Rallabandi Akhilesh Prabhakar [[email protected]]
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras M.Tech. in Energy Technology, IIT Madras (Dual Degree, 2000-2005)	223, Saraswathi Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India 600036

AWARDS

• Scholarship in the ME Department of IIT-Madras for pursuing M. Tech Degree, 2004-until date.

• Scored 99.4 percentile in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2003.

• Third Place, ‘How Things Work’ (Tech Quiz) 2000, 2002, Second Place 2003 and Winner 2004.

• All India Rank 1256, IIT JEE (among 200,000 students), 2000.

• Selected for Andhra Pradesh State Physics Olympiad, 2000.

• Best Camp Report, St. Xavier’s group of School Camp, 1998.

• Third Place, CSI programming contest, Kanpur, 1996.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• M. Tech. Project: Heat Transfer Enhancement of PCM Based Composite Heat Sinks and Thermal Energy Storage Devices, 2004-until date [Advisor: Dr. Arunn Narasimhan].

  • Related Publication: Akhilesh, R., Narasimhan, A. and Balaji, C., “Method to Improve Geometry for Heat Transfer Enhancement in PCM Composite Heat Sinks,” Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, (2004, Accepted for Publication).

INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

• A proposal to unify two distinct manufacturing lines, and a program to allocate tasks to workmen for Mahindra and Mahindra (An Indian SUV Manufacturer), 2003, under Mr. Ravindra Borawake, Manager, Ind. Engg, Mahindra and Mahindra

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• The Economics of Solar Photo Voltaic cells in India: Why haven't they caught on?, 2003, under Prof. Ajit Kumar Kolar

• Animation of Four Bar Mechanisms, Gears and coupler curves using C++ and Java, 2002.

• The Humid Air Turbine (HAT), Steam Injected Gas Turbine (StiG) and LOTHECO cycles - a comparison of the performance in the energy and exergy domains.

• Exergy Analyses of Vapour Compression, Absorption and Desiccant Air Conditioning Plants.

• Pinch Technology and Process Integration

• Simulation of response of buildings to earthquakes: Comparison of solution predicted by Runge Kutta (4^th order) to the Analytical Modal solution

ACADEMICS

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES