SIVAKUMAR R. Professor
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- Department of Physics
- School of Physical, Chemical & Applied Sciences
- rs4670@pondiuni.ac.in
Academic Activity
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Educational Qualification (UG,PG & Higher Order)
S.No | Degree | Subject/Title of thesis | University/Board | Year of Passing |
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1 | PhD | Physics | IIT Madras | 2000 |
2 | MScEd | Physics | Regional College of Education, University of Mysor | 1994 |
3 | BSc | Applied Sciences | University of Madras | 1991 |
Area of Specializaion
Awards / Prizes Conferred
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Teaching Experience
S.No | Designation | Department/Centre | Institution |
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1 | Associate Professor | Physics | Pondicherry University |
2 | Reader | Physics | Pondicherry University |
3 | Lecturer | Physics | Pondicherry Engineering College |
Research Experience
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Industry Experience
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Contribution towards Innovation
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Patent Details
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Papers Published in UGC Approved Journals
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Papers Published in Non UGC Approved Peer Reviewed Journals
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1 | Full magnetohydrodynamic flow past a circular cylinder considering the penetration of magnetic field | Samit Ghosh, Subharthi Sarkar, R. Sivakumar, TVS Sekhar | Physics of Fluids | 30 (8) 087102 | 2018 | 2.279 |
2 | Development of a high order discretization scheme for solving fully nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic equations | A. D. Abin Rejeesh,S. Udhayakumar,T. V. S. Sekhar and Rajagopalan Sivakumar | Journal of Applied Analysis and Computation | 8 (1) 42-65 | 2018 | 1.063 |
3 | Prediction of Better Flow Control Parameters in MHD Flows Using a High Accuracy Finite Difference Scheme | A. D Abin Rejeesh, S. Udhayakumar, T. V. S. Sekhar, R. Sivakumar | American Journal of Computational Mathematics | 7 (3) 243-275 | 2017 | 0.84 |
4 | Mixed Convection and Heat Transfer Studies in Non-Uniformly Heated Buoyancy Driven Cavity Flow | A. D Abin Rejeesh, Selvarasu Udhayakumar, T. V. S Sekhar, Rajagopalan Sivakumar | Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics | 7 (2) 231-262 | 2017 | 1.15 |
5 | Numerical investigation of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection over an isothermal circular cylinder in presence of an aligned magnetic field | Selvarasu Udhayakumar, Alexander Daisy Abin Rejeesh, Tatavarthy Venkata Satya Sekhar, Rajagopalan Sivakumar | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 95, 379-392 | 2016 | 3.891 |
6 | Study of Heat Transfer Control with Magnetic Field Using Higher Order Finite Difference Scheme | R Sivakumar, S Vimala, S Damodaran, TVS Sekhar | Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics | 8 (3) 449-463 | 2016 | 0.763 |
7 | The role of magnetic Reynolds number in MHD forced convection heat transfer | S Vimala, S Damodaran, R Sivakumar, TVS Sekhar | Applied Mathematical Modelling | 40 (13) 6737-6753 | 2016 | 2.617 |
8 | Study of directional control of heat transfer and flow control in the magnetohydrodynamic flow in cylindrical geometry | S Udhayakumar, A. D Abin Reejesh, T V S Sekhar, R Sivakumar | International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow | 61, 482-498 | 2016 | 2.103 |
9 | Numerical Experiments on the Study of Mixed Convection Flow in Cylindrical Geometry | S Udhayakumar, TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar | Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications | 68 (8) 870-886 | 2015 | 2.409 |
10 | Influence of Induced Magnetic Field on Thermal MHD Flow | R Sivakumar, S Vimala, TVS Sekhar | Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications | 68 (7) 797-811 | 2015 | 2.409 |
11 | Numerical simulations of highly non-linear coupled full MHD equations in spherical geometry | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar, S Vimala | International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics | 47 (6) 599-615 | 2012 | 2.163 |
12 | A combined fourth-order compact scheme with an accelerated multigrid method for the energy equation in spherical polar coordinates | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, S Vimala, YVSS Sanyasiraju | Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis | 39, 32-45 | 2012 | 1.261 |
13 | The non-monotonic behavior of forced convective heat transfer under the influence of an external magnetic field | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, K Subbarayudu, YVSSS Sanyasiraju | Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications | 59 (6) 459-486 | 2011 | 2.409 |
14 | Effect of magnetic Reynolds number on the two‐dimensional hydromagnetic flow around a cylinder | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar | International journal for numerical methods in fluids | 59 (12) 1351-1368 | 2009 | 1.673 |
15 | High Reynolds number incompressible MHD flow under low Rm approximation | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar, K Subbarayudu | International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics | 43 (4) 231-240 | 2008 | 2.163 |
16 | Effect of aligned magnetic field on the steady viscous flow past a circular cylinder | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, H Kumar | Applied mathematical modelling | 31 (1) 130-139 | 2007 | 2.617 |
17 | Flow around a circular cylinder in an external magnetic field at high Reynolds numbers | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar | International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow | 16 (6) 740-759 | 2006 | 2.45 |
18 | Magnetohydrodynamic flow around a sphere | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar | Fluid dynamics research | 37 (5) 357-373 | 2005 | 0.94 |
19 | Incompressible conducting flow in an applied magnetic field at large interaction parameters | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, TVR Ravi Kumar | Applied Mathematics Research eXpress | (5) 229-248 | 2005 | 0.5 |
20 | Numerical Study of Steady Flow Past a Sphere in an Aligned Magnetic Field | TVS Sekhar, R Sivakumar, Harish Kumar | Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics | 4 (2) 215-227 | 2004 | 0.658 |
21 | Hydrogen storage properties of ZrMnFe1−xNix (x=0.2, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6) alloys | N Mani, R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu | Journal of alloys and compounds | 337 (1) 148-154 | 2002 | 3.779 |
22 | Solubility of hydrogen in Pd-Dy-Ni ternary alloys | S Anuradha, R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter | 13 (50) 11589 | 2001 | 2.617 |
23 | Electrical resistivity studies on ZrxTb1-xFe3 (x= 0.2, 0.3) hydrides | R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu, KVS Rama Rao | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter | 13 (18) 4155 | 2001 | 2.617 |
24 | Hydrogen solubility studies in Zr0.2Tb0.8Fe1.5Co1.5 | R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu, KVS Rama Rao, Bodo Mayer, PC Schmidt | International journal of hydrogen energy | 25 (9) 861-869 | 2000 | 4.229 |
25 | Kinetics of hydrogen absorption and thermodynamics of dissolved hydrogen in Tb1−xZrxFe3 system | R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu, KVS Rama Rao, H Anton, PC Schmidt | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 25 (5) 463-472 | 2000 | 4.229 |
26 | Hydrogen absorption–desorption characteristics, kinetics of hydrogen absorption and thermodynamics of dissolved hydrogen in Zr0.1Tb0.9Fe1.5Co1.5 | R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu, KVS Rama Rao, Bodo Mayer, PC Schmidt | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 302 (1) 146-154 | 2000 | 3.779 |
27 | Hydrogen absorption characteristics in the Tb1−xZrxFe3 (x=0.1, 0.2, 0.3) system | R Sivakumar, S Ramaprabhu, KVS Rama Rao, H Anton, PC Schmidt | Journal of Alloys and Compounds | 285 (1) 143-149 | 1999 | 3.779 |
Papers Published in Conference Proceedings
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Books
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Chapters in Books
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Edited Books
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Ongoing Projects
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Ongoing Consultancy Works
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Completed Projects
S.No | Title of the Project | Sponsored By | Period | Sanctioned Amount(Rs. Lakh) | Year |
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1 | Development of higher order accurate solvers to solve nonlinear Navier- Stokes equations. | UGC | 2010 - 2013 | 8.83 | 2013 |
Completed Consultancy Works
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Career Guidance Offered to students
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List of capability enhancement such as Soft skill development, Remedial coaching, Language lab,
Bridge courses, Yoga, Meditation, Personal Counselling and Mentoring etc.,
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Research Guidance - PG
S.No | Year | Degree | No. of Students Awarded | Department/Centre |
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1 | 2011 | M.PHIL | 1 | Physics |
2 | 2010 | M.PHIL | 1 | Physics |
3 | 2009 | M.PHIL | 2 | Physics |
4 | 2008 | M.PHIL | 1 | Physics |
5 | 2006 | M.PHIL | 1 | Physics |
6 | 2004 | M.PHIL | 1 | Physics |
Research Guidance - Ph.D
S.No | Student Name | Registration Date | Registration No. | Thesis Title | Thesis Submitted Status | Thesis Submitted Date | Vivavoce Completed Status | Date Awarded |
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1 | S Udhayakumar | Jan 2011 | Magnetohydrodynamic Flow and Heat Transfer around a Cylindrical Body- Nutrcrical Invesrigations | YES | Oct 2016 | YES | May 2017 | |
2 | Abin Rejeesh | Sep 2010 | Full MHD modelling of liquid metalflows and tltermal convection - A high order numerical study | YES | Oct 2017 | YES | May 2018 |
Research Guidance - Post Doctoral
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Financial assistance availed to attend conferences / workshops and to pay membership fee
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E-Lecture Details
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Invited Talks in Conference/Seminar/Workshop/Training Programme
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Conferences/Seminars Organized
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Administrative Responsibilities in the Government and Quasi Government Agencies
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Collaboration with Institution/Industry
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Faculty Development Programme Attended (Orientation, Refresher, other Short Term Course during the year)
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