Dr. Rakesh Sharma

Assistant Professor (Senior Scale)

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Qualification: BE, MTech, PhD

CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) – Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, MIT
    • Teaching and Research

AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

Thermal Engineering; Heat Transfer; Thermodynamics; Solar Energy; Thermo-fluids; Refrigeration/Heat Pump; Sustainable Technologies

Area of Expertise

Experimental studies (Designing of test rig; Gas-Solid reactors; Visualization; Heat transfer; Refrigeration/Heat pump); Numerical studies (CFD in COMSOL Multiphysics; Reactor modeling; Thermochemical reaction model; Reaction kinetics; Conjugate heat transfer; Thermo-fluid modeling; Microgrid modeling in HOMER)

Area of Research

Thermochemical Gas-Solid Reactions (Specialized in Ammonia and Water based pairs); Solar Energy Utilization; Thermal management (Hybrid Electric Vehicle & Batteries); Thermal Energy Storage; Refrigeration/Heat Pump; PV/Wind Stand-alone Microgrid (Green Hydrogen, Green Ammonia, Polygeneration)

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

DAAD Alumni

Work Experience

Organisation Role Tenure
Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal Assistant Professor - Senior Scale (Current role) 2024- Present
NIT Raipur, Chhattisgarh Assistant Professor- Temporary 2023 - 2024
German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Stuttgart, Germany DAAD Postdoctoral Researcher 2021- 2022
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India Postdoctoral Research Associate 2018 - 2020