Research group

Group photo with ongoing research team

Dr. Pranab Kumar Mondal (Associate Professor)

PhD, IIT Kharagpur 

M.E, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 

B.E, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 

pranabm@iitg.ac.in


Research team (Ongoing  PhD)

Ms. Prateechee Padma Behera 

Mr. Dhananjay Kumar

Dhruv Wankawala

Md Ismayeel

Giridhar R

Sunit Sarkar

Sudhanshu Singh

Kumar Pijush Kataky

Jinmay Kalita

Kaushal Agarwal

Post Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Sumit Kumar Mehta

Dr. Ekta Bhattacharya 

Dr. Suraj Panja 

Proud Alumni

Dr. Rameswara Srinivas Gorthi 


Dr. Abhijit Gogoi

Dr. Rajkumar Sarma 

Dr. Harshad Gaikwad 

Dr. Sudip Shyam 

Dr. Doyel Pandey (Postdoc fellow)


M.Tech students:

1. Harshad Sanjay Gaikwad (144103069) - Some Aspects of Microscale Thermo-Fluidic Transport - (2014 -2016)


2. Anurag Kumar Mishra (154103046) - Some Aspects of Microscale Thermo-Fluidic Transport - (2015 - 2017)


3. Pushkin Mittal (154103105) - Analysis of Steric Effects on Flow through a Micro-channel Using Slip Boundary Conditions (2015 - 2017)


4. Debendra Nath Sarkar (154103065) - Fabrication of valveless Micropump and Drop Formation in Microchannel (2015 - 2017)


5. Nihal Vipulbhai Khandhar (164103037) - Numerical Investigation Of Transition And Chaos In Radial Impinging Jet (2016 - 2018)


6. Nitin Dhasmana (164103079) - Experimental Investigation of Capillary Filling Dynamics in Microscaled Capillaries (2016 -  2018)


7. Apurba Roy (164103034) - Streaming Potential Modulated Peristalsis And Capillary Filling Dynamics (2016 – 2018)


8. Lankipalli Harsha (174103026) - Fabrication of Robust Liquid Marbles for Microscale Transport of Reactive (2017 - 2019)


9. Abhay Kumar Shukla (174103085) - Experimental Investigations of Capillary Filling Dynamics of Newtonian and Non- Newtonian Fluid in Patterned Microchannels (2017 - 2019)


10. Anuj Singh Yadav (174103099) - Experimental Investigation of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Ferrofluidic Slug under the Influence of External Magnetic Field (2017 - 2019)


11. Gaurav Kumar (174103043) - An Investigation into the Impact Dynamics of a Ferrofluid droplet under the Influence of Magnetic field (2017 - 2019)


12. Arup Mahapatra (174103074) - Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Capillary Filling Dynamics in Microchannels (2017 - 2019)


13. Sanjaya Kumar Meher (184103329) - Immiscible Displacement Dynamics in an Oil-Saturated Patterned Microchannel and its Application to EOR (2018-2020)


14. K Samrat Yadav (194103335) - Dynamics of an isolated drop inside a microfluidic channel (2019-2021)


15. Bhavesh Dhapola (194103308) - Migration of ferrofluid drop in shear flow under a uniform magnetic field (2019-2021)


16. Shivam Mishra (204103228) - Electric field modulated nano-patterning of thin liquid film (2020-2022)


17. Sanjeev Roy (204103226) - Spreading dynamics of non-Newtonian drop on rough surface: analysis and experiments (2020-2022)


18. Brijesh Kumar Singh (204103209) - Analysis and experiments of lateral flow assay: towards the development of bio-sensors (2020-2022)


19. Sadashiv Keshav (214103319) - Evaporation Dynamics of ferrofluid droplet in the presence of magnetic field (2021-2023)


20. Rajesh (214103318) - Magnetically actuated droplet coalescence (2021-2023)


21. Ankit Bharatlal Jaiswal (214103303) - Plant root dynamics in microfluidic system (2021-2023)


22. Mohammad Raizuddin (214103337) - Wetting dynamics and evaporation behaviour of paramagnetic droplet over superhydrophobic lotus leaf (2021-2023)


23. Utkarsh Rawat (214103105) - Development of affordable point-of-care optical imaging device for blood sample analysis (2021-2023)


24. Garima Kumari (214102203) - Dynamic speckle Imaging for Plant studies and Material Testing (2021-2023) [Co-supervisor - Dr. Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni (EEE)]


25. Christo Eliis (224103308) - Determination of Young's modulus of plant root in microfluidic setup (2022-2024)


26. Anjali Jaiswal (224103304) - Dew drops absorption by leaves in the germinating stage (2022-2024)


27. Lokesh Kumar Jain (224103313) - Development of Laser imaging system: Experiments and AI tool for the assessment of plant growth and seed viability (2022-2024)


28. Prasenjeet Padhi (224103006) - Effect of confinements on plant roots and fluid-structure interaction (2022-2024)


B.Tech students:

1.Avikshit Pratap (130103018) - Dynamics of Quantum Vortex Tangle in turbulent superfluid counter-flow in a channel (April 2017)


2. Minkush Kansal (130103046) - Numerical Investigations into Microfluidics (May 2017)


3. Vishnu Vishal (140103079) - Electroosmotic-Driven Peristaltic Transport of Viscoelastic Fluid (April 2018)


4. Dharmendra Choudhary (140103018) - Electroosmotic-Driven Peristaltic Transport of Viscoelastic Fluid (April 2018)


5. Rishabh Sachan (160103061) - Heat propagation in a biological tissue: Exact analysis (April 2020)


6. Himanshu Meena (160103035) - Heat propagation in a biological tissue: Exact analysis (April 2020)


7. Srinivas Malothu (160103043) - Heat propagation in a biological tissue: Exact analysis (April 2020)


8. Ameet Kumar Deka (140103009) - A theoretical and experimental investigation into the spreading phenomenon of a fluid droplet on a spherical substrate (April 2021)


9. Jaikishan Gul Mansukhani (180103030) - Development of Microfluidic Pump (2020-2022)


10. Arijeet Tripathi (180103013) - Development of Microfluidic Pump (2020-2022)


11. Yashwant Rawat (180103093) - Development of Microfluidics based Vitamin-D Sensor (2020-2022)


12. Sachit Kalia (180103063) - Development of Microfluidics based Vitamin-D Sensor (2020-2022)


13. Chammandi Ravi Kiran (190103028) - Convective radiative plane Poiseuille flow of carreau nanofluid through porous medium: An application of Stefan blowing (2021-2023)


14. Vikash Nirwan (190103121) - Convective radiative plane Poiseuille flow of carreau nanofluid through porous medium: An application of Stefan blowing (2021-2023)


15. Agniva Ghosh (210103009) - Development of a membrane actuated micropump (2023-2025)


16. Rishav Raj (210103094) - Development of a membrane actuated micropump (2023-2025)


17. Nikhil Verma (210103077) - Introduction of AI towards characterizing electrothermal flow in microchannel (2023-2025)


18. Gaurav Kumar (210103048) - Introduction of AI towards characterizing electrothermal flow in microchannel (2023-2025)


19. Hardik Pahwa (210103052) - Introduction of AI towards characterizing electrothermal flow in microchannel (2023-2025)


20. Anuraj Bhaskar (210103021) - Introduction of AI towards characterizing electrothermal flow in microchannel (2023-2025)


21. Akshath Krishna R (210103012) - Electricity of Photosynthesis: A Cheap Sustainable Energy Solution (2023-2025)


22. Harshvardhan Parmar (210103055) - Electricity of Photosynthesis: A Cheap Sustainable Energy Solution (2023-2025)