Education

• Ph.D. IIT Bombay
• M.E. College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai
• B.E. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore

Experience

Academics: 

• Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, July2025 onwards
• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, July2018- June2025
• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Dec2012-June2018
• Assistant Professor, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, June 2011-Dec 2012.
• Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Jan 2010- May 2011.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Jan 2004 – Jan 2008.
• Lecturer, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, May 2001- Dec 2003.

Industrial:

Research Work / Area

• Two-phase fluid flow ( Primarily Boiling Instabilites and Internal Cavitating flows)
• Radiation in participating solid media
• Thermal analysis in spacecraft components
• Electronic cooling

Peer Reviewed Journals 

1.  N.V.N.S. Sai Aravind, Anuja Vijayan and Pradeep Kumar P .2025, Transient Simulation of cavitation in Planar Venturi using Two-Fluid Model, Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, 13(2):15-35 (DOI:10.1615/InterfacPhenomHeatTransfer.2024055202)
2. Anuja Vijayan, Pradeep Kumar P, 2023, Characterization of cavitation zone in cavitating venturi flows: Challenges and road ahead,  Physics of  Fluids 35, 111301 (doi: 10.1063/5.0171921)
3.  Anuja Vijayan, Pradeep Kumar P, 2023, Experimental characterization of cavitation zone and cavity oscillation mechanism transitions in planar cavitating venturis Physics of  Fluids 35, 083331 (doi.org/10.1063/5.0161121 ) (Editor's pick)
4. Anuja Vijayan, Pradeep Kumar P, Kannan Iyer,2023, Experimental study and numerical sizing model for cavitation zone characterisation in cavitating venturis, Sådhanå,48:82 (doi.org/10.1007/s12046-023-02131-1)
5. Akhil Sharma, Pradeep Kumar P, Amrit Ambirajan, 2021, Scaling Radiation in Planar Participating, Anisotropically Scattering Gray Media Under Radiative Equilibrium,, AIAA-Journal of Thermophysics and  Heat Transfer  (doi.org/10.2514/1.T6359)
6. Mathew Saxon A, Pradeep Kumar P, Aravind Vaidyanthan, 2018,Computational study on heat transfer characteristics of supercritical methane flow in a rocket engine coolant channel, Computational Thermal Science, High Temperature Material processes,22(2-3):141-159.
7. T V Sanand, P Pradeep Kumar, P Unnikrishnan Nair, Paul P George, 2017. “Numerical and experimental evaluation of performance of centrifugal seals”, Sadhana, Vol 42, No.4, pp 479-488  ( Best paper award-FMFP 2015 Industry Academia Award)
8. Pradeep Kumar P., Khardekar, A.V., Iyer K.N., 2012 Experimental and Numerical investigation on a two phase natural circulation test facility. Heat Transfer engineering. 33 (9),775-785
9. Lakshmanan, S.P., Pandey, M., Pradeep, K.P., Iyer, K.N., 2010. “Study of startup transients and power ramping of natural circulation boiling systems”. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 239, 1076-1083.
10. Pradeep Kumar P., Mohan Lal, D., Renganarayanan, S., Kalanidhi, A., 2001. “Analysis of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in a Cryogenic Heat Pipe-An FEM Approach”. Journal of Energy Heat and Mass Transfer. 23, 1-21.
11. Pradeep Kumar P., Balaji, S.R., Mohan Lal, D., Kalanidhi, A., 2001. “Energy Optimisation Studies in a Diary Industry Ice Bank Tank”. International Journal of Ambient Energy. 22, 181-188.

Conferences

1.  Sankalp Vishnoi, Subramanya, Pradeep Kumar P, Thermal In-orbit Performance and Evaluation of Multi-staged Radiant Cooler with Sun-Shield Configuration variation, Springer Book series: Proc.of 9^th Asian Joint workshop on Thermo Physics and Fluid Science, 27-30 Nov, 2022, Utsunomiya, Japan (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9470-0_28)
2. Akhil Sharma, Pradeep Kumar P, Amrit Ambirajan, Guidelines for type and order of quadrature in discrete ordinates method for radiative transfer in plane parallel medium,, Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 17-20, 2021, IIT Madras
3. Akshita Arora, Pradeep Kumar P, Amrit Ambirajan, Sizing of Insulation Panels with a Coupled Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer Model, Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 17-20, 2021, IIT Madras
4. Ajin Ghosh K. K, Pradeep Kumar P, Bijudas C.R and Seena V, Performance study of valveless travelling wave piezoelectric pump in microchannels, 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), April 5-8, 2020, New Orieans, LA, USA
5. Anuja Vijayan, Siddharth Subbaraman, Pradeep Kumar P, On the Predictability of cavitation Zone in Cavitating Venturi , In: Proceedings of the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 10-12, 2018, IITB, Mumbai, India  (FMFP2018PAPER NO.399)
6. Kundan Parashar, Pradeep Kumar P, Shine S R, Chacko M J, Analysis of Looped Heat pipe for Electronic cooling in a space Vehicle  , In: Proceedings of the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 10-12, 2018, IITB, Mumbai, India  (FMFP2018PAPER NO.284)
7. Mathew Saxon A, Pradeep Kumar P, Aravind Vaidyanthan, Investigation of heat transfer characteristics of Methane in a rocket engine cooling channel flow at supercritical pressure: In: Proceedings of 1st National  Aerospace Propulsion conference:NAPC-2017, March 15-17,2017, IIT-Kanpur, Kanpur. (NAPC-2017-168)
8. Anuja Vijayan, Premchand V, Pradeep Kumar P, Nandakumar K, On the Modelling of Cavitating Venturi , In: Proceedings of the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, India  (FMFP2016PAPER NO.360)
9. Rakesh Sarma., Piyush Sharma., Digpal Kumar., Chandra, L., Pradeep Kumar P., Rajiv Shekhar.,   2012. “On the application of heat and fluid flow for designing solar thermal sub-systems”. International congress on Renewable Energy (ICORE), Grid Power for Renewables, Gujarat.
10. Pradeep Kumar P., Khardekar, A.V., Parulekar, G., Iyer K.N., 2008. “Stability experiments on a scaled natural circulation test facility”. In: Proceedings of IAEA- International conference, Mumbai, 263-266.
11. Pradeep, K.P., Khardekar, A.V., Parulekar, G., Iyer K.N., 2008. “CHF experiments using R-11 in a scaled forced flow test loop”. In: Proceedings of IAEA- International conference, Mumbai, 121-124.
12. Lakshmanan, S.P., Pradeep Kumar P., Pandey, M., Iyer, K.N., 2008. “Simulations for startup transients in a natural circulation boiling loop”. In: Proceedings of the ASME international conference on Nuclear Engineering, Orlando, FL, USA, ICONE16-48406.
13. Iyer K.N., Pradeep Kumar P., Khardekar, A.V., 2010. “Stability behaviour of Natural circulation systems”. In: Proceedings of the International workshop on New Horizons in Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics and Safety, Mumbai.

B.Tech (Core course handled)

• Thermodynamics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer 
• Air Breathing Propulsion
• Enginering Graphics

B.Tech (Lab course handled)

M.Tech- Thermal and Propulsion (Core course handled)

•  Fluid Dynamics
• Conduction and Radiation
• Convective Heat Transfer

ELECTIVES COURSES ( M.Tech and B.Tech)