Faculty at School of Engineering

Sathi Rajesh Reddy

Sathi Rajesh Reddy

Associate Professor

School of Engineering


Contact Information

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase flows, High fidelity simulations GPU computing

  • Ph.D., 2016 – Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
  • M.Tech., 2009 – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • B.Tech., 2006 – GMR Institute of Technology

  • 01/2025 – Present – Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
  • 07/2017 – 12/2024 – Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
  • 07/2016 – 02/2017 – Research Associate, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad
  • 02/2016 – 06/2016 – Senior Research Fellow (SRF), IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad
  • 10/2009 – 05/2010 – Assistant Professor, GIET, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh

2012 Received NVIDIA best paper award during the conference ICCMS 2012. 2016 Received excellence in research award at IITH during the academic year 2015-2016 2016 Received HiPC conference travel grant award.

  • V. K. Pantangi, S. C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar, R. Reddy. Studies on porous radiant burners for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cooking applications. Energy 36, (2011) 6074-6080.
  • R. Reddy and R. Banerjee. GPU accelerated VOF based multiphase flow solver and its application to sprays. Computers and Fluids 117, (2015) 287-303.
  • R. Reddy and R. Banerjee. Direct simulations of liquid sheet break-up in planar gas blast atomization. Atomization and Sprays 27, (2017) 95-116.
  • S. Chowdhary, S. R. Reddy, and R. Banerjee. Detailed numerical simulations of unequal sized off-centre binary droplet collisions. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 128 (2020): 103267.
  • N. Rajesh, L. G. Asirvatham, and S. R. Reddy. Dynamics of rising bubbles in gradually mixing fluids due to the effect of Rayleigh–Taylor instability. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 129 (2020): 103288.
  • M. Kumar, R. Reddy, R. Banerjee, and M. Narasimha. Effect of particle concentration on turbulent modulation inside hydrocyclone using coupled MPPIC-VOF method. Separation and Purification Technology (2020): 118206.
  • R. Harish, R. Nimmagadda and S. R. Reddy. Turbulent melting characteristics of hybrid nano-enhanced molten salt phase change material in rectangular enclosure. Journal of Energy Storage 54 (2022): 105328.
  • P. Kumar, S. Singh and S. R. Reddy. Assessment of unsteady cavitating flow around modified NACA4412 hydrofoil. Ocean Engineering 266 (2022): 113039.
  • M. V. V. Srinivas, M. Hari Surya, D. P. Singh, P. Biswal, S. R. Reddy. A numerical study of mist-air film cooling on a 3-D flat plate. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 33 (2022) 1726-1753. 
  • C. C. Reddy, S. Chowdhary, N. Rajesh, R. Harish, S. R. Reddy. Droplet breakup and coalescence characteristics of hollow cone spray in crossflow. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 45 (2023).
  • Krishna Kant, S. R. Reddy, R. Banerjee. Impact of Fluid Rheology and Density Ratio in Droplet Collision: A Numerical Investigation. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 147 (2025): 041403.
  • D. P. Singh, S. R. Reddy. Comparative Study of Film Cooling Performance over Gas Turbine Blade for Different Cooling Hole Configurations. Physics of Fluids, 37 (2025).
  • D. P. Singh, V. Mom, S. R. Reddy. Film Cooling Performance Analysis of Different Multi-Row Cooling Hole Configurations. Scientific Reports (2025).

Conference Publications

  1. V. K. Pantangi, S. C. Mishra, P. Muthukumar, R. Reddy. Experimental Study on Performance Improvement of a Domestic LPG Cooking Stove Using Porous Inert Media. 9th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Mumbai, India, January 2010.
  2. S. R. Reddy, J. Sebastian, S. M. Miyyadad, R. Banerjee, N. Sivadasan. VOF Based Two-Phase Flow Solver on GPU Architecture. ICCMS, International Conference on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, Hyderabad, India, December 2012.
  3. S. R. Reddy, J. Sebastian, S. M. Miyyadad, R. Banerjee, N. Sivadasan. Single and Two Phase Flow CFD Solvers Using GPU. PARCOMPTECH, National Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, Bangalore, India, February 2013.
  4. R. Reddy, R. Banerjee. Simulation of a Gas Blasted Liquid Sheet on GPU Architecture. ILASS Europe, 26th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Bremen, Germany, September 2014.
  5. R. Reddy, R. Banerjee. Study of Disintegration of a High Speed Liquid Jet Using VOF Method. Procedia IUTAM 15, Hyderabad, India, 2015.
  6. H. Sarang, S. R. Reddy, J. Shashank, R. Banerjee. High Fidelity Simulations of Binary Collisions of Liquid Drops. ILASS Asia, 18th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Chennai, India, November 2016.
  7. S. Jaiswal, R. Reddy, R. Banerjee, S. Sato, D. Komagata, M. Ando, J. Okada. An Efficient GPU Parallelization for Arbitrary Collocated Polyhedral Finite Volume Grids and Its Application to Incompressible Fluid Flows. HiPC, 23rd Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Hyderabad, India, December 2016.
  8. K. Krishna, M. Kumar, R. Reddy, R. Banerjee, M. Narasimha, S. Vanka. Numerical Study of Primary Jet Breakup in a Simplex Swirl Atomizer Using Dual Grid Coupled Level Set VOF Method. Gas Turbine India Conference, Vol. 83532, p. V002T04A005. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019.
  9. P. Biswal, U. Jindal, S. R. Reddy. Enhancement of Cooling Effectiveness with Mist Assisted Film Cooling. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (MHMT), Rome, Italy, 2019.
  10. G. Dilip Subbaian, S. R. Reddy. Performance Analysis of Different Iterative Solvers Parallelized on GPU Architecture. 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Pune, India, December 2020.
  11. C. C. Reddy, S. Chowdhary, S. R. Reddy. Impact of Droplet Collisions on Hollow Cone Spray in Crossflow. FMFP 2021, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan, India, December 2021.
  12. P. Kumar, S. Singh, R. Reddy. Numerical Investigation of Unsteady Cavitating Flow on NACA4412 Hydrofoil. FTCES, NIT Calicut, India, July 2022.
  13. P. Kumar, S. Singh, R. Reddy. Computational Study of Unsteady Cavitating Flow on 3D NACA4412 Hydrofoil. FMFP, IIT Roorkee, India, December 2022.
  14. P. Kumar, S. Singh, R. Reddy. Unsteady Investigation of 3D NACA4412 Hydrofoil with Dimple. IC4M, Madhya Pradesh, India, April 2023.
  15. P. Kumar, R. Reddy. Computational Study of Transient Cavitating Flow on 3D NACA4412 Pimpled Hydrofoil. IHMTC, IIT Patna, India, December 2023.
  16. D. P. Singh, S. R. Reddy. Validation of Film Cooling on a Flat Plate Using a Modified Incompressible Fluid Flow Solver in OpenFOAM. FMFP, AMU, India, December 2024.
  17. M. T. Raza, S. R. Reddy. Optimization of Evacuated Tube Solar Collector with CuO-Water Nanofluid for Enhanced Thermal Efficiency. IHMTC, IIT Jodhpur, December 2025.

Ph.D. Students

Current

Name Thesis Title Status
Md. Tanweer Raza Investigation of Nanofluid Based Evacuated Tube Solar Collector (ETSC) Ongoing

Graduated

Name Thesis Title Year of Graduation
Prabhakar Kumar Numerical Studies of Cavitation on Cambered NACA4412 Hydrofoil Using Passive Control Methods 2025
Devendra Pratap Singh Numerical Investigation of Film Cooling over a Gas Turbine Blade 2026

Development of Nano fluid based Evacuated Tube Solar Collector (ETSC) for efficient Solar Heating applications PI: Dr. S Rajesh Reddy

PhD student: Md Tanweer Raza

Funding Agency: Dassault Systemes Foundation

Reviewer for the following international journals:

  • International Journal of Multiphase Flow
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
  • Energy Conversion and Management
  • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
  • Multiphase Science and Technology