Siddhartha Mukherjee

Primary contact : smukherjee@iitkgp.ac.in

Secondary Contact : sidmkj@gmail.com

Area of Interest : Electrokinetics, Complex Fluids

Summary : My current research focuses on the electrokinetically actuated flow of complex fluids through microfluidic channel. Most of the lab-on-a-chip techniques use bio-fluids which exhibit complex rheological behavior. The main objective is to showcase the intricate coupling between the fluid rheology and the interfacial phenomenon in narrow confinements thus bearing tremendous implications in modern day microfluidic research.

List of Publications:

1. Mukherjee, S., Biswal, P., Chakraborty, S., & DasGupta, S. (2017). Effects of viscous dissipation during forced convection of power-law fluids in microchannels. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 89, 83-90.

2. Mukherjee, S., Das, S. S., Dhar, J., Chakraborty, S., & DasGupta, S. (2017). Electroosmosis of Viscoelastic Fluids: Role of Wall Depletion Layer. Langmuir, 33(43), 12046-12055.

3. Mukherjee, S., Goswami, P., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & Chakraborty, S. (2017). Ion-size dependent electroosmosis of viscoelastic fluids in microfluidic channels with interfacial slip. Physics of Fluids, 29(7), 072002.

4. Mukherjee, S., Gupta, A. K., & Chhabra, R. P. (2017). Laminar forced convection in power-law and Bingham plastic fluids in ducts of semi-circular and other cross-sections. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 104, 112-141.

5. Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., DasGupta, S., & Chakraborty, S. (2019). Patterned surface charges coupled with thermal gradients may create giant augmentations of solute dispersion in electro-osmosis of viscoelastic fluids. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 475(2221), 20180522.