Sanat K. Singha
Presently: Assistant Professor at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Sivasagar, Assam, India
Post Doctoral Research Associate (July 2019 - October 2020)
Research Topics: Coarsening dynamics
Education:
Ph. D. from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Thesis Title: Analyses of substrate-mediated nucleation and experiments on subsequent surface icing .
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P.K. Das and Prof. B. Maiti
Research Topic: Thermodynamics, kinetics, and stability analyses of heterogeneous nucleation; icing of droplets.
M. Tech. (Thermal Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
B. Tech. (Thermal Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
Publications:
(1) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Inclusion of line tension effect in classical nucleation theory for heterogeneous nucleation: A rigorous thermodynamic formulation and some unique conclusions", J. Chem. Phys. 142, 104706 (2015).
(2) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Thermokinetics of heterogeneous droplet nucleation on conically textured substrates", J. Chem. Phys. 143, 204703 (2015).
(3) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Effect of a triple contact line on the thermokinetics of dropwise condensation on an immiscible liquid surface", RSC Adv. 6, 41506 (2016).
(4) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Thermostability analysis of line-tension-associated nucleation at a gas-liquid interface", Phys. Rev. E. 95, 012802 (2017).
(5) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Thermodynamic formulation of the barrier for heterogeneous pinned nucleation: Implication to the crossover scenarios associated with barrierless and homogeneous nucleation", J. Chem. Phys. 146, 234702 (2017).
(6) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Influence of Salinity on the Mechanism of Surface Icing: Implication to the Disappearing Freezing Singularity", Langmuir, 34, 9064 (2018).
(7) S.K. Singha, P.K. Das and B. Maiti, "Availability analysis of two dimensional nucleation on cylindrical substrates", Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 137, 390 (2019).