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    Prof. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Mechanical Engineering

    National Institute of Technology, Warangal - 506004, Telangana, INDIA

    : prasanth_anand@nitw.ac.in : 9840845194

     

    Dr. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam is an Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal from Jan 2020. He had around three and a half years of industrial experience in the Global R&D Centers of LG Electronics (2016 - 2018) and Whirlpool of India Ltd. (2018 - 2020). At both LG and Whirlpool, he worked on the development of Energy-Efficient (without/with Vacuum Insulated Panels) Frost Free Refrigerators. He received his Ph.D. and M.Tech degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. In his Ph.D., he studied various active and passive heat transfer augmentation technologies for jet impingement cooling systems with regard to electronic cooling applications. His research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Aerodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Biofluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Augmentation, and Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning.

    Professional Experience:

    1. Assistant Professor [Grade - I], Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Warangal, India [July 2022 - Tilldate]
    2. Assistant Professor [Grade - II], Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Warangal, India [Jan 2020 - July 2022]
    3. Senior CAE Engineer [Refrigeration - System Modelling], GTEC, Whirlpool of India Ltd., Pune, Maharastra [Dec 2018 - Jan 2020]
    4. Assistant Manager [Refrigeration], LG Electronics, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh [Aug 2016 - Nov 2018]

    Education:

    1. PhD [Fluid Mechanics], Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India [2010 - 2016]
    2. M.Tech [Fluid Mechanics], Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India [2008 - 2010]
    3. B.E [Mechanical Engineering], Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India [2003 - 2007]

     

    Course Taught Previously
    1. Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning [ME401]
    2. Advanced Fluid Dynamics [ME5101]
    3. Computational Methods in Automobile Engineering [ME5502]
    4. Turbulent Flows [ME5167]
    5. Advanced CFD [ME5162]
    6. Finite Element Methods [ME5482]
    7. Thermal Engineering Lab [ME306]
    8. Energy Systems Laboratory [ME5154]
    9. Modeling and Analysis Laboratory [ME5592]
    10. Engineering Analysis & Simulation Laboratory [ME5554]

    Publications

    Patents:

    1. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam [2024], A heat exchanger for enhancing energy efficiency of refrigerator and a method thereof, Indian Patent No.: 504238,  Issued on January 29, 2024 [GRANTED]
    2. Prasanth A. Lam, Bichakar, V. H., Maity, R., Muthamilan, M., & Prabhu, H. C [2023], Shelf Assembly for an Appliance, US Patent No.: 11,578,909, Issued on February 14, 2023 [GRANTED]
    3. Prasanth A. Lam, Bichakar, V. H., Maity, R., Muthamilan, M., & Prabhu, H. C [2023], Appliance with a shelf assembly, European Patent No.: EP 3916329 B1, Issued on April 19, 2023 [GRANTED]
    4. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam [2023], An extended tray drip for a Frost-Free Refrigerator, Indian Patent No.: 460639, Issued on Oct. 19, 2023 [GRANTED]
    5. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam [2023], A defrost water drain system for refrigerators and method thereof, Indian Patent No.: 480828, Issued on Dec. 12, 2023 [GRANTED]
    6. Prasanth A. Lam, Bichakar, V. H., Maity, R., Muthamilan, M., & Prabhu, H. C [2023], Shelf Assembly for an Appliance, US Patent No.: US20230175768 [Continuation of US Patent No.: 11,578,909], Published on June 08, 2023 [Pending for Grant]
    7. Prasanth A. Lam, Bichakar, V. H., Maity, R., Muthamilan, M., & Prabhu, H. C [2021], Shelf Assembly for an Appliance, Chinese Patent No.: CN113720086, Published on November 30, 2021 [Pending for Grant]

    International Journals:

    1. Kartheek Gamidi, Vamsi Krishna Pasam, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, A numerical investigation on coolant flow and heat transfer characteristics of cutting tool in spot cooled vibration assisted turning of Ti6Al4V alloy, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume: 191, (2023), 108394 [Citations: 02; IMPACT FACTOR = 4.50]
    2. Rohan Rajpal, Usama Hamid Dhopavkar, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Effect of right-angled ribbed geometry on the performance of a Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube: A numerical study, International Journal of Refrigeration, March 08, 2023 [IMPACT FACTOR = 3.90]
    3. Chetan Mali, Anant Kumar Rai, Navam Shrivastava, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Numerical analysis of uneven coating near steel strip edges in continuous hot-dip galvanizing, Ironmaking & Steelmaking, February 22, 2023, pp 1-14.  [IMPACT FACTOR = 2.10]
    4. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, A numerical investigation and design optimization of impingement cooling system with an array of air jets, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 108, (2017), pp. 880-900. [Citations: 33; IMPACT FACTOR = 5.43]
    5. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Effect of magnetic field on natural convection and entropy generation in Al2O3/water nanofluid filled enclosure with twin protruding heat sources, ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Volume 9(2), (2017), pp. 024502: 1-12. [Citations: 11; IMPACT FACTOR = 1.47]
    6. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Thermodynamic investigation and multi-objective optimization for jet impingement cooling system with Al2O3/water nanofluid, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 111, (2016), pp. 38-56. [Citations: 44; IMPACT FACTOR = 11.53]
    7. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, A numerical investigation of heat transfer and entropy generation during jet impingement cooling of protruding heat sources without and with porous medium, Energy Conversion and Management, Volume 89, (2015), pp. 626-643. [Citations: 61; IMPACT FACTOR = 11.53]
    8. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, A numerical study on natural convection and entropy generation in a porous enclosure with heat sources, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 69, (2014), pp. 390-407. [Citations: 95; IMPACT FACTOR = 5.43]

    Workshops/Conferences
    1. Praveen S, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Effect of Bio-inspired sharkskin denticle geometry on Aerodynamics of DrivAer Models: A CFD Study, 14th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Oct. 30 – 02 Nov, 2023, Bengaluru, India.
    2. Katuri Avinash, Shivam Mishra, and Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Assessment of Various Turbulent Models for Drag Prediction of DARPA Suboff Submarine Model, 68th Conference of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM), December 07-09, 2023, Warangal, India.
    3. Dayanand Kumar, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Analysis of Turbulent flow Structures and Heat Transfer with Combined Periodic Oscillation and Swinging Motion of Turbulent Slot Jets, 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19–21, 2023, Washington DC, USA.
    4. Srivishnu V, Karthik R, Shaheer S, Yashas K, and Prasanth A. K. Lam, Prediction of Turbulent flow dynamics and heat transfer characteristics in Jet impingement Cooling System, 21st ISME International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Bengaluru, 13 - 15 July 2023
    5. M. Divya Sri, A. Roopa, Pandrangi V P N S Sai Srikar, B. Vamsi, and Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, A numerical investigation on the aerodynamics of a DraivAer model in Platoon, Research & Industrial Conclave 2022, IIT Guwahati, 20 – 23 Jan, 2022.
    6. V.D.S. Vardhan Vepa, Sahith Gollamandala, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Dynamics of a multiple flexi-splitters in the wake of an elliptic cylinder, 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 21–23, 2021; Phoenix, Arizona.
    7. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Multi-objective Optimization of turbulent jet impingement cooling system: A thermal and thermodynamic study, International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Sciences, 19-20 Feb 2021, Kerala.
    8. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Thermal and thermodynamic analyses on impingement cooling of discrete protruding heat sources with an array of turbulent air jets, 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), 27th – 30th Dec 2017 [Citations: 01]
    9. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of turbulent jet impingement on rib-roughened surface, 68th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD), Boston, Massachusetts, November 22-24, 2015. [Citations: 01]
    10. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Numerical analysis and design optimization of jet impingement cooling system, ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE-2015), Houston, Texas, November 13 – 19, 2015.
    11. Sivasai V, Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, Aravind P and K. Arul Prakash, Heat line analysis of natural convection in a porous enclosure filled with Cu-H2O Nanofluid, 5th International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Kanpur, India, 2014
    12. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Finite element study of electronic cooling by an impinging turbulent jet, International Conference on Computer Aided Engineering (CAE-2013), Chennai, India, December 19th – 21st, 2013
    13. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam, N Parameswara Rao, and K. Arul Prakash, Numerical simulation of turbulent flow in spiral casing of a hydraulic turbo machine using SUPG-finite element method, 17th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF 2013), San Diego, California, Feb 24-27, 2013.
    14. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, A SUPG – Finite Element Study of Natural Convection in a Porous Enclosure, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Chennai, India, Dec. 27-30, 2011.
    15. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Finite Element analysis of convective cooling by an impinging laminar air jet, 16th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF 2011), Munich, Germany, March 23-25, 2011.
    16. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, A SUPG Finite Element study for conjugate heat transfer analysis in two- dimensional ribbed passages, 13th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December, 17-21, 2010.
    17. Prasanth Anand Kumar Lam and K. Arul Prakash, Numerical simulations of fluid flow through a channel with surface mounted obstacles, 10th Asian Symposium on Visualization, Chennai, 01 – 05 March 2010.

    Projects
    1. Thermal Performance Augmentation in Complex Fluid Flow Systems through Artificial Intelligence and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Research Seed Money, NIT Warangal, Role: Principal Investigator (PI), Budget: Rs. 5,00,000 (2020-2022).

    Awards and Honors

    Awards

    1. Constellation Award for Contribution towards development of Energy Efficient Refrigerator [Top Mount], GTEC, Whirlpool of India Ltd., Pune [Dec 2019].
    2. Outstanding Employee Award, GTEC, Whirlpool of India Ltd., Pune [May 2019 and Oct 2019].

    Achievements

    1. MHRD Scholarship from Govt. of India for pursuing M. Tech from July 2008 to July 2010.
    2. MHRD Scholarship from Govt. of India for pursuing Ph.D. from July 2010 to June 2015.
    3. Financial support approved by IIT Madras for attending the ASME-IMECE 2015 Conference in Houston, USA.
    4. Financial support approved by IIT Madras Alumni Association for attending the APS-DFD 2015 Conference in Massachusetts, USA.

     

    Additional Responsibility

    Institute Level:

    1. Prof-In-Charge, Air-Conditioning [July 2023 - Tilldate]
    2. Faculty Co-Ordinator, Test and Optimization Lab, NITW - Siemens CoE [March 2022 - Tilldate]
    3. Faculty Advisor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club and Honeybee Network NITW Chapter [August 2021 - July 2023]

    Department Level:

    1. Faculty-In-Charge, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory [July 2022 - Tilldate]
    2. Faculty-In-Charge, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Laboratory [July 2023 - Tilldate]
    3. Faculty Treasurer, Mechanical Engineering Association [August 2022 - Tilldate]
    4. Faculty Advisor [B.Tech: Mechanical Engineering], 2022 - 26 Batch

     Facilities Developed:

    • Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
      1. Work Stations [30 No.s]
      2. 10 KVA UPS [02 No.s]
      3. Rack Servers [02 No.s]
      4. Ansys Workbench: Structural and Fluid Dynamics [Perpectual Licenses: 30 No.s]
    • Windtunnel Facility [Upgradation]
      1. Six-Component Force Balance
      2. Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)
      3. DrivAer Car Models [Fastback Model, Notchback Model, and Estate Model]
      4. Conventional Aerodynamic Models [Cylinder, Ahmed body, Flat Plate, etc.]
    • Reynolds Apparatus