Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory).
My research is on heat and fluid flow in porous media and on bio-heat transfer and biological fluid flow — the eye, the placenta, the lungs and the heart — along with phase-change heat sinks and, earlier, microlithography process modelling. I teach thermal science to graduate and undergraduate students.
On this site
- Publications — journal papers, conference papers and book chapters
- Research — research topics and summaries
- Essentials of Heat and Fluid Flow in Porous Media — the textbook
- Technical notes — explanations of ideas in heat transfer and fluid flow
- Courses — course pages (some need a password)
- Essays on academia — research, publishing and teaching
My Tamil writings — essays on science, music and literature, and my books — are at arunn.in.