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Murali S. Venkatraman, Ph. D.
Post Doctoral Fellow

2D51 Swearingen Engineering Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
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Graduate research

Ph. D. Thesis Topic:  Models for Mass Transfer Effects in Semi-Fuel Cells and for  a Silver-Zinc Battery

  1. Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the behavior of Silver-Zinc batteries numerically using FEMLAB and FORTRAN

  2. Developed a new numerical technique / tool (MADIN) for solving electrochemistry equations in commercial CFD packages

  3. Developed a library of automated mesh generation systems for complicated fuel-cell geometries using CFD packages GAMBIT , FLUENT and STAR-CD

  4. Investigation of the behavior of Aluminum-Hydrogen peroxide systems by CFD models using STAR-CD and FORTRAN

  5. Numerical Simulation of flow field using CFD packages in PEM-fuel cells 

Projects

  1. Prediction of hopping diffusion in the glass-intercalate lattices (USC, 2002)

  2. A study of   Newman’s classic and review papers on porous electrodes (USC, 2001)

  3. Monte-Carlo study of ion transport across solid interfaces in glass-intercalate (USC, 2001)

  4. Kinetic calculations in Thermal Decomposition of Hydrogen sulphide (USC, 2000)

  5. Water uptake in organic/phenolic coatings used for metal protection  - a model based on diffusion (USC,1999)

  6. Mass transfer from a solid spherical particle coated with an insoluble polymeric capsule (USC,1999)

  7. Flow past an obstacle – A CFD study of dependence of mixing length on inlet velocity and the height of obstacle (USC,1999)

  8. Design calculations for the production of ammonia using Haber’s process (CECRI, 1998)