Dr. Ankit Bansal

Dr. Ankit Bansal
Phone : 01905 -237999
E-mail : ankit[at]iitmandi[dot]ac[dot]in
Address : School of Engineering

 Indian Institute of Technology Mandi ,

near Bus Stand, Mandi - 175001

 Himachal Pradesh

India

Research Interests:

  • Radiative heat transfer
  • Hypersonic flows
  • Flow-radiation interaction
  • Spectral modeling of gas properties
  • Solar energy
  • Climate change

Educational


  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011 Minor, Computational Science, Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2009.
  • B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, 2005.

Awards

  • BHU Gold Medal for achieving overall rank-1 in Mechanical Engineering, 2005.

Professional Society Memberships

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Seminars and Workshops Attended

  • Post Induction Training School-06, Institute of Armament Technology, Pune 2005 - 2006 .
  • Computational Methods in Structural and Fluid Mechanics, Naval Physical and Oceanography Laboratory, Cochin, 2006.

Employment


  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Decembr 2011 - present.
  • Scientist, Advanced System Laboratory, DRDO, Hyderabad, Sep, 2005 - Jul, 2007.

Publications

International Journal Publications

  1. Sohn, I., Bansal, A., Levin, D. A., and Modest, M. F., Advanced Radiation Calculations of Hypersonic Reentry Flows Using Efficient Databasing Schemes, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2010, pp. 623-637.
  2. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Multigroup Correlated-k Distribution Method for Nonequilibrium Atomic Radiation, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2010, pp. 638-646.
  3. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Multi-Scale k-Distribution Model for Gas Mixtures in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 112, 2011, pp. 1213-1221
  4. Bansal, A. and Modest, M. F., Multi-Scale Part-Spectrum k-distribution Database for Atomic Radiation in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, Journal of Heat Transfer, 2011, in print.

International/National Conference Publications

  1. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Correlated-k Distribution Method for Atomic Radiation in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium flows, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, AIAA Paper 2009-1027, 2009.
  2. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Narrow-band k-distribution Database for Atomic Radiation in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, ASME Paper No. HT2009-88120, 2009, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference.
  3. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Application of k-distribution Method to Molecular Radiation in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, AIAA Paper No. 2009-3922, 2009, 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference.
  4. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., k-Distributions for Gas Mixtures in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, AIAA Paper No. 2010-234, 2010, 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.
  5. Bansal, A., Modest, M. F., and Levin, D. A., Multi-Scale k-Distribution Model for Gas Mixtures in Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows, 2010, 6th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Antalya, Turkey.
  6. Bansal, A. and Modest, M. F., Spectral Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer in Carbonaceous Atmospheres Using New k-Distribution Models, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, AIAA Paper 2011-0247, 2011.
  7. Feldick, A., Bansal, A., and Modest, M. F., Variance Reduction Techniques for Monte Carlo Solution of Radiative Transfer in Hypersonic Flows: Hybrid P1-Monte Carlo, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, AIAA Paper 2011-0245, 2011.
  8. Bansal, A., Feldick, A. and Modest, M. F., Simulation of Hypersonic Flow and Radiation over a Mars Reentry Vehicle Using OpenFOAM, 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, Jan 2012.

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