Research Areas & highlights

Research Areas

• Droplet Impact and Evaporation Dynamics

• Bioinspired Textured surfaces – Hydrophobicity and Superhydrophobicity

• Colloidal Particles Deposit Patterns / Particle self-assembly

• Microfluidics Processes : Drug delivery

• Multiphase Flows and heat transfer: Electronics cooling

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Thermo-Hydraulics for Nuclear Reactor

RESEARCH GRANTS

1. A Hybrid Ultra-Thin Vapor Chamber Containing Wettability Patterned Condenser Surface for Thermal Management in Mobile Devices, Funding details – Core Research Grant Scheme CRG/2023/004817, SERB, DST, Govt of India. (Amount: INR 47.68192 Lakhs, 19th March 2024, Duration- 3 years). (as PI)

2. Droplet Impact Dynamics on Substrates with Spatial Wettability Gradient: Experimental and Numerical Study, Funding agency- SPARC scheme, MoE, Govt. of India. (Amount: INR 74.43645 Lakhs, Project start date- 28 July 2023, Duration- 2 years).

Indian PI : Dr. Nagesh Devidas Patil (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai)

Indian Co-PI : Prof. Atul Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

International PI : Dr. Prashant R. Waghmare (University of Alberta, Canada)

International Co-PI : Prof. Marc Secanell (University of Alberta, Canada)

3. Flow Dynamics and Size-based Particle Sorting in an Evaporating Sessile Droplet Containing Bi- and Tri-dispersed Colloidal Particles, Funding agency – Strat-up research Grant Scheme SRG/2020/001947 , SERB, DST, Govt of India. (Amount: INR 32.94550 Lakhs, 30 Dec 2020- 29 Dec 2022, Duration- 2 years, Completed). (as PI)

4. A matching research grant from IIT Bhilai for item no 1 project “Flow Dynamics and Size-based Particle Sorting in an Evaporating Sessile Droplet Containing Bi- and Tri-dispersed Colloidal Particles”. (Amount: INR 19.20 Lakhs, Project start date- 20 Mar 2021-29 Dec 2022, Completed). (as PI)

5. The evaporation of droplets containing monodispersed colloidal particles on nonheated and heated hydrophobic/superhydrophobic substrates, Funding agency – IIT Bhilai Research Initiation Grant (RIG) Scheme. (Amount: INR 11.227 Lakhs, Project start date- 1 June 2021, Duration- 3 years). (as PI)

6. Laser materials processing and micromachining for diversified industrial applications (FIST-Project Level 1), Funding agency – FIST-scheme, DST, Govt of India. (Amount: INR 1.15 crores, 11 Mar 2021, Duration – 5 years). Team members of the project implementation group – (Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, Nagesh D. Patil, Soumya Gangopadhyay, Vijay S Duryodhan, Rahul Jain).

7. Effect of Thermal Conductivity of Heated Substrates on Evaporation Dynamics and Particle Deposition Patterns for a Sessile Droplet Containing Colloidal Particles, Funding Agency – Accelerate Vigyan- VRITIKA scheme, SERB, DST, Govt of India. (Amount: INR 90,000/-, Start date- 10 Feb 2022).

COMPUTER AND EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: MATLAB 2018, C, C++

Analysis Packages: MATLAB 2018, FLUENT6.2.16   

Graphical Softwares: Tecplot 360, MATLAB 2018

Experimental Instruments: Hands-on experience of various high speed cameras, Infrared Thermography, Photo-Lithography, Confocal and Optical Microscopy, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Data acquisition systems for pressure and temperature measurements, Flow measurements, SEM Imaging, 3-D profilometry, Image processing, etc.