Akhilesh Mimani

PhD (IISc Bangalore)

Email: amimani[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-2088

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization

Acoustics and Vibration

Research Interest

Array processing methods for acoustic source localization, Computational Acoustics and Aeroacoustics, Duct and Muffler acoustics, Noise Control Engineering, Mechanical/Structural Vibration

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Indian Institute of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Muffler Acoustics), 2012
Bachelors of Engineering (B.E), Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore, Mechanical Engineering, 2006

Website(s)

Homepage

CV

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A. Mimani Acoustic Analysis of Elliptical Cylindrical Mufflers: Application to Automotive Muffler Design - to be published by Springer Singapore (2019).
A Mimani, J Fischer, D. J Moreau, C. J Doolan, A comparison of time-reversal and cross-spectral beamforming for localizing experimental rod-airfoil interaction noise sources, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Vol. 111, pp. 456-491 (2018).
A. Mimani, R. Porteous, C.J. Doolan A simulation-based analysis of the effect of a reflecting surface on aeroacoustic time-reversal source characterization and comparison with beamforming, Wave Motion, Vol. 70, pp. 65-89 (2017)
A Mimani, Z. Prime, D. J Moreau, C. J. Doolan, An experimental application of aeroacoustic time-reversal to the Aeolian tone The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 139, pp. 740-763 (2016)
A. Mimani, M.L. Munjal Acoustic end-correction in a flow-reversal end chamber muffler: A semi-analytical approach, Journal of Computational Acoustics 24, 1650004 (2016)

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Commendable Contribution to Research Quality Prize at the Centre for Energy Technology (CET), Research Day, 12th December, 2013, The University of Adelaide, South Australia – 5005, Australia.

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Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad 380 009, Gujarat, India June 2018 up to December 2018
Research Associate, Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales 2007, October 2017 -May 2018.
Research Associate, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, August 2016 up to September 2017.
Research Associate, Energy Pipelines CRC Project – 'Gas-Pipeline blowdown: Characteristics of natural gas pipeline blowdown in remote areas', School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, South Australia – 5005, July 2015 up to July 2016.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project 'Resolving the mechanics of turbulent noise production', School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, South Australia – 5005, April 2012 up to June 2015.

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Office

Office Phone: 0512-259-2088 (O)

Email:amimani[AT]iitk.ac.in