Dr. Manu K V
Area of Research
Area of Research
Flow instability and transition to turbulence, Boundary layer flows, Stratified flows, Experimental fluid mechanics, Convective Heat transfer
Department
Education
- PhD: Indian Institute of Science (2013)
- M Tech: College of Engineering Trivandrum (2005)
- B Tech: Goverment Engineering College Thrissur (2003)
Course Offered
- Post Graduate : Compressible Fluid Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer
- Under Graduate: Fluid Mechanics
Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram (2021 onwards)
- Assistant Professor: Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram (2016-20)
- Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, BMS College of Engineering Bangalore (2015-16)
- Post Doctoral fellow: Indian Institute of Science (2013-15)
- Lecturer: IHRD College of Engineering chengannur (2005-06)
Direct numerical simulation of boundary layer transition induced by streamwise vortices
(Villodi, Navaneet, and Manu KV. "Characteristics of boundary-layer transition driven by diverse streamwise vortices." Physics of Fluids 34.7 (2022): 074113.)
Bluff body transition studies (Sarath, K. P., and K. V. Manu. "An investigation of bluff body flow structures in variable velocity flows." Physics of Fluids 34.3 (2022): 034102.)
The onset of turbulence in channel flows (Sarath, K. P., and K. V. Manu. "The onset of turbulence in decelerating diverging channel flows." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 962 (2023): A30.)
