July 15, 2016

BEST QUOTE ABOUT LIFE

  • Achievements are yardstick for leading meaningful life.
  • Life is full of surprises, and sometimes it seems very complex, discomfort and unfair with its unexpected twists and turns.
  • To find your purpose of life, you have to give purpose to your life.
  • Life is a journey from one goal post to another. As long as there is life, there is a goal in front of you.
  • Life is based on choices.
  • The opportunity to improve your life is available with you all the time.
  • Life is a mirror image of dominant thoughts.
  • Life is an adventurous journey.
  • Life is neither good nor evil in itself. It appears according to the state of our heart, which is our subconscious mind.
  • Life is a process of creation. It is here right now, in the present moment.
  • Life is uncertain; no one can exactly predict what is going to happen in the future. Any time it can come to an end.
  • The drawback of attachment is that it does not allow us to enjoy the life in totality.
  • Life is a reflection of action. To run around here and there without any concrete output leads to a meaningless life.
  • The secret of leading a meaningful life lies in setting yourself a goal.
  • The choice we make during the course of our life writes our life story.
  • The wonderful law of life: focus on problems and they will multiply; count your blessings and your life happiness will increase manifold.
  • Counting your blessings will lead you to have the positive approach in difficult times and that in turn help you to sort out problems earlier and smoothly.

June 10, 2016

Fluid and Thermal Sciences

Besides the traditional research areas in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, multiphase flows, turbulence and combustion, this group is engaged in a broad range of research activities in experimental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, flow in porous media, turbomachinery, electrochemical energy conversion, IC engines, alternate fuels, laser diagnostic techniques, micro-fluidics and heat transfer, boiling heat transfer, condensation, heat pipes, thermal management, sprays, turbulent combustion, hydrodynamic instabilities, vortex dynamics, gravity currents, energy storage materials, atomic scale computation, etc.





Research Facilities:

CFD Laboratory High performance computing clusters

Computational Turbo machinery Laboratory High performance computing Clusters:
  • 48 Node Cluster with Intel Xeon Quad core @2.96 GHz, Total 192 cores, 16 GB RAM, 40 Gbps Infiniband Network with 12 TB Storage.
  • 24 Node Cluster with Intel Xeon Hexacore @2.96 GHz, Total 288 cores, 16 GB RAM, 40 Gbps Infiniband Network with 12 TB Storage.
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  • 12 Node Cluster with Intel Xeon Quadcore @2.96 GHz, Total 96 cores, 16 GB RAM, 40 Gbps Infiniband Network with 12 TB Storage.
  • 3 Intel Xeon WorkStations.
  • 20 Personal Computers.

Energy Conversion and Storage Laboratory Electrochemical test station (in-house development), Stereoscopic shadowgraphy, Two-phase particle image velocimetry

Engine Research Laboratory
  • Single Cylinder Optical Research Engine
  • Gasoline Direct Injection Engine
  • Multi-Cylinder Engine Test Cell
  • Regulated And Unregulated Emission Measurement Facilities
  • Particulate Characterization Facility
  • Engine Endoscopy
  • Fuel And Lubricating Oil Test Facilities
  • Engine Noise and Vibration
  • Laser Ignition
  • Combustion Visualization and Optical Diagnostics
  • Particle Image Velocimetryfor In-cylinder Flow Visualization
  • Phase Doppler Interferrometry for Spray Characterization

Experimental Turbomachinery Laboratory Hot Wire Anemometer, PIV, LDA and Electronically scanned pressure sensor.

Fluid mechanics Lab
  • Low speed wind tunnel
  • Smoke tunnel
  • Mach-Zehnder interferometer
  • Ar-ion laser
  • Anton Paar refractometer
  • Schlieren and shadowgraph systems
  • Stereoscopic PIV
  • High resolution, color and grey-scale, and high speed CCD cameras
  • Several clusters and work stations
  • Cardio-flow pump
  • Storage-scopes, oscilloscopes, high precision multimeters,
  • Spectrum analyzers
  • Constant temperature baths
  • Temperature controllers
  • Undergraduate laboratory set-ups

Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Laboratory
Thermocouples, IR Camera, High Speed Blower, High Speed Camera, Shadowgraph Setup (Multiple Cameras, Laser as light-source, Optical quality mirror)

Micro-scale transport laboratory
Micro-PIV with Nd:YAG laser, Micro-holographic measurement system, Micro-LIF, Syringe pump; Gear pump, Ultra-Sonicator, Differential Pressure Transducer, Mechanical Stirrer, Centrifuge, Magnetic Particle Separator

Phase-change Thermal Systems Laboratory
High Speed Camera ,CCD camera, Infrared camera Vacuum pumps (diffusion and turbo molecular), Thermal baths Leak detectors


Water Tunnel Facility
Water Tunnel Set-up, Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Hotwire Anemometry, Load-Cell.

February 2, 2015

The past of Leela Samson

The movie 'PK' takes token jibes at Christianity and Islam and otherwise dedicates itself to mocking hinduism by dishing out populist, cliché stereotypes about the Sanatan Culture of the land. While people protest this malefic propaganda against their beliefs, one needs to take a look at the history of the person who passed this movie without cuts despite severe protests by her fellow CBFC members.

1) Leela Samson's story, for all means and purpose, begins with Kalakshetra, a Classical Dance institution founded by Rukmini Arundale - a guru who rescued the Bharat Natyam dance form from the era of colonial evangelism. Rukmini spoke of dance as ”Sadhana which requires total devotion.”

2) Rukmini was a bit reluctant to admit Leela Samson to the institution given Leela's Judeo-Christian background. Little did she know her fears will come true tenfold in years to come.

3) Leela allegedly faked her qualifications to become Director of Kalakshetra in 2005.  Ministry of culture (under UPA govt.) permitted her to continue despite her fraud getting exposed.

4) The first thing she did after her appointment was elimination of the spiritual roots of Bharata Natyam. She ordered removal of all Ganesha and Nataraja statues from the campus (despite heavy student & faculty protest) calling it 'Hindu superstition'.
 5) In the morning assembly, Samson allegedly told the students and teachers that "idol worship" is superstition and should be discouraged at Kalakshetra.
Samson used to ridicule Hindu scriptures and deities, comparing them to walt disney characters.

6) She refused permission and threatened expulsion of students from participating in inaugural dance piece in the Health and Happiness Program Organized by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ‘s The Art of Living in Chennai between Dec 5th to 8th 2006.  Reason cited: It is a “Hindu Event”.
( The Student-Artistes ignored her threat, came and participated in the event, reminding her that Art is bigger than the Artist. She then continued harassing the Faculty who participated and coordinated in the event.)

7)  She changed the logo(which was there since 1936) because it had Lord Natraja Ganesha with Lord Shiva‘s Emblem. Again, citing superstition.
8) A CAG report severely indicted her ways of functioning during her seven year tenure (2005-12). She demolished the temple structure of the Kalakshetra Auditorium with the excuse of modernising it. Then there were fund irregularities in tunes of crores and at least 16 appointments were done defying qualification standards and institution norms. A blatant misuse of her power because she had Sonia's backing. And why not - Leela was a dance teacher for Priyanka Vadra.

9) Despite being over age, she was given a grand extension and made the Censor Board Chief. Her own cinema knowledge was near zero but she used to call most members of the board uneducated and an embarrassment. When legal notice was issued by 2 of the members, she was forced to apologize.

10) Although she'd strongly object to anything remotely funny about Christians or Muslims in cinemas, she'd routinely pass cinemas ridiculing Hindu beliefs in name of freedom of expression. Memories of 'Singham 2' are still fresh among people, can we connect the dots now?


As a bottomline, there is a massive nexus of such Congress appointed stooges of Sonia who often indulge in anti-Hindu anti-Indian propaganda. These are the very people who represent our nation at international forums and present a sorry picture of our nation to please the west. The new government at the centre has a huge challenge at its hand of cleaning up the system which is so rotten from inside that it may fall from the consequences of it.