Current Students:
PhD:
Suryansh Gupta, PhD admission – May 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).
Mukesh Kumar Yadav, PhD admission – July 2021
Thesis topic - Water droplet impact dynamics on textured hydrophobic/superhydrophobic substrates (Experimental and Numerical work).
Durgesh Srivastav, PhD admission (in EVT) – July 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)
Ankita Mishra, PhD admission (in ME Dept.) - Dec 2022 [Joint supervision with Dr. Vijay S. Duryodhan, IIT Bhilai]
Thesis topic/Research area - Thermo-capillary Microfluidics (Experimental and Numerical work)
Dharmaraju N., PhD admission (in ME Dept.) - July 2023 [Sponsored Part-time PhD Student]
Thesis topic/Research area - Thermal-management/Electronics cooling for Mobile devices (Experimental and Numerical work)
Parth Gulati, PhD admission (in BSBME Dept.) - July 2023 [Joint supervision with Dr. Suchetan Pal, IIT Bhilai] [CSIR- UGC PhD Fellowship]
Thesis topic/Research area - Microneedles based Insulin Delivery
Sonal Singh Shrivas, PhD admission (in BSBME Dept.) - Dec 2023 [DST-INSPIRE Fellowship for PhD]
Thesis topic/Research area - Antibiotics Drug Susceptibility via Microfluidics Platform
MTech:
Varun Prajapati (ME)
Ajay R. Bhakare (EVT, Joint supervision with Dr. Pravesh C. Shukla)
Megha Misra (BSBME)
Smriti Sonkar (BSBME)
BTech:
Aishna Jain (Joint supervision with Dr. Vijay S. Duryodhan)
Mukta Tiwari (Joint supervision with Dr. Vijay S. Duryodhan)
Past Students:
MTech:
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).
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).
3. Bharat Bidhan Barad (IIT Bhilai; MTech Completed- 2023)
Thesis topic – Numerical simulation for prediction of flow and Aeroacoustics in notebook blowers for electronics cooling. (Collaborated thesis work with Intel-R&D, Bangalore; External supervisor by Mr. Srinivas Rao) (Currently working at L&T, Mumbai, US – Since July 2023).
BTech:
Ansh Gangwar (IIT Bhilai; BTech (Hons) project Completed, May 2024), Thesis topic – Evaporation of Saline Sessile Droplets.
JRF (Junior Research Fellow):
Mahesh Thombare, March 2021 - July 2022 (under Sponsored project - SERB-DST, SRG/2020/001947)
[Currently pursuing PhD at IIT Hyderabad]
Internship students:
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
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
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.