Dr. R. Naveenkumar

• Solar Energy
• Energy Engineering
• Nanomaterials
• Heat Transfer Analysis

Theory Courses Handled:

• Engineering Thermodynamics
• Thermal Engineering
• Heat and Mass Transfer
• Power Plant Engineering
• Fluid Mechanics and Machinery
• Gas Dynamics and Jet Propulsion
• Automobile Engineering
• Basic Civil and Mechanical Engineering
• Principles of Management
• Total Quality Management
• Advanced Thermodynamics
• Advanced Heat Transfer

Lab Courses Handled:

• Thermal Engineering Laboratory
• Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
• Fluid Mechanics and Machinery Laboratory
• Engineering Practices Laboratory

• Working as Assistant Professor (O.G) in Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Vadapalani Campus, Chennai – 600026, Tamil Nadu, India, from July 2025 to till date.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering (Autonomous), Trichy – 621115, Tamil Nadu, India, from June 2017 to June 2025.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mookambigai College of Engineering, Pudukkottai – 622502, Tamil Nadu, India, from January 2017 to May 2017.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, CARE Group of Institutions, Trichy – 620009, Tamil Nadu, India, from June 2015 to June 2016
• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oxford Engineering College, Trichy – 620009, Tamil Nadu, India, from December 2012 to May 2015

• Received appreciation reward for research during the Academic Year 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.
• Served as reviewer for SCI/Scopus Indexed peer reviewed Journals.
• Produced 100% results in Thermal Engineering & Power Plant Engineering in Anna University conducted semester exams during the academic year 2014-2015 and 2018-2019.
• Received Best Teacher appreciation award during 2015.

• R. Naveenkumar, “Performance Evaluation of Solar Panel Cooling with Fins and Water Jet Cleaning” 4 th International Conference on Advances in Automobile, Manufacturing, Automation and Mechanical Engineering (ICAAMME 25) held at Easwari Engineering College (Autonomous) Chennai, on 19 th March 2025.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Performance Analysis of Solar Photovoltaic Cell using Thermoelectric Modules” 39 th National Convention of Electrical Engineers and National Conference on “Green Hydrogen, Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems” held during 25 th & 26 th October 2024 at Rosette Convention Centre, Anna University, Chennai, Organized by the “The Institution of Engineers (India), Tamilnadu State Centre”.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Performance Enhancement of Modified PV Solar Panel using Cooling Method” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Science and Technology (23 – 24 May, 2024) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College ofEngineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Dual Slope Solar Still” International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Science and Technology (23 – 24 May, 2024) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “A Review on Basalt Fibre Polymer Matrix Composite material” International Conference on Smart Sustainable Materials and Technologies (ICSSMT 2023, 30-31 August 2023), International level conference held at CARE College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Experimental Investigation of Solar Parabolic Trough Collector with Intermittent rotating absorber pipe” Latest Trends in Materials and Mechanical Engineering (28 – 29 April, 2022) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Experimental Investigation of Solar Powered Tunnel Dryer for Drying Chipped Potatoes” Latest Trends in Materials and Mechanical Engineering (28 – 29 April, 2022) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Experimental Investigation of Investigation of Mechanical properties of Chopped Basalt fiber with Epoxy resin and Zirconium Dioxide” Latest Trends in Materials and Mechanical Engineering (28 – 29 April, 2022) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Modified Potable Water Heater Flask” Latest Trends in Materials and Mechanical Engineering (28 – 29 April, 2022) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “PCM Based Solar Water Heater” Latest Trends in Materials and Mechanical Engineering (28 – 29 April, 2022) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Evaluation of fatigue fracture in reinforcing bar under a constant strain amplitude of 0.8%” 2 nd International conference on Materials, Manufacturing and Modelling ICMMM – 2019 (29 – 31 March 2019) held at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore.
• R. Naveenkumar, S. Kishore, P.C. Santhosh Kumar “Experimental investigation of Agricultural Paddy Separation system using solar energy” International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (22 – 24 March 2018), International level conference held at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Evolution of Sound Absorption Characteristics of Plastic Reinforced Wood Composites” International Conference on Innovations in Engineering, Technology and Science (13 – 14 March, 2018) International level conference held at K.Ramakrishnan College of Engineering, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “An Analysis of Solar water heater with internal grooved tubes using CFD” Energy Efficient Technologies for Automobiles (20 – 21 March, 2015), International level conference held at Anna University, BIT Campus, Trichy.
• R. Naveenkumar, “Clean Coal Technology in Power Plant” – Emerging Trends in Engineering, Technology and Management (ETETM 2013) – National level conference held at Oxford Engineering College, Trichy on 6th April 2013.