Dr.M.Kothandapani is a directly appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics to the University College of Engineering Arni during the academic year 2009-10. He did his post graduation from University of Madras and completed his doctoral programme through VIT University, Vellore. He has extensively studied the applications of mathematical principles in the Dynamics of Fluids .He has been serving as a dedicated mathematics teacher in various reputed Engineering colleges for the past 14 years. To his credit, he has published several international papers in peer reviewed journals. His area of Research is Dynamic of fluids and Topology. Currently,he is guiding 4 Ph.D scholars.

He had served as a Principal i/c of the University College Engineering of Kanchipuram between August 2010 and September 2012. Currently, he is the Head of Department of Mathematics and Zonal Officer, Zone – VI, Anna University, Chennai.

SOME OF HIS RECENT INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

• Kothandapani, M. and Srinivas, S. (2008). Non-linear peristaltic transport of a Newtonian fluid in an asymmetric channel through a porous medium, Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 372, No. 8, pp. 1265 – 1276. (Impact Factor: 2.174)


• Kothandapani, M. and Srinivas, S. (2008). On the influence of wall properties in the MHD peristaltic transport with heat transfer and porous medium, Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 372, No. 25, pp. 4586-4591. (Impact Factor: 2.174)


• Kothandapani, M. and Srinivas, S. (2008). Peristaltic transport of a Jeffrey fluid under the effect of magnetic field in an asymmetric channel, Int. J. Non-Linear Mech., Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 915-924. (Impact Factor: 1.296)


• Srinivas, S. and Kothandapani, M. (2008). Peristaltic transport in an asymmetric channel with heat transfer – A note, Int. comm. Heat and Mass transfer, Vol. 35, No. 4, 514 – 522. (Impact Factor: 1.332)


• Srinivas, S. and Kothandapani, M. (2009). The influence of heat and mass transfer on MHD peristaltic flow through a porous space with compliant walls, Appl. Math. Comput. Vol. 213, No. 1, pp. 197–208. (Impact Factor: 0.961)


• Srinivas, S, Gayathri, R and Kothandapani, M, (2009). The influence of slip conditions, wall properties and heat transfer on MHD peristaltic transport, Computer Phys. Comm.Vol. 180, No. 11, pp. 2115-2122. (Impact Factor: 2.0, approximately)


• Srinivas, S, Gayathri, R and Kothandapani, M, (2011). Mixed convective heat and mass transfer in an asymmetric channel with peristalsis, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1845-1862. (Impact Factor: 3.073)


• Ravikumar, R. and Kothandapani, M. (2011). *-Regular generalized star closed sets. J Adv. Research in Pure Maths; Vol. 3 No. 3, pp.140-150.
• .Kothandapani, M. The influence of exponential viscosity on mhd viscoelastic fluid flow over a stretching sheet, Int. J. of Appl. Math and Mech. 9 (5): 81-91, 2013


• Ravikumar, R. and Kothandapani, M. (Tow1, Tow2)*-Generalized Star Regular Closed Sets, National Academy Science Letters & it is accepted, Article in press (Annexure-I)


• Ravikumar, R. and Kothandapani, M. (Tow1, Tow2)-g*r Continuous Functions, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics ISSN: 1311-8080 , Article in press (annexure-II)