Short Bio

Recieved my B.E (Mechanical Engineering) and M. Tech (Energy Science and Technology) from Jadavpur University. Currently pursuing Ph. D. at School of Energy Science and engineering, IIT Kharagpur. Specialisation in interfacial dynamics at micro and nanoscale, thermal management of devices, multiphase flow, and electrokinetics. 

Publications

1. Improving Water Removal Efficiency in a PEM Fuel Cell: Microstructured Surfaces for Controlling Instability-Driven Pinching by Nilanjan Mondal, Diptesh Biswas, and Chirodeep Bakli. APL Energy. DOI: 10.1063/5.0171953

2. Touchdown dynamics of a liquid droplet on a patterned substrate: a generalized lumped parameter-based model by Nilanjan Mondal, Diptesh Biswas, Chirodeep Bakli. Physics of Fluids. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161192

3. Flow Rectification in a Micro-Nanochannel Junction: Interplay of Channel Geometry and Interfacial Properties Toward Realization of a Nanofluidic Diode. Nilanjan Mondal and Chirodeep Bakli. European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2023.11.001

4. Upstream events dictate interfacial slip in geometrically converging nanopores. Nilanjan Mondal, Abhirup Chaudhuri, Chirodeep Bakli and Suman Chakraborty. J. Chem. Phys. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0050317

5. Non-trivial Thermal and Rheological Behaviour of Complex Nanofluids in Bifurcated Micro-confinements by Shashi Rastogi, Nilanjan Mondal, and Chirodeep Bakli. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress.DOI: https://DOI.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2023.102359.

Awards and Recognitions

1. Best presenter award at 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020), BITS Dubai.

2. Best poster award 2nd International Conference on Fluids Under Confinement, 2021 (SPARC initiative) organized by IIT Kharagpur and University of Warwick, UK.