Hirani, Harish

Areas of Interest: 

Bearings (Hydrodynamic, rolling element, and magnetic), Synthesis and application of Smart (Magnetorheological fluids), Mechanical face seals

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree, Rajasthan Technical University.
  • Master's Degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
  • Doctor of Philosophy Degree,Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Academic/Industrial Experience

  1. Started as Lecturer from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1999 and later became Assistant Professor in 2001.
  2. Continued as Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay till 2008.
  3. Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, since 2014
  4. Since 16 March 2016, On lien from IIT Delhi. Presently Director, CSIR-CMERI.

Selected Publications

  1. KP Lijesh, H Hirani ,"Development of Analytical Equations for Design and Optimization of Axially Polarized Radial Passive Magnetic Bearing", Journal of Tribology, vol. 137 , issue 1,2015
  2. Muzakkir, KP Lijesh, H Hirani ,"Effect of cylindricity on the tribological performance of heavily loaded slow-speed journal bearing",Journal of engineering Tribology, vol. 229 2015
  3. SM Muzakkir, KP Lijesh, H Hirani ,"Tribological failure analysis of a heavily-loaded slow speed hybrid journal bearing", Engineering Failure Analysis, vol. 40, pp. 97-113, 2014
  4. KP Lijesh, H Hirani,"Optimization of eight pole radial active magnetic bearing", Journal of Tribology, vol. 137 , issue 2, 2015

For more information, please go to http://web.iitd.ac.in/~hirani/