kottada Engineering 09/01/2023 08/01/2025 Ongoing
Dissociative Ionization and photodetachment of
215 interstellar molecules and chiral anions Aravind.G Physics 09/01/2023 08/06/2025 Ongoing
Development of therapeutic strategies to
mitigate oxidative stress and cytoskeletal
damage in astronauts for the Gaganyaan
216 space mission Swathi Sudhakar Applied Mechanics 09/01/2023 08/01/2025 Ongoing

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Extension of ISRO Flow Solver PRAVAHA to Flows
217 Involving Chemical and Vibrational Non equilibrium Shankar Ghosh Aerospace Engineering 09/01/2023 09/01/2024 Ongoing

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