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Prof. Chilukoti Hari Krishna

PhD (Tohoku University )

Assistant Professor Gr-I

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Room No: B257   +91-870-2462320
chk@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Evaporation, Phase change materials 

 Interfacial phenomenon, 2D materials, 

 Nanoscale heat transfer, Mass transfer, Molecular dynamics 

  • Courses Handled
  • Research IDs
  • Selected Publications
  • Project/Consultancy
  • Current PhD Students
  • Awards and Accolades
  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Thermal Engineering Laboratory(ME307)
  • Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer(ME16005)
  • Non-Conventional Energy Sources(ME411)
  • Heat Transfer and Fuels Laboratory(ME255)
  • Design of Heat Transfer Equipment(ME16032)
  • Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems(ME16054)
  • Automotive Systems laboratory(ME56006)
  • Dissertation Work Part - A(ME6149)
  • Comprehensive Viva Voce(ME6147)
  • Thermal Machines(ME306)
  • Experimental Methods in Thermal Engineering(ME5104)
  • Seminar - I(ME5148)
  • Seminar - II(ME5198)
  • Dissertation Work Part - B(ME6199)
  • Energy Systems Laboratory(ME5154)
  • Design of Heat Transfer Equipment(ME5166)
  • Vehicle Body Engineering(ME5503)
  • Design and Optimization of Thermal Systems(ME5152)
  • Rocket Propulsion(ME5169)
  • Refrigeration Technology(ME5111)
  • Engineering Computation Laboratory(ME153)
  • ORC ID: 0000-0002-7882-0805
  • Google Scholar ID: VIo6aXMAAAAJ


  • Predicting thermophysical properties of alkanes and refrigerants using machine learning algorithms, By Kiran Rathod, Sai Charan Ravula, Prasanna Sai Chandra Kommireddi, Rahul Thangeda, Gota Kikugawa, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Elsevier, Fluid Phase Equilibria, vol.578, pp.114016, 2024
  • Effect of Defects on the Interfacial Thermal Conductance between n-Heneicosane in Solid and Liquid Phases and a Graphene Monolayer, By Tianhang Zhou, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Zhenghao Wu, Florian Müller-Plathe, American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol.125, pp.14149-14162, 2021
  • Rebound suppression of a droplet impacting on a supersolvophobic surface by a small amount of polymer additives, By Eunsang Lee, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Florian Müller-Plathe, American Chemical Society, ACS Macro Letters, vol.10, pp.192-196, 2021
  • Sequence-engineering polyethylene–polypropylene copolymers with high thermal conductivity using a molecular-dynamics-based genetic algorithm, By Tianhang Zhou, Zhenghao Wu, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Florian Müller-Plathe, American Chemical Society, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol.17, pp.3772-3782, 2021
  • Suppressing the rebound of impacting droplets from solvophobic surfaces by polymer additives: polymer adsorption and molecular mechanisms, By Eunsang Lee, Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Florian Müller-Plathe, Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter, vol.17, pp.6952-6963, 2021
  • Thermal Energy Transport across the Interface between Phase Change Material n-Heneicosane in Solid and Liquid Phases and Few-Layer Graphene, By Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Tianhang Zhou, Vikram Reddy Ardham, Michael C Böhm, Florian Müller-Plathe, American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol.123, pp.29192-29202, 2019
  • Application of reverse nonequilibrium molecular dynamics to the calculation of the mutual diffusion coefficient of alkane mixtures, By Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Florian Müller-Plathe, Hua Yang, American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol.122, pp.9210-9217, 2018
  • Structure and mass transport characteristics at the intrinsic liquid–vapor interfaces of alkanes, By Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Gota Kikugawa, Taku Ohara, American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol.120, pp.7207-7216, 2016
  • Self-diffusion Coefficient and Structure of Binary n-Alkane Mixtures at the Liquid–Vapor Interfaces, By Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Gota Kikugawa, Taku Ohara, American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol.119, pp.13177-13184, 2015
  • A molecular dynamics study on transport properties and structure at the liquid–vapor interfaces of alkanes, By Hari Krishna Chilukoti, Gota Kikugawa, Taku Ohara, Elsevier, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol.59, pp.144-154, 2013

Understanding And Manipulating Heat Transfer Over The Interface Between Polymers And Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Investigation Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor DST
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 13.4
  • Status Completed


HN Manjunath

  • Area of Research: Heat Transfer

Sai Charan Ravula

  • Area of Research: Heat transfer
  • Faculty Advisor (August, 2023 - June, 2024)