Fire and Thermal Research Laboratory
Sudheer Siddapureddy
sudheer@iitdh.ac.in
SPROUTS Experiments
FTRL Group
Fire and Thermal Research Laboratory (FTRL) at IIT Dharwad is emerging to facilitate studies on open and compartment pool fires both experimentally and numerically and also heat transfer investigations like jet impingment cooling, e-vehicle battery cooling. Some of the major focuses in this fire research laboratory are to establish innovative techniques for measuring different parameters in stand-alone and multiple pool fires. One of the major focuss in the thermal research laboratory are jet impingement, and battery thermal management.
Sudheer SiddapureddyPrincipal Investigator
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering,
IIT Dharwad, Karnataka, India.
Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship (iPDF)
Dr. Naveen KumarCFD, Turbulence, Combustion and Radiation Modeling, Hypersonic Reacting Flows, Turbulence Chemistry/Radiation Interactions (TCI and TRI), and Energetic Materials.
nkumar@iitdh.ac.in
PhD Students
Heena Ismail ShaikhStudy of Jet ImpingementCo-supervisor: Prof. SV Prabhu, IIT Bombay191121002@iitdh.ac.in
Vikas RResearch Scholar
Experimental and numerical studies on bodies engulfed in multiple pool fires
203121005@iitdh.ac.in
Dr. Bathina Siva Kumar (Graduated in 2023)Research Scholar
Numerical and experimental studies on double pool fires
sivakumar.bathina.17@iitdh.ac.in
Arun PattanashettiStudy of Co-axial Swirling Jets (Graduated in 2025)Co-supervisor: Prof. R. Santhosh, IIT BHU
183121002@iitdh.ac.in
Master Students
Ongoing Master Students
Surendra211032002@iitdh.ac.in
Interns
Aadhi Shankar R S Early Diagnosis of Cancer using Thermal Imagery Technique by Applying AI Models
Mareddy Naveen Kumar Reddy Battery Thermal Management
Dhananjay Patel AI and ML in Fire Safety Engineering
Ajay Kumar Juvvala Numerical Studies on Bioreactors
Previous RnD Project Staff
Mohammed Ismail RakkasgiTechnical Assistant
Previous Interns
Nirmith Emmanuel PuneetEgress Models (Experiments)
Pallavi Harshitha Reddy Numerical Simulations of Effusion Cooling
Previous JRFs
Chrisle CharlsJunior Research Fellow
SERB Project
Varun VengiJunior Research Fellow
SERB Project
Naveen TeggiJunior Research Fellow
DST INSPIRE Project
Previous Master Students
Rajat JoshiDrones in Fire Accidents211032002@iitdh.ac.in
Kondapalli Ravi PrabhakarFire Evacuation Models: Egress Models223031005@iitdh.ac.in
Dharmendar Kumar AnuragExperimental and Numerical Study of 0.13 m Diameter Ditertbutyl peroxide (DTBP) Pool FireSubmitted on July 2017 (IIT Patna)
Deepak V KoppadExperimental Investigations on Multiple Poool FiresSubmitted on July 2018 (SDMCET Dharwad)
Akshaya TasinNumerical Investigations on Multiple Pool FiresSubmitted on July 2018 (SDMCET Dharwad)
Raj ShettiExperiments of Nanofluids in Subcooled Pool BoilingPartial Submission during COVID-19 (SDMCET Dharwad)
Kiranraj P SagabalaTemperature and emissivity measurement using CCD cameraPartial Submission during COVID-19 (SDMCET Dharwad)
Completed B.Tech./RnD Projects
Tamminaina Syam KumarExperimental and Numerical Study of Fire Rescue Drone210030038@iitdh.ac.in
Ujjawal NirwanBattery Thermal Management210030042@iitdh.ac.in
Manindra Singh RathoreBattery Thermal Management210030019@iitdh.ac.in
Vikas KumawatBattery Thermal Management210030047@iitdh.ac.in
Swapnesh SinhaDeisgn of Drone for Fire and Sooty Environment210030036@iitdh.ac.in
Vansh YadavDrone Navigation in the Sooty Environment210030048@iitdh.ac.in
Aryaman J SinghFire Retardant Material Testing20030007@iitdh.ac.in
Dharani Samsritha PFire Retardant Material200030039@iitdh.ac.in
Kodamalla Vijay PrabhasExperimental Study of the Thrust Producing Components in a Drone200030028@iitdh.ac.in
Nelaturi NikhilThermal Testing of Fire Retardant Foam using Cone Calorimeter200030037@iitdh.ac.in
Patel VarshaNumerical Fire Simulations of Evacuation: Fire Accidents in Public Buildings200030040@iitdh.ac.in
Siddarth WalaNumerical Fire Simulations of Evacuation: Fire Accidents in Public Buildings200030055@iitdh.ac.in
Avinash KumarNumerical Fire Simulations of Evacuation: Fire Accidents in Public BuildingsCo-supervisor: Prof. Ameer KM180030010@iitdh.ac.in
Sohan AnisettyNavigation of Semi-Autonomous Drone for Fire Accidents in Public BuildingsCo-supervisor: Prof. Ameer KM180030040@iitdh.ac.in
Jetty Venkataramana Ramya Thermal Response of Intumescent Coating180030020@iitdh.ac.in
Ashish Raghav, 170030011Analysis of water injection system to the plant root system and load balance of the system
Bhaskar Sahu, 170030016Analysis of Major Fire Accidents
Subhamoy Rana, 170030025Numerical Fire Simulations
Anurag Arjunan, 160030007Design and fabrication of a Savonius wind turbine
Rahul Kumar, 160030010Fire evacuation simulations of a school building
Punyashlok Panda, 160030027OpenFOAM simulations of fire
Publications
International Journal Papers
Link to Google Scholar- Siva KB and Sudheer S, "Effect of Spacing Between the Double Pool Fires on the Flame Emissiviy and Temperature," Fire Technology, pp. 1-17, 2023.
- Heena IS, Sudheer S, and Prabhu SV, "Effect of Jet Plate Thickness on the Local Heat Transfer Coefficient with Multiple Air Jet Impingement," Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023.
- Siva KB and Sudheer S, "Experimental Investigation of Flame Height and Air Entrainment of n-Heptane Double Open Pool Fires," Experimental Heat Transfer, pp. 1-11, 2022.
- Siva KB and Sudheer S, "Numerical study of flame properties and energy balance in medium scale n-heptane pool fire with various lip heights and wind velocities," Heat Transfer Research, Vol. 52(18), pp. 77-93, 2021.
- Saket S, Sumit S, Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Performance of Intumescent Coatings in Cone Calorimeter and Open Pool Fires," Fire Research, Vol. 3, pp. 1-7, 2019.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Experimental and numerical simulation studies on heat transfer to calorimeters engulfed in diesel pool fires," Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 35, pp. 156-176, 2017.
- Sudheer S, Klaus-Dieter Wehrstedt and Prabhu SV, "Heat Transfer to Bodies Engulfed in Di-tert-butyl Peroxide Pool Fires - Numerical Simulations," Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Vol. 44, pp. 204-211, 2016.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Partitioning of Convective and Radiative Heat Fluxes Absorbed by a Lumped Body Engulfed in a Diffusion Flame," Fire Technology, Vol. 51, pp. 801-802, 2015.
- Reddy VM, Sudheer S, Prabhu SV and S. Kumar, "Design and Calibration of a New Compact Radiative Heat-Flux Gauge (RHFG) for Combustion Applications," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 203, pp. 62-68, 2013.
- Sudheer S, Kumar L, Manjunath BS, Pasi, A, Meenakshi, G and Prabhu SV, "Fire Safety Distances for Open Pool Fires," Infrared Physics & Technology, Vol. 61, pp. 265-273, 2013.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Heat Transfer in Vertical Casks Engulfed in Open Pool Fires," Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 31, pp. 541-562, 2013.
- Sudheer S, Saumil D and Prabhu SV, "Physical Experiments and Fire Dynamic Simulations on Gasoline Pool Fires," Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 31, pp. 309-329, 2013.
- Katti V, Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Pressure Distribution on a Semi-Circular Concave Surface Impinged by a Single Row of Circular Jets Article," Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 46, pp. 162-174, 2013.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Characterization of Hexane Pool Fires using Infrared Thermography," Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 31, pp. 143-165, 2012.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Measurement of Flame Emissivity of Hydrocarbon Pool Fires," Fire Technology, Vol. 48, pp. 183-217, 2012.
- Sudheer S and Prabhu SV, "Measurement of Flame Emissivity of Gasoline Pool Fires," Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 240, 2010, pp. 3474-3480, 2010.
Patent
- S.V. Prabhu, S. Kumar, V.M. Reddy and S. Sudheer, "Design of a Probe for Measuring Radiative Heat Flux of Combustion Systems," Application number: 3368/MUM/2012.
Book Chapter
- Swapnik J, Sudheer S, and Dhiraj VP, "On the Use of Origami for Solar Energy Harvesting," Solar Energy (monograph), Springer, 2019.
International Conference Papers
- S Heena, Sudheer S, and SV Prabhu, "Experimental study of the effect of jet plate thickness on the local heat transfer coefficient with multiple air jet impingement," Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December, Chennai, 2021.
- Siva KB, and Sudheer S, "A Correlation for the Visible Flame Height of Double Pool Fires," Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December, Chennai, 2021.
- Siva KB, and Sudheer S, "Numerical Assessments of Thermal Radiation from Large Kerosene Open Pool Fires," Proceedings of 8th Internatinal and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2020.
- Rahul K, Siva KB, and Sudheer S, "Fire and Evacuation Simulation of Kumbakonam School Fire Accident," Proceedings of 8th Internatinal and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2020.
- Siva KB, and Sudheer S, "Investigations on Pyrolysis Model for Radiatively Dominant Diesel Pool Fire Using Fire Dynamic Simulator," ICFSST 2019 London.
- Sudheer S and Deepak K, "Experimental Investigations of Separation Distance for the Transfer of Fire in Multiple Pool Fires," 7th International & 45th National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference (FMFP) 2018, Mumbai, pp. 213, 2018.
- Sudheer S and Akshaya T, "Large Eddy Simulations of Multiple Pool Fires," 7th International & 45th National Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference (FMFP) 2018, Mumbai, pp. 213, 2018.
- Siddapureddy S and Satapathy AK, "Liquid Sloshing in a Moving Tank – CFD," 6th International & 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2016), Allahabad, pp. 213, 2016.
- Lokendra Kumar, S Sudheer, BS Manjunath, RJ Patel, G Sugilal and SV Prabhu, "Melting in real life package in pool fire environment," Proceedings of first international ISHMT-ASTFE heat and mass transfer conference, 2015.
- S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Thermal Interaction Between A Circular Pipe And Diesel Pool Fire," ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, USA, 2012 (Presented).
- S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Behavior of Small Lumped Bodies Immersed in Diesel Pool Fire," Fire Science & Technology - Research and it's Implementation, CBRI, Roorkee, pp. 266-276, 2011 (Presented).
- S. Sumeet, S. Saket, S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Influence of External Heat Flux and Coating Thickness of Intumescent Coatings on the Fire Resistance to Stainless Steel," Fire Science & Technology - Research and it's Implementation, CBRI, Roorkee, pp. 67-76, 2011.
- S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Characterization of Hexane Pool Fires using Infrared Thermography," Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Hyderabad, pp. 674-681, 2010 (Presented).
- S. Desai, S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Fire Dynamic Simulations and Physical Ex- periments on Gasoline Open Pool Fires," Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Com- bustion, Hyderabad, pp. 689-696, 2010 (Presented).
- S. Sudheer and S.V. Prabhu, "Measurement of Emissivity of Small Diameter Open Pool Fires Using Infrared Thermography," Proceedings of the 20th National and 9th International, ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Mumbai, India, 2010 (Presented).
Lecture Notes
Running courses
- Mechanical Measurements
- Combustion and Fire Dynamics
This course incldes the following chapters: Fundamentals, Flames-Laminar Premixed Flames, Flammability Limits, Diffusion burning of liquids, Stagnation Layer Model, Spalding Number, Measurement in Fire-Thermocouples, Plate Thermometer, Heat Flux Sensors, Cone Calorimetry, Soot Volume Fraction, Numerical Fire Simulations-Introduction to Fire Dynamics Simulator.
Completed courses
- Engineering Graphics
This main purpose of this course to stirr the imagination of the student by various concepts. Watching videos is not advised but the student is being asked to think, imagine the concepts even if requires a few weeks to understand a particular concept. This course includes: Curves, Points, Projection of Lines, Planes, on Auxiliary Planes, Solid, Sections of Solids, Development of Surfaces, Intersections of Solids, AutoCAD, Isometric Projection. - Applied Thermodynamics
- Heat and Mass Transfer
This course consists of the following chapters: Introduction, Heat Diffusion Equation, 1D Steady-state Conduction, Fins, Transient Conduction, Multidimensional Conduction, Numerical Methods - FDS, Introduction to Convection, Convection Equations, External Flow, Internal Flow, Free Convection, Free Convection, Boiling and Condensation - Gas Turbines (Applied Thermodynamics)
This course consists of the following chapters: Introduction, Basics, Cycle Arrangements, Shaft Power Ideal Cycles, Shaft Power Real Cycles, Jet Propulsion Cycles, Rocket Propulsion - Steam Turbines (Applied Thermodynamics)
This course consists of the following chapters: Introducting Vapor Power Plants, Ideal Rankine Cycle, Performance Parameters, Improvisation: Feedwater Heaters, Combined Gas-Vapor Power Cycles - Turbomachines
This course includes the following chapters: Classification, Review of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Dynamic Similitude-Dimensionless Groups with incompressible and compressible flows, Characteristic Numbers of Turbomachines, Specific Speed and Specific Diameter, Power Specific Speed, Imperfect Similitude, Hydraulic Pumps-Components, NPSHA and NPSHR, Characteristics, Specific speed, Hydraulic Turbines-Hydraulic Energy, Types, Impulse and Reaction Turbines-Performance Characteristics, Velocity triangles, Specific Speed, Degree of Reaction and Speed Ratio, Cavitation, Draft Tubes, Conditions for maximum efficiency - Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer
This course consists of the following chapters: Introduction, Boiling, Degasification, Liquid-Vapor Interface, Wettability, Contact Angle, Capillary, Interface Shape, Bubble formation<, Condensation, Flow Regimes - Sustainable Energy and Energy Materials
This course includes the following topics: Solar Collectors, Geothermal, Wind Power, Tidal Power, Batteries, Fuel Cells and High Energy Density Materials. - Thermodynamics
- Turbomachines
Useful Notes
Chronology
- Assistant Professor
From July, 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad
Department of Mechanical Engineering - DST INSPIRE Faculty
December, 2015 - July, 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Department of Mechanical Engineering - PostDoctoral Work
February, 2014 - October, 2015
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
Department 2.2, Reactive Substances and Systems
Title: Simulation of Organic Peroxide Pool Fires
Supervisor: Dr. rer. nat. Klaus-Dieter Wehrstedt - Research Assistant
July, 2013 - January, 2014
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Open Pool Fires - Doctoral Thesis
January, 2009 - August, 2013
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Characterization of Open Pool Fires and Study of Heat Transfer in Bodies engulfed in Pool Fires
Supervisor: Prof. S.V. Prabhu - Research Assistant
July, 2008 - December, 2008
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Title: Experimental Optimization of Confined Air Multiple Jet Impingement on a Smooth and Rough Flat Plate - Master Thesis
June, 2006 - June, 2008
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. A.K. Satapathy
Title: Liquid Sloshing in a Baffled Tank - Junior Engineer
April, 2006 - June, 2006
Industry: RAK Ceramics India Pvt. Ltd., Samalkot
Employer: Mr. Krishna - Bachelor Thesis
April, 2001 - June, 2005
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Title: Design and Analysis of a Forging Die
Supervisors: Prof. J. Suresh Kumar and Mr. N.V. Rama Rao
Hobbies
- Reading books and Biographies
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Contact
I would be happy to talk to you for any assistance in your course work or in research. Students, please drop in my office or call me. I am also interested in understanding/exploring your products for our institute and I would appreciate if you email me for an appointment.
Sudheer Siddapureddy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad
Dharwad, Karnataka, India - 580011.
0091 836 2309658
sudheer@iitdh.ac.in