Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

About

Mechanical engineering involves the analysis, design, manufacturing. and maintenance of various systems such as manufacturing plants, industrial equipment and machinery, heating and cooling systems, motor vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, robotics and even medical devices. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Amritapuri campus was started in 2004.The Department offers B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, MTech in Thermal and Fluids Engineering, MTech in Robotics and Automation, and PhD programs.

The research activities in the department are focused in the areas like Thermal and Fluids engineering, Engineering design, Materials and Manufacturing, Robotics and Bionics, and Process control and environmental engineering. The department is proud to have some of the most sophisticated lab equipment available today, in its state-of-the art laboratories. The competent and committed faculty in the department have extensive academic, research and industrial experience. A dedicated team of lab staff is also available to support students in the laboratory. In addition to the campus library, the department has an extensive departmental library with books and subscriptions to current journals.

Program Overview

Achievements

No of patents: 1
No of publications: 114

Research Areas under the program

Small Specimen Test Techniques
Product design, Machine design
Applied Mechanics of Auxetic Materials
Robotics and bionics
Al and other light alloys, Cu – Based alloys,
Tribology and simulation and optimization technology
Developing deep learning strategies for investigating the physical behaviour of fluids confined in nanoscale systems
Water Management and its Mitigation Methods in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
Bluff body flows at low Reynolds numbers, magneto-hydrodynamics, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, thermal convection problems
Biofluid mechanics – blood flow simulation (patient specific approach, image based CFD)