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Name : Dr. G. Venugopal
Designation : Asst. Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
College of Engineering,
Thiruvananthapuram
Office Address : Department of Mechanical Engineering,
College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram, 695016, Kerala, India
Office Hours : 9.00 AM to 4.00PM
Phone Number : +91-471-2515547(office)
Email Address : gvenucet@gmail.com
Education:
1. B.Tech
2. M.Tech
3. Ph. D
Area of Expertise:
1. Heat Transfer
2. Fluid Mechanics
3. Numerical Analysis
Most recently taught courses at College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram and elsewhere:
1. Basic Mechanical Engineering
2. Principles of Turbo Machinery
3. Heat and Mass Transfer
4. Measurements in Thermal Sciences
Research Interests
Most Recently Published Papers
Papers in Archival Journals
Sl No Month and Year Title Journals /Publication
1 2011 Natural convection
with surface
radiation from a
planar heat
generating element
mounted freely in a
vertical channel(to
Heat Mass Transfer

appear)
2 2010, December Application of
transient
experimental
techniques for
developing a heat
transfer correlation
for mixed
convection in porus
medium(Vol.18, No
8, pp 1129-1150)
3 2010, February Experimental study
of Mixed
convection heat
transfer in a vertical
duct filled with
metallic porous
structures 9vol. 49,
No.2, pp 340-348)
4 March 2009 A Hybrid
optimization
technique for
developing heat
transfer
correlations based
on transient
experiments
5 October ,2008 A Correlation for
laminar mixed
convection from
vertical plates using
transient
experiments.
Inverse problems in
science and Engineering
International journal of
thermal sciences
International journal of
Heat and Mass Transfer
Heat mass Transfer
6 June, 2008
Simultaneous
retrieval of total
hemispherical
emissivity and
specific heat from
transient
multimode heat
transfer
ASME Journal of heat
transfer

experiments.
Publication in International Conferences
Sl No Year Title Of Paper Name and Place of
Conference
1 2011 Natural convection
from planar heat
sources in tandem
arrangement in a
vertical channel
10 th international
symposium on
experimental and
computational
aerothermodynamics
of internal flows, Von
karman institute,
Belgium, July 4-
7,2011(to appear in
2 2011 Laminar aiding mixed
convection with
surface radiation in a
vertical annulus
3 2010 Numerical simulation
of thermo
hydrodynamics of a
novel micro channel
heat exchanger
4 2010 A numerical study on
buoyancy driven
convection in a mini
channel
5 2010 Numerical study on
natural convection in
the proceedings)
Proceedings of
International
conference on fluid
Mechanics, Heat
transfer and
Thermodynamics.
January. 25-27, 2011,
Dubai, UAE
Proceedings of joint
International
Symposia on 3 rd
micro and
nanotechnology and
micro/nano scale
energy conversion
and transport -2010,
Seoul, Korea.
Proceedings of
International
conference on
advances in
materials, machines
and management.
January 14-16, 2010.
Trivandrum India.
Proceedings of 11 th
national and 1 st

a square cavity with
linearly varying heat
flux on side wall(s)
6 2010 An Inverse thermal
problem for
simultaneous
estimation of
temperature
dependent thermal
conductivity and
specific heat
7 2010 Numerical Analysis
of conjugate natural
convection from a
heat generating
element placed
centrally in a vertical
channel
8 2008 Natural convection
with surface
radiation in a side
bottom vented open
cavity –An
experiment study.
Conference/ Seminars Conducted
international
conference on
technological trends
ICTT. Nov 25-
27,2010,
Trivandrum, India
Proceedings of 20 th
national and 9 th
international ISHMT-
ASME Heat and Mass
transfer Conference
January 4-6 ,2010,
Mumbai, India.
Proceedings of 20 th
national and 9 th
international ISHMT-
ASME Heat and Mass
transfer Conference
January 4-6 ,2010,
Mumbai, India.
Proceedings of 19 th
national and 8 th
international ISHMT-
ASME Heat and Mass
transfer Conference
January 3-5 ,2008,
Hyderabad, India.
Conference/ Seminars Attended
Research and Development (Including CERD Project)
Membership in professional societies
Current M.Tech Thesis guidance
1. Numerical Simulations of Transverse Injection Schemes in Supersonic Combustion
2. Numerical Analysis of Mixed Convection from a locally heated horizontal channel