Experience
Scientific Officer in Indira Gandhi Center of Atomic Research 1988-1992 (3.5 years)
Teaching in Engineering Colleges for 27 years
Teachings
- Fluid Mechanics and Machinery
- Heat Transfer
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Finite Element Methods
- Engineering Mathematics
Current Research Topics
- Parallel computing using MPI libraries
- Dynamics of Vortexes and interaction
- Computational fluid dynamics using open source tools such as Open Foam & FreeFem++
- Design, analysis and optimization of fluid machines
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Education
BTech from University of Kerala in 1987
MTech from IIT Madras in 1996
PhD from IIT Madras in 2002
MA (Economics) from IGNOU in 2020.
Training
Successfully completed a one year orientation training in Nuclear Science & Engineering at Training School, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 31st batch, Year of Graduation: 1988
Contact Address :
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering
NIT Sikkim
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International Journals
- Yadav, Mannu, and Anil Lal Sadasivan. "Taylor series solutions for area ratio and Prandtl-Meyer inverses using differential transform method." International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics 15.2 (2023): 110-114.
- Nageswaran, G., Mahadev Prabhu, Anil Lal S and R. Ajith Kumar. "Analytical models for critical heights of vortexing in flat and spherical bottom tanks with siphon and bottom drains." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 237.16 (2023): 3743-3752.
- Mahadev Prabhu, R. Ajith Kumar, Anil Lal S. "New Parameter to Characterize Rankine Vortex Formation in Liquid Draining Tanks." Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (2023).
- Abraham, Aji M., and S. Anil Lal. "Multi-Objective Optimization of an Axial Flow Turbine Design Using Surrogate Modeling and Genetic Algorithm." ASME Open Journal of Engineering 1 (2022).
- Sreejith, M., and Anil S. Lal. "On the roles of antisymmetric vorticity and particles changing over in two-dimensional vortex merging problems." AIP ADVANCES 11.8 (2021).
- Abhilash. R, Kwang-Yong Kim, S Anil Lal, Topological investigation of junction flow between cylinder and at plate, Accepted for publication in Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, IMechE, 2021.
- Aji Mathew Abraham and Anil Lal S, Optimization of a Draft Tube Design Using Surrogate Modelling and Genetic Algorithm, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C, Springer, 2021.
- Sreejith M, S. Anil Lal. and Abhijith S. Pai, "Numerical Analysis for the Assessment of Factors Influencing the Breakdown of Swirl Flow in a Cylinder Driven by a Rotating End Wall", ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering 143 (2), 021302 (11 pages), 2021.
- Ajith Kumar S. and S. Anil Lal., "Effects of Prandtl Number on Three Dimensional Coherent Structures in the Wake behind a Heated Cylinder", Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics Vo, 14, no. 2 (2021): 515-526.
- A.S. Karthika, S. Anil Lal, Suneesh S.S and T. Jayachandran, Numerical Simulation and Characterization of Swirl Fluid Motion through Cylindrical Chambers, Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies , Vol.72, No.4, pp.218-228, 2020
- K. Aswathy Nair, A. Sameen, and S. Anil Lal, "Passive Boundary Layer Flow Control Using Porous Lamination." Transport in Porous Media 124, no. 2 (2018): 533-551.
- R. Abhilash, S. Anil Lal, Three dimensional analysis of natural convection in a narrow vertical annulus closed at top and opened at bottom, International Journal of Thermal Sciences 127 (2018) 277-287.
- G.S. Avinash and S. Anil Lal. "Inverse design of airfoil using vortex element method." International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems 11, no. 2 (2018): 163-170.
- A Sameen, S. Ajith Kumar, Manikandan Mathur and S. Anil Lal, Effects of Prandtl number on the laminar cross flow past a heated cylinder, Physics of fluids 28 (2016), no. 11, 113603-1.
- S. Anil Lal and C. Reji, Numerical prediction of natural convection in vented cavities using Restricted Domain Approach, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 52(2009) 724-734.
- E Jabir and S. Anil Lal, Numerical analysis of blood flow through an elliptic stenosis using large eddy simulation, Proc IMechE Part H: J Engineering in Medicine (2016).
- S. Anil Lal, S Ajith Kumar and A Sameen, Flow past a moderately heated horizontal cylinder at low Reynolds number, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G (2015), 1-16.
- S. Anil Lal and Neeraj M Paul, An accurate taylors series solution with high radius of convergence for the Blasius function and parameters of asymptotic variation, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics 7 (2014), No. 4, 557-564.
- S Anil Lal and V Arun Kumar, Numerical prediction of natural convection in a vertical annulus closed at top and opened at bottom, Heat transfer engineering 34 (2013), no. 1, 70-83.
- M.R. Rajkumar, G. Venugopal, and S. Anil Lal, Natural convection from free standing tandem planar heat sources in a vertical channel, Applied Thermal Engineering 50 (2013), no. 1, 1386-1395.
- M.R. Rajkumar, G. Venugopal, and S. Anil Lal, Natural convection with surface radiation from a planar heat generating element mounted freely in a vertical channel, Heat and mass Transfer 47 (2011), no. 7,789-805.
- S. Anil Lal and E Jabir, A hybrid finite element finite volume method for incompressible flow through complex geometries using mixed grids, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 224 (2010), no. 1, 23-41.
- S. Anil Lal, R.V. Reji, and K.S. Santhosh, Evaluation of diffusive flux across faces of arbitrary shaped finite volume cells, Computers & Fluids 57 (2012), 225-236.
- S. Anil Lal and R.V. Reji, Numerical simulation of natural flow of air through a room, International journal of green energy 9 (2012), no. 6, 540-552.
- K.C. Gopalakrishnan, R. Ramesh Kumar, and S. Anil Lal, Cohesive zone modelling of coupled buckling debond growth in metallic honeycomb sandwich structure, Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials 14 (2012), no. 6, 679-693.
- R.V. Reji and S. Anil Lal, A new direct simulation Monte-Carlo implementation for more efficient simulation of hypersonic flow over arbitrarily shaped bodies using dynamic cells, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2016), no. 0, 1-16.
- R.V. Reji and S. Anil Lal, Simulations of hypersonic flow past a re-entry capsule using dsmc method, Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 7 (2016), no. 28, 1-8.
- Reji R.V and S. Anil Lal, Evaluation of SPARTA DSMC tool for chemistry modelling in high temperature flows, International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Vol. 5, Issue 7, 937-940, July 2014.
- M.R. Rajkumar, G. Venugopal, and S. Anil Lal, Numerical study of natural convection from a heat generating element using a locally divergence free FEM and comparison with experiment, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 39 (2012), 4, 530-536.
- S. Anil Lal, B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, N. Sitaram, "Geometry Based Hyperbolic Grid Generation for Computational Fluid Dynamics", AIAA Journal, Vol. 39, No. 10, 2001.
- S. Anil Lal, B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, N. Sitaram, Finite Volume Analysis of Inviscid Interaction for Two-Dimensional Transonic Axial Turbine Stage Using Multi-Block Hybrid Grids, International Journal of Turbo and Jet Engines, Vol. 19, 157-177(2002).
Books Published/Monographs Written
- Advanced Mechanics of Solids, ISBN: No. 978-80-85-955-35-4, Siva Publications, Pathanamthitta, Year 2017.
- Calculus, ISBN: No. 978-81-933029-1-0, Radhima Publications, Trivandrum, Year 2016.
e-print@arxiv.org
- Ramachandran. R, S. Anil Lal, Analyses and estimation of certain design parameters of micro-grooved heat pipes, arXiv: 1702.05134.
- A. Jayakrishnan, Anil Lal, Assessing the practicability of the condition used for dynamic equilibrium in Pasinetti theory of distribution, arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05229, 2021, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05229.pdf
- Milin, Martin. "Accurate benchmark results of Blasius boundary layer problem using a leaping Taylors series that converges for all real values." arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.02215 (2022).
- Krishna, Greeshma, Malavika S. Nair, Pramod P. Nair and Anil Lal S. "Physics-informed Neural Networks approach to solve the Blasius function." arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00106 (2022).
International Conference Papers
- Abhilash R, S. Anil Lal, "INVESTIGATION ON SECONDARY FLOW LOSS REDUCTION BY SLOTTING THE END-WALL OF A TURBINE STATOR CASCADE", Proceedings of the 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), December 10-12, 2018, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, FMFP 2018 - PAPER NO. 218
- R. Abhilash and S. Anil Lal, "Investigation on bi-modal dynamics of junction flow using large eddy simulation", in Proceedings of the 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power December - FMFP 2017,Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, December 14-16, 2017.
- Jabir E., H. D. Kim and S. Anil Lal, LES PREDICTIONS OF BLOOD FLOW IN AN ECCENTRIC STENOSIS, KSME Conference 2017, Jeju Islands, South Korea in Proceedings of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers(KSME) 2017, November 2017.
- Reji R.V., Anil Lal S., H. D. Kim, DSMC Study on the Re-entry Aerothermodynamics of Space Recovery Capsules13th International Symposium on Experimental Computational Aerothermodynamics of Internal Flows (ISAIF 13)(7-11 May 2017)Okinawa, Japan
- A.S Karthika, T.C Sandeep, Neeraj Padman. U, M.R Rajkumar, S. Anil Lal, Control of vortex breakdown phenomenon in confined flows, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress, Paper No. 20, (2016).
- K.S. Santhosh, S. Anil Lal, DSMC simulations of ow over micro textured surfaces, Paper FDCM-O-154, XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2015) 2{5 December 2015, IIT Guwahati, India.
- A.S Karthika, J. Joshua, T. Milin, M.R Rajkumar, S. Anil Lal, Flow visualization studies in a cylindrical container with a rotating bottom end wall, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Leoben, Austria, Paper No. 123, (2015).
- S. Ajith Kumar and Mekha M. Menon and Sayooj A. P. and A. Sameen and Anil Lal S, "The effect of surface temperature on the vortex shedding in flow past circular cylinder", Thermal and Fluids Engineering Summer Conference , New York, USA (2015).
- Reji R.V., Santhosh K.S., and Anil Lal S., Hypersonic flow characteristics of combined at plate cylinder configurations using DSMC method, 41st National and 5th International conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2014), IIT Kanpur, India.
- Reji R.V., Abhilash R. and Anil Lal S., DSMC simulations of rarefied flow over a square cylinder, 5th International conference on computational mechanics and simulation (ICCMS 2014), CSIR, Chennai, India.
- S. Ajith Kumar and A. Sameen and S. Anil Lal, "Three dimensional wake transition of flow past a heated cylinder", Proc. IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Computation, Modelling and Control of Transitional and Turbulent Flows, Goa, India (December 15-18, 2014).
- K. Aswathy Nair, A. Sameen and S. Anil Lal, Computation of Boundary Layer Flow over Porous Laminated Flat Plate, Advances in Computation, Modelling and Control of Transitional and Turbulent Flows, IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Computation, Modelling and control of transitional and turbulence flows, Goa, India, Dec. 15-18, Ed. T. K. Sengupta et. al., 261-268, 2014.
- Aswathy Nair K and Ajith Kumar S and A. Sameen and Anil Lal S, "Self-similar profiles of boundary layer flows over porous laminated at plate", 67th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics , San Francisco, CA, USA (November 23-25, 2014).
- Jabir, E. and Lal, S. Anil, Blood Flow Through Concentric Stenosis: An Investigation Using LES, Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Applied Computing, 2014, Amritapuri, India, pages 14:1|14:7.
- Jabir, E. and Lal, S. Anil, Simulation of Blood Flow Through Eccentric Stenosis Using LES Proceeding of International congress on computational Mechanics and simulation, 2014, CSIR-SERC, Chennai, India.
- R. Ramachandran, S. Anil Lal and K. Ganesan, "EFFECT OF AXIAL HEAT CONDUCTION THROUGH THE COVER PLATE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HEAT PIPES", Proceedings of the 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 28-31, 2013, IIT Kharagpur, India.
- Ajith Kumar S and A. Sameen and Anil Lal S, "Span wise Plumes in Wakes behind Heated Cylinder", 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 24-26, 2013).
- Reji R.V., Santhosh K.S., Anil Lal S., Aero thermal analysis of hypersonic flow around a cylinder, International conference on energy and environment, 2013, RIT Kottayam.
- Santhosh K.S., Ashok Chitharenjan, Reji R.V., Anil Lal S., Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo Predictions of Rarefied hypersonic flow past a re-entry vehicle, IUTAM-2011, IIT Kanpur, India.
- Ajith Kumar S and A. Sameen and Anil Lal S, "Flow Past a Moderately heated Horizontal Cylinder at Low Reynolds Number", 64th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, USA (November 20-22, 2011).
- Anil Lal S., Santhosh K.S., R.V. Reji, A new approach for gradient evaluations for computation of flows, 10th International Symposium on Experimental and Computational Aerothermodynamics of Internal Flows(ISAIF10), VKI, Belgium, July 4-7, 2011.
- Reji R.V., Ramachandran, Anil Lal S., Numerical simulation of conjugate heat transfer from a rotating disc, 37th National and 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 16-18, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
- Karthika A.S., Shiblemon K.V. and S. Anil Lal, "Numerical analysis of flow in a vortexbcombustion chamber", Proceedings of the 37th National and 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 16-18, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
- Arun Kumar, E. Jabir and S. Anil Lal, Numerical Prediction of Asymmetric Natural Convection in a Narrow Vertical Annulus Closed at Top and Open at Bottom, 9th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, January 4-6, 2010, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
- M.R. Raj Kumar, G. Venugopal and S. Anil Lal, Numerical analysis of conjugate natural convection from a heat generating element placed centrally in a vertical channel, 9th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, January 4-6, 2010, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
- Fazil M, Z.A. Samitha, S. Anil Lal, Rajesh G. and P. Balachandran, "A parametric study for the optimisation of a supersonic ejector", International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, July 7-10, 2009.
- Ajith Joseph, M.R. Raj Kumar and S. Anil Lal, Conjugate natural convection with surface radiation in non-parallel vertical channels, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, July 7-10, 2009.
- M.R. Raj Kumar and S. Anil Lal, "Experimental and numerical study of natural convection from a free standing heat generating element in a vertical channel", 12th Asian congress of fluid mechanics, 18-21 August 2008, Daejeon, Korea.
- S. Anil Lal and C. Reji, "Numerical prediction of natural convection flow and heat transfer in side vented cavities", 8th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference held at JNTU Hyderabad, January 3-5, 2008.
- P.K. Jithesh, S. Anil Lal and M.R. Rajkumar, "Determination of radiation view factors considering shadow effect", International conference on Heat and Mass Transfer, Turkey, 15-17 June 2007.S. Anil Lal and R.C. Mehta, "Effect of thermocouple cavities on heat transfer measurements", Proc. of 6th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, 5-7 January 2004, IGCAR, Kalpakkam.
- S. Anil Lal and R.C. Mehta, "Effect of thermocouple cavities on heat transfer measurements",Proc. of 6th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, 5-7 January 2004, IGCAR,Kalpakkam.
- S. Anil Lal and B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, "Computation of gas side heat transfer of a turbine blade", Proc. of 5th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, Jan. 2002, Pune.
- S. Anil Lal, B.V.S.S.S. Prasad, "Numerical prediction of flow over a circular arc bump", Proc. of 1st International conference on fluid mechanics and fluid power held at IIT Delhi, 15-17 Dec., 1999.
- K. Velusamy, S. Anil Lal, A. Rajkumar, G. Vaidyanathan, "Thermal hydraulic works in support of PFBR" Proc. of International conference of fast breeder reactors and related fuel cycles, 1991, Kyoto, Japan.
- Chellapandi P., S. Anil Lal, Vaidyanathan G., "Structural integrity evaluations of PFBR control plug, SMIRT 11, Transactions Vol. E, Aug. 1991, Tokyo, Japan.
- S. Anil Lal, K. Velusamy, A. Rajkumar, "Software development for LMFBR thermal hydraulics" Proc. of International conference on Engineering Softwares, IIT Delhi, Dec. 1990. Selected National and internal (college) conference Papers
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