Education

• Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
• M.E., Aeronautical Engineering (Madras Institute of Technology)
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering (Bharathidasan University)

Research Work / Area

• Aerodynamics, Aeroacoustics, Unsteady flows, Flow instability, Experimental methods

Selected Journal Publications:

• B. R. Vinoth and Akshay Vishwas Gholap (2020). Stability Analysis of a Laminar Wall Jet in a Decelerating External Flow. AIAA Journal, Vol. 58, No. 8, pp. 3700-3705.
• Y. Joshi and B. R. Vinoth (2018). Entry Lengths of Laminar Pipe and Channel  flows. ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 140 (6), 061203.
• Y. Rathee, B. R. Vinoth, P. K. Panigrahi and K. Muralidhar (2015). Imaging flow during impingement of differentially heated jets over a flat surface. Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 294, No. 1, pp. 1-15.
• B. R. Vinoth and P. K Panigrahi (2014). Characteristics of low Reynolds number non-Boussinesq fountains from non-circular sources. Physics of Fluids, Vol. 26, No. 1, 014106.
• B. R. Vinoth and E. Rathakrishnan (2014). Experimental study of self-excitation of supersonic small plate impingement tones. ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 27 (4), 04014014.
• B. R. Vinoth, P. Throvagunta, and E. Rathakrishnan (2012). Effect of tube lip thickness on the performance of Hartmann-Sprenger (HS) tubes. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 226, pp. 74-87.
• B. R. Vinoth and E. Rathakrishnan (2011). Effect of impinging plate geometry on the self-excitation of subsonic impinging jets. Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 27, pp. 1238-1251.
• B. R. Vinoth, P. Throvagunta, and E. Rathakrishnan (2011). Effect of upstream reflector on jet screech. AIAA Journal, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 1151-1157.

Compressible Flow ToolKit (CFTK):

The purpose of this Android  applet is to provide a user-friendly gas dynamics calculator which will serve as a tool for understanding and also as a teaching aid. It includes Isentropic flow, Normal and Oblique shocks, Fanno and Rayleigh flow.

Download the current version

Gas dynamic tables:
This document contains the gas dynamic tables for Isentropic flow, Normal and Oblique shocks, Fanno and Rayleigh flow for specific heat ratio (gamma) of 1.4.

• Current version of Gas tables (pdf file)