(i) Design Engineering:
Machine Elements: design development, analysis and performance improvements; New materials and design: composites, nano composites, bio materials, surface engineering, contact mechanics, tribology, tyre mechanics, biomechanics, fatigue and failure analysis: computational and experimental fracture mechanics, fatigue crack closure - environment interaction studies, alternate/small specimen test methods, small crack propagation under biaxial/multiaxial loading, multi crack interaction studies, fatigue damage in composites, failure mechanics of biomaterials. Non linear finite element analysis, design process, design optimization, finite element applications including coupled problems, Non destructive evaluation, structural health monitoring, Materials constitutive modeling and Characterisation, Measurements of Material Properties and Behaviour, NVH, machinery signal processing, Condition monitoring of structures/ machines, machinery diagnosis, combustion/flame noise, Acoustics and Noise Control.
(ii) Manufacturing Engineering:
Manufacturing Processes, Conventional and Unconventional Processes, CAD/CAM, Robotics, CNC Machining, Metrology, Surface Engineering, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Methods in Precision Engineering; Microsystems technology: Micro-sensors and actuators, Embedded systems, Vehicle controls; Robotics: Series and parallel configuration, Networked robots, Under water, space and medical applications; Fluid power technology: Electro-hydraulic servo-valves, Hybrid hydraulics, System Simulation and Modeling; Precision manufacturing; Design, Development, Modeling and Simulation of Unconventional, Micro and Nano Machining Systems.
(iii) Thermal Engineering:
Heat Transfer in Nano-fluids, Heat Transfer in Multi-Phase Flows, Heat Exchangers, transition to turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer in Fuel Cells, Biomass combustion, Fluidized Bed Combustion, Advanced Coal Power Plants, Solar Power Systems, Optimization of Solar ICs Systems, Concentrating Solar Power, Thermal Photovoltaic systems, The Heat Transfer in Phase Change Material Based Composite Heat Sinks, Experimental and Numerical Methods in Porous Media, Bio-thermo fluids, numerical modeling of heat transfer in biological systems, Conjugate heat transfer in low and high speed flows, Optimization of heat transfer systems, Inverse heat transfer, Satellite Meteorology, Numerical weather prediction, Radiance Assimilation in Mesoscale Weather Models; Pico, micro and mini hydropower ; Economic choice and use of pumps; Two phase flow in pumps and turbines; Cavitation in pumps, turbines and flow devices ; Pumps using solar power; Control of hydrodynamic cavitation, and Design and development of micropumps; Flow Structure Interaction in High Speed Turbo machinery Seals; Turbine rotor stator interaction, Performance improvement of centrifugal compressor by tip modification, subsonic cascade studies, Investigations on counter rotating turbines, volute casing and mixed flow compressors, active and passive control of turbomachinery flows, Gas turbine blade cooling; IC Engine Combustion and Emissions; Alternative fuels; Multi-component Fuels; Phenomenology and CFD of IC Engines and Gas Turbine Processes, Engine Flow and Combustion Diagnostics; engine management, Advanced IC Engine Technologies; Vapour compression refrigerators operating with new generation HFO, refrigerants and refrigerant mixtures, mixed refrigerant cascade, refrigerators, Simulation and optimization of mixed refrigerant processes, liquefaction of natural gas/bio gas, magnetic and acoustic refrigeration systems, high effectiveness compact heat exchangers used in refrigerators, air conditioners, and liquefiers, vapour absorption refrigerators operating with ionic fluids. desalination systems, solar cooling systems, IAQ (indoor air quality), jet refrigeration systems, heat pipes, heat pumps, micro-miniature and small cryogenic refrigerators, Simulation and optimization of air separation cycles, solid state hydrogen storage, sorption heating and cooling systems, Desiccant / evaporative cooling, air-conditioning and Ventilation , CFD for air distribution; Acoustics of Supersonic Jets, Active and Passive Control of High speed flows, Combustion noise, Emissions, Combustion of solid, liquid and gaseous fuel, Propulsion, CFD of high speed reacting flows, Microfluidics, Bio-MEMS, Micro-scale flows.