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Dr. Apurv Kumar

Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering

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apurv.kumar@federation.edu.au +61 (3) 53276478

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Dr Apurv Kumar’s research expertise is in mechanical engineering, particularly in the solar thermal field. Dr Kumar’s research interests encompass experimental and computational multiphase fluid mechanics, radiation and convective heat transfer, solid-gas modelling and experimental applied solar thermal research, bushfire mitigation technologies, and waste to energy conversion using solar thermal technologies.

Apurv is currently an active participant in the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute project funded by the Commonwealth Government’s Australia Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), a collaboration with CSIRO, ANU and Sandia National Laboratory, USA.

Apurv has been a Lecturer in mechanical engineering at Federation University Australia since July 2019. He has served as a Research Fellow and a Postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University and at CSIRO respectively, working on various ARC and ARENA projects in the solar thermal field. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Deakin University in 2015.

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Understanding the aerosol impact on the electrification of PyroCb thunderstorm

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.108029

Modeling and Analysis of PyroCb Lightning Leader Impacts on PV Systems

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DOI reference: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2025.3637986

Performance Improvement of a Limaçon Gas Expander Using an Inlet Control Valve: Two Case Studies

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DOI reference: 10.3390/en17102427

An Optimum Design for a Fast-Response Solenoid Valve: Application to a Limaçon Gas Expander

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DOI reference: 10.3390/dynamics4020024

An Optimized Artificial Neural Network Model of a Limacon-to-Circular Gas Expander with an Inlet Valve

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DOI reference: 10.3390/thermo4020014

A 3D Numerical Model to Estimate Lightning Types for PyroCb Thundercloud

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DOI reference: 10.3390/app14125305

Biochar Amendment in Green Roof Substrate: A Comprehensive Review of the Benefits, Performance, and Challenges

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DOI reference: 10.3390/app14167421

A Literature Review of the Design, Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Electro-Mechanical Inlet Valves for Gas Expanders

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DOI reference: 10.3390/en17184569

Understanding Mud Rush Hazards in Sublevel Caving Mines: A Geotechnical Review

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RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN SOLAR PARTICLE RECEIVERS

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DOI reference: 10.1615/RAD-23.20

Numerical Model of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning for PyroCb Thunderstorms

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DOI reference: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3313263

A Direct Drive Rotary Valve for Efficient Power Generation in Gas Expander Based Small Scale Power Plants

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DOI reference: 10.1109/AUPEC59354.2023.10502784

Modelling of bubble growth and detachment in nucleate pool boiling

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2022.108041

Mechanistic modelling of bubble growth in sodium pool boiling

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.apm.2022.11.030

RADIATION ANALYSIS OF A PARTICLE CURTAIN USING POLYDISPERSE PARTICEL SIZE EULERIAN GRANULAR CFD MODELLING

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DOI reference: 10.1615/TFEC2022.fnd.040828

Prediction of Positive Cloud-To-Ground Lightning Striking Zones for Tilted Thundercloud Based on Line Charge Model

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DOI reference: 10.1109/APPEEC53445.2022.10072038

Heat transfer in directly-irradiated high-temperature solid-gas flows laden with polydisperse particles

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.apm.2022.05.034

Numerical modelling of radiative heat transfer in a polydispersion of ceramic particles under direct high-flux solar irradiation

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2021.108008

High-temperature optical and radiative properties of alumina-silica-based ceramic materials for solar thermal applications

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.solmat.2022.111710

Heat transfer modelling of an isolated bubble in sodium pool boiling

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2022.107678

Heat Transfer Enhancement of Nanofluid Flow in a Tube Equipped with Rotating Twisted Tape Inserts: A Two-Phase Approach

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DOI reference: 10.1080/01457632.2021.1896835

Thermodynamic Guiding Principles for Designing Nonstoichiometric Redox Materials for Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production: Ceria, Perovskites, and Beyond

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DOI reference: 10.1002/ente.202000925

Eulerian Granular CFD Modelling Of Hydrodynamics of a Free-Falling Particle Curtain With Particle Size Distribution

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Progress in heat transfer research for high-temperature solar thermal applications

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.116137

Optical characterisation of alumina–mullite materials for solar particle receiver applications

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111170

Optical and radiative characterisation of alumina–silica based ceramic materials for high-temperature solar thermal applications

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2021.107754

Numerical modelling of ceria undergoing reduction in a particle–gas counter-flow: Effects of chemical kinetics under isothermal conditions

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ces.2020.115553

Numerical modelling of radiation absorption in a novel multi-stage free-falling particle receiver

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2019.118821

Micro-scale heat transfer modelling of the contact line region of a boiling-sodium bubble

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.120106

Thermal reduction of iron–manganese oxide particles in a high-temperature packed-bed reactor for solar thermochemical energy storage

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A sodium boiler and phase-change energy storage system

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DOI reference: 10.1063/1.5117588

Numerical and experimental investigation of a novel multi-stage falling particle receiver

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DOI reference: 10.1063/1.5117542

Radiation Absorption in a Particle Curtain Exposed to Direct High-Flux Solar Irradiation

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DOI reference: 10.1115/1.4040290

Design boundaries of large-scale falling particle receivers

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DOI reference: 10.1063/1.4984372

Development of ASTRI high-temperature solar receivers

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DOI reference: 10.1063/1.4984354

Radiation characteristics of a particle curtain in a freefalling particle solar receiver

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DOI reference: 10.1115/HT2017-5117

Numerical solution of gas-solid flow in fluidised bed at sub-atmospheric pressures

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.apt.2012.04.010

Investigating the effect of segregation of particles and pressure gradient on the quality of fluidisation at sub-atmospheric pressures

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.powtec.2013.12.014

Analytical model to locate the fluidisation interface in a solid-gas vacuum fluidised bed

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.powtec.2014.04.046

Bubble-wall interaction for asymmetric injection of jets in solid-gas fluidized bed

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ces.2013.06.022

ANN based estimation of heat generation from multiple protruding heat sources on a vertical plate under conjugate mixed convection

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2010.11.003

Understanding formability of extra-deep drawing steel at elevated temperature using finite element simulation

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.04.049

Prediction of springback in V-bending and design of dies using finite element simulation

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DOI reference: 10.1504/IJMPT.2010.035804

A Principal Component Analysis and neural network based non-iterative method for inverse conjugate natural convection

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DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.06.025