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Marri Girish Kumar

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Marri Girish Kumar

IITGN-Early Career Fellow, Mechanical Engineering

  • B.Tech: Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Andhra Pradesh, 2015
  • M.S. and PhD: IIT Madras,Tamil Nadu, 2022

Email: marri.gk -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8_jqPT8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao



  • Work experience

    • IITGN-Early Career Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (March 2022 - Present)
    • Senior Project Officer, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu India (Jan 2022 – March 2022)
    • Post-Doctoral Equivalent Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (July 2021 - Jan 2022)
    • Junior Research Fellow, CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Center (CSIR-SERC), Chennai, India (Aug 2015 – July 2016)

  • Selected Publications

    1. Marri Girish Kumar and C. Balaji, (2022).Effect of phase change temperatures and orientation on the thermal performance of a miniaturized PCM heat sink coupled heat pipe. Experimental Heat Transfer, 1-23. doi:10.1080/08916152.2022.2073487

    2. Marri Girish Kumar, and C. Balaji (2022). Liquid crystal thermography based study on melting dynamics and the effect of mushy zone constant in numerical modeling of melting of a phase change material. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 171, 107176. doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2021.107176

    3. Marri Girish Kumar, and C. Balaji (2021). Experimental and numerical investigations on the effect of porosity and ppi gradients of metal foams on the thermal performance of a composite phase change material heat sink. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 164, 120454. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120454

    4. Marri Girish Kumar, and C. Balaji (2021). Experimental and numerical investigations on a phase change material based heat sink with symbiotically joined heat pipe. Heat Transfer Engineering, 42, 23–40. doi:10.1080/01457632.2019.1685241

    5. Marri Girish Kumar, Srikanth R, and C. Balaji (2020). Effect of phase change and ambient temperatures on the thermal performance of a solid-liquid phase change material based heat sinks. Journal of Energy Storage, 30, 101327. doi:10.1016/j.est.2020.101327