March 18, 2025

Chairman, ISRO / Secretary, DoS inaugurated 'Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Research in Fluid and Thermal Sciences' at IIT-Madras on March 17, 2025. The centre is named as S Ramakrishnan Centre of Excellence, in honour of renowned space scientist (late) Dr. S Ramakrishnan, Former Director, LPSC and VSSC, ISRO. Notably, he was also an alumnus of IIT Madras.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on November 11, 2024, between ISRO and IIT-M towards establishment of the Centre of Excellence in the area of Fluid and Thermal Sciences. The Centre of Excellence (CoE) will be leveraged for solving thermal and fluid related problems regarding the design, analysis and testing of various fluid-thermal components of ISRO’s spacecrafts and launch vehicles.

Director, IIT Madras; Director, SDSC-SHAR; Scientific Secretary, ISRO and senior dignitaries from ISRO & IIT Madras were present during the CoE inauguration.