Projects

Sl. No Title Funding Agency Duration (Years) Co-investigators
1 Development of sensors for the measurement of lightning currents in the strokes intercepted by lightning protection system at SHAR ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell  April-2000 – March 2002 Prof.  GR Nagabhushana
2 Experimental investigation with the scaled-down models for the post-stroke potential differences & currents in UT/MST and LPS ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell April 2002 -March2004 Nil
3 Investigations on the current distribution in LPS during lightning and reconstruction of the stroke current from the measured base current ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell April 2006 – March2008 Nil
4 Development of Computer Code for Evaluating the Permanent Magnet Flow Meter Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research August 2008 – January 2012 K.K. Rajan,
Director, FRTG, IGCAR
5 Development of field control electrodes for Ceramic disc Insulators M/s Aditya Birla Insulators Rishra,
Kolkata-India
Feb 2010 to March 2011 Subba Reddy B
6 Evaluation of the lightning attachment to different protection schemes. DST-RFBR Nov 2017 – Nov 2019 Prof. Anatoly Potapenko,
Belgorod State Technology University,
Belgorod, Russia .
7 Development of Software for the Evaluation of the Surface Charging of Spacecraft at the Geosynchronous orbits ISRO (through ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell) April 2018 – August 2021 Nil

Was Indian coordinator for an international project “Effects of Tropical Lightning on Telecommunication and Power Systems” funded by Swedish Research Council, headed by Prof. Vernon Cooray of Uppsala University. As a part of this project, measurements on electric field due to lightning discharge activities have been conducted at western ghat region of Karnataka state, India.