“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. 

Home: https://www.tudelft.nl/staff/s.k.jena/

Biographical Sketch

I graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. I earned my PhD in theoretical and computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Following my Ph.D., I joined the University of Louisville, KY, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher. I then spent nearly five years in industrial R&D with reputable multinational companies. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I returned to academia as a researcher at the Laboratory of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Pau, France, focusing on advanced LES and Hybrid RANS-LES Modeling. At present, I am affiliated with the Technical University of Delft, working on alkaline water electrolysis for green hydrogen production and supporting McPhy in designing industrial-scale hydrogen production stacks.

My career objective is to contribute to cutting-edge research that applies mechanical engineering principles and applied mathematics to modern allied disciplines. I have published 22 peer-reviewed SCI journal articles, including 15 as the first author. I have also authored a book on turbulent transport modelling and co-filed a patent with IIT Ropar for a negative-pressure ambulance.

PhD Research 

My PhD research focused on conjugate heat and mass transfer problems in both plain and porous media. This included magneto-hydrodynamic free convection in a radiative participating medium, double-diffusive flow in a participating medium, conjugate flow in porous media for various configurations, and plain and porous composite media. Additionally, I studied the free convection of non-Newtonian flows. I utilized in-house developed numerical codes for solving these conjugate problems, employing finite volume-based numerical methods for hydrodynamic issues and the discrete ordinate method (DOM) for 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 research focused on Computational Hemodynamics, specifically on CFD predictions of hemolysis in blood during circulation in Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) under non-physiological conditions. Experimental studies in this area are both challenging and costly. Through CFD, I was able to uncover various aspects of blood damage, aiding in the optimization and experimental design of these devices.