Research Interest:

• Mechanical Engineering and Engineering

 Members of an organization:

• ASME – member

Undergraduate Courses:

• MM103 –  Engineering Mechanics
• CV/MM222 – Fluid Mechanics
• CV/MM312 – Solid Mechanics 2 
  

• Design of a horizontal axis tidal current turbine, JN Goundar, MR Ahmed, Applied energy 111, 161-174 (2013)
• Numerical and experimental studies on hydrofoils for marine current turbines, JN Goundar, MR Ahmed, YH Lee Renewable energy 42, 173-179 (2012)
• Marine current energy resource assessment and design of a marine current turbine for Fiji, JN Goundar, MR Ahmed Renewable Energy 65, 14-22 (2014)
• Design and optimization of a ducted marine current savonius turbine for Gun-Barrel passage, Fiji, JN Goundar, MR Ahmed, YH Lee, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering 141 (2), (2019)

• Design and performance testing of a ducted savonius turbine for marine current energy extraction, JN Goundar, D Prasad, MR Ahmed, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2013)
• Design and performance analysis of micro wind turbine for Fiji, A Deo, J Goundar, S Narayan, N Chettiar, International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering 6 (2016), 37- 40 (2016)
• Experimental studies on a pendulor wave energy extractor in a wave channel, S Narayan, A Deo, N Chettiar, J Goundar, Int. J. Electron, Electr. Eng 4 (2), 162-165 (2016)
• Optimization of hydrofoils for horizontal axis marine current turbines using genetic algorithm, KR Ram, JN Goundar, D Prasad, S Lal, MR Ahmed, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2013)
• Design of a gorlov turbine for marine current energy extraction, N Chettiar, S Narayan, JN Goundar, A Deo
• Applied Mechanics and Materials 772, 556-560 (2015)

• Feasibility study of marine potential and design of marine current turbines.
• Recycled plastics as modified binder for pavements
• Stabilization of clay soil
• Water filtration
• Structural analysis on underwater turbines