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Current Teaching Module

• SM1103 Introduction to Mathematics for Economics
• SM1105 Principles of Mathematical Economics
• SM4307 Combinatorics and Graph Theory
• SM1107 Engineering Mathematics 1

Teaching Recognition:

• Received Teaching Excellence Certificate for Teaching the modules SM1101 Engineering Mathematics 1 and SM1102 Engineering Mathematics 2 during the academic session July 2019 – May 2020.
• Received appreciation certificate for Teaching excellence in the years 2009 -2010 and 2011 from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.

Students Supervision:

• Presently supervising one student for Ph. D degree.
• Presently supervising students for Final Year Project.
• Successfully supervised one student for Ph. D at Universiti Sains Malaysia – March 2012 – August
• Supervising one stuent for Ph. D at Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam.
• Supervised two students for their M. Sc (by Course Work) dissertation.
• Supervised three students for their B. Sc final year projects.

Teaching Experience:

• Associate Professor – VIT University, Chennai, India – June, 2012 – December 2014.
• Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, December 2008 – June 2012.
• Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, B. S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India – July 1997 – November 2008.
• Lecturer–Sri Ram Engineering College, Chennai, India, December 1993 – June 1997.

Specialized Area

Current Research and/or Postgraduate Projects:

• Presently Co-Investigator for one research project with Dr Nurul Aini Binti Jaafar, Department of Mathematics, UTM, Johor, Malaysia.

Research Interest:

• Mathematical Modelling;
• Differential Equations,
• Numerical Analysis;
• Applied Fluid Dynamics;
• Mathematical Economics

Qualifications

• M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics)
• M.Phil (Mathematics)
• Ph.D (Mathematics)

Career or Professional Bodies/Awards

• Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society
• Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• Korean Mathematical Society
• Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities and Applications

Publication

Other Achievements / Most Prominent Publications: (Recent Publications in Journals)

Publications in 2021:

• Afiqah Wajihah, D S Sankar, Effects of porosity in four-layered non-linear blood rheology in constricted narrow arteries with clinical applications, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 199 (2021) 105907.
• D S Sankar, K K Viswanathan, Mathematical analysis of Poiseuille flow of Casson fluid past porous medium, Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics (in press).

Publications in 2020:

• Afiqah Wajihah, D S Sankar, Two-phase nonlinear rheological analysis of blood flow in small diameter blood vessels with constriction, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied sciences 15 (2020) 1129 – 1143.
• A F Yousif Mohammed, S H Shah Newaz, D S Sankar, Md Shamin Ahsan, Tai-Won Um, A Green Converged TWDM-PON and 5G HetNet for Enabling Low-Latency Applications, Optical Fiber Technology 58 (2020) 102261 (2019 Impact Factor: 2.212).
• Sambath, D.S. Sankar and K. K. Viswanathan, A numerical study of dissipative chemically reactive radiative MHD flow past from a vertical cone with non-uniform Mass flux, International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering 25 (2020) 159 – 176.

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