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Curriculum Vitae of Nirmal C Sacheti

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Dr. Nirmal Chand Sacheti Nationality Indian

Position Professor Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 36, Al Khod, PC123

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Phone: (+968) 24141412 Fax: (+968) 24413490

Email: nirmal@squ.edu.om

2. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree Discipline Award Year

Institution Country

PhD* Mathematics 1976 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

India

MSc** Mathematics 1970 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

India

Others (part-time)

Diploma Russian Language

1975 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

India

Diploma French Language

1973 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

India

Diploma German Language

1972 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur

India

*Thesis Title: Some Flow Problems in Non-Newtonian Fluids with Special Reference to Second Order Fluids

** Topped the university & was awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Medal

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3. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Dates Position Name of Employer

05/2014 to date

Professor Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

01/1999 – 05/2014

Associate Professor

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

03/1987 – 01/1999

Assistant Professor

Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

08/1984 –03/1987

Scientist Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi, India

01/1982 – 12/1983

Lecturer Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

03/1978 – 12/1981

Senior Tutor Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

02/1976 - 10/1977

Post Doctoral Fellow

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi, India

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4. TEACHING

Sultan Qaboos University In my long academic career spanning close to 4 decades, my tertiary teaching

experience in the real sense began, first as postdoctoral fellow at a premier

institute of India, then followed by a six-year stint as a full faculty member at

Monash University, Australia (see later). However, the major part of my

teaching experience took place at the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman.

I joined the SQU in the very first year of its establishment, hence under more

challenging and demanding conditions generally associated with a brand new

university. I started my teaching stint here, firstly as a faculty member of the

Department of Mathematics and Computing (DOMAC) at the College of

Science. About a decade later, following the split of DOMAC into two

departments, namely, the Department of Computer Science and the

Department of Mathematics & Statistics (DOMAS), I have since then continued

my mathematics teaching as an established member of DOMAS and

contributed well in all aspects of its growth, most notably in the curriculum

development of BSc Degree Program and, later, Master Program (MSc) in

Applied Mathematics. Being the largest academic department at SQU and

offering a highly significant number of service courses across SQU, DOMAS

has provided me with ample opportunity to be extensively involved in the

teaching of a very large number of predominantly UG courses in mathematics

(about 35 courses to date overall): from foundation level through middle and

upper levels in the UG program and later master level courses. The teaching

has covered a wide range of topics in undergraduate mathematics degree

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program such as basic numercacy, pre-calculus, all 3 calculus courses (of

single as well as several variables), linear algebra, differential and partial

differential equations, complex variables, integral (Laplace) transforms,

besides elementary programming courses on Basic and Fortran during early

years. A fairly large proportion of my teaching has involved teaching a variety

of service courses at different levels to undergraduate students of as many

as 6 colleges at SQU, particularly the students of the College of Engineering.

After the start of UG degree program in BSc Mathematics around mid-nineties,

my teaching duties also involved teaching upper level specialized elective

course on fluid dynamics, which I have taught a fairly large number of times,

and supervision of a number of 2-semester long final year mandatory

projects undertaken by the students (as a team comprising 2 or 3 members)

majoring in Mathematics. After the launch of MSc Applied Mathematics

Program in 2003, I have also taught graduate level course in viscous fluids and

supervised, as well as co-supervised, a good number of individual MSc

Applied Mathematics research projects mainly in the area of incompressible

flows. (See a complete list of courses taught in the Appendix 1)

A few important aspects of teaching related duties do merit mention. Firstly, I

have had the opportunity of being the coordinator of as many as 10 multi-

section courses, each for generally 3 or more semesters in a row, and

leading a team of several DOMAS/DOMAC academic staff, for example, up to

nine faculty members. Eight of these courses have been with a student

population ranging from 100 to 640+ students. Secondly, mathematics courses

at SQU during the first decade were taught using lecture notes and handouts

prepared by the faculty. It was thus a big responsibility, particularly for the

faculty who joined DOMAC in the beginning years, for not only developing

curriculum and introducing degree program from scratch but also painstakingly

preparing suitable lecture notes and handouts for a number of courses. I thus

played a key role in preparing or revising lecture material, tutorial handouts

etc. in a number of courses, most notably, Ordinary Differential Equations and

Applications, Calculus of Several Variables I, Calculus of Several Variables II,

Basic Numeracy – all taken by a fairly large student population. Later, during

revision of BSc Mathematics Program and development of MSc Applied

Mathematics program, I took the lead as a principal contributor in the

development of higher/graduate level Fluids courses, namely, (i) Fluid

Dynamics, (ii) Viscous Incompressible Flows and, as a joint contributor, for (iii)

Compressible Flows. Lastly, but not least, it has been a matter of great

personal satisfaction to be constantly praised and liked by students for my

teaching style and qualities at all levels of courses taught, apparently also

borne out by excellent teaching evaluations.

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Monash, founded in the early sixties, has been among the leading universities

of Australia with a very large mathematics faculty. During my 6-year stint with

Mathematics Department at Monash, in late seventies and early eighties, I

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began my university teaching career as a regular faculty and got a very useful

experience of teaching as well as teaching management of a wide range of

undergraduate courses, particularly to the students of Engineering and

Science. I also gained invaluable experience of working in teams with a large

number of faculty members, including, in later years, coordinating 3 UG

courses while leading a medium group of faculty members. It is worth

mentioning that I also got exposed for the first time ever to two PSI

(Personalized System of Instructions) mathematics courses for level 3

advanced classes in Engineering, including coordinatorship of one of these

courses in later years. In summary, I was involved in the teaching of the

following topics at Monash, including a number of service courses:

Calculus and Analytic Geometry,

Integral Transforms,

Calculus of Variations,

Continuum Mechanics,

Special Functions,

Complex Analysis,

Linear Algebra with Applications,

Biomathematics,

Numerical Methods,

Elementary & Advanced Mechanics,

Vector Calculus,

Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations,

Computational Methods using Fortran (first year only)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

As a CSIR (India) postdoctoral fellow cum tutor, I taught, for about 3 semesters

in mid-seventies, 2 Engineering Mathematics courses for first and second year

level students pursuing 4-year Bachelor of Technology degrees in various

disciplines at this premier institution of India. The teaching at this institute did

produce some challenges in my early teaching career as I had to deal with the

cream of Indian students admitted for tertiary engineering education. Overall, a

fairly satisfying entry to the world of teaching!

5. SERVICE (mainly after joining SQU)

Being one of the two surviving faculty who joined DOMAS/DOMAC in its very first year (1986-87 academic year), I have contributed continuously and quite enormously under this head during my long career of 28+ years at SQU. Establishing a department from the very scratch was indeed a very big challenge to faculty members who joined the department in the very beginning. I am extremely happy to state that I played notable roles in this regard. Over the years, my administrative and related duties have been wide ranging, some of them (lately) being extremely demanding and requiring very

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high degree of responsibility which I have been discharging to the best of my capacity and apparently to the high degree of satisfaction of DOMAS. To summarize, I have been involved in a very large number of

administrative tasks, from time to time, including the membership/chairmanship of several regular/Ad hoc committees covering DOMAS and a number of committees of the College of Science. On professional front too, I have been intensely involved, notably through: membership on the editorial board of journals; acting as referee of a large number of international journals; reviewership of well known review journals for several years; organization of research workshop; organization of and/or speaker at teaching workshops, membership of organizing committee of an international conference, etc.

Details are summarized below:

5.1 Administrative Responsibilities (Department)

5.1.1 Regular Committees I give below list of all committees I am/have been involved with during my long and continuing association with SQU, beginning with the current ones:

1. Current Program Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies in Applied

Mathematics (since Spring 2008) 2. Current chair of DOMAS Accreditation Committee (since Spring 2014) 3. Current member and Secretary of Graduate Studies Committee* (since

Fall 2004) [* formerly called Graduate Studies and Research Committee)

4. Past member of Teaching Committee 5. Past Member of Curriculum Committee (for 8 years) 6. Past Coordinator for the College of Agriculture (for 8 years) 7. Past member of Promotion Committee 8. Past member and secretary of Appointments Committee 9. Past Seminar Officer 10. Past Departmental Board Secretary 11. Past member of Staff-Student Liasion Committee 12. Acting HOD (for a very brief period during part of summer 2013) 5.1.2 Ad hoc Committees/Other Tasks 1. Committee Preparing DOMAS Responses to External Examiner

(Mathematics) Report – member (Fall 2015) and member (Fall 2012) 2. DCC Appointed Committee for New Classical Mechanics Courses -

Chair 3. Strategic Committee - Member 4. Committee to Identify Suitable External Accreditation Organization for

BSc Mathematics Program - chair 5. Coordinating with External Examiners to DOMAS during their visits in

Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013 and Spring 2014 6. Committee to Come-up with Recommendations for a Graduate Study

Matter – chair 7. Calculus Courses Textbook and Course Revision Committee – chair

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8. Teaching Workshop Committee – chair 9. Tutorial Workshop Committee – Member 10. Committee to Prepare Criteria for Assessing Contributions of DOMAS

Faculty in various Departmental Committees - chair. 11. Interview Committees for Selecting Candidates for Admission to

Postgraguate Mathematics Programs - chair/ member (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

5.1.3 Some Selected Highlights Teaching Workshop Committee The work in this very important committee has been one of my major and significant contributions. In response to the serious concerns raised by the SQU authorities at the highest level regarding the problem of high percentages of low grades (F and D) in a number of lower level mathematics courses with very large student population, one semester after another, the DOMAS Board formed a highly important key ad hoc committee in Fall 2003 under my Convenorship. The five-member Teaching Workshop Committee worked continuously and zealously for over 4 months and produced a comprehensive report including a series of accepted recommendations. Also, I, as the lead speaker, organized 2-hour+ workshop. I am very glad to mention that the adoption of a number of key recommendations of this committee by the authorities has indeed led to a consistent improvement in the student performance to date in all our lower level courses. Program Coordinator of PG Studies in Applied Mathematics

This position and associated responsibilities have been among the most prominent aspects of my contributions to DOMAS. For last 8+ years, I have been a key faculty dealing with DOMAS Postgraduate matters of all kinds. In particular, I have worked extremely diligently with a host of responsibilities associated with the running of our ever expanding but highly successful postgraduate program in Applied Mathematics. This includes (a) coordination with (i) the office of the Assistant Dean of PSR almost continuously, (ii) the 25+ strong Applied Mathematics faculty in DOMAS and (iii) visiting External Examiner (EEs) each year during spring semesters; (b) organization as well as supervision of highly demanding admission process of new intakes each year; (c) advising most regularly graduate students and (d) keeping a tab on the progress of each student and addressing to their grievances.

Yet another major task worth mentioning is my deep involvement in the revision of our MSc Applied Mathematics program during 2009-11. After a long-drawn process, I prepared a comprehensive revision document in Spring 2011 which was subsequently reviewed and approved by the visiting DOMAS External Examiner, Prof. Brian Straughan (Univ. of Durham, UK), followed by DOMAS Graduate Studies Committee, DOMAS Board and finally the College Postgraduate Committee. The introduction of a number of new electives and the revision of core courses have been the hallmark of this long process.

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DOMAS Accreditation Committee

Although (relatively) a recently formed committee, the work involved as chairman of this key 6-member DOMAS committee has already been highly demanding and would continue to be so in foreseeable future. The multiple tasks of committee have been/are related to (a) preparing a large number of DOMAS documents for OAAA accreditation, (b) preparing a comprehensive Self Study Report (SSR) for Academic Program Review (APR) of our BSc Mathematics Degree and (iii) long duration work involved with the external accreditation of our UG Mathematics Program.

5.2 Administrative Responsibilities/Tasks (College)

1. Current member of College Postgraduate Committee (for last 8 years) 2. Current member of International Academic Cooperation Committee 3. Past Chair of Capital Equipment Committee 4. Past member of Geophysics Steering Committee 5. Past member of Committee for UG Interdisciplinary Programs 6. Involved as the part of a small committee to prepare document on

Success Stories in the College of Science

5.3 Professional Service and activities

5.3.1 On Editorial Board of International Journals (past/present)

Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics

Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

5.3.2 Reviewer for Review Journals

Applied Mechanics Review, USA (1977- 83)

Zentralblatt fur Mathematik, Germany (1980-mid 1990’s)

5.3.3 Referee for international journals I have been regularly involved with the task of reviewing research articles submitted to international journals (see below the list of the journals):

Meccanica

Heat Transfer Engineering

Numerical Heat Transfer

Heat & Mass Transfer

Bulletin Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society

J. Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

J. Taiwan Inst. Chemical Engineers

SQU J. Science

Modelling, Measurement & Control

Appl. Math. & Comp.

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Indian J. Industrial & Appl. Math.

Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (India)

Matemáticas Enseñanza Universitária

Journal of Applied Mathematics

Advances in Applied Mathematics & Mechanics

Journal of Porous Media

Italian J. Pure & Applied Mathematics

Journal of Engineering Sci. & Tech.

5.3.4 Membership of Professional Organizations (past/ present)

The Society of Rheology, USA

The British Society of Rheology, UK

Indian Society of Rheology

Australian Society of Rheology

Life Member of Banaras Hindu University Mathematical Society (since 1998)

Life member of Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (since 2010)

Society for Special Functions and Applications

5.3.5 Examinership of Theses/projects

External Examiner: 2 PhD Theses and 1 MSc Thesis

Internal Examiner: 7 Sultan Qaboos University MSc Theses

On Panel of Examiners: to assess presentations of Final year UG projects

5.3.6 Chairmanship of Thesis Examination Committees

2 MSc Theses at SQU

4 POEC (Preliminary Oral Examination Committee) - SQU PhD students

5.3.7 Teaching/Advising Workshops

Organized a two-hour workshop: Teaching Mathematics at SQU, for the benefit of new DOMAS faculty and consultants joining in Fall 2000

Speaker at a Teaching Workshop for DOMAS new faculty in September 2001

Speaker at a workshop on Academic Advising (DOMAS) in October 2002

5.3.8 Conference/Workshop Organization

Served on the Advisory Committee of International Conference on Service Industry: Challenges and Opportunities, Muscat, Oman , 13-14 September 2006

A member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Mathematical Modeling (ICMM – 2009), being organized by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, February 2009

Organized, in association with Prof. P. Chandran, a one-day workshop on “Convective Flows and Instabilities” at the Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, SQU on 14 June, 2011.

A member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference: IECMSA - 2016

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5.3.9 SQU Internal Grants Research Proposals

I have acted as a referee in nearly half dozen research proposals. 5.3.10 Public Lectures

“Higher Education scene in the Sultanate of Oman: Sharing an Experience”;

an invited talk on the occasion of 8th P.D. Verma memorial lecture, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, August 2004.

Two talks on Gulf Higher Education Scene were given at: (a) Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India,

June 2007 (b) Jodhpur Institute of Engineering and Technology (JIET), Jodhpur,

India, August 2007

I also gave short speeches during two Alumni meets organized at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics during Spring 2008 and 2011.

5.3.11 Recent SQU Workshops Attended

Developing Leadership Capability in Teaching and Learning, SQU, 25-26 January, 2009; presented by Prof. Merrylyn Goos, Univ. of Queensland, Australia.

Becoming an Effective Supervisor, SQU, 27-28 January, 2009; presented by Dr. Catherine Manathunga, Univ. of Queensland, Australia.

Active and Engaging learning; SQU, 1 August, 2013.

Institutional and Program Standards Assessment Seminar, organized by OAAA at SQU, May 2014

Academic Accreditation, organized by the College of Education, SQU, March 2014

Student Outcomes, organized by Academic Program Review Office, SQU, December 2015

6. RESEARCH In my long academic career, I have been engaged in research, mostly joint studies

with my local as well as external collaborators, in a number of specific aspects of

theoretical Fluid Dynamics, namely, general Newtonian/Non-Newtonian flows and

heat transfer, coupled/non-coupled flows through isotropic as well as anisotropic

porous media, free convective flows, lubrication, boundary layer flows, MHD flows,

and, lately, thermal instability aspects and flows involving nanofluids. I have used

analytical, semi-analytical and numerical treatments to solve the governing field

equations. Results of my research in the above mentioned areas have majorly

appeared through publication in refereed international journals and refereed

conference proceedings and also through presentation at a fairly large number of

regional as well as international conferences by self or my coauthors. Additionally, I

have been a coauthor in (i) an extensive Research Monograph (421pp) and (ii) Invited

Chapter (39 pp) in a Civil Engineering Handbook published from USA. To date, I have

in excess of 80 publications covering all types, most notably in refereed international

journals.

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It is worth mentioning that a vast proportion of my research output during my long

career has emanated from SQU, and has primarily been a result of highly successful

collaborative studies involving a number of DOMAS colleagues and a few established

external collaborators, particularly my longtime SQU colleague, Prof. P. Chandran and

external collaborator, Prof. A. K. Singh (Banaras Hindu University, India) and his

group. It is also worth pointing out that a fair number of my publications with SQU

address has resulted from researches carried out under as many as 6 SQU Internal

Research Grants. Given below, in the next sub-section, are brief details of these

grants in which I have been involved (as either Principal or Co-Principal/Co-

investigator) together with Prof. P. Chandran and some external

collaborator(s)/another DOMAS colleague.

6.1 SQU Funded Internal Grant Projects

(i) Boundary Layer Flows of a Class of Non-Newtonian Fluids (IG/SCI/DOMS/99/03)

(ii) Transient Solutions of Certain Magnetohydrodynamic Free Convection Flows (IG/SCI/DOMS/02/04) (iii) Analytical Investigations of some incompressible fluid flows bounded by porous media (IG/SCI/DOMS/06/08)

(iv) Natural convection in a confined composite system comprising a fluid layer and a porous medium (IG/SCI/DOMS/09/06)

(v) Convective flows and instabilities in nanofluids

(IG/SCI/DOMS/11/19) (vi) Natural convection in non-rectangular permeable enclosures with or without mass transfer

(IG/SCI/DOMS/14/10)

6.2 Papers in Refereed International Journals

6.2.1 After Joining SQU Kumar, A, Singh, AK, Chandran, P., Sacheti, NC (2015). Effect of perpendicular magnetic field on free convection in a rectangular cavity. SQU Journal of Science, 20, pp. 49-59. Srivastava, N, Singh, AK, Chandran, P., Sacheti, NC (2015). Double diffusive natural convection in a partially permeable rectangular cavity heated from below. Global Journal of Pure & Applied Mathematics, 11, pp. 537 -556.

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Sacheti, NC, Chandran,P, Bhadauria, BS, Singh, AK (2014). Developing buoyancy driven flow of a nanofluid in a vertical channel subject to heat flux. International Journal of Engg. Math, Volume 2014, Article ID 618591, pp.1-8. Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, Jaju, RP (2014). A comparative study of higher order effects on the boundary layer flow of a dilatants fluid: flow near a stagnation point. International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, 21 (11), pp. 60-74.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC and Singh, AK (2013). A numerical investigation of a buoyancy driven flow in a semi-porous cavity: Comparative effects of ramped and isothermal wall conditions. Journal of Hydrology & Hydromechanics, 65, pp. 123-129.

Sacheti, NC, Chandran,P, Singh, AK, Bhadauria, BS (2012). Transient free convective flow of a nanofluid in a vertical channel. International Journal of Energy and Technology , 4, pp.1-7. Tiwari, AK, Singh, AK, Chandran, P and Sacheti, NC (2012). Natural convection in a cavity with a sloping upper surface filled with an anisotropic porous material. Acta Mechanica, 223, pp. 95-108.

Bhadauria, BS, Srivastava, AK, Sacheti, NC and Chandran, P (2012). Gravity modulation of thermal instability in a viscoelastic fluid saturated anisotropic porous medium. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung, 67a, pp. 1-9.

Agarwal, S, Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, Bhadauria, BS and Singh AK (2012). Nonlinear convective transport in a binary nanofluid saturated porous layer. Transport in Porous Media, 93 (1), pp.29-49. Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2011). A comparative study of two-dimensional natural convection in an isotropic porous medium. International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, 21 (11), pp. 60-74.

Bhadauria, BS, Kumar, A., Kumar, J., Sacheti, NC and Chandran, P. (2011). Natural convection in a rotating anisotropic porous layer with internal heat generation. Transport in Porous Media, 90 (2), pp.687-705.

Singh, RK, Singh, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Chandran, P (2010). On hydromagnetic free convection in the presence of induced magnetic field. Heat and Mass Transfer, 46, pp. 523-529.

Hamza, EA, Jain, SR, and Sacheti, NC (2010). Pulsatile flow between two coaxial porous cylinders with slip on inner cylinder for large frequency of pulsation. Matematicas Ensenanza Universitaria, 18, pp. 11-26.

Singh, AK, Sacheti, NC*, and Chandran, P (2009). Flow of an incompressible fluid in

a cubical cavity with a free fluid-porous medium interface. Indian. J. Industrial & Appl. Math., 2 (2), pp. 61-71.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2009).Transient natural convection near a semi-infinite vertical wall in a rotating system. Differential Equations& Control Processes, 13(4), pp. 69 -86.

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Singh, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Chandran, P (2008). Developing flow near a semi-infinite vertical wall with ramped temperature. International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, 13, pp. 34-45.

Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, Bhatt, Bal S, and Chhabra, RP (2008). Steady creeping motion of a liquid bubble in an immiscible viscous fluid bounded by a vertical porous cylinder of finite thickness. Advanced Studies in Theoretical Physics, 2, pp. 243 – 260.

Jain, SR, Rajvanshi, SC, and Sacheti, NC (2008). Pulsatile flow through annular space bounded by an inner cylinder of permeable material with large suction at the outer cylinder. Bull. Pure Appl. Math., 2, pp.152-177.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2007). Some aspects of free convection in electrically conducting fluids: Flow near vertical plates. International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics: 10, pp.8-24.

Sacheti, NC, Hamza, EA, Rajvanshi, SC and (2007). Pulsatile flow between two coaxial porous cylinders with slip on inner cylinder. Matematicas Ensenanza universitaria, 15, pp. 51-66. [Note: The actual order of authors in the publication above is

different- alphabetically (by surname)as per journal’s practice]

Singh, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Chandran, P (2006). Stratification effects on transient Stokes flow in the presence of a permeable boundary. Forschung im Ingenieurwesen (Engineering Research), 70, pp. 67-73. Chandran, PC, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2005). Natural convection near a vertical plate with ramped wall temperature. Heat and Mass Transfer, 41, pp. 459 – 464.

Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, Jaju, RP, and Bhatt, BS (2004). Steady laminar flow of a dilatant fluid along a channel with suction at a bounding wall. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 52, pp. 175 – 184.

Chandran, P and Sacheti, NC (2004). Unsteady boundary layer flow of a radiating fluid under the influence of an applied magnetic field. Differential Equations and Control Processes, 8, pp. 58—76.

Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, and El-Bashir, T (2003). Higher order approximation of an inelastic fluid flow. J. Physical Soc. Japan, 72, pp. 964 - 965.

Chandran, P and Sacheti, NC (2003). Transient motion of electrically conducting fluids of different Prandtl numbers: flow near a vertical boundary.Differential Equations and Control Processes, 7, pp. 77-87.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2002). On laminar boundary layer flow of electrically conducting liquids near an accelerated vertical plate. Physics and Chemistry of Liquids, 40, pp. 241 – 254.

Sacheti, NC, and Chandran, P (2002). Steady creeping flow of an inelastic fluid past a rigid sphere. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 50, pp. 285 – 299.

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Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, and El-Bashir, T (2002). On the boundary layer flow of an inelastic fluid near a moving wall. Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae, 55, pp. 519 – 530.

Bhargava, SK, Sacheti, NC, and Bhatt, BS (2001). Temperature distribution in generalized Couette flow of two immiscible fluids in presence of a naturally permeable boundary. Ind. J. Theo. Phys., 49, pp 283 – 292.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2001). Transient hydromagnetic natural convection on a vertical flat plate subject to heat flux. Modelling, Measurement and Control, B, 70, pp. 15 – 28.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (2001). Exact solutions for the convective flow of fluids of different Prandtl numbers near an infinite vertical plate in a rotating system. Int. Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 6 (2001), pp. 573 – 590.

Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, and Jaju, RP (2000). On the stagnation point flow of a special class of non-Newtonian fluids. Physics and Chemistry of Liquids, 38, pp. 95 – 102.

Singh, AK, Chandran, P, and Sacheti, NC (2000). Effect of transverse magnetic field on a flat plate thermometer. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 43, pp. 3253 – 3257. [see also Volume 44 (2001), p.503 for an Erratum by the publishers for the missing Fig. 3 in the original paper] Singh, AK, Chandran, P, and Sacheti, NC (2000). On the thermal boundary layer of a moving flat plate thermometer in the presence of Ohmic heating. Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 5, pp. 303 –313.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (1999). An exact solution for fluid convection near an infinite vertical plate in a rotating system. Differential Equations and Control Processes, 3, pp. 55 – 64. Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (1998). Unsteady hydromagnetic free convection flow with heat flux and accelerated boundary. J. Physical Soc. Japan, 67, pp. 124 -129. Sacheti, NC and Chandran, P (1997). On similarity solutions for three -dimensional flow of second order fluids. J. Physical Soc. Japan, 66, pp. 618 - 622.

Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (1996). Hydromagnetic flow and heat transfer past a continuously moving porous boundary. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 23 (1996), pp. 63-74.

Singh, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Chandran, P (1994). Transient effects on magnetohydrodynamic Couette flow with rotation: Accelerated motion. International Journal of Engineering Science, 32, pp. 133-139.

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC (1994). Flow past a porous spherical shell using Brinkman model. J. Phys. D. - Appl. Phys., 27, pp. 37-41.

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Sacheti, NC, Chandran, P, and Singh, AK (1994). An exact solution for unsteady magnetohydrodynamic free convection flow with constant heat flux. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 21, pp. 131- 142.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1993). Couette flow between corrugated plates: the effect of a lubricated boundary. Modelling, Measurement and Control, 47, pp. 1-22.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1993). Forced convection flow through a circular pipe with naturally permeable wall. Modelling, Measurement and Control, 47, pp. 53-63.

Chandran, PC, Sacheti, NC, and Singh, AK (1993). Effect of rotation on unsteady hydromagnetic Couette flow. Astrophysics and Space Science, 202, pp. 1-10. Sacheti, NC and Singh, AK (1992). Free convection through a vertical channel in a rotating porous medium. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 19 (1992), pp. 423-433.

Singh, AK and Sacheti, NC (1990). Stratification effect on the Rayleigh layer over a naturally permeable wall. Solid Liquid Flow, 2, pp 9-11.

Bhargava, SK and Sacheti, NC (1989). Heat transfer in generalized Couette flow of immiscible two Newtonian fluids through a porous channel: use of Brinkman model. Indian J. Technology, 27, pp. 211-214. Singh, AK and Sacheti, NC (1988). Hall Effects on Rayleigh’s problem. Modelling, Simulation and Control, A, 17, pp. 49-54. Singh, AK and Sacheti, NC (1988). Finite difference analysis of unsteady hydromagnetic free convection flow with constant heat flux. Astrophysics and Space Science, 150, pp. 303-308. Sacheti, NC and Singh, AK (1988). Heat transfer aspect in generalized hydromagnetic Couette flow through a channel bounded by a naturally permeable material. Modelling, Simulation and Control, B, 19, pp. 21- 32.

6.2.2 Without SQU Address (based on earlier work) Sacheti, NC, Bhargava, SK, and Bhatt, BS (1988). Forced convection in a fluid layer of two immiscible fluids occupying a finite height over a naturally permeable wall.

Engineering Transactions, 36, pp. 461-470.

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC (1987). Effect of rotation on Rayleigh layers in presence of naturally permeable boundaries. J. Engg. Mech., Proc. A.S.C.E., 113, pp. 1795-1800.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1984). On Stokes and Rayleigh layers in presence of naturally porous boundaries. J. Engg. Mech.,Proc. A.S.C.E., 110, pp. 713-722. Sacheti, NC (1983). Application of Brinkman model in viscous incompressible flow through a porous channel. J. Math. Phys. Sciences, 17, pp. 567-577.

Sacheti, NC, and Chaudhary, RC (1982). Creeping flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a conical duct. Acta Tech. CSAV, 27, pp. 51- 58.

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Sacheti, NC (1980). Comments on externally pressurized porous thrust bearings. Wear, 58, pp. 393-395.

Sacheti, NC (1980). On the steady state temperature distribution in the thermal boundary layer of an elastico-viscous fluid. ZAMM, 60, pp. 635-636.

Mathur, AK, Bhatt, BS, and Sacheti, NC (1980). Hydromagnetic laminar flow between parallel porous walls with large suction. Indian J. Mathematics, 22, pp. 314 - 318.

Bhatt, BS, and Sacheti, NC (1979). On the analogy in slip flows. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math., 10, pp. 303-306.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1979). Unsteady plane Poiseuille flow and temperature distribution of a viscoelastic fluid. Rev. Roum. Phys., 24, pp. 153-159.

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC (1979). Comments on limitation of the Reynolds equation for porous thrust bearings. Wear, 53, pp. 377-379.

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC (1977). Comments on channel and tube flows with surface mass transfer and velocity slip. Phys. Fluids, 20, pp. 1380-1381.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1976). Steady laminar flow of a non-Newtonian fluid with suction or injection and heat-transfer through porous parallel discs. ZAMM, 56, pp. 43-50. Mathur, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Bhatt, BS (1976). Unsteady flow of a dusty viscous fluid between parallel plates. Mathematics Education, 10, pp. 1-5.

Sacheti, NC (1976). Plane Couette flow of two immiscible incompressible non-Newtonian fluids with uniform suction at the stationary plate. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math., 7, pp. 527-540.

Verma, PD and Sacheti, NC (1975). Low Reynolds number flow of a second order fluid past a porous sphere. J. Appl. Phys., 46, pp. 2065- 2069.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1975). Unsteady motion of a particular class of Rivlin-Ericksen fluid in a rectangular channel. Revista Mathemika y Fisica Teorica, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina, 25, pp. 173- 180.

Verma, PD and Sacheti, NC (1975). On two-dimensional flow of power law fluids through ducts with naturally permeable walls. ZAMM, 55, pp. 475-478.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1975). Unsteady motion of a second order fluid between parallel plates. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math., 6, pp. 996-1006.

Verma, PD and Sacheti, NC (1973). On the performance of a slider bearing under fluctuating speed using a non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluid as lubricant. Indian J. Phys., 47, pp. 413-422.

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS (1973). Unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid between parallel plates. Defence Science Journal, 23, pp. 147-152.

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Verma, PD, and Sacheti, NC (1972). Steady flow of a second order fluid in the entrance region of a straight channel. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math., 3, pp. 518-531.

Verma, PD, and Sacheti, NC (1972). Non-torsional oscillations of a disc in a rotating second order fluid. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., 76A, pp. 87-103.

Mathur, AK, Sacheti, NC, and Bhatt, BS (1972). Unsteady hydromagnetic flow between parallel plates. Mathematics Student, 40, pp. 45-151.

6.3 Papers Submitted and nearing Completion

Submitted:

1. Chandran, P, Sacheti, NC, Singh, AK and Bhadauria, BS. Steady free convection in an anisotropic porous non-rectangular vertical cavity. Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.

Papers nearing Completion:

1. Effect of heat source/sink on natural convection in an isotropic permeable enclosure with slopping surface (with P. Chandran, AK Singh and BS Bhadauria) 2. Buoyancy driven steady flow in a trapezoidal anisotropic porous cavity in the presence of heat source/sink (with P. Chandran, AK Singh and BS Bhadauria)

6.4 Books and Chapters in Books

:Book

Pragati .Newtonian Fluid Flows-Non(1982). Sacheti, NCKapur, JN, Bhatt, BS, and

Prakashan, Meerut, India, 1-421 pp.

Invited Chapter: Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS. “Stokes and Rayleigh Layers in Presence of Naturally Permeable Boundaries.”In Civil Engineering Practice, Vol. 2 Hydraulics / Mechanics, eds. Cheremisinoff, Paul N., Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P. and Cheng, Su Ling (1988). Technomic Publishing Co. Inc Pennsylvania, United States of America, pp. 659-695.

6.5 Papers in Conference Proceedings

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Sacheti, NC and Sampanthar, S, ‘Viscous flow past a non-Newtonian liquid bubble in vertical permeable tubes: use of Brinkman model’ in Proc. Xth International Congress on Rheology, Sydney, Australia, 10 - 14 August, Vol. II, 1988 pp. 2.242 - 2.244.

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC, ‘Relative motion to a swarm of porous spheres’ in Proc. First Caribbean Conference on Fluid Dynamics, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 8 - 11 January, 1989, pp. 333 - 337.

Sacheti, NC and Chandran, P, ‘Three-dimensional boundary layer flow of a class of non-Newtonian fluids’ in Proc. International Conference on Contribution of Cognition to Modelling (CCM’98), Lyon, France, 6 – 8 July, 1998, pp. 16.27 – 16.30. Malik, M, Bhargava, SK and Sacheti, NC, ‘A semi-analytical analysis of static and dynamic characteristics of a hydrodynamic journal bearing’ in Proc. International Conf. in Industrial Tribology (ICIT -2001), Jamshedpur, India, 8-10 April, 2002, pp. 11-13 to 11-38.

Singh AK, Hamza, EA, Chandran, P and Sacheti, NC, ‘Numerical solution of buoyancy-driven unsteady flow past a semi-infinite heated vertical plate with ramped temperature distribution’ in Proc. Conference on Mathematics and its Applications (CMAIA 2006), The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 25-26 September, 2006

6.6 Conferences and Workshops

I started attending conferences quite regularly from my early PhD years in India. I

have so attended over 40 national, regional and international conferences and

workshops, meets covering a host of countries, including Oman. My collaborators

and I have so far presented 46 joint research papers thus far. A good proportion

of conferences, notably since early 2000, have been sponsored by the Sultan

Qaboos University.

6.6.1 Paper presentation at conferences/workshops by self Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and Singh, A. K., On two-dimensional nonsteady free convection near vertical plate subject to stepped-up surface temperature. The 4th International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Athens, Greece, 31 August – 03 September 2015

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and Jaju, R. P., A semi-Analytical approach to investigate two-dimensional flow of an inelastic non-Newtonian fluid near a stagnation point. The 12th UAE Math Day, Dubai, UAE, 19 April, 2014

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and Jaju, R. P., A comparative study of higher order effects on the boundary layer flow of a dilatants fluid: flow near a stagnation point. The 2nd Abu Dhabi University International Conference: Mathematical Sciences and its Applications (ICMSA 2013), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 29 November- 01 December 2013

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P., Singh, A. K. and Bhadauria, B. S. Developing buoyancy dominated flow of a class of nanofluid, The 6th International conference

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on Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equations and their Applications (MADEA-2012), Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey, 04-09 September 2012

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and Singh, A. K., Buoyancy driven steady two-dimensional flow in an anisotropic non-rectangular permeable cavity. The 8th International ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) Congress, People’s Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia, 22-27 August 2011

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and Singh, A. K., Analysis of laminar natural convective flow in an enclosure partially filled with a porous medium. The 2nd Asian Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Phuket, Thailand, 9-12 September 2010

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., On unsteady natural convection in a viscous incompressible fluid near a vertical plate subject to ramped temperature profile. 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computation and 5th East Asia Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, 8 -11 June 2009

Sacheti, N. C., Jain, Sunita R. and Rajvanshi, S. C., Some aspects of pulsatile flow in a permeable annulus. International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Muscat, Oman, 23-26 February, 2009

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., Rheological effects on the flow of two immiscible fluids in a vertical porous circular cylinder, The 6th International ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) Congress, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 13– 18 August 2007. Sacheti, N. C., Chandran P. and Bhatt, Bal S., Rheological effects on the flow of two immiscible fluids in a vertical porous circular tube, SQU DAY Poster Presentation, Sultan Qaboos University, May 2007

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., On the Stokes layer of a stratified viscous fluid over an oscillating porous medium, The 2nd IMT-GT 2006 Regional Conference on Mathematics, Statistics & Applications, Penang, Malaysia, June 13 -15, 2006

Sacheti, N. C., Hamza, E. A. and Rajvanshi, S. C., Unsteady viscous incompressible flow in a porous annulus subject to slip at the inner surface, International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Bandung, Indonesia, August 22 – 26, 2005

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and El-Bashir, T., Some aspects of boundary layer flows of a dilatant fluid model, 6th Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians, Tunis, Tunisia, September 01 – 06, 2004

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., Non-Newtonian flow past a sphere: An appraisal , Second International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Al Ain, U. A. E, December 12 – 14, 2004

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., On the translation of a micropolar liquid bubble moving under gravity in a viscous medium, The 2003 UAE Mathematics Day Conference, Sharjah, U. A. E, May 8, 2003

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Sacheti, N. C., Chandran, P. and El-Bashir, T, Theoretical investigations of a dilatant fluid flow near a stagnation point over a moving wall, Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Sharjah, UAE, 2 - 4 May, 2001

Sacheti, N. C., Chandran P and El-Bashir, T. Boundary layer flows of a class of non-Newtonian fluids, SQU DAY Poster Presentation, Sultan Qaboos University, May 2001

Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., On the steady laminar flow of a particular class of dilatant fluid along a channel with suction at a porous wall, First International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Al Ain, UAE, November 21 – 23, 1999

Sacheti, N. C. and Singh, A. K. Stratified flow over an oscillating permeable wall, 53rd Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Gorakhpur, India, December 30, 1987 – 2 January, 1988.

Sacheti, N. C. and Bhatt, B. S. Unsteady plane Poiseuille flow and temperature distribution of a viscoelastic fluid, 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Trivandrum, India, December 1976,

Verma, PD and Sacheti, N.C., Slow flow of Reiner-Philippoff fluids past a sphere, The 40th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Bombay, India, December 1974. Verma, PD and Sacheti, N.C., Steady motion of a second order fluid in the inlet length of a circular pipe. The 43rd Annual Conference of the National Academy of Sciences, Jodhpur, India, November 1973. Verma, PD and Sacheti, N.C., On three-dimensional boundary layer equations for second order fluids and similarity solutions. The 38th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Bhopal, India, December 1972.

by a coauthor/workshops conferencesPaper presentation at .266.

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C., Singh, A. K. and Bhadauria, B. S., Some aspects of natural convection in a hydrodynamically and thermally anisotropic porous non-rectangular cavity. The 4th International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Athens, Greece, 31 August – 03 September 2015

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C., Singh, A. K. and Bhadauria, B. S., Unsteady free convection flow of nanofluid through a vertical channel. The 12th UAE Math Day, Dubai, UAE, 19 April, 2014

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C., Singh, A. K. and Bhadauria, B. S., Natural convection in a nanofluid through a vertical channel: coupled effects of non-isothermal and isothermal boundary conditions. The 2nd Abu Dhabi University International Conference: Mathematical Sciences and its Applications (ICMSA 2013), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 29 November - 01 December 2013

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C., Srivastava, N. and Singh, A. K., Steady heat and solute transfer in a rectangular enclosure partially filled with a permeable layer, International conference on Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equations and their

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Applications (MADEA-2012), Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey, 04-09 September 2012

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C., Kumar, A. and Singh, A. K., Free convective flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a plane enclosure subject to an applied normal magnetic field. The 8th International ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) Congress, People’s Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia, 22-27 August 2011

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C and Singh, A. K., Effect of ramped surface temperature on certain free convective flows in the presence or absence of a porous medium. The 2nd Asian Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Phuket, Thailand, 9-12 September 2010

Chandran, P., Sacheti, N. C and Singh, A. K., A comparative study of two-dimensional natural convection in an isotropic porous medium. Satellite Conference on International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, New Delhi, India, 14-17 August 2010

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., Exact solutions of some transient free convection flows: Effects of rigid body rotation and magnetic field. 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computation and 5th East Asia Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei, 8 -11 June 2009

Singh, A. K., Sacheti, N. C. and Chandran, P., On free convection in a cubical

cavity comprising an incompressible fluid overlying a porous medium, International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Muscat, Oman, 23-26 February, 2009

Chandran, P., Sacheti N. C. and Singh, A. K., Effect of rotation on transient

behaviour of buoyancy driven flow bounded by a semi-infinite vertical wall, 24th Annual Conference of the Mathematical Society of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 30-31 December, 2008

Singh, A. K., Sacheti N. C. and Chandran, P., Flow of an incompressible fluid in a cubical cavity with a free fluid – porous medium interface, The 23rd Annual Conference of the Mathematical Society, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, December 29 – 30, 2007.

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., A study of buoyancy driven unsteady viscous flow in the presence of applied magnetic field, The 6th International ISAAC (International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation) Congress, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 13 – 18 August 2007

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., Time-dependent high temperature MHD flow near a vertical wall, The 2nd IMT-GT 2006 Regional Conference on Mathematics, Statistics & Applications, Penang, Malaysia, June 13 -15, 2006

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., An analytical study of hydromagnetic natural convection subject to radiation, International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Bandung, Indonesia, August 22 – 26, 2005

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., Unsteady flow of a radiating and electrically conducting fluid under the action of an externally applied magnetic field, Second

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International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Al Ain, UAE, December 12 – 14, 2004

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., Developing hydromagnetic free convection flow in the presence of radiation, 6th Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians, Tunis, Tunisia, September 01 – 06, 2004

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., Natural convection in electrically conducting fluids subject to uniform heat transfer at a moving vertical plate, The 2003 UAE Mathematics Day Conference, Sharjah, U AE, May 8, 2003

Chandran, P. and Sacheti, N. C., On the effect of Prandtl numbers in free convection MHD flows, Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Sharjah, UAE, 2 - 4 May, 2001 Malik, M, Bhargava, SK and Sacheti, NC, A semi-analytical analysis of static and dynamic characteristics of a hydrodynamic journal bearing, National Seminar on Current Applications of Computers in Design Engineering, Jodhpur, India, 3-4 March, 2001

Chandran, P., Sacheti NC. and Singh, A. K., Hydromagnetic flow of fluids near an

accelerated vertical plate subject to heat flux, 16th Annual Conference of the Mathematical Society of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 26-27 December, 2000

Bhatt, BS and Sacheti, NC, Relative motion to a swarm of porous spheres, First Caribbean Conference on Fluid Dynamics, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies, 8 - 11 January, 1989

Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS, Forced convection in a fluid layer of two immiscible fluids occupying a finite height over a naturally permeable wall. First Caribbean Conference on Fluid Dynamics, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies, 8 - 11 January, 1989 Sacheti, NC and Bhatt, BS, Unsteady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid between parallel plates, The 38th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Bhopal, India, December 1972.

d (with or List of ALL conferences and workshops attende .366.tations of research paper)without presen

The First Oman Math Day Conference, SQU, Muscat, Oman, November, 2015 The 4th International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Athens, Greece, August-September, 2015 [Chaired a session] The 12th UAE Math Day, American University of Dubai, Dubai, UAE, April 2014 The 3rd International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, January, 2014

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The 2nd Abu Dhabi University International Conference on Mathematical Sciences and its Applications (ICMSA 2013), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November- December, 2013 19th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, May 2013 International Conference on Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equations and their Applications (MADEA -2012), Mersin, Turkey, September 2012 [Chaired a session] SQU-GUTECH International Workshop On Mathematics, Muscat, Oman, February 2012 Cambridge-SQU Mathematics Workshop, Muscat, Oman, October 2011 The 8th International ISAAC Congress, Moscow, Russia, August, 2011 University Grants Commission sponsored National Seminar on Recent Trends in Fluid Dynamics & Optimization Techniques, Jaipur, India, August 2011 [Chaired a session] International Conference on Special Functions and their Applications & Symposium on Works of Ramanujan, Jodhpur, India, July 2011 Second International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Muscat, Oman, January 2011 The Second Asian Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Phuket, Thailand, September 2010 Satellite Conference on International Congress of Mathematics 2010, New Delhi, India, August 2010 [Chaired a session] National Seminar on Recent Developments in Fluid Dynamics & 14th P. D. Verma Memorial Lecture, Jaipur, India, August 2010 [Chaired a session] International Conference in Analysis and Applications, SQU, Muscat, Oman, January 2010 [Chaired a session] The 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Computation and 5th East Asia Industrial & Applied Mathematics Conference, Brunei, June 2009 International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Muscat, Oman, February, 2009 The 6th International ISAAC Congress, Ankara, Turkey, August 2007 International Conference on Service Industry: Challenges and Opportunities, Muscat, Oman, September 2006 Two-day National Seminar on Mining & Processing of Stones and Minerals for Buildings, Jodhpur, India, July 2006

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The 2nd IMT-GT 2006 Regional Conference on Mathematics, Statistics & Applications, Penang, Malaysia, June 2006 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Bandung, Indonesia, August 2005 The First SQU Workshop on Topology and Its Applications, Muscat, Oman, December 2004 Second International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Al Ain, UAE, December 2004 The 6th Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians, Tunis, Tunisia, September 2004 Mathematica Gulf Conference 2004, Muscat, Oman, January 2004 The 2003 UAE Mathematics Day Conference, Sharjah, UAE, May 2003 Open Day academic activities, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (2002). Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Sharjah, UAE, May 2001 All India Seminar on Commerce Education in the New Millennium, Jodhpur, India (2000) [including an invited talk at one of the special sessions] First International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Al Ain, UAE, November 1999 Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Jaipur, India (1986) National Conference of Rheology, Melbourne, Australia, August 1983 National Conference of Rheology, Sydney, Australia, August 1981 Applied Mathematics Annual Conference, Leura (NSW), Australia, February 1979 Forty-ninth ANZAAS Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, January 1979 National Conference of Rheology, Melbourne, Australia , May 1979 Finite Element Method Conference, organised by the Society of Applied Mathematicians, Geelong, Australia, August 1978 2nd Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Trivandrum, India, December 1976 41st Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Kanpur, India, December 1975 40th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Bombay, India, December 1974

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Annual Conference of the National Academy of Sciences (India), Bhagalpur, India, November 1974 39th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Calcutta, India, December 1973 38th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society, Bhopal, India, December 1972

6.7 Short Courses Attended: during early part of my career)

Special Summer Institute in Mathematics for University and College Teachers (Fluid Dynamics) – University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India (1970)

Winter School on Physiological Fluid Dynamics – Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India (1975)

Introduction to the Flow Properties of Polymers – a short course organized by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the British Society of Rheology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1980)

University Grants Commission sponsored Summer School on Biomathematics – Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (1984)

6.8 Seminars

I have given a fairly good number of general as well as specialized research seminars in my field of specialization during my long career. The majority of these seminars were given at SQU.

6.9 Research Visits & Hosting of Visits (SQU IG Projects)

(a) As part of several SQU Internal Grant Projects during 2006 - 2015, Prof. P. Chandran (my colleague and Principal/Co-Principal investigator) and I have visited our leading and long time external collaborator, Professor A. K. Singh of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India several times during June 2007 to August 2015 for research consultations with their group.

(b) We also hosted 1-week visits of our external collaborators Prof. A. K. Singh (February 2009, June 2011 and June 2014) and Prof. B. S. Bhadauria (June 2011 and June 2014) for research consultations.

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APPENDIX 1 (List of Courses)

SN Code Title Credit Remarks

1 Math 0100 Basic Numeracy & Appl. 3 Coordinator**

2 Macs 101 Mathematics –Semester I 3

3 Macs 102 Mathematics –Semester II 3

4 Macs 111/140/170

Computing -Fortran/Basic 2 Only Laboratory classes

5 Math 1061 Mathematics for CCE I (Arts)

3 Coordinator

6 Math 1062 Mathematics for CCE II (Arts)

3 Coordinator

7 Math 1101 Business Mathematics I 3 Coordinator**

8 Math 1102 Business Mathematics II 3 Coordinator**

9 Math 1103 Foundation Mathematics I 3

10 Math 1104 Foundation Mathematics Ii 3

11 Math 1106 Pre-Calculus 4

12 Macs 201 Consolidation Mathematics I

4

13 Macs 202 Consolidation Mathematics II

4

14 Macs 291 Cons. Math. Engineers I 4

15 Macs 292 Cons. Math. Engineers II 4

16 Macs 296/Math2296

Mathematics for Agriculture

3 Coordinator

17 Math 2203 Calculus I 4 Introduced in mid-nineties

18 Math 2204 Calculus II 4 Introduced in mid-nineties

19 Math 2107 Calculus I 4 New-syllabus: Coordinator**

20 Math 2108 Calculus II 4 Taught partly only (summer)

21 Math 2206 Linear Algebra II 3

22 Macs 301 Calculus Sev. Variables I 3 Coordinator**

23 Macs 302 Calculus Sev. Variables II 3 Coordinator**

24 Macs 391/Math3391

Math. For Engineers I 4 Coordinator**

25 Macs 392 Math. for Engineers II 4 Coordinator (summer)

26 Math 3302/03/04 Ordinary Diff. Equations 3 Coordinator**

27 Math 3171 Linear Algebra & Multivariate Calculus

3

28 Math 4172 Diff. Equations for Engineers 4 Coordinator**

29 Math 4174 Diff. Equs. & Appl. Engrs 3 Coordinator**

30 Math 4474 Partial Diff. Equs. 3

31 Macs 491 Math. for Engineers III 3 Taught in summer

32 Math 5551 Fluid Dynamics 3 upper/Graduate: Coordinator (taught 6 times)

33 Math 6105 Viscous Incompr. Flows 3 Coordinator (Graduate

Level course)

34 Math 5500 Final Year BSc Project 6 Supervisor

35 Math 7000 MSc Applied Math Project 0 Supervisor/co-supervisor

**Multi-section Courses (generally 4-9 sections)