Faculty Bio

Dr. Anil Lal S. currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri from July 1, 2021, onwards. His research interests include Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, FEM, FVM, Statistics, Economics and Mathematics. He received B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from University of Kerala (TKM College of Engineering, Kollam) in 1987; M.Tech in Turbomachines from IIT Madras in January 1996; Ph.D. in Turbomachines from IIT Madras in April 2002. He also passed MA Economics in First Division from IGNOU in the December 2020 examination.  He had successfully completed a one-year orientation course in Nuclear Science and Engineering from BARC training school (31^st batch during 1987-88) and served as a scientific officer at Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam from August 1988 to March 1992. He has over 29 years of teaching experience at Government Engineering Colleges in Kerala before joining Amrita School of Engineering. He was Head of Mechanical Engineering Departments at Govt. Engineering College, Barton Hill and College of Engineering, Trivandrum. He has served as the PG Dean of Govt. Engineering College, Barton Hill for about 3 years.  He was Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology at the University of Kerala from May 2019- May 2021. He has authored two textbooks: Advanced Mechanics of Solids (ISBN: No. 978-80-85-955-35-4) and Calculus (ISBN: No. 978-81-933029-1-0) and coordinator of funded sponsored projects of about one crore.

He has successfully guided 5 candidates for their Ph.D. and examination on 2 Ph.D. thesis is in progress.  He has 30 Publications in International Journals and over 35 International conferences.