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Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Vineeth Vijaya Kumar, PhD

Contact Information

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
ENGC 213
MSC 191 Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas 78363-8202
Voice: (361) 593-4048
E-mail: vineeth.vijayakumar@tamuk.edu

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Aerodynamic
  • Turbulence
  • Heat Transfer
  • OpenFOAM
  • Digital Twins

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute Technology University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2022

Courses

FALL 2025: GEEN 1201 Engineering as a career

                 ME 5303 Introduction to Digital Twins for Mechanical Engineers 

Publications

  1. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Dynamic wake behaviour and aerodynamic characteristics of a custom airfoil under combined pitching and heaving motion, International Journal of Modern Physics C, (2025) Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 1-30 (IF: 1.5).
  2. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Dependence of wake structure evolution on frequency of a pitching wing: A numerical investigation using LES, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 34 (2023), No. 08, pp. 2350108 (IF: 1.5).
  3. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Influence of aspect ratio on the wake dynamics of a pitching wing, Physics of Fluids, Vol 34 (2022), No. 3, pp. 035106 (IF: 4.1).
  4. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, A comparative analysis of the characteristics of the vortex wake behind a flapping wing performing oscillations of different types, Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 56 (2021), pp. S101-125 (IF: 1.0).
  5. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Propulsion performance and wake transitions of a customized heaving airfoil, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 32 (2021), No. 09, pp. 2150117 (IF: 1.5).
  6. V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Subhransu Roy, Srikanth Goli, Arnab Roy, Investigations into transient wakes behind a custom airfoil undergoing pitching motion, European Journal of Mechanics/ B Fluids, Vol. 85 (2021), pp. 193-213. (IF: 2.5).

Conferences

  1. Vineeth V K, Sai Jeevan Puchakayala, Aswathy Ravikumar, Arturo Rodriguez, Vinod Kumar, Advancing Wake Structure Classification behind Oscillating Airfoils by Mitigating Class Imbalance with a Novel Data-Driven Machine Learning Framework, 11th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, March 9-12, 2026, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  2. Noah L. Estrada, Arturo Rodriguez, Andrew R. Ybarra, Jeffrey H. Farris, Oswaldo Aguirre, Vineeth V K, Vinod Kumar, Verification of Convergent-Divergent Nozzle Designs in Propulsion Aerospace Applications, 11th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, March 9-12, 2026, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  3. Arturo Rodriguez, Christopher Harris, Avinash Potluri, Noah L. Estrada, Alan M. Hernandez, Aryan Singh, Oswaldo Aguirre, Vineeth V K, Numerical and Analytical Modelling of Heat Transfer in Current-Carrying Conductors using the Heat Equation implemented using Finite-JAX, 11th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, March 9-12, 2026, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  4. Aryan Singh, Arturo Rodriguez, Vyom Kumar, Kate Reza, Oswaldo Aguirre, Vineeth V K, Cross-Model Verification of Wall-Bounded Flows using Finite-JAX and ANSYS Fluent, 11th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference, March 9-12, 2026, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
  5. Vineeth V K, Sai Jeevan Puchakayala, Aswathy Ravikumar, Arturo Rodriguez, Vinod Kumar, Unsteady Aerodynamic Wake Modes in Pitching Airfoils: Machine Learning Enabled Classification and Prediction, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  6. Aryan Singh, Vyom Kumar, Arturo Rodriguez, Vineeth V K, Christopher Harris, CFD Modelling of Venous Valve Flow Characteristics at Various Reynolds Numbers, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  7. Vyom Kumar, Aryan Singh, Vineeth V K, Arturo Rodriguez, Jeffrey H. Farris, Andrew R. Ybarra, Christopher Harris, Assimilated Physical Digital Twin of Venous Valve for Biological Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  8. Avinash Potluri, Arturo Rodriguez, Vineeth V K, Gopishwar Sharma Palepu, Vinod Kumar, Shock Dynamics Flows Dataset Creation using Explicit and Implicit Finite Difference Solvers, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  9. Alan M. Hernandez, Arturo Rodriguez, Vineeth V K, Avinash Potluri, Gopishwar Sharma Palepu, Vinod Kumar, Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Forward and Inverse Design Solutions for Hypersonic Blunt Cones, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  10. Arturo Rodriguez, Vinod Kumar, Vineeth V K, Avinash Potluri, Gopishwar Sharma Palepu, Partition of Unity Physics-Informed Neural Networks (POU-PINNs) for Darcy Flow, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  11. Oswaldo Aguirre, Arturo Rodriguez, Jose F. Espiritu, Vineeth V K, Vinod Kumar, Generative Probability Density Function for Atmospheric Turbulence Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.
  12. Gopishwar Sharma Palepu, Arturo Rodriguez, Avinash Potluri, Vineeth V K, Vinod Kumar, Scientific Discovery of Shock Dynamics via Generative Artificial Intelligence, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, Nov 23-25, 2025, Houston, TX, United States.

Books

  • V K Vineeth, Devendra Kumar Patel, Flapping wings: Bio-mimicking for future- A computational perspective of the application, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2023 (ISBN: 978-620-6-14424-3)

 

Vineeth Vijaya Kumar, PhD