Dr. Balla Hema Sundar Raju

BHSRaju

 

Assistant Professor (Grade-I)
Email: raju[at]math[dot]nits[dot]ac[dot]in | drbhsraju[at]gmail[dot]com
Date of Joining: 30/01/2015
Academic/Industrial Experience: 24 years
Scopus ID: 54787914700
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • M.Sc. from JNTU Hyderabad.
  • Ph.D. from Pondicherry Central University.

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION

  • Numerical Methods
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Higher Order Compact Schemes
  • Multigrid methods
  • Application to incompressible flows
  • Heat transfer 

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

  • Assistant Professor in NIT Silchar from 30-01-2015 to till date
  • Associate Professor in GITAM University, Bangalore from 01-08-2014 to 10-01-2015.
  • Associate Professor in VIGNAN University, Guntur from 19-06-2013 to17-07-2014.
  • Research Associate in CSIR Project, School of Basic Sciences, I I T Bhubaneswar from 19-02-2013 to 31-05-2013.
  • Fulltime Research scholar in the Department of Mathematics, Pondicherry University from 22-12-2009 to 31-12-2012.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, B V C Engg. College, JNT University from 09-11-1999 to 10-11-2009.
  • Lecturer in Department of Mathematics, Dr. K V R D Degree, Andhra University from 20-11-1996 to 07-11-1999. 

 P.G. STUDENTS GUIDED

  • Guided: 08
  • Guiding: 02

Ph.D. SCHOLARS GUIDED

  • Guided: 01 (Completed) and 01 (Thesis Submitted)
  • Guiding: 01

 SUBJECTS TAUGHT

  • MA-101: Mathematics-I
  • MA-102: Mathematics-II
  • MA-201: Mathematics-III
  • MA-221: Mathematics-IV
  • Numerical Methods
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Complex Analysis

 ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  • Associate Warden, Boys Hostel-6 from 01-01-2021 to 04-01-2023.
  • Member of Institute Level Anti-Ragging Committee from 01-03-2022 to 16-06-2023.
  • Member , Examination Section during the periods 28-09-2019 to 31-12-2020 and 01-03-2022 to 16-06-2023.
  • Member of Departmental Under Graduate Program Committee (DUPC) from 19/10/2015 to 21/01/2019.
  • Secretary of Departmental Under Graduate Program Committee (DUPC) since 22/01/2019.
  • Member of Departmental Ph.D. Monitoring Committee (DPMC) since 22/01/2019.

 INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS 

  1. B. Hema Sundar Raju, Dipjyoti Nath, Sukumar Pati, László Baranyi, Analysis of mixed convective heat transfer from a sphere with an aligned magnetic field, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 162, 2020, 120342, ISSN 0017-9310, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120342.
  2. B. Hema Sundar Raju, Dipjyoti Nath and Sukumar Pati, Analysis of mixed convective heat transfer past an isoflux / isothermal sphere, Physica Scripta, (2020), 95(8), 085211.
  3. G. B. Chandra Mouli, Kotha Gangadhar and B. Hema Sundar Raju (2019), On spectral relaxation approach for Soret and Dufour effects on Sutterby fluid past a stretching sheet, International Journal of Ambient Energy, doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2019.1653976, 1-8.
  4. Dipjyoti Nath and B. Hema Sundar Raju, Effect of isoflux thermal boundary condition on mixed convective heat transfer from a sphere for liquid metals, International Journal of Ambient Energy (2019, 1-11, (doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2019.1636881).
  5. B. Hema Sundar Raju, Analysis of forced convection from a horizontal flat plate for liquid metals, International Journal of Ambient Energy, (2019), 1-8, (doi:10.1080/01430750.2019.1614986).
  6. B. Hema Sundar Raju, Dipjyoti Nath and Sukumar Pati, Effect of Prandtl number on thermo-fluidic transport characteristics for mixed convection past a sphere, International Communications in Heat Mass Transfer, (2018), 98, pp. 191-199
  7. Dipjyoti Nath, Sukumar Pati and B. Hema Sundar Raju, Analysis of mixed convection past a sphere, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, (2019), 233 (3), pp. 601-616.
  8. B. Hema Sundar Raju, P. V. S. N. Murthy and T. V. S. Sekhar, Higher order compact scheme for laminar natural convective heat transfer from a sphere,Applied Mathematical Modelling, (2016) 40(3), pp. 2039 – 2055
  9. T. V. S. Sekhar, B. HemaSundarRaju and Y. V. S. S. Sanyasiraju, Higher order compact scheme for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in spherical geometry, Commun. Comput. Phys. 2012, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 99-113, IISN. Print : 1815-2406 Electronic: 1991-7120 (Impact factor 1.863).
  10. T. V. S. Sekhar and B. HemaSundarRaju, An efficient higher order compact scheme to capture heat transfer solutions in spherical geometry, Computer Physics Communications 2012, Vol. 183, pp. 2335-2345, IISN: 0010-4655 (Impact factor 3.21).
  11. B. HemaSundarRaju and T. V. S. Sekhar, Higher order compact scheme combined with multigrid method for momentum, pressure Poisson and energy equations in cylindrical geometry, The Open Numerical Methods Journal 2012, Vol. 4, pp. 46-58, ISSN: 1876-3898.
  12. T. V. S. Sekhar and B. HemaSundarRaju, Spherical geometry HOC scheme to capture low pressures within a wake, East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics 2013, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 93-106, IISN. Print : 2079-7362 Electronic: 2079-7370.
  13. T. V. S. Sekhar and B. HemaSundarRaju,Fourth order accurate free convective heat transfer solutions from a circular cylinder, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2012, Vol. 68, pp. 1437-1441, ISSN. Print: 2010-376X Electronic: 2010-3778. 

 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 

  1. B. HemaSundarRaju and T. V. S. Sekhar, Fourth order compact scheme for solving complete Navier-Stokes equations in spherical geometry, presented in RMSMA 2013, December 22, 2013, IIT Hyderabad, India.
  2. B. HemaSundarRaju and T. V. S. Sekhar, An efficient higher order compact scheme for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in cylindrical geometry, presented in AICFM 2011, November 21-23, 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
  3. Ch. Devicharan, S. Ajay kumar, B. HemaSundarRaju, T. V. S. Sekhar, R. Sivakumar and K.Subbarayudu, Steady laminar convection from a circular cylinder using higher order compact scheme, Proceeding of FMFP2010, December 16-18, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, FMFP-CF-02, ISBN: 978-81-910571-1-9.
  4. T. V. S. Sekhar and B. HemaSundarRaju, Higher-order compact scheme for the steady stream-function vorticity equations in spherical geometry, Proceeding of FMFP2010, December 16-18, 2010, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, FMFP-CF-01, ISBN: 978-81-910571-1-9.
  5. B. HemaSundarRaju and T. V. S. Sekhar, Fourth order accurate heat transfer solutions from a sphere at low and moderate Reynolds numbers, Proceedings of ICTACEM 2010, December 27-29, 2010, IIT Kharagpur, India, No. 327, pp. 796-798, ISBN: 93-80813-03-1. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Dipjyoti Nath and B. Hema Sundar Raju, The Forced Convective Heat Transfer from an Isoflux Sphere for Liquid Metals, FMFP, Lecture Notes in Mechanical, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021, 753-759.
  2. Dipjyoti Nath and B. Hema Sundar Raju, Fourth-Order Computations of Forced Convection Heat Transfer Past an Isothermal/Isoflux Cylinder in Cylindrical Geometry with Pseudo Time Iterative Technique, Proceedings of the ICoCIST, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022, 31-42.
  3. B. Hema Sundar Raju, Fourth-Order Computations of Mixed Convection Heat Transfer Past a Flat Plate for Liquid Metals in Elliptical Cylindrical Coordinates, AMCI, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics \& Statistics 413, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023, 109-120.

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED 

  1. Coordinator in One-Week International Workshop on “Modelling Simulation and Soft Computing” organized by the Department of Mathematics, NIT Silchar under TEQIP-III during 10-14 August 2018.
  2. Coordinator in One-Week Workshop on “Recent Advances in Applied Mathematics” organized by the Department of Mathematics, NIT Silchar under TEQIP-II during 22-26 February 2017.

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

  1. Session Chair of the Technical Session at 27th International Conference of the International Academy of Physical Sciences on Mathematical Modelling in Biological Sciences 2021 held during 26-28 October 2021 organized by the International Academy of Physical Sciences and hosted by the National Institute of Technology Silchar.
  2. Delivered a series of lectures at VIGNAN’s Foundation for Science Technology and Research (Deemed to be University) during 22-23 May 2023.