Ravi Kumar

About

Working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. As well the joint Professor in the Center of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation and Management in the Institute and is also holding the post of Dean, Administration. At the national level chairing the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sub-Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi. Has been honoured with the Outstanding Teacher Award at the Institute and remained Star Performer Awardee for three consecutive years. The research areas are refrigeration and air-conditioning, instrumentation and measurement, fire dynamics, and solar energy. Holds 24 years of experience in teaching and research, guided 24 PhD students, and has published more than 100 articles in international journals of repute.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Professor

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Ph.D.
  ? - 2000
• National Institute of Technology Bhopal M.Tech.
  ? - 1990
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee B.E.
  ? - 1987

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (160)

• A comparative study of cable fire dynamics: bench-scale experiments and numerical simulations with and without fire-retardant coating
  Frontiers in Thermal Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.3389/fther.2025.1560746
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• Effect of circumferential and radial position on rewetting time under boil-off condition of 54 pins AHWR
  Progress in Nuclear Energy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/J.PNUCENE.2025.105728
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• Experimental Evaluation of Condensation of R32 and R134a over a Plain Tube
  Heat Transfer Engineering 2025 DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2024.2308356
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• Temperature predictions during forced-air cooling of apples based on machine learning and ANN algorithms
  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2025 DOI: 10.1016/J.COMPAG.2024.109842
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• Influence of moderator temperature on fuel channel behaviour under PT-CT contact during LOCA for Indian PHWR
  Annals of Nuclear Energy 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2024.110600
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• Effect of sub-cooling on fuel channel behaviour during LOCA for Indian PHWR
  Nuclear Engineering and Design 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2024.113029
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• An inclusive review on structural enhancement techniques in forced condensation inside tubes
  International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 2024 DOI: 10.1016/J.IJHEATFLUIDFLOW.2024.109297
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• Comparative thermo-fluidic analysis of condensation characteristics inside smooth and enhanced tubes
  Physics of Fluids 2024 DOI: 10.1063/5.0201802
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• Evaluation of thermo-fluidic performance of micro pulsating heat pipe with and without evaporator side surface structures
  Applied Thermal Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1016/J.APPLTHERMALENG.2024.123470
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• Experimental Study of the Condensation of Retrofit Refrigerant R32 Over Single Horizontal Plain and 2D Low-Finned Integral Tubes
  Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 2024 DOI: 10.1007/S13369-023-08080-5
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