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Manu K V

Dr. Manu K V
Associate Professor

  • R-105

Department
Aerospace Engineering

Research interests

Flow instability and transition to turbulence, Boundary layer flows, Stratified flows, Experimental fluid mechanics, Thermal Protection sytems

  • Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram (2021 onwards)
  • Assistant Professor: Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram (2016-20)
  • Assistant Professor: Department of Mechanical Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore (2015-16)
  • Post Doctoral fellow: Indian Institute of Science (2013-15)
  • Lecturer: IHRD College of Engineering, Chengannur (2005-06)

Education

  • PhD: Indian Institute of Science (2013)
  • M Tech: College of Engineering Trivandrum (2005)
  • B Tech: Government Engineering College Thrissur (2003)

Course Offered

  • Post Graduate : Compressible Fluid Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics
  • Undergraduate: Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Modelling and Analysis Lab. 

PhD.

  • Rahul Raj(SC26D005)
  • Kiran S (SC25D045) -
  • Goutham Girish (SC23D003) - Modelling of TPS for Reentry vehicles
  • Sarath K P (SC18D001) - DNS of Unsteady Flows  (Completed)

MTech

  • Ashish Asok (SC23M052) - 2024
  • Kalahasti Tejo Sai Muneeshwar (SC22M030) - 2023
  • Ayan Sarkar (SC21M043) - 2022
  • Mukesh R (SC20M125) - 2021
  • Alan Joseph (SC20M019) - 2021
  • Mohd Abdullah Khan (SC19M019) - 2020
  • Jeurkar Tejas Ashish (SC19M016) - 2020
  • Surendra Singh Ratnu (SC18M041) - 2019
  • Navaneet (SC18M081) - 2019
  • Ahire Swapnil Ashok (SC17M018) - 2018

Trajectory-resolved modelling of thermal and ablation response under re-entry conditions. (Goutham Girish, K.V. Manu
Aerospace Science and Technology, 177 (2026), 112316.)

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Direct numerical simulation of boundary layer transition induced by streamwise vortices

(Villodi, Navaneet, and Manu KV. "Characteristics of boundary-layer transition driven by diverse streamwise vortices." Physics of Fluids 34.7 (2022): 074113.)

 

Bluff body transition studies (Sarath, K. P., and K. V. Manu. "An investigation of bluff body flow structures in variable velocity flows." Physics of Fluids 34.3 (2022): 034102.)

 


 

The onset of turbulence in channel flows (Sarath, K. P., and K. V. Manu. "The onset of turbulence in decelerating diverging channel flows." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 962 (2023): A30.)

1. Goutham Girish, K.V. Manu
Trajectory-resolved modelling of thermal and ablation response under re-entry conditions, Aerospace Science and Technology, 177 (2026), 112316.

2. K.N.V.C.S Guptha, Goutham Girish, Manu K V
Exact Solutions of Thermal Response in Pulsed Laser Heating under Transient Dirichlet Conditions with Beer-Lambert Absorption Model, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, 2025.

3. K.P. Sarath, K.V. Manu
The onset of turbulence in decelerating diverging channel flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 962, A30, 2023.
(An image from this work was selected as the cover picture.)

4. R. Mukhesh, K.P. Sarath, Mulani Feroz Osman, M. Deepu, K.V. Manu
Asymmetric PCM melting and thermal convection in a rectangular enclosure with straight and wavy heat transfer passages, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 217, 124625, 2023.

5. K.P. Sarath, Mulani Feroz Osman, R. Mukhesh, K.V. Manu, M. Deepu
A review of the recent advances in the heat transfer physics in latent heat storage systems, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 101886, 2023.

6. Navaneet Villodi, K.V. Manu
Characteristics of boundary layer transition driven by diverse streamwise vortices, Physics of Fluids, 34(7), 074113, 2022.

7. K.P. Sarath, K.V. Manu
An investigation of bluff body flow structures in variable velocity flows, Physics of Fluids, 34(3), 034102, 2022.
(Editor's Pick)

8. Surendra Singh, K.V. Manu
Three-dimensional thermocline dynamics in thermal storage tanks, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 14(5), 1483–1495, 2021.

9. Anek V. Pillai, K.V. Manu
Analytical solutions for unsteady pipe flows with slip boundary conditions, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 13(3), 1015–1026, 2020.

10. K.V. Manu, J. Dey, J. Mathew
Boundary layer transition experiments with embedded streamwise vortices, Sādhanā, 43, 165, 2018.

11. S. Advaith, K.V. Manu, Ashay Tinaikar, U. Chetia, S. Basu
Interaction of vortex ring with a stratified finite thickness interface, Physics of Fluids, 29(9), 093602, 2017.

12. Sandeep Hatte, Carolina Mira-Hernández, S. Advaith, Aashay Tinaikar, Utpal Kumar Chetia, K.V. Manu, Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Justin A. Weibel, Suresh V. Garimella, Vinod Srinivasan, Saptarshi Basu
Short and long-term sensitivity of lab-scale thermocline based thermal storage to flow disturbances, Applied Thermal Engineering, 102, 1222–1233, 2016.

13. Aashay Tinaikar, S. Advaith, Utpal Kumar Chetia, K.V. Manu, Saptarshi Basu
Spatio-temporal disruption of thermocline by successive laminar vortex pairs in a single tank thermal energy storage, Applied Thermal Engineering, 102, 1143–1153, 2016.

14. K.V. Manu, P. Deshmukh, S. Basu
Rayleigh–Taylor instability in a thermocline based thermal storage tank, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 100, 333–345, 2016.

15. K.V. Manu, J. Dey, J. Mathew
Local structure of boundary layer transition in experiments with a single streamwise vortex, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 68, 381–391, 2015.

16. K.V. Manu, P. Anand, U.K. Chetia, S. Basu
Effects of instabilities and coherent structures on the performance of a thermocline based thermal energy storage, Applied Thermal Engineering, 87, 768–778, 2015.

17. K.V. Manu, J. Mathew, J. Dey
Evolution of isolated streamwise vortices in the late stages of boundary layer transition, Experiments in Fluids, 48(3), 431–440, 2010.

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