STUDENTS & Openings

Current Students:

PhD:

1. Suryansh Gupta, PhD admission – 2021 (Converted his MTech admission to PhD)

Thesis topic - Flow dynamics and deposit patterns for an evaporating sessile liquid droplet containing colloidal particles (Experimental and Theoretical work).

2. Mukesh Kumar Yadav, PhD admission – 2021

Thesis topic - Water droplet impact dynamics on textured hydrophobic/superhydrophobic substrates (Experimental and Numerical work).

3. Durgesh Srivastav, PhD admission (in EVT) – 2022 [Joint supervision with Dr. Pravesh C. Shukla, IIT Bhilai]

Thesis topic - EV Battery Thermal Management: Design, development and optimization of Cooling system (Experimental and Numerical work)

MTech:

1. Bharat Bidhan Barad, MTech Project start year - May 2022

Thesis topic – Numerical simulation for prediction of flow and Aeroacoustics in notebook blowers for electronics cooling (Numerical work)

(Carrying out his thesis work at Intel-R&D, Bangalore; jointly supervised by Mr. Srinivas Rao)

BTech:

1. Ansh Gangwar, (B.Tech Hons- Project start year Jan- 2023

Thesis topic - Design and development of textured surfaces for aerodynamic applications (Experimental work).

Past Students:

MTech:

1. Aditya Ranjan (Completed in May 2022; joint supervision with Dr. Vijay S. Duryodhan, IIT Bhilai) [Currently pursuing PhD at University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA]

Thesis topic - Numerical study of transdermal drug delivery and fabrication of artificial human skin model  (Numerical work).

2. Anant Kumar Yadav (Completed in Dec 2022; Under Study in India Program at IIT Bhilai) [Currently, working in ABIS Group, Rajnandgaon] 

Thesis topic - Design, fabrication, and thermal performance testing of a vapor chamber containing wettability patterned condenser for high-heat flux applications (Numerical and Experimental work).

JRF (Junior Research Fellow):

1. Mahesh Thombare, March 2021 - July 2022 (under Sponsored project - SERB-DST, SRG/2020/001947) 

[Currently pursuing PhD at IIT Hyderabad]

Internship students:

1. Anand Joshi (3rd yr. Chemical Engg., NIT Raipur) (Period- April 13 to May 30, 2020)

Topic- Implementation of dynamic contact angle models for moving contact line problems

2. Shweta Chauhan (3rd yr. Chemical Engg. NIT Raipur) (Period- April 13 to May 30, 2020)

Topic- Droplet impact and evaporation dynamics on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces

3. Akshay Verma (3rd yr. Mechanical Engg., NIT Agartala) (Period- Aug 18 to Sept 30, 2020)

Topic- Mixing of oxygen and air in a pipe to obtain uniform oxygen concentration at the outlet of a pipe

Open Positions:

Regular admitted M.Tech, Ph.D. and Bachelor degree students who are interested to work in the following Experimental or Numerical Research areas can contact me on my email ID.

1)    Droplet impact and its interfacial flows (Experimental Work): Fabrication of Bioinspired Textured Surfaces – Hydrophobic/Superhydrophobic (e.g. lotus leaf), droplet impact dynamics on the surfaces of various wettability (horizontal/inclined surface), droplet-based microfluidics processes - cell-sorting, Droplet-droplet coalescence for pharmaceutical applications, etc.

2)    Droplet evaporation (Experimental Work): Evaporation of a pure droplet on hydrophobic/ superhydrophobic surfaces (higher contact angle surfaces), Evaporation of a droplet with colloidal particles, particle deposition patterns, sorting of colloidal particles, etc. Blood droplet evaporation and the drying patterns.

3)    Droplet impact and evaporation (Numerical-CFD simulation): Implementation of Contact line model, the simulation of droplet bouncing and non-bouncing on surfaces, evaporation of a droplet on substrates having different wettability (contact angles), etc. Image processing techniques for the analysis of interfacial flows. Students will perform some experiments as well to validate their simulation results.

4)    Some other experimental/theoretical thermo-fluid science problems of Two-phase flow and heat transfer:

a) Quenching / Rewetting of hot surfaces via different types of coolant injection systems, Jet impingement. 

b) Carryover (water entrainment in outgoing air/steam) and carryunder (air entrainment in water) phenomena in a steam-separating drum. 

c) Heat transfer management for electronics cooling system.

d) Techniques for measurement of droplet number-size and velocity distributions in fuel sprays.

e) Understanding the effective drug delivery for humans.

5)    Self-motivated students with their own research ideas (not listed above) are also encouraged to apply for the position.

*Students from other institutes who want to pursue a research can also email me with their brief CV.