Staff Profile

Dr. Immanuvel Paul joined as a Lecturer in Thermal Engineering at Newcastle University in October 2020. Before joining Newcastle, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, USA. His postdoctoral work, which was funded by the department of energy (DoE) USA, mainly focused on developing numerical models to simulate a novel particle-based volumetric solar receiver.

Immanuvel obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College London, UK where his Ph.D. was supported by the prestigious Marie-Curie fellowship. During the course of his Ph.D., Dr. Paul studied the fundamental and application aspects of multi-scale non-equilibrium turbulence for his doctoral dissertation.  Before Ph.D., Dr. Paul did his Master of Science by Research (MS) at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. His master's thesis focused on developing an immersed boundary-based numerical solver to simulate flow and heat transfer around complex geometries. Dr. Paul also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Anna University Chennai where he achieved distinction as a university rank holder. 

Dr. Paul is interested in using numerical techniques to simulate multiphysics problems both at the fundamental and application level. His areas of research expertise include multiphase flows (bubbly and particle-laden flows), radiation heat transfer, turbulence, mixing, unstructured finite volume method, immersed boundary methods, and natural, forced, and mixed convection heat transfer.

Education

Ph.D. (Spetmber 2013 - May 2017) Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK

MS (July 2010 - June 2013) Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

B.E (September 2006 - March 2010) Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Anna University Chennai, India

Professional Experience

October 2020 - present: Lecturer in Thermal Engineering, Newcastle University, UK

April 2018 - February 2020: Research Fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, USA

June 2017 - April 2018: Research Associate at Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, UK

Awards

• Aeronautics Ph.D. Prize - runnerup (2017)
• Marie-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission (2013)
• University Rank Holder award from Anna University Chennai (2010)
• Governor’s medal and scholarship for securing district rank in Secondary School
  Examinations (2004)

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Dr. Immanuvel Paul's research theme can broadly be classified under the heading of 'multiscale and multiphysics thermofluids research'. Particularly, he is interested in the following research topics:

1. Simulation and design of novel solar thermal receivers

2. Simulation and design of particle-based thermal storage devices

3. Understanding and modelling of dilute bubbly flows

4. Multiscale non-equilibrium scalar turbulence 

5. Natural convection in non-Newtonian fluids

6. Numerical modelling of smart architecture

7. Fundamental study of multiscale turbulence

MEC3028 - Computational Heat and Fluid Flow

ENG2023 - Thermal Engineering 

MEC3032 - Advanced Thermofluid Dynamics

MEC3098 - Mechanical Engineering Project

MEC8095 - MSc Project: Mechanical and Systems Engineering

• Paul I, Mani A. A novel energy balance approach for a verifiable and accurate solution of radiation extinction in purely absorbing particle clouds. Journal of Computational Physics 2022, 451, 110880.
• Paul I, Mani A. A filtering strategy for the numerical convergence of radiation transport through purely absorbing particle clouds. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 2020, 247, 106941.
• Paul I, Pulletikurthi V, Arul Prakash K, Vengadesan S. Study of Momentum and Thermal Wakes Due to Elliptic Cylinders of Various Axes Ratios Using the Immersed Boundary Method. In: Somnath Roy, Ashoke De, Elias Balaras, ed. Immersed Boundary Method Development and Applications. Springer, 2020, pp.317-333.
• Paul I, Mani A. A novel energy balance approach for a converged and accurate solution of radiation extinction in particle clouds using Beer's law. Center for Turbulence Research USA: Stanford University, 2019. Annual Research Briefs 2019.
• Paul I, Fraga B, Dodd MS, Lai C. Fine-scale dynamics of bubble induced turbulence with and without breakup and coalescence. In: 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. 2019, Seattle Washington USA: American Physical Society.
• Pulletikurthi V, Paul I, Prakash KA, Prasad B. On the development of low frequency structures in near and far laminar wakes. Physics of Fluids 2019, 31(2), 023604.
• Paul I, Mani A. A filtering strategy for the convergence of the Beer-Bouguer law for radiation extinction in random particulate media. Stanford University: Center for Turbulence Research, 2018. Annual Research Briefs 2018.
• Paul I, Papadakis G, Vassilicos JC. Direct numerical simulation of heat transfer from a cylinder immersed in the production and decay regions of grid-element turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2018, 847, 452-488.
• Paul I, Papadakis G, Vassilicos JC. Evolution of passive scalar statistics in a spatially developing turbulence. Physical Review Fluids 2018, 3(1), 014612.
• Paul I, Dodd MS. Fine-scale invariants in turbulence generated by rising bubbles. Center for Turbulence Research: Stanford University, 2018. Annual Research Briefs 2018.
• Paul I, Papadakis G, Vassilicos JC. Genesis and evolution of velocity gradients in near-field spatially developing turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017, 815, 295-332.
• Paul I, Arul Prakash K, Vengadesan S, Pulletikurthi V. Analysis and characterisation of momentum and thermal wakes of elliptic cylinders. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016, 807, 303-323.
• Paul I, Papadakis G, Vassilicos JC. Alignments and small scale statistics in the production region of grid turbulence. In: 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. 2015, Boston, Massachusetts: American Physical Society.
• Paul I, Arul Prakash K, Vengadesan S. Numerical analysis of laminar fluid flow characteristics past an elliptic cylinder: A parametric study. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 2014, 24(7), 1570-1594.
• Paul I, Arul Prakash K, Vengadesan S. Onset of laminar separation and vortex shedding in flow past unconfined elliptic cylinders. Physics of Fluids 2014, 26(2), 023601.
• Paul I, Arul Prakash K, Vengadesan S. Forced convective heat transfer from unconfined isothermal and isoflux elliptic cylinders. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications 2013, 64(8), 648-675.