Amit Agrawal

Department of Mechanical Engineering Date of Birth: 07 October 1974

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay Email: [email protected]
Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India Phone: +91 22 2576 7516

CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Associated Faculty of Wadhwani Research Center for Bioengineering, IIT Bombay

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2002) Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, USA
B.Tech. (1996) Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

POSITIONS HELD
10/2015-Present Institute Chair Professor: Department of Mechanical, Engineering, IIT Bombay
09/2014-Present Professor: Department of Mechanical, Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
02/2009-08/2014 Associate Professor: Department of Mechanical, Engineering, IIT Bombay
07/2004-02/2009 Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
01/2003-06/2004 Post Doctoral Research Fellow: University of Newcastle, Australia
01/1999-12/2002 Research Assistant: Fluid Mechanics Lab, University of Delaware, USA
07/1998-12/1998 Teaching Assistant: Dept of Mechanical Engg., University of Delaware, USA
07/1996-06/1998 Engineer: Tata Motors (Telco), Pune, India

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
 Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2015
 Member of National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), Allahabad, 2011
 Associate Editor of Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences (Oct 2013 onwards)
 Editorial Board Member of Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal
 Research work highlighted on the Cover Page1 of Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012
 Research work highlighted on the Cover Page1 of SPIE Journal of Micro/ Nanolithography, MEMS,
and MOEMS, 2011
 Research work highlighted in media1 (Times of India, 25 November 2014)
 Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Sadhana (May 2015)
 (Guest) Academic Editor of AIP Advances (2013)

Awards
 DAE-SRC Outstanding Investigator Award, 2014
 Prof. K.N. Seetharamu Medal and Award from Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, Dec 2013
 IIT Bombay Young Investigator Award, 2009
 Best PhD Thesis Award from IIT Bombay to Dr. Sewatkar Chandrashekhar Manikrao (2011), Dr. A.
Venugopal (2015)
 Scopus Young Scientist Award Finalist, 2014
 Competitive Fellowship from the University of Delaware, USA (2001-2002)
 Graduate Fellowship from the College of Engineering, University of Delaware, USA (1999-2000)

Invited reviews/ special issue articles

 Invited for review article by Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2015
 Invited for review article by International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport, 2011
 Invited for review article by International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid
Transport Phenomena, 2010
 Invited for article to Special Issue of Journal of Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015
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  Invited for article to Special Issue of Sadhana – Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, 2012
 Invited for article to Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2012

COURSES TAUGHT
Turbulence (ME 724)
Microfluidics (ME 758/410)
Mathematical Methods in Engineering (ME 673)
Fluid Dynamics (ME 651)
Internal Combustion Engines (ME 403)
Mechanical Measurements (ME 226)
Heat Transfer (ME 210)
Fluid Mechanics (ME 203)
Lab courses: IC Engines (ME 417, 419, 657), Applied Thermodynamics (ME 441), Measurement (ME
215), CFD (ME 415), TFE Lab (ME 657)

PhD THESES SUPERVISED (10 Completed + 3 Submitted + 14 Under progress)

1. Deoras M. Prabhudharwadkar, Analysis of hydrogen distribution in nuclear reactor containments,
2007, (Co-supervisor)
2. Shiv Govind Singh, Reliability of electronics device operation under very high heat flux operation,
2008, (Co-supervisor)
3. Mangesh Bhaurao Chaudhari, Experimental Investigation of Synthetic Jets Based Cooling of
Electronic Devices, 2009, (Supervisor)
4. Sewatkar Chandrashekhar Manikrao, Flow Regimes and Wake Interaction Mechanism for Multiple
Stationary and Oscillating Square Cylinders Arranged in Different Configurations, 2011, (Supervisor)
(Awarded Best PhD thesis by IIT Bombay)
5. Prasad Kaushalkumar Kamaleshwar, CFD Study on Channel-Confined Flow across Single and
Unconfined Flow across Three Rows of Cylinder, 2013, (Co-supervisor)
6. A. Venugopal, Investigations on flow around bluff bodies placed insider a circular pipe, 2014, (Co-
supervisor) (Awarded Best PhD thesis by IIT Bombay)
7. Vijay Vasantrao Varade, Study of rarefied gas flow through microchannel with complex geometry,
2015, (Supervisor)
8. Bhadouriya Rambir Rameshwar Singh, Experimental and numerical studies of flow and heat transfer
in twisted square ducts, 2015, (Co-supervisor)
9. Mukul Shrivastava, A novel level set based immersed boundary method and its application to
hydrodynamics of fish-like locomotion of single and in-group flexible hydrofoils, 2015, (Co-
supervisor)
10. Piyushkumar B. Tailor, Experimentations and Simulations of Electro-chemical Buffing (ECB)
Process, 2015, (Co-supervisor)
11. Vijay S. Duryodhan, Experiments and three-dimensional numerical simulations of flow and heat
transfer in diverging, converging and spiral microchannels, 2016, (Supervisor) (Submitted)
12. Siddhartha Tripathi, Blood-plasma separation and three-dimensional hydrodynamic focusing in a
microdevice, 2016, (Supervisor) (to be submitted in August 2016)
13. Udaysinh Bhapkar, Heat transfer and acoustic characteristics of synthetic jet, 2016, (Supervisor) (to
be submitted in August 2016)
14. Adel Hashiehbaf, The effect of different sharp edge nozzle shapes on continuous and pulsating jet
characteristics using particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique, 2013, (registered at University of
Rome, ‘‘La Sapienza’’; work partly done at IIT Bombay)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS SUPERVISED: Past 3; Ongoing 4

MASTER’S STUDENTS SUPERVISED: Completed 42; Ongoing 5

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PATENTS AWARDED
Singh, S.G., Duttagupta, S.P., and Agrawal, A. "An inpack semiconductor module and a method of
manufacturing the same," (Indian Patent Application No. 298/MUM/2010, Filed on 4 February 2010).
(Patent 273829, granted on 29 June 2016).

PATENTS FILED
1. Siddique, A., Saha, S., Agrawal, A., "A dumbbell microchannel heat sink of a cooling system for an
electronic device," (Indian Patent Application No 201621012046, Filed on 5 April 2016).
2. Tripathi, S., Varunkumar, Y. V., and Agrawal, A., "Microdevice for separating plasma from human
blood," (Indian Patent Application No 201621012710, Filed on 11 April 2016).
3. Chaudhari, M., Agrawal, A., and Puranik, B. "A synthetic jet actuator and a semiconductor module
comprising the same," (Divisional application No. 201622002351, Filed on 28 January 2016).
4. Mohadikar, K.D., Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A. and Prabhu, S.V., "Vortex Flowmeter for measuring a
fluid flow rate," (Indian Patent Application No 2459/MUM/2015, Filed on 26 June 2015).
5. Tripathi, S., Agrawal, A., and Kumar, A., "Single layer microfluidic device for three dimensional
hydrodynamic focusing of a sample fluid using a sheath fluid and method of fabricating the same,"
(Indian Patent Application No. 96/MUM/2015, Filed on 9 Jan 2015).
6. Prabhakar, A., Bharath, K.S., and Agrawal, A., "Micropump," (Indian Patent Application No.
3411/MUM/2014, Filed on 28 Oct 2014).
7. Prabhakar, A., Kumar, B., and Agrawal, A., "Micro device for separating blood plasma from whole
human blood and method for making the same," (Indian Patent Application No. 2344/MUM/2013,
Filed on 12 July 2013).
8. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Vortex Cross Correlation Flowmeter," (Indian Patent
Application No. 1763/MUM/2013, Filed on 17 May 2013).
9. Chaudhari, M., Agrawal, A., and Puranik, B. "A synthetic jet actuator and a semiconductor module
comprising the same," (Indian Patent Application No. 2179/MUM/2009, Filed on 18 September
2009).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications (Total: 118 [including 6 review articles] + 17 submitted articles; Total
citations: 1905; H-index: 25, as per Google Scholar last retrieved on 25 July 2016)

1. Singh, N., Agrawal, A., "Onsager’s-principle-consistent 13-moment transport equations," Physical

Review E, Vol 93, 063111 (10 pp), 2016.
2. Tripathi, S., Kumar, Y.V.B., Agrawal, A., Prabhakar, A., and Joshi, S., "Microdevice for plasma
separation from whole human blood using bio-physical and geometrical effects," Nature Scientific
Reports, Vol 6, 26749 (15 pp), 2016.
3. Agrawal, A., "Higher-order continuum equation based heat conduction law," INAE Letters, (to
appear), 2016.
4. Duryodhan, V., Singh, A., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Three-Dimensional Numerical Study of
Conjugate Heat Transfer in Diverging Microchannel," Proceedings of Indian National Science
Academy, Vol. 82(2), pp. 321-328, 2016. (Special issue)
5. Hemadri, V., Varade, V., Agrawal, A., and Bhandarkar, U.V., "Investigation of rarefied gas flow in
microchannels of non-uniform cross section," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 28, 022007 (10 pp), 2016.
6. Duryodhan, V., Singh, A., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "A simple and novel way of maintaining constant
wall temperature in microdevices," Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, 18230 (15 pp), 2016.
7. Tripathi, S., Kumar, A., Kumar, Y.V.B., Agrawal, A., "Three-dimensional hydrodynamic flow focusing
of dye, particles and cells in a microfluidic device by employing bends of opposite curvature,"
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 20, pp. 1-14, 2016.
8. Tailor, P.B., Agrawal, A., and Joshi, S.S., "Numerical Simulation and Experimentation on
Electrochemical Buffing," Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 138, 061009
(11 pp), 2016.
9. Yadav, H., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., "Characterization of pulsating submerged jet – A PIV study,"
ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Vol. 8, 011014 (9 pp), 2016.

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10. Tripathi, S., Kumar, Y.V.B., Agrawal, A., "Separation in Microfluidic devices: A case study on
hydrodynamic blood plasma separation technique," Annals of INAE, Vol. 13, pp. 276-286, 2016.
11. Ordia, L., Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Vortex Shedding Characteristics of a Cylinder
with a Parallel Slit Placed in a Circular Pipe," Journal of Visualization (to appear).
12. Gaddam, A., Agrawal, A., Joshi, S.S., Thompson, M.C., "Utilization of cavity vortex to delay wetting
transition in one-dimensional structured microchannels," Langmuir, Vol. 31, pp 13373–13384, 2015.
13. Kumar, N., Agrawal, A., Singh, S.G., and Sridharan, A., "On bubble dynamics during flow boiling in
microchannel," Journal of Energy Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 37, pp. 57-64, 2015.
14. Gaddam, A., Garg, M., Agrawal, A., Joshi, S.S., "Modeling of liquid-gas meniscus for textured
surfaces: Effect of curvature and local slip length," Journal of Micromechanics and
Microengineering, Vol. 25, 125002 (12 pp), 2015.
15. Ashraf, I., Agrawal, A., Khan, M.H., Sooraj, P., Srivastava, A., Sharma, A., "Thrust generation and
wake structure for flow across a pitching airfoil at low Reynolds number," Sadhana, Vol. 40, pp.
2367-2379, 2015.
16. Tripathi, S., Kumar, Y.V.B., Prabhakar, A., Joshi, S.S., Agrawal, A., "Performance Study of
Microfluidic Device for Blood Plasma Separation – A Designer’s Perspective," Journal of
Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 25, 084004 (15 pp), 2015.
17. Bhapkar, U., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., "Proper cavity shape can mitigate confinement effect in
synthetic jet impingement cooling," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 68, pp. 392-
401, 2015.
18. Hashiehbaf, A., Baramade, A., Agrawal, A., Romano, G.P., "Experimental Investigation on an
Axisymmetric Turbulent Jet Impinging on a Concave Surface," International Journal of Heat and
Fluid Flow, Vol. 53, pp. 167-182, 2015.
19. Varade, V., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Pradeep, A.M., "Early onset of flow separation with rarefied
gas flowing in a 90o bend tube," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 66, pp. 221-234,
2015.
20. Bhadouriya, R., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Experimental and numerical study of fluid flow and heat
transfer in annulus of twisted square duct," International Journal of Thermal Science, Vol. 94, pp.
96-109, 2015.
21. Tailor, P.B., Agrawal, A., Joshi, S.S., "Numerical Modeling of Passive Layer Formation and
Stabilization in Electrochemical Polishing Process," Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Vol. 18,
pp. 107-116, 2015.
22. Sengupta, S., Khan, M.H., Veluri, V. K., Vijayan, P.K., Agrawal, A., Bhattacharya, S., "PIV
investigations on the turbulent mixing of two opposing flows inside a scaled chimney model of a
research reactor," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 63, pp. 115-132, 2015.
23. Varade, V., Duryodhan, V., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A.M., Ebrahimi, A., Roohi, E., "Low Mach number
slip flow through diverging microchannel," Computers & Fluids, Vol. 111, pp. 46-61, 2015.
24. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Spanwise Correlations in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder
and a Trapezoid Placed inside a Circular Pipe," Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 54, pp. 536-
547, 2015.
25. Varade, V., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A.M., "Slip flow through converging microchannel: Experiments
and three-dimensional simulations," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 25
025015 (pp. 1-23), 2015.
26. Bhadouriya, R., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Experimental and numerical study of fluid flow and heat
transfer in a twisted square duct," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 82, pp.
143-158, 2015.
27. Bhadouriya, R., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Laminar flow heat transfer studies in a twisted square
duct for constant wall heat flux boundary condition," Sadhana, Vol. 40, pp. 467-485, 2015.
28. Varade, V., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Pradeep, A.M., "Velocity measurement of low Reynolds and
low Mach number slip flow through a tube," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 60, pp.
284-289, 2015.
29. Prabhakar, A., Kumar, B.V., Tripathi, S., Agrawal, A., "A Novel, Compact and Efficient Microchannel
Arrangement with Multiple Hydrodynamic effects for Blood Plasma Separation," Microfluidics and
Nanofluidics, Vol. 18, pp. 995-1006 2015.

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30. Duryodhan, V., Singh, A., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Convective heat transfer in diverging and
converging microchannels," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 80, pp. 424-
438, 2015. (Downloaded more than 1000 times since appearing online)
31. Tailor, P.B., Agrawal, A., Joshi, S.S., "Parametric understanding of electro-chemical buffing (ECB)
using current-voltage characterization," Machining Science and Technology, Vol. 19, pp. 440-459,
2015.
32. Duryodhan, V., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Liquid Flow through Converging Microchannel and
Comparison with Diverging Microchannel," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
Vol. 24, 125002 (1-13), 2014.
33. Tripathi, S., Chakravarty, P., Agrawal, A., "On non-monotonic variation of hydrodynamically focused
width in rectangular microchannel," Current Science, Vol. 107(8), pp. 1260-1274, 2014.
34. Bhapkar, U., Mohanan, S., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., "Interferometry Based Whole-Field Heat
Transfer Measurements of an Impinging Turbulent Synthetic Jet," International Communications in
Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 58, 118-124, 2014.
35. Bhapkar, U., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., "Acoustic and heat transfer characteristics of an impinging
elliptical synthetic jet," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 79, pp, 12-23, 2014.
36. Singh, N., Agrawal, A., "The Burnett Equations in Cylindrical Coordinates and Their Solution for
Flow in a Microtube," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 751, pp. 121-141, 2014.
37. Varade, V., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A.M., "Experimental study of rarefied gas flow near sudden
contraction junction of a tube," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 26, 062002 (1-21), 2014.
38. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "A Vortex Cross-Correlation Flowmeter with Enhanced
Turndown Ratio," Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 85, 066109 (1-3), 2014.
39. Singh, N., Gavasane, A., Agrawal, A., "Analytical Solution of Plane Couette Flow in the Transition
Regime and Comparison with Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Data," Computers & Fluids, Vol. 97,
pp. 177-187, 2014.
40. Varade, V., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A.M., "Behavior of rarefied gas flow near junction of a suddenly
expanding tube," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 739, pp. 363-391, 2014.
41. Singh, N., Dongari, N., and Agrawal, A., "Analytical solution of plane Poiseuille flow within Burnett
hydrodynamics," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 16, pp. 403-412, 2014.
42. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Performance Evaluation of Piezoelectric and
Differential Pressure Sensor for Vortex Flowmeters," Measurement, Vol. 50, pp. 10-18, 2014.
43. Kumar, N., Prabhakar, A., Tikekar, M., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., "Blood flow in non-circular
microchannel under pulsating condition," International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale Transport,
Vol. 4, pp. 33-49, 2013.
44. Duryodhan, V.S., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., "Boiling flow through diverging microchannel,"
Sadhana, Vol. 38, pp. 1067-1082, 2013.
45. Bhapkar, U., Srivastava, A., and Agrawal, A., "Acoustic and heat transfer aspects of an inclined
impinging synthetic jet," International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 74, pp. 145-155, 2013.
46. Prasad, K., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., "Poiseuille flow across an eccentrically-confined
stationary/rotating cylinder," Ocean Engineering, Vol. 73, pp. 41-54, 2013.
47. Burattini, P., and Agrawal, A., "Wake interaction between two side-by-side cylinders in channel flow,"
Computers & Fluids, Vol. 77, pp. 134-142, 2013.
48. Biswas, S., and Agrawal, A., "Noise reduction in large enclosure using single, dual and ensconced
Helmholtz resonators," Current Science, Vol. 124 (12), pp. 1681-1691, 2013.
49. Tripathi, S., Prabhakar, A., Kumar, N., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., "Blood plasma separation in
elevated dimension T-shaped microchannel," Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 15 (3), pp. 415-425,
2013.
50. Duryodhan, V.S., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., "Liquid flow in a diverging microchannel,"
Microfluidics and Nanofludics, Vol. 14, pp. 53-67, 2013.
51. Shrivastava, M., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., "A novel level-set based immersed boundary method
for CFD simulation of moving boundary problems," Numerical Heat Transfer B, Vol. 63, pp. 304-
326, 2013.
52. Sewatkar, C.M., Patel, R., Sharma, A. and Agrawal, A., "Flow around six in-line square cylinders,"
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 710, pp. 195-233, 2012. (cover page article)

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53. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Frequency detection in vortex flowmeter for low
Reynolds number using piezoelectric sensor and installation effects," Sensors & Actuators A, Vol.
184, pp. 78-85, 2012.
54. Dongari, N., and Agrawal, A., "Modeling of Navier-Stokes equations for high Knudsen number gas
flows," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 55, pp. 4352-4358, 2012.
55. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., "On energy transfer in flow around a row of
transversely oscillating square cylinders at low Reynolds number," Journal of Fluids and
Structures, Vol. 31, pp. 1-17, 2012.
56. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Heat transfer characteristics of a heat sink in presence
of a synthetic jet," IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing
Technology, Vol. 2, pp. 457-463, 2012.
57. Agrawal, A., Duryodhan, V.S., and Singh, S.G., "Pressure drop measurements with boiling in
diverging microchannel," Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 3, 013005 (1-7), 2012.
(Invited article)
58. Bhide, R.R., Singh, S.G., Duryodhan, V.S., Sridharan, A., and Agrawal, A., "Onset of nucleate boiling
and critical heat flux with boiling water in microchannel," International Journal of Microscale and
Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena, Vol. 4 (1), 2012.
59. Agrawal, A., and Dongari, N., "Application of Navier-Stokes equations to high Knudsen number flow
in a fine capillary," International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid
Transport Phenomena, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 125-130, 2012.
60. Gavasane, A., Sachdev, S.S., Mittal, B.K., Bhadarkar, U.V., and Agrawal, A., "A critical assessment of
the Maxwell slip boundary condition for rarified wall bounded flows," International Journal of
Micro-Nano Scale Transport, Vol. 2, pp. 109-116, 2011.
61. Prasad, K., Paramane, S.B., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., "Effect of channel-confinement and rotation
on the two-dimensional laminar flow and heat transfer across a cylinder," Numerical Heat Transfer
A, Vol. 60 (8), pp. 699-726, 2011.
62. Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., and Duttagupta, S.P., "Reliable MOSFET operation using two-phase
microfluidics in presence of high heat flux transients," Journal of Micromechanics and
Microengineering, Vol. 21, 105002, 2011.
63. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., "Simulation of flow across a row of transversely
oscillating square cylinders," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 680, pp. 361-397, 2011.
64. Agrawal, A., "Description of Microfluidics Laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai, India," International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid
Transport Phenomena, Vol. 2(2), 2011. (Invited article)
65. Bhide, R.R., Singh, S.G., Sridharan, A., and Agrawal, A., "An active control strategy for reduction of
pressure instabilities during flow boiling microchannel," Journal of Micromechanics and
Microengineering, Vol. 21, 035021, 2011.
66. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Influence of blockage and shape of bluff body on the
performance of vortex flowmeter with wall pressure measurement," Measurement, Vol. 44 (5), pp.
954-964, 2011.
67. Mall, A., Agrawal, A., Singh, R.K., and Joshi, S.S. "Numerical characterization of laminar bulk flow
over textured surfaces," Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, Vol. 10
(023008), pp. 1-11, 2011. (Cover page article)
68. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Multiple orifice synthetic jet for improvement in heat
transfer," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 54, pp. 2056-2065, 2011.
69. Garg, M., Agrawal, A., Singh, R.K., and Joshi, S.S. "Microscopic textured surfaces for micro-fluidic
applications," International Journal of Automation Technology, Vol. 5, pp. 30-37, 2011.
70. Jain, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "A numerical investigation of effects of cavity and orifice
parameters on the characteristics of a synthetic jet flow," Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 165, pp.
351-366, 2011.
71. Agrawal, A., "Analysis of vortex cores in turbulent flows," Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 11, pp. 1-9,
2010.

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72. Demsis, A., Prabhu, S.V., and Agrawal, A., "Influence of wall conditions on friction factor for flow of
gases under slip condition," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 34, pp. 1448-1455,
2010.
73. Demsis, A., Verma, B., Prabhu, S.V., and Agrawal, A., "Heat transfer coefficient of gas flowing in a
circular tube under rarefied condition," International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Vol. 49, pp.
1994-1999, 2010.
74. Tikekar, M., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., "Measurement and modeling of pulsatile flow in
microchannel," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 9(6), pp. 1225-1240, 2010.
75. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., "A first attempt to numerically compute forces on birds
in V-formation," Artificial Life, Vol. 16 (3), pp. 245-258, 2010.
76. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Heat Transfer Analysis in a Rectangular Duct
Without and With Cross-flow and an Impinging Synthetic Jet," IEEE Transactions on Components
and Packaging Technologies, Vol. 33, pp. 488-497, 2010.
77. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Influence of Blockage and Upstream Disturbances on
the Performance of a Vortex Flowmeter with a Trapezoidal Bluff Body," Measurement, Vol. 43, pp.
603-616, 2010.
78. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Effect of orifice shape in synthetic jet based
impingement cooling," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 34, pp. 246-256, 2010.
79. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A. "Near-field measurements and development of a new
boundary layer over a flat plate with localized suction," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 48, pp. 747-762,
2010.
80. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Heat transfer characteristics of synthetic jet
impingement cooling," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 53, pp. 1057-1069,
2010.
81. Joshi, H., Agarwal, A., Puranik, B.P., Shu, C., and Agrawal, A., "A hybrid FVM-LBM method for
single and multi-fluids compressible flow problems," International Journal for Numerical
Methods in Fluids, Vol. 62 (4), pp. 403-427, 2010.
82. Singh, S.G., Duttagupta, S.P., and Agrawal, A., "In-situ impact analysis of very high heat flux
transients on non-linear p-n diode characteristics and mitigation using on-chip single-phase and two-
phase microfluidics," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 18(6), pp. 1208-1219,
2009.
83. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., "On the effect of Reynolds number for flow around a
row of square cylinders," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 21 (083602), pp. 1-13, 2009.
84. Demsis, A., Verma, B., Prabhu, S.V., and Agrawal, A., "Experimental determination of heat transfer
coefficient in the slip regime and its anomalously low value," Physical Review E, Vol. 80 (016311),
pp. 1-8, 2009.
85. Djenidi, L., Agrawal, A., and Antonia, R.A., "Anisotropy measurements in the boundary layer over a
flat plate with suction," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 33, pp. 1106-1111, 2009.
86. Anand, R.K., Boersma, B.J., and Agrawal, A., "Detection of turbulent/non-turbulent interface for an
axisymmetric turbulent jet: Evaluation of known criteria and proposal of a new criterion,"
Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 47, pp. 995-1007, 2009.
87. Singh, S.G., Jain, A., Sridharan, A., Duttagupta, S.P., and Agrawal, A., "Flow map and measurement
of void fraction and heat transfer coefficient using image analysis technique for flow boiling of water
in silicon microchannel," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 19 (075004), pp.
1-9, 2009.
88. Bhide, R.R., Singh, S.G., Sridharan, A., Duttagupta, S.P., and Agrawal, A., "Pressure drop and heat
transfer characteristics of boiling water in sub-hundred micron channel," Experimental Thermal and
Fluid Science, Vol. 33, pp. 963-975, 2009.
89. Singh, S.G., Bhide, R.R., Duttagupta, S.P., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Two-phase flow pressure
drop characteristics in trapezoidal silicon microchannels," IEEE Transactions on Components and
Packaging Technologies, Vol. 32 (4), pp. 887-900, 2009.
90. Verma, B., Demsis, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Semi-empirical correlation for friction factor
with gas flow through smooth microtube," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 27
(3), pp. 584-590, 2009.

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91. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Agrawal, A., "Simulation of gas flow in microchannels with a single 90
bend," Computers & Fluids, Vol. 38, pp. 1629-1637, 2009.
92. Chaudhari, M., Verma, G., Puranik, B., and Agrawal, A., "Frequency response of a synthetic jet
cavity," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 33, pp. 439-448, 2009.
93. Saxena, I., Agrawal, A., and Joshi, S.S., "Fabrication of microfilters using excimer laser
micromachining and testing of pressure drop," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering,
Vol. 19 (025025), pp. 1-10, 2009.
94. Agrawal, A., and Verma, G., "Similarity analysis of planar and axisymmetric turbulent synthetic jets,"
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, pp. 6194-6198, 2008.
95. Singh, S.G., Kulkarni, A., Duttagupta, S.P., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., "Impact of aspect ratio on
flow boiling of water in rectangular microchannels," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol.
33, pp. 153-160, 2008.
96. Kumar, S.R., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., "Simulation of flow around a row of square cylinders,"
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 606, pp. 369-392, 2008.
97. Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Deduction of slip coefficient in slip and transition regimes from
existing cylindrical Couette flow data," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 32, pp. 991-
996, 2008.
98. Dongari, N., Agrawal, A., and Agrawal, A., "Analytical solution of gaseous slip flow in long
microchannels," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 50, pp. 3411-3421, 2007.
99. Burattini, P., Lavoie, P., Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., "Power law of decaying
homogeneous isotropic turbulence at low Reynolds number," Physical Review E, Vol. 73 (066304),
pp. 1-7, 2006.
100. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., "Investigation of flow around a pair of side-by-side
square cylinders using the lattice Boltzmann method," Computers & Fluids, Vol. 35, pp. 1093-1107,
2006.
101. Agrawal, A., and Agrawal, A., "Three-dimensional simulation of gaseous slip flow in different aspect
ratio microducts," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 18 (103604), pp. 1-11, 2006.
102. Agrawal, A., "Measurement of spectrum with particle image velocimetry," Experiments in Fluids,
Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 836-840, 2005.
103. Agrawal, A., "A conceptual model of entrainment in cumulus clouds," Journal of Atmospheric
Sciences, Vol. 62, No. 7, pp 2602-2606, 2005.
104. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., "Simulation of gas flow in microchannels with a sudden
expansion or contraction," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 530, pp. 135-144, 2005.
105. Agrawal, A., Boersma, B.J., and Prasad, A.K., "Direct numerical simulation of an axisymmetric
turbulent jet with off-source buoyancy induced acceleration," Flow, Turbulence and Combustion,
Vol. 73, No. 3/4, pp. 277-305, 2005.
106. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., "Evolution of a turbulent jet subjected to volumetric heating," Journal
of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 511, pp. 95-123, 2004.
107. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., "LIF based detection of low-speed streaks,"
Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 600-603, 2004.
108. Agrawal, A., Sreenivas, K.R., and Prasad, A.K., "Velocity and temperature measurements in an
axisymmetric turbulent jet with cloud-like off-source heating," International Journal of Heat and
Mass Transfer, Vol. 47, No. 6/7, pp. 1433-1444, 2004.
109. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., "Integral solution for the mean flow profiles of turbulent jets, plumes
and wakes," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 5, pp. 813-822, 2003.
110. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., "Measurements within vortex cores in a turbulent jet," Journal of
Fluids Engineering, Vol. 125, No. 3, pp. 561-568, 2003.
111. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., "Organizational modes of large-scale vortices in an axisymmetric
turbulent jet," Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 359-377, 2002.
112. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., "Properties of vortices in the self-similar turbulent jet," Experiments
in Fluids, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 565-577, 2002.

Review Articles

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113. Tripathi, S., Kumar, Y.V.B., Prabhakar, A., Joshi, S., and Agrawal, A., "Passive Blood Plasma
Separation at Micro-scale: A Review of Design Principles and Microdevices," Journal of
Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 25, 083001 (24 pp), 2015 (invited review article).
114. Tailor, P.B., Agrawal, A., and Joshi, S.S., "Evolution of electrochemical finishing process through
cross innovations and modeling," International Journal of Machine Tools & Manufacture, Vol. 66,
pp. 15-36, 2013.
115. Agrawal, A., "A comprehensive review on gas flow in microchannels," International Journal of
Micro-Nano Scale Transport, Vol. 2, pp. 1-40, 2011. (Invited review)
116. Agrawal, A., and Singh, S.G. "A review of state-of-the-art on flow boiling of water in microchannel,"
International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena,
Vol. 2, pp. 1-39, 2011. (Invited review)
117. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Review on vortex flowmeter - Designer perspective,"
Sensors & Actuators A, Vol. 170, pp. 8-23, 2011.
118. Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., "Survey on measurement of tangential momentum accommodation
coefficient," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 26, pp 634-645, 2008.

Submitted Articles
119. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Vortex Dynamics of a Trapezoidal bluff body Placed
Inside a Circular Pipe," Journal of Turbulence (revised manuscript submitted).
120. Saha, S.K., Agrawal, A., and Soni, Y., "Heat Transfer Characterization of Rhombic Microchannel for
H1 and H2 Boundary Conditions," International Journal of Thermal Sciences (revised manuscript
submitted).
121. Yadav, H., Agrawal, A., Srivastava, A., "Mixing and Entrainment Characteristics of a Pulse Jet,"
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (revised manuscript submitted).
122. Hrisheekesh, K., Agrawal, A., Sharma, A., Sheridan, J., "Near Body Vorticity Dynamics of a Square
Cylinder Subjected to Inline Excitation Superimposed over Mean Flow," Physics of Fluids (revised
manuscript submitted).
123. Duryodhan, V., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Heat distribution in converging and diverging
microchannel in presence of conjugate effect," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
(revised manuscript to be submitted).
124. Sooraj, P., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., "Force Estimation from PIV data: Drag Coefficient for an
Elliptical Cylinder," Flow Measurement and Instrumentation (revised manuscript to be submitted).
125. Patel, R., Sewatkar, C.M., Chaudhari, A., Agrawal, A., Sharma, A., "Experimental Investigation of
Flow around Two Side-by-Side Square Cylinders at Low Reynolds Number," Sadhana (revised
manuscript to be submitted).
126. Khosla, S.S., Sooraj, P., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., "On flow regimes around three side-by-side
cylinders," Measurement (revised manuscript to be submitted).
127. Jelia, P.R., Agrawal, A., Singh, R.K., Joshi, S.S., "Analytical Modeling and Design of Super-
hydrophobic Surfaces," Sadhana (under review).
128. Mohadikar, K., Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., “Improvement in the performance of the
vortex flowmeter using contraction cone," Measurement Science and Technology (under review).
129. Duryodhan, V., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Effect of cross aspect ratio on characteristic length scale
and onset of flow separation in diverging and converging microchannel," Sadhana (under review).
130. Siddique, A., Medhi, B.J., Saha, S.K., Agrawal, A., Singh, A., "Design of collector shape for uniform
flow distribution in microchannels," Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (under review).
131. Duryodhan, V., Chatterjee, R., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., "Mixing in planar spiral microchannel,"
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (under review).
132. Namshad, T., Agrawal, A., Sharma, A., "Effect of Chord-wise Flexibility on Free-Stream flow across
a Fish-Like Undulating Hydrofoil," Sadhana (under review).
133. Singh, N., Agrawal, A., "Derivation of stable Burnett equations for rarefied gas flows," Scientific
Reports (submitted).
134. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Investigations on Bluff Bodies as Improved Vortex
Shedders Placed Inside a Circular Pipe," Journal of Fluids Engineering (under review).

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135. Yadav, H., Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., "Study on Connecting Tube Dynamics for
Transient Pressure Measurement," Sensors & Actuators A (under review).
136. Bharath, K.S., Gaddam, A., Agrawal, A., Joshi, S.S., "Partial and complete wetting effects on friction
reduction in microchannel with textured surfaces,".
137. Shah, N., Gavasane, A., Agrawal, A., Bhandarkar, U., "Comparison of Various Pressure Based
Boundary Conditions for Three Dimensional Subsonic DSMC Simulation,".

Conference Publications (Total 75; including 2 in AIP in Conference Proceedings)

1. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Vortex Dynamics of Circular Cylinder Placed Inside a Pipe
in Unsteady Laminar Regime, 15th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics, Malaysia, 21-23 November
2016
2. Gavasane, A., Bhandarkar, U.V., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A.M., Study of rarefied gas flow in suddenly
expanded microchannel, 30th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Canada, 10-15
July, 2016
3. Shah, N., Gavasane, A., Agrawal, A., Bhandarkar, U.V., Selection of DSMC Parameters for Reducing
Computational Expense in Simulation of 3D Microchannel Flows, 30th International Symposium on
Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Canada, 10-15 July, 2016
4. Duryodhan, V., Singh, A., Singh, S.G., Agrawal, A., Three-dimensional numerical study of conjugate
heat transfer in diverging and converging microchannel, Sixth International Congress on
Computational Mechanics and Simulation, IIT Bombay, 27 June – 1 July 2016
5. Yadav, H., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., Characterization of free and impinging pulse round jet,
International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-18 June 2015
6. Joshi, A., Yadav, H., Agrawal, A., Particle image velocimetry based measurements and analysis of
synthetic jet, International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-
18 June 2015
7. Bhapkar, U.S., Srivastava, A., Agrawal, A., Acoustic and heat transfer characteristics of high aspect
ratio elliptic synthetic jet, International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows, Stockholm,
Sweden, 16-18 June 2015
8. Shah, N., Gavasane, A., Agrawal, A., Bhandarkar, U.V., Comparison of various boundary conditions
for three-dimensional subsonic DSMC simulation, 24th International Conference on Discrete
Simulation of Fluid Dynamics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 13-17 July 2015
9. Gavasane, A., Pradeep, A.M., Agrawal, A., Bhandarkar, U.V., Study of flow behavior in L shaped
microchannels, 24th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics, Edinburgh,
Scotland, 13-17 July 2015
10. Khan, M.H., Agrawal, A., Srivastava, A., Sharma, A., Three Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry
—A Geometric Approach, 42nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, NIT
Surathkal, 14-16 December 2015
11. Namshad, T., Shrivastava, M., Agrawal, A., Sharma, A., Hydrodynamics of Fish-like Locomotion of
Rigid as compared to Flexible Hydrofoil, 42nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid
Power, NIT Surathkal, 14-16 December 2015
12. Khan, M.H., Sooraj, P., Srivastava, A., Sharma, A., Agrawal, A., Experimental and Numerical Study
of Flow around a Cube, 42nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, NIT
Surathkal, 14-16 December 2015
13. Singh, N., Agrawal, A., Onsager’s Principle Consistent 13 Moments Transport Equations, (paper
number 734), 5th International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT
Kanpur, 12-14 December 2014
14. Shrivastava, M., Malusthe, M., Agrawal, A., Sharma, A., CFD study on flow across three fish-like
undulating hydrofoils in side-by-side arrangement, (paper number 594), 5th International and 41st
National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Kanpur, 12-14 December 2014
15. Gavasane, A., Agrawal, A., Pradeep, A. M., Bhandarkar, U.V., Study of Temperature Drop in
Microchannel using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method, (paper number S10-13), 29th
International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, July 13 - 18, 2014, Xi'an, China (also AIP
Conference Proceedings 1628, 785, 2014; doi: 10.1063/1.4902673)

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16. Hemadri, V., Bhandarkar, U.V., Agrawal, A., Occurrence of Knudsen Minima in Diverging
Microchannels, (paper number S4-08), 29th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, July
13 - 18, 2014, Xi'an, China (also AIP Conference Proceedings 1628, 712-716, 2014; doi:
10.1063/1.4902663)
17. Pant, C.S., Bhattacharya, A., Agrawal, A., Condensation growth and spectra of droplets in cumulus
clouds. Paper No. HMTC1300203, ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, 28-31
December 2013, IIT Kharagpur
18. Yadav, H., Agrawal, A., Srivastava, A., Characterization of pulsating submerged impinging jet – A
PIV study. Paper No. HMTC1300197, ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, 28-31
December 2013, IIT Kharagpur
19. Duryodhan, V., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., Study of liquid flow through converging microchannel
and its comparison with diverging microchannel, Paper 202, 40th National Conference on Fluid
Mechanics and Fluid Power, NIT Hamirpur, 12-14 December 2013
20. Venugopal, A., Orda, L., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Symmetric vortex shedding in the wake of
circular cylinder placed inside a pipe, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's
Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), 24–26 November 2013, Pittsburgh, United States
21. Agrawal, A., Venugopal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Spanwise correlation in the wake of circular cylinder and
normal plate placed inside a pipe, 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division
of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), 24–26 November 2013, Pittsburgh, United States
22. Venugopal, A., Orda, L., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Investigation of Flow around Cylinder with
Parallel Slit in a Circular Pipe using Flow Visualization Approach, 66th Annual Meeting of the
American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), 24–26 November 2013, Pittsburgh,
United States
23. Orda, L., Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Influence of After Body Shape on the
Performance of Blunt Shaped Bodies As Vortex Shedders, International Conference on Fluid
Mechanics and Application, ICFMA 2013, 7-8 Oct 2013 Paris, France
24. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., Prabhu, S.V., Flow over a circular cylinder placed inside a pipe, 14th
European Turbulence Conference, ENS Lyon France, 1-4 September 2013
25. Venugopal, A., Agrawal A., and Prabhu, S.V., Flow visualization studies on trapezoidal bluff for
vortex flowmeter application, XX IMEKO World Congress, Busan, Korea, 9-14 September 2012.
26. Singh, N., and Agrawal, A., Analytical solution of Burnett equation for plane Poiseuille flow, paper
229, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December
2012.
27. Prasad, K., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., Effect of rotationally oscillating side cylinders on free
stream fluid flow across three cylinders, paper 203, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and
Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
28. Duryodhan, V., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., Study of liquid flow through non-uniform cross section
microchannel, paper 200, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, SVNIT,
Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
29. Prabhakar, A., Kumar, YVBV, Tripathi, S., Singh, S.G., and Agrawal, A., A novel, compact and
efficient microfluidic device for blood plasma separation, paper 167, 39th National Conference on
Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
30. Varade, V., Pradeep, A.M., Prabhu, S.V., and Agrawal, A., Experimental study of rarefied gas flow
through tube with sudden expansion, paper 161, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and
Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
31. Ashraf, I., Khan, M.H., Sooraj, P., Agrawal, A., Srivastava, A., and Sharma, A., Wake structure of
pitching airfoil at low Reynolds number, paper 202, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics
and Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
32. Jain, D., Srivastava, A., and Agrawal, A., Optical flow-based velocity field measurement technique
from a sequence of schlieren images, paper 181, 39th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and
Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.
33. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Flow regimes and wake interaction for flow around
multiple square cylinders in different configurations, paper 224, 39th National Conference on Fluid
Mechanics and Fluid Power, SVNIT, Surat, 13-15 December 2012.

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34. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., Vortex cross correlation flowmeter, Towards Smarter
and Greener Flow Measurement and Control, FCRI Global Conference and Exhibition, Flow Control
Research Institute, Palakkad, 18-20 January 2012.
35. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., Installation effects on the performance of vortex
flowmeter with piezo-sensor, Towards Smarter and Greener Flow Measurement and Control, FCRI
Global Conference and Exhibition, Flow Control Research Institute, Palakkad, 18-20 January 2012.
36. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Numerical and experimental study of flow around
multiple in-line square cylinders, IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Boday Flows, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, 12-16 December 2011.
37. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., Analysis of vortex flowmeter signal with empirical
mode decomposition and autocorrelation function, IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Boday Flows, Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 12-16 December 2011.
38. Prasad, K., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A.,Effect of cylinder-spacing on flow across three side-by-side
cylinders, IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Body Flows, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 12-16
December 2011.
39. Bhadouriya, R.S., Agrawal A., and Prabhu, S.V., Laminar fluid flow studies in twisted square duct,
38th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power - NCFMFP, 2011, AM-13.
40. Bhadouriya, R. S., Agrawal, A., Kulkarni, N.B., and Prabhu, S.V., Laminar flow heat transfer studies
in twisted square duct, 21st National and 10th ISHMT – ASME conference on Heat and Mass transfer,
2011, pp. 651-656.
41. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., Comparison of piezo-sensor and differential wall
pressure sensor for vortex flowmeter application, 11th Asian International Conference on Fluid
Machinery, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, 21-23 November 2011.
42. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Effect of spacing between the cylinders on lock-on and
non-lock-on for flow around row of transversely oscillating cylinders, 37th National and 4th
International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Indian Institute of Technology,
Chennai, 16-18 December 2010.
43. Varade, V., Prabhu, S.V., Pradeep, A.M., and Agrawal, A., Experimental study of gas microflow
through 90 bend, Paper No. 213, Proceedings on the Second European Conference on Microfluidics -
Microfluidics 2010, Toulouse, France, December 8-10 2010.
44. Tailor, P.B., Thakur, P.S., Agrawal, A., and Joshi, S.S. Experimental investiagtion on electro-chemical
buffing, pp. 35-37, The Seventh International Workshop on Microfactories (IWMF 2010), Daejeon,
Korea, 24-27 October 2010.
45. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Flow regimes and wake interaction for flow across a
row of transversely oscillating square cylinders, IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Boday Wakes and
Vortex-Induced Vibrations (BBVIV-6), Capri Island, Italy, 22-25 June 2010.
46. Sewatkar, C.M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Aerodynamic forces on square cylinders placed in V-
formation, IUTAM Symposium on Bluff Boday Wakes and Vortex-Induced Vibrations (BBVIV-6),
Capri Island, Italy, 22-25 June 2010.
47. Sewatkar, C.M., Vamsi Krishna, M., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Lattice Boltzmann method based
simulations for flow around row of transversely oscillating cylinders, 20th National and 9th
International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, India, Paper No. 325, 4-6 January 2010.
48. Prasad, K.K., Paramane, S.B., Sharma, A., and Agrawal, A., Forced convective flow across a rotating
cylinder in a channel, 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer
Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, Paper No. 327, 4-6 January 2010.
49. Mall, A., Jelia, P.R., Agrawal, A., Singh, R.K., and Joshi, S.S., Design of arrayed micro-structures to
get super-hydrophobic surface for single droplet and bulk flow conditions, Proceedings of the Comsol
Conference 2009, Bangalore, India, 2009.
50. Kumar, N., and Agrawal, A., Study of blood flow in microchannels, 3rd International Congress on
Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS09), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India,
1-5 December 2009.

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51. Chaudhari, M., Puranik, B., and Agrawal, A., Heat transfer enhancement with synthetic jet
impingement cooling, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (IC-
ICAME), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, 2008.
52. Chaudhari, M., Verma, G., Puranik, B., and Agrawal, A., Near field measurements and cavity design
of synthetic jet, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Seattle, USA, Paper no. 2008-4068, 2008.
53. Saxena, I., Joshi, S.S., and Agrawal, A., A Study of Fabrication of Micro-filters by Excimer Laser
Micro-machining, 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Materials Processing, Guilin-Guangzhou, China,
June 15-20, 2008.
54. Prasad, K., Agrawal, A., and Sharma, A., Effect of channel confinement on fluid flow and heat
transfer across a cylinder, National Conference on Advances in Heat and Mass Transfer, December
2008.
55. Anand, R., and Agrawal, A., Detection of turbulent/ non turbulent interface from PIV data of a jet,
34th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Ranchi, India, December 10-12, 2007.
56. Venugopal, A., Agrawal, A., and Prabhu, S.V., Numerical Investigations on the Vortex Shedding of a
Circular Cylinder as applicable to Vortex Flowmeter, 34th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics
and Fluid Power, Ranchi, India, December 10-12, 2007.
57. Agarwal, A., Agrawal, A., Puranik, B., Chu, S. Novel LBM scheme for Euler equations, Paper No.
4570, Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Germany, 2007.
58. Singh, S.G., Duttagupta, S.P., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., Experimental study of two phase flow in
micro channel, 5th International Conference on Nanchannels, Microchannels and Minichannels,
Puebla, Mexico, June 18-20, 2007.
59. Verma, G., and Agrawal, A., Effect of cavity dimensions on synthetic jet formation and evolution, 33rd
National & 3rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Mumbai, India,
December 7-9, 2006.
60. Dongari, N., and Agrawal, A., Analytical Investigation of rarefied gas flow in long microchannels,
33rd National & 3rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Mumbai, India,
December 7-9, 2006.
61. Sultania, G., Prabhu, S.V., and Agrawal, A., An experimental investigation of slip flow of rarefied
gases through a tube, 33rd National & 3rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid
Power, Mumbai, India, December 7-9, 2006.
62. Singh, S.G., Duttagupta, S.P., Puranik, B.P., and Agrawal, A., Experimental study of two phase flow in
micro channel, 33rd National & 3rd International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power,
Mumbai, India, December 7-9, 2006.
63. Prabhudharwadkar, D., Agrawal, A., and Iyer, K., An adaptive solver for two dimensional transient
conduction problems with unstructured mesh, 33rd National & 3rd International Conference on Fluid
Mechanics and Fluid Power, Mumbai, India, December 7-9, 2006.
64. Agrawal, A., Bhattacharya, A., and Agrawal, A., Three-dimensional simulation of gas flow in
microducts, 18th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Guwahati, India,
January 4-6, 2006.
65. Agrawal, A., and Agrawal, A., Three-dimensional simulation of gas flow in microducts, 3rd
International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, Canada, June 13-15, 2005.
66. Agrawal, A., Burrattini, P., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., Interaction between wakes shed by two
side-by-side square cylinders, 35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Toronto, Canada,
June 6-9, 2005.
67. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., Evolution of anisotropy over a flat plate with suction,
12th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques in Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon,
Portugal, July 12-15, 2004.
68. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A., Measurements over a flat plate with and without suction,
iTi Conference on Turbulence, Germany, Septermber 21-24, 2003.
69. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., Characteristics of Cumulus Cloud Entrainment: Experimental and
Numerical Results, 5th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Toulouse, France, August 24-28, 2003.
70. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., Properties of large vortices in the far-field of a turbulent jet, 54th
American Physical Society Meeting, San Diego, USA, November 18-20, 2001.

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71. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., A laboratory analogue for cloud entrainment: measurements in a jet
with off-source heating, poster presentation at the Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
Conference, Veldhoven, Netherlands, November 5-6, 2001.
72. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., Properties of large structures in the far-field of a turbulent
axisymmetric jet, 4th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry, Gottingen, Germany,
September 17-19, 2001.
73. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., A laboratory analogue for cloud entrainment: whole-field velocity and
temperature measurements in a volumetrically heated jet, 2nd Turbulent Shear Flow Phenomena
Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27-29, 2001.
74. Agrawal, A., and Prasad, A.K., Measurements in an axisymmetric jet with cloud-like off-source
heating, 53rd American Physical Society Meeting, November 19-21, Washington, USA, 2000.
75. Agrawal, A., Sreenivas, K.R., and Prasad, A.K., Effect of off-source volumetric heating on
entrainment in a downward jet, 53rd APS/DFD Meeting, November 19-21, Washington, USA, 2000.

Edited Volumes / Book Chapters

1. Chaudhari, M. and Agrawal, A., "Heat transfer in presence of synthetic jets," Chapter 4.24, The CRC
Handbook of Thermal Engineering second edition (Ed: R.P. Chhabra), (to appear).
2. Hrisheekesh, K. and Agrawal, A., "Lattice Boltzmann Method," Chapter 5.5, The CRC Handbook of
Thermal Engineering second edition (Ed: R.P. Chhabra) (to appear).
3. Agrawal, A. and Muralidhar, K., Guest Editors, Special Issue of Sadhana, May 2015.
4. Singh, S.G., Bhide, R.R., Duttagupta, S.P., Sridharan, A., and Agrawal, A. "Experimental study of
water boiling in microchannel," Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Eds: L. Cheng
and D. Mewes, Vol. 3, pp. 246-303, Chapter 6, 2010 (Bentham Science Publishers). (Invited book
chapter)
5. Agrawal, A., Djenidi, L., and Antonia, R.A. "Measurements over a flat plate with and without
suction," in Progress in Turbulence, Eds: J. Peinke, A. Kittel, S. Barth and M. Oberlack, Vol. 101,
Part IV, pp. 121-124, 2005.
6. Agrawal, A., Boersma, B.J., and Prasad, A.K. "Direct numerical simulation of an axisymmetric jet
with cloud-like heating," in Advances in Fluid Mechanics, Eds: M. Alam, R. Govindarajan, O.N.
Ramesh and K.R. Sreenivas, 2003.

Invited Talks
June 2016 Sixth International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, 27 June-1 July
2016, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
18-Dec-2015 23rd National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE
Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram
2-Dec-2015 Third Conference on Nanotechnology for Biological and Biomedical Applications, IIT
Bombay
27-Aug-2015 Indo-UK Workshop on “Micro and Nano Fluidics for Health and Diagnostics” at CSIR-
Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India
12-Sep-2014 Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
12-Dec-2013 40th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, NIT Hamirpur
23-Mar-2013 2nd National Conference on Advances in Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Aligarh
21-Dec-2011 International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices, IIT Kanpur
17-Feb-2009 Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
04-Oct-2002 Department of Aerospace Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
30-Nov-2001 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Reviewership
Nature Scientific Reports Nanoscale

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics Physics of Fluids
Applied Physics Letters Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Journal of Geophysical Research Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Heat Transfer International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Numerical Heat Transfer International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Journal of Fluids Engineering Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
Computers & Fluids Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences
Sensors and Actuators A International Journal of Thermal Sciences
Experiments in Fluids Journal of Fluids and Structures
Optics and Lasers in Engineering Annals in Nuclear Science and Engineering
Applied Thermal Engineering Applied Mathematics and Computations
Applied Mathematical Modelling ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Journal of Turbulence Heat Transfer Research
Fluid Dynamics Research Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sadhana Indian Journal of Material Science and Industrial Research

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