“If I had my life to live again, I would still pursue an academic career -- there is no better choice”
- Adel -Sedra
Researcher
Green Hydrogen Production,
Process & Energy Laboratory,
Delft University of Technology
Field of Research: Alkaline Water Electrolysis for Green Hydrogen Production.
Biographical Sketch
I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, and subsequently completed my Ph.D. in theoretical and computational fluid dynamics & heat transfer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. After completing my PhD, I joined the University of Louisville, KY, USA as a postdoctoral researcher. Later, I have worked for almost 5 years in industrial R&D for reputed MNCs. Now I am working as a researcher at Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pau, France in the area of futuristic LES and Hybrid RANS-LES Modeling.
My career objective is to contribute cutting-edge research in topics that put mechanical engineering fundamentals and applied mathematics to use in other modern allied disciplines. So far, I have published a total of 21 peer-reviewed SCI journals, of which 14 are as a first author.
PhD Research
My PhD work involved conjugate heat and mass transfer problems in both plain and porous media. The conjugate transfer problems involve magneto hydrodynamic free convection in a radiative participating medium; double diffusive flow in a participating medium; conjugate flow in porous medium for different configuration and in plain and porous composite medium. Also the conjugate problems involve the free convection of non-Newtonian flows. In house developed numerical codes are used for the solution of conjugate problems. Finite volume based numerical methods are adopted for the hydrodynamic problems and discrete ordinate method (DOM) is used for the radiative transport equations.
Thesis Advisors:
Prof. Swarup Kumar Mahapatra (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar)
Prof. Amitava Sarkar (Jadavpur University)
URL to Ph.D. thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/10603/318570
Postdoctoral Research
My postdoctoral work was on Computational Hemodynamics. CFD prediction of hemolysis in blood during circulation in left Ventricular Assisted Devices (LVAD) due to non-physiological condition was the main objective. Experimental work on the same is quite challenging and expensive. This CFD work helped to predict many mysterious aspects of blood damage and facilitated further device design optimization experimentation.
