
Welding Engineering, Joining of Dissimiar Materials, Process Modelling, Fracture Mechanics, Surfacing and Coatings,

Radiative heat transfer, Hypersonic Flow, Flow radiation interaction, spectral modeling of gases,
Bulk and sheet metal forming processes, Plasticity for metal forming, Ductile damage models, Constitutive modeling, Formability tests, Failure prediction, Incremental sheet forming, Tailor welded blanks, Finite element modeling,
Conventional Machining, Coatings for cutting tool application - PVD & CVD, Grinding and Finishing, Additive Manufacturing, Laser Material Processing.,

Two phase flow, Gas-liquid and liquid-liquid flow, Microfluidics, Filtration, Saliva flow, Boiling and condensation, Augmentation of boiling heat transfer coefficient, Bubble and drop dynamics, wettability gradient and electrowetting, Numerical methods, Lattice Boltzmann and Smoothed particle hydrodynamics,
Knocking in IC engines, Combustion instability, Thermo-acoustic instability in combustion systems, Combustion kinetics, Soot formation in hydrocarbon combustion, High-fidelity DNS of flame-acoustic coupling, Ammonia Combustion, Micro-combustion,

Experimental fluid mechanics; Experimental heat transfer; Optical measurement techniques , Active and passive control of flow field, Wake Dynamics, Turbulence study; Schlieren, HWA, PIV, LCT, PSP, Micro fluidics, heat transfer augmentation using phase change material,

Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Nontraditional Micro-machining, Metal Matrix Composites, Primary and Secondary Processing of MMC, Quality Management, QFD for service sector,

Manufacturing: Welding & Surface Engineering, Mechanical Behaviour, Failure Analysis, Dissimilar Metal Joining, Friction Stir Welding, A-GTAW, Diffusion Bonding, Weldability,
Erosion wear, Slurry erosion and cavitation wear, Hydro-dynamic Machines, Hydraulic Turbines and Pumps, Performance Testing of SHP stations, Fluid Mechanics, Flow measurement, Artificial roughness and Computational fluid dynamics,

Fatigue, Damage, Fracture, Design, Fracture Mechanics, Modeling of Materials, Failure Analysis, FEM, CPFEM, Environmental Fatigue,

Wave propagation, ,, Fracture and damage of soft tissues, ,, Experimental mechanics, ,, Modeling and simulation of vibration and zero gravity environments during space missions, ,, Impact and blast induced head injury biomechanics, ,, Solid Mechanics, ,, Mechanics of Materials, ,, Finite Element Method, ,, Other: History and philosophy of science, Science education,

Heat Transfer, Solar Energy, Refgn. & A/C, Energy Management, Fire Engineering, Boiling and Condensation, Solar Air and Water Heater, Energy Auditing, Pool Fire,

Machine Learning and Soft Computing Methods, Condition Monitoring of High Speed Ball Bearings, , Rail Dynamics & Whole Body Vibrations, CNT based Mass Sensors and Dynamics of Smart Structures (FGM),
CAD/CAM, CAPP; Concurrent Engineering: Design for Manufacture, Design for Assembly, Tolerance Design, Manufacturing Systems, Modelling and Simulation, FMS, CMS, RMS, Agent Based Systems, Scheduling, Operations Management, Capacity Planning, Loading and Scheduling, Resource Planning, Machining Science, Conventional and Unconventional both (EDM, WEDM, ECM, ECH etc.),

Manufacturing Engineering, , Modeling and Simulation of Discrete Event Systems, Metal Casting, Metal Matrix Composites, CFD based Modeling of Steelmaking Processes in Continuous Casting (Physical & Mathematical Modeling),
Guided Wave Propagation, NDE, Nonlinear dynamics, Computational mechanics, Finite and Spectral finite element methods for nonlinear problems in elastodynamics,

Solid mechanics, Nonlinear elasticity, Finite element methods, Structural dynamics, ., Mechanics of soft active materials, ., Bio-mimetic engineering, .,

Manufacturing Science, Metal Casting, FEM in Manufacturing, CAD/CAM, Nano-composites,

Refrigeration & Air Conditions; Heat Transfer; Fluid Machinery,

Machine Design, Mechanical Vibration, Vibration Mitigation, Magnetorheological (MR) and MRE Dampers, Piping Systems, Structural Dynamics and Control, Structural Dynamic Testing, Identification and Monitoring, Pedestrian-Structure Interaction, Dynamics of Rail Vehicle, Semiactive Control of Indian Rail Vehicles at High Speed, Vibration Mitigation Systems, Elastomer Shock Isolators, Nonlinear Energy Sink Absorbers, Metamaterials in Vibration Mitigation,

Industrial Engg, Process Planning & Optimization ,Modeling & Simulation, Supply chain Management, Maintenance Management, Financial management,

Industrial Engineering:, Quality Engineering, Taguchi's Method, Six Sigma, SPC Tools, QFD, Joining:, Microwave Joining of Bulk Materials, Composites, Supply Chain Management, Global Supply Chain, Reverse Logistics, Green Supply Chains, 3PL, 4PL Logisitcs, Advanced Manufacturing Processes:, Micro-Machining, Hybrid Machining, Non-Conventional Processes, Metal Casting:, Vacuum Sealed Molding, Evaporative Pattern Casting, Investment Casting, Casting Simulation ,

Thermal Engineering, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning, Two-phase Flow & Heat Transfer, Instrumentation and Measurements ,

Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Machine Design, Composite Materials, Vibrations, Fracture Mechanics, Damage Mechanics, FEA, Composite Materials, Elasticity and Plasticity,

Combustion and Fuels, Fire and Explosion Safety, Disaster/Incident modelling and prevention, CFD,

Broad Area:: Thermal and Fluids Engg, Renewable Energy, Desiccant Cooling, Specific Area:: Heat Transfer Enhancement, Heat Exchanger Design & Dynamics, Solar Thermal, Soft Computing Tools,

Machining (Conventional & Non-conventional), finishing processes, micro-machining, FSP&Welding, MMC, Rapid Prototyping,

Heat and moisture transport through porous materials with application to drying and nuclear waste di, Solar Assisted Ground Source Heat Pump, Mathematical modeling of cooling towers for thermal power plants, Development of new algorithms for the solution of Navier-Stokes equations using Finite Element Metho, Experimental Study on Microchannel Heat Transfer, Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Concrete Exposed to Fire, Energy, Underground coal gasification,

Synthesis and Modification of Advanced Nanomaterials, Energy Storage Applications, Targeted Drug Delivery (TDD) and Biomedical Implants, High Performance Toxic Gas Sensor, PMC’s and MMC’s for Structural, Automobile and Aerospace Applications,

Computational Solid Mechanics: [ Phase Field Fracture, Phase Transformation, Plasticity, Damage, Parallel Computing ], Multiscale Modeling of Heteogeneous Materials: [Fracture of Staggered Composites, Architectured Materials ], Multiphysics Computational Modeling of Fracture: [Li-ion Battery Electrodes, Fracture of Polycrystalline Cathode ], Metamaterials: Computational Modeling and Experiments [Elastic Wave Bandgap, Computational Homogenization],

Design, Composites, Nanocomposites, FEM, Fracture Mechanics, damage mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Nanomechanics, Graphene, CNT, h-BN nanosheets, nuclear materials,
Robotics, Dynamics , Control, Bond Graph Modelling, Design,

Heat Transfer, Themodynamics, CFD, Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis, Heat Exchangers, Desiccant Cooling,
Machine Design, Vehicle dynamics, Human response to vibrations, Fault diagnosis of bearings,

Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, AI-assisted Optimization,
Microwave Material Processing, In-situ Microwave Casting, Joining of Bulk Metal, Microwave Cladding, Surface Engineering, Cladding, Wear characterisation, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Hybrid Finishing Processes, Micromachining, Fabrication of Microchannels, Microholes, their characterisation.,

Tribology , Hydrodynamic/ Hydrostatic Lubrication, Hydrostatic/Hybrid thrust/journal Bearings, Non-Newtonian Rheology, Power law/cubic law model, couple stress fluid model, micropolar fluid model, ER/MR fluid model, Surface Topography, Surface Texturing , Vibration, Nonlinear Vibration Signature Analysis, Pinhole Defect, Mass Sensitivity , Diagnosis Analysis, Fault Diagnosis of Ball Bearings, Fault Diagnosis of Roller Bearings ,

Conventional Machining Processes, Machining, Non-Conventional Machining Processes, Machining and process optimization, Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical and biomedical applications,
Experimental fluid mechanics area such as hot wire anemometry, mie-scattering imaging, heat transfer analysis in turbo machines, electronics cooling, CFD in turbo machines, LES, ANN and optimization in heat transfer,

Composite Materials; conceptualization and development, Manufacturing of Polymer and Metal Matrix Composites, Natural Fiber Based Green Composites,

Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue Crack Growth, Damage Mechanics, Modeling of Composites, FGMs, Piezoelectric Materials, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Failure Analysis, Machine Learning, Computational Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling, Multi-physics Modeling, Finite Element Analysis, Isogeometric Analysis, XFEM, XIGA, Phase Field Modeling,

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Modeling and simulation of flow and heat transfer in turbomachines, transport and energy systems, Computational Mechanics, Development of novel parallel algorithms, meshfree methods, shape and topology optimization, Fluid Dynamics, DNS/LES of turbulent flows, CAE, Computer-Aided Analysis and Design of Thermo-fluid and multi-physics systems,
Direct numerical simulation of two-phase flows, Multiphase flow, Phase Change, Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, Numerical methods, Turbulent flows,

Acoustics, Noise Control, Machinery Condition Monitoring, Metamaterials, Supply chain engineering and management.,

Natural and Forced convection, Natural Ventilation, Unconventional energy systems, Nanofluids,

Machine design, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Product Design, Product Informatics, Knowledge representation and Reasoning, AI in Mechanical Engineering, Failure at high strain rate, Design of protective structures against blast and impact, Sandwich foam composite structure, Finite Element Analysis, Isogeometric Analysis(IGA), Modelling and simulation, Vehicle Crashworthiness,

Heat Transfer, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, Flow Visualization, Optical Techniques, Aerodynamics, Gas Turbine Blade Cooling, Thermal Contact Conductance, PIV, LCT, Hotwire anemometry,
Non-Linear Vibration Analysis and Control, Bearing Dynamics, Fault Diagnostic and Prognostic, Inflatable and Gossamer Structure/Antenna, Smart Materials and Structures,,