Academic Qualifications

BE (1989)	Madurai Kamaraj University
MTech (1992)	University of Kerala
PhD (1997)	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
DSc (2007)	Swansea University

Posts Held

Oct.2008 -	Professor and EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Swansea University
Oct. 2006 -Sept.2008	Reader and EPSRC Advanced Fellow, Swansea University
Oct.2004 - Sept.2006	Senior Lecturer, Swansea University
Sept.2000 - Sept.2004	Lecturer, Swansea University
Sept.1996 - Aug.2000	Research Officer, Swansea University
April 1996 - Aug.1996	Research Associate, IIT Madras
Aug.1989 - July 1993	Lecturer/Tutor, India

Professional qualifications

• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• Senior Member of AIAA
• Chartered Mathematician
• Chartered Scientist

Major awards/Scholarships

• EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, Oct.2006 - Sept.2011
• Named raising star for highest percentate increase in total citations in Engineering by "www.in-cites.com"
• O.C. Zienkiewicz Award to Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences, European Community for Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). Presented during the ECCOMAS 2004 conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, July 24-28, 2004.
• Zienkiewicz Silver Medal and Prize, Presented by Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 2002.
• Most Outstanding Paper Award, MCB University Press, England - 1998, Int. J. Num. Meth. Heat Fluid Flow,(Coauthors N. Massarotti and O.C. Zienkiewicz).
• First Rank Holder (MTech), University of Kerala
• HRD Scholarships: MTech & PhD

Professional Activities

• Editor, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2010 -
  
• Editor, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering - (2008-2009)
• Co-chair, 1st Int. Conf. on Comp. and Math. Biomedical Engineering, June 29-July 1, 2009.
• Co-chair, 1st Int. Conf. on Comp. Thermal Problems, Naples, Italy, Sept.8-10, 2009.
• Co-chair, 1st African Conf. on Comp. Mechanics, Sun City, South Africa, Jan.7-11, 2009.
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 
• Member of Editorial Board, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow.
• Member of Editorial Board, Open Thermodynamics Journal
• Member of Editorial Board, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
• Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Computational Methods.
• Guest Editor, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2006.
• Guest Editor, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2008.
• Guest Editor, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 2008.
• EPSRC Peer Review College member, Since January 2006.

Selected Invited Talks

• Keynote Lecture, IHTC-14, International Heat Transfer Conference, Aug. 8 - 13, 2010, Whasington D.C, USA.
  
• Keynote Lecture, SACAM2010, Seventh South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics, Jan10-13, 2010, Pretoria, South Africa.
  
• Keynote Lecture, 35th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), Bangalore, December 11-13, 2008.
• Keynote Lecture, Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro-channels. Electro-osmotic flow (EOF), EUROTHERM 2008, Eindhoven, May 19-22, 2008.
• Keynote Lecture, Conceptual design, analysis and fabrication of a micro-cooling system for thermal management of electronic equipment, PLMSS Conference, IISc Bangalore, Dec.18, 2006
• Keynote Lecture, A unified approach to fluid dynamics, Keynote Lecture, CFD Symposium, NAL Bangalore, August 2006.
• Keynote Lecture, The finite element method for heat and fluid flow, International Heat Transfer conference IHTC – 13, 13 – 18 Aug, 2006.
• Keynote Lecture, Fractional step methods for heat and fluid flow, HEFAT 2005, Cairo, Sept 18 – 22, 2005.
• Keynote Lecture, Role of Numerical modelling in the compact heat exchanger analysis, 5th International Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers, British Colombia, Canada, Sept 2005.

Selected Research Theses Supervised

• Dr. Nicoala Massarotti, 2001. Topic: Heat and mass transfer in a porous medium.
• Dr. Chun-Bin Liu, 2005. Topic: Turbulent incompressible flow modelling.
• Dr. Craig Thomas, 2006. Topic: Locally conservative Galerikin (LCG) finite element method.
• Dr. Alex Arnold, 2007. Topic: Electro-osmotic flows.
• Mr Jonathan Mynard, 2007, Topic: Blood flow.
• Dr Rhodri Davies, 2008, Topic: Mantle convection
• Dr Ray Hickey, 2008, Topic: Compressible flows
• Dr P.F. Eng, 2009, Topic: EOF based heat spreader
  

Selected Research Projects

• Microscopic and macroscopic approaches in porous media flow and heat transfer, Oct. 2001 - June 2003, EPSRC, UK; £62,256.
• Turbulent Compressible Flows, USA, Oct.2001 - Sept. 2003, NASA/Engineering Computations, USA; £22,000.
• Electroosmotic flow based microelectronic cooling system, May 2005 - March 2007; WDA, UK; £140,000.
• An efficient and time accurate explicit finite element scheme for viscoelastic flows on unstructured hybrid and adaapted meshes, Oct. 2005 - Sept. 2008; EPSRC, UK; £177,033.
• Patient specific computational modelling of human upper airway collapse, Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2011; EPSRC, UK;  £474, 394.
• Patient specific modelling network, May 2009 - April 2012; EPSRC, UK; £101,918
• Applicability of blood flow network models, Jan 2010 - Dec. 2011, Leverhulme Trust, UK; £76,000.
  

Books

• Lewis, R.W, Nithiarasu, P and Seetharamu, K.N., Fundamentals of finite element method for heat and fluid flow, John Wiley, May 2004, 376 pages.
• Zienkiewicz, O.C., Taylor,R.L., Nithiarasu, P., The finite element method for fluid dynamics, Sixth Edition, Elsevier, (November 2005) , 435 pages.

Recent Journal Articles

• C.G. Thomas and P. Nithiarasu, A locally conservative Galerkin (LCG) method for conservation laws using quadratic elements, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 73, 642-664, 2008.
• S.P. Singh, P. Nithiarasu, P.F. Eng, R.W. Lewis and A.K. Arnold, An implicit-explicit solution method for coupled electroosmotic flows in three dimensions using unstructured meshes, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 73, 1137-1152, 2008.
• A.K. Arnold, P. Nithiarasu and P.G. Tucker, Finite element modelling of electroosmotic flows using unstructured meshes, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 67-82, 2008.
• P. Nithiarasu, A unified fractional step method for compressible and incompressible flows, heat transfer and incompressible solid mechanics, International Journal of Numerical methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 111-130, 2008.
• C-B. Liu and P. Nithiarasu, The Characteristic based split (CBS) scheme for viscoelastic flow past a circular cylinder, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. 57, 157-176, 2008.
• J. Mynard and P. Nithiarasu, A 1D  arterial blood flow model incorporating ventricular pressure, aortic valve and regional coronary flow using the locally conservative Galerkin (LCG) method, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 24, 367-417, 2008.
• P. Nithiarasu, O. Hassan, K. Morgan, N.P. Weatherill, P. Ebden, H. Whittet and C. Fielder, Steady flow through a realistic upper human airway geometry, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 57, 631-651, 2008.
• A.K. Arnold, P. Nithiarasu and P.F. Eng, Electro-osmotic Flow (EOF) in micro-channels, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 222, 753-759, 2008.
• C.G. Thomas and P. Nithiarasu, R.L.T. Bevan, The locally conservative Galerkin (LCG) method for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 57, 1771-1792, 2008.
• C.B. Liu, P. Nithiarasu,  An artificial damping based fractional step method for viscoelastic flow past a cylinder using Maxwell model, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 57, 1171-1187, 2008.
• F. Arpino, A. Cartanuto, N. Massarotti and P. Nithiarasu, A robust mathematical model and numerical approach to solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) problems, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 811-834, 2008.
• P. Nithiarasu and R.W. Lewis, A short note on Joule heating in electro-osmotic flows. A consistent non-dimensional scaling, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 919-931, 2008.
• R. Davies, H. Davies, O. Hassan, K. Morgan and P. Nithiarasu, Applicability of adaptive mesh generation for mid-ocean ridge and subduction zone problems, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, 18, 1015-1035, 2008.
•  F. Arpino, N. Massarotti, A Mauro and P. Nithiarasu, Artificial compressibility based CBS scheme for the solution of the generalised porous medium model, Numerical Heat Transfer Part B - Fundamentals, 55, 196-218,2009.
• K. Chitra, S. Vengadesan, T. Sundararajan and P. Nithiarasu, An investigation of pulsatile flow in a model cavo-pulmonary vascular system, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering with biomedical applications, 25, 1061 - 1083, 2009.
• P.F. Eng and P. Nithiarasu, Numerical investigation of an electroosmotic flow (EOF) based micro-cooling system, Numerical Heat Transfer Part B - Fundamentals, 56, 275 - 292, 2009.
• R.L.T. Bevan, R. van Loon and P. Nithiarasu, The locally conservative Galerkin (LCG) method - a discontinuous methodology applied to a continuous framework, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 1, 319 - 340, 2009.
• C.B. Liu, P. Nithiarasu and P.G. Tucker, Wall distance calculation using the Eikonal/Hamilton-Jacobi equations on unstructured meshes, Engineering Computations, to appear, 2010.
• K. Chitra, S. Vengadesan, T. Sundararajan and P. Nithiarasu, Non-Newtonian blood flow study in a model cavo-pulmonary vascular system, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, to appear, 2010.