Prof. Anupam Dewan

Prof. Anupam Dewan has more than 26 years post-Ph.D. experience (of which over 16 years as Professor). He is a product of four reputed institutions: (1) NIT Kurukshetra (where he obtained his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1989), (2) IISc Bengaluru (where he obtained his master's and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1996, respectively, both in Mechanical Engineering), (3) IIT Guwahati (where he earlier worked as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering from 1997 to 2009) and (4) IIT Delhi (where he is currently Professor, Dept. of Applied Mechanics). Earlier he was Chairperson, Dept. of Applied Mechanics Research Committee (DRC) for two years (2018 - 2020) and R.C. Malhotra Chair Professor for five years (2016 - 2021).

He earlier held Visiting Professor positions at University of Karlsruhe (2000-2001) and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2004-2005), both among leading German technical universities. He was a recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany in 2004-2005. He has authored the book Tackling Turbulent Flows in Engineering (2011), which is referenced the world over. He has been involved as PI and Co-PI with several sponsored projects. Thirteen of his Ph.D. and thirty nine master's students have completed their degrees. He has taught 21 different courses to a wide range of students.

His areas of interest include computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, large eddy simulation, and renewable energy. Prof. Anupam Dewan has extensively published research articles in these areas, which includes nine review articles in leading international journals. Presently he is (a) Editorial Board Member, Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal from May 2021 and (b) Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Part C: J. of Mechanical Engineering Science from June 2022. He was earlier (a) an Associate Editor of the journal Sadhana (Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences) from 2013 - 2020, (b) an Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Part C: J. of Mechanical Engineering Science from May 2020 to May 2022 and (c) Vice President, National Society for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP) from 2019 - 2022.

He is listed among top 2% researchers worldwide for (a) the career 2022, (b) the single year 2022 and (c) the single year 2021 impacts published by Elsevier. He has delivered invited lectures on several topics in different forums. He leads a team of several researchers working on quite diverse topics.