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A.V. Anilkumar |
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Professor of the Practice Mechanical Engineering
Email:
anil@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Office: 331 Olin Hall
Phone: (615) 343-7293
Fax: (615) 343-8730
Address: Box 6079, Station B Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
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Research Interests |
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Professor Anilkumar’s broad research interests are in the areas of
drop and bubble dynamics and acoustics. His current investigations
center on: the studies of the dynamics of chemically reacting
drops, solidifying drops and coalescing drops; the studies of
drop-acoustic field interactions and thermocapillary migration of
bubbles. His technical interests are in the design and development
of: experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation.
Professor Anilkumar has been a Co-Investigator of the drop dynamics
experiments on the USML-1 and USML-2 Space Shuttle Missions (1992,
1995), and a Co-Investigator of the Pore Formation and Mobility
Investigation (PFMI) and the In-Space Soldering Investigation (ISSI)
on the International Space Station (2002, 2004).
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Education |
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, California Institute
of Technology, 1988
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
1983
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology,
1982
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Publications |
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A.V. Anilkumar, T.G. Wang, and I. Lacik, ‘A novel reactor for
making uniform capsules’, Biotechnology and Bioengineering,
75 (5), 2001, pp. 581-589. A.V. Anilkumar, A.B. Hmelo, and T.G. Wang, ‘Core centering of
immiscible compound drops in capillary oscillations: experimental
observations’, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 242,
2001, pp. 465-469.
Lacik, I., Anilkumar, A.V., and Wang, T.G., ‘A two-step
process for controlling the capsule smoothness of
polyelectrolyte-based microcapsules’, Journal of
Microencapsulation, 18 (4), 2001, pp. 479-490.
A.V. Anilkumar, R.N. Grugel, J. Bhowmick, and T.G. Wang,
‘Suppression of thermocapillary oscillations in sodium nitrate
half-zones by high-frequency end-wall vibrations’, Journal of
Crystal Growth, 276, 2005, pp. 194-203.
Q. Deng, A.V. Anilkumar, and T.G. Wang, ‘Role of viscosity and
surface tension in bubble entrapment during liquid drop impact onto
surface of a deep liquid pool’, 2006, accepted for publication in
the Journal of Fluid Mechanics for publication (Oct. 2006)
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