Publications

 Journal paper

• S. Guchhait,  S. Sontakke, S. Mandal, and R. Dey, ''Flow fields around active droplets squeezing through tight confinements'', arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04324, 2024.

• S. Sontakke, P. Patel, A. Sharma, M. Singh, and H. B. Kothadia, “Experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer enhancement with twisted tape insert”, Heat Transfer Research 54(2023). 

• A. Sharma, S. Sontakke , H. B. Kothadia, S.Singh, and B. Mondal, “Experimental analysis of the influential factors on mixed convection flow in horizontal pipes”, ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 145 (2023).

Conference paper

• S. Sontakke, S. Guchhait, S. Mandal and R. Dey, “Flow fields around active droplets squeezing through tight confinements”. 18th edition of CompFlu, 16-18 December 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. [Abstract submitted]

• S. Sontakke, A. Kajampady, R. Dey, ''Dynamics of artificial microswimmers in soft fluidic confinements''. Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics, 24-28 June 2024, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. [Oral Presentation]

• S. Sontakke, A. Kajampady, R. Dey, ''Soft makes it hard to swim: Role of microconfinement elasticity in active swimmer dynamics''. APS, March meeting, 3-8 March 2024, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. [Virtual Presentation]

• S. Sontakke, A. Kajampady, R. Dey, ''Soft makes it hard to swim: Role of microconfinement elasticity in active swimmer dynamics''. 17th edition of CompFlu 2023, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. [Poster Presentation]

• S. Sontakke, A. Kajampady, R. Dey, (29th Sep. to 1st Oct. 2023). Dynamics of Microswimmers in Soft Fluidic Confinements [Conference presentation]. 1st Indian Conference on Micro Nano Fluidics (ICOM 2023), IIT Madras.

• S. Sontakke, P. Patel, and H. B. Kothadia, “A comparative experimental study of thermo-hydraulic performance with vortexflow generator and twisted tape insert”, in Proceedings of the 26th national and 4th international ishmt-astfe heat and mass transfer conference december 17-20, 2021, IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India (Begel House Inc., 2021).