Events at the Indian Institute of Science

Tea and Coffee Boards at the IISc campus. On the right is Satish Kailas of Mechanical Engineering

Shiv Brat Singh, who did his Master's degree at IISc and Ph.D. in Cambridge (Darwin College), visited during my stay. He is currently at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.

Shiv then gave a talk at the Department of Metallurgy, on the subject of bainite.








Dinner following my lecture at the Indian Institute of Welding.	Professor Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Chairman of the Materials Research Centre and a frequent visitor to Cambridge.


Lecture on Hard Bainite	Saurabh Kundu and Debashish Bhattacharya, from Tata Steel, with Shiv in the middle.	Debashish, who did his Ph.D. in Cambridge, is now the Head of Research and Development for Tata Steel.









	The scene after a 20 minute period of heavy rain. On the left is a branch which perished, on the right the sky.






Survivours pictures, at the end of a 10-lecture course on the thermodynamics and kinetics of solid-state transformations.	The first lecture had an estimated 120 students, the final lecture 90 students.



	The three pictures on the left are after my talk on Transparent Steel, for the student association. The remaining pictures on the right are of a party held by the staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

The photographs below show firstly a laser illuminated tank of fluid, designed to provide experimental verification of computational fluid dynamics calculations.

On the right, the Engineer, Pramod Kumar, who did the fluid flow experiments and as a part of his Bachelor's course, constructed the steam engine shown below. The pressure chamber of the engine has two safety valves, one to let off excess steam pressure and the other a rubber valve which blows on overheating. There is also a flexible (metal) pipe taking the steam to the piston, its flexibility allowing some control over the steam pressure. The engine is designed to run on dry steam. There is no gearing and at full speed, it gets to hundreds of revolutions per minute.





Movie 1 of steam engine	Movie 2 of steam engine	Movie 3 of steam engine