Vasudevan Raghavan

Vasudevan Raghavan is currently working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. He obtained his PhD degree from IITM and has carried out his post-doctoral research in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His areas of research include studies on evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, computational fluid dynamics applied to reacting flows, laminar flames, fire modelling, flame spread and liquid fuel pool...See more

Vasudevan Raghavan is currently working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. He obtained his PhD degree from IITM and has carried out his post-doctoral research in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His areas of research include studies on evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, computational fluid dynamics applied to reacting flows, laminar flames, fire modelling, flame spread and liquid fuel pool combustion, gasification and combustion of coal and biomass. He has graduated 11 PhD and 18 MS scholars and has authored about 118 international peer reviewed journal articles, 60 international conference articles till date. He teaches graduate courses such as Fundamentals of Combustion, Theory of Fire Propagation, Combustion Technology and Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in IITM. See less