Dr. Arun Kumar Varanasi
Assistant Professor (Special)
Email ID: arun.kv@saintgits.org
(Website: https://arunkv7.github.io )
Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Renewable Energy sources.
Education
| Degree | Institute | Specialization | Year |
| Ph.D. | JNCASR, Bangalore | Engineering Mechanics | 2022 |
| M.E. | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Chemical Engineering | 2007 |
| B.Tech | RVR&JC, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur | Chemical Engineering | 2005 |
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2022-2025
- R&D Assistant, Engineering Mechanics Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore, 2014-2015
- Senior Research Engineer, Batteries and Solar Energy group, CSTEP. Bangalore, 2009-2013
- Senior Research Fellow, CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi / Chennai, 2008-2009
Publications
- Lagrangian intermittency and vertical confinement in stably stratified turbulence (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22445), On Arxiv, currently under revision for Physics of Fluids, 2025
- Motion of a sphere in a viscous density stratified fluid, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022
- The rotation of a sedimenting spheroidal particle in a linearly stratified fluid, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022
- Tuning electrochemical potential of LiCoO2with cation substitution: first-principles predictions and electronic origin, Ionics, 2014
- Electrochemical potentials of layered oxide and olivine phosphate with aluminum substitution: A first principles study, Bulletin of Material Science, 2013
- Origins of electrochemical performance of olivine phosphate as cathodes in Li-ion batteries: Charge transfer, spin-state, and structural distortion, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2013
- ​​Engineering economic policy assessment of concentrated solar thermal power technologies for India, Technical report, CSTEP, 2012
- Computer simulation of liquid crystals, Journal of Indian Institute of Science, 2009
Courses Handled
Transport Phenomena, Corrosion Engineering, Engineering Biology, Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, and Heat Transfer Laboratory
Awards and Achievements
- Postdoctoral fellowship at ICTS-TIFR (2022-2025)
- Prof. Roddam Narasimha and family medal for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Engineering Mechanics ’ 2022 , JNCASR
- All India 7th rank at GATE-2005