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Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering






Biography

Dr. Ramjee Repaka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar. He received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University, Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT Rourkela before joining IIT Ropar. His research areas include Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Engineering and fluid mechanics.

Research Interests

  • Convection Heat Transfer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Lattice Boltzmann Models (LBM)

Education

  • Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 2009
  • M.E. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2003
  • B.E., Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P., India, 2001

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 2010-Present
  • Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, 2008-10

Selected Publications

1. Ramjee Repaka and V. V. Satyamurty, “Local and Average Heat Transfer in the Thermally Developing Region of an Asymmetrically Heated Channel”, 53(9-10), 2010, p. 1654-1665, Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer.

2. Ramjee Repaka and V. V. Satyamurty, “Limiting Nusselt Numbers for Viscous Dissipative Flow between Parallel Plates Kept at Unequal Temperatures”, 37, 2010, p. 1251-1254, Int. Comm. in Heat and Mass Transfer.

3. V. V. Satyamurty and Ramjee Repaka, “Superposition Relations for Forced Convective Local Nusselt Numbers for Flow through Asymmetrically Heated Parallel Plate Channels”, 32(6), 2011, p. 476-484, Heat Transfer Engineering.