Education:

MS, Aerospace Science Engineering (April 2009), King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA

BE, Mechanical Engineering - (June 2002), University of Madras, India 

Courses\Labs Taught:

• ME 210: ME Drawing and Graphics
• ME 308: Machine Design II I
• ME 323: Manufacturing Lab

​Research Areas:

Additive Manufacturing, Fiber Composites, FEA, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Design, Product Design, Vortex Flows, Base-drag reduction, Fluid flow techniques, Flow Visualisation.

Representative Publications:

Conference Papers:

Suhail Hyder Vattathurvalappil, Rajesh Theravalappil, Abdul Rahman Aravind, Arumugam Madhan Kumar, Fayaz Madamangalath, “Effect of chemical treatment under accelerated ageing in flax fiber composites” published in The ASC 38th Annual Technical Conference, 2023, Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, September 18 – 20, 2023.

Abdurrahman Aravind, Abdullah M. Al-Garni, “Experimental Investigation of the effect of Base Cavities on the Base pressure and Wake of a Two-Dimensional Bluff Body” published in 10th IASME/WSEAS conference on Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics (FMA’12) Istanbul, Turkey, August 21-23, 2012.