A Comprehensive study on boiling with focus on experimental flow boiling heat transfer characteristics, interfacial interactions and molecular level understanding of boiling. Following are the objectives of my research work:
1. Experimental analysis of flow boiling heat transfer:
a. Plane tube with eco-friendly refrigerants.
b. Design, fabrication and characterization of indigenous structured tubes.
Development of a Cost Effective Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) with Centrifugal Mechanical Circulator, Drive System and Associated Control. This work has the following objectives:
1.Optimum design of LVAD with centrifugal circulatory support system.
2.Design improvement of LVAD with axial circulatory support system..
Assessment of inertial microfluidic approaches for slurry dilation and fluidic drainage:
1.Development of microfluidic test kit for assessment of human fatigue by fluidic culture of saliva.
2.Numerical understanding of inertial microfluidics using combined Eulerian-Lagrangian approach.
3.Proposition of novel microfluidic methods for dilation of slurries with micro suspended entities.
Buoyancy driven runaway of gaseous phase from adiabatic and diabatic liquid-liquid Interface:
1.Understanding relevant physics behind interfacial reconstruction stages when a Taylor bubble passes through a liquid-liquid interface.
Development of multiscale simulation methodology for two phase system, where the critical micro scale features will be captured by molecular or meso scale solvers and the bulk fluid domain will be simulated with continuum solver.
Mr. Digvijay Singh
Year of registration: 2016
Present status: Ongoing
Research Problem:
1.To understand multiscale phenomena involving annular to droplet transition and predict entrainment rate.
2.Develop knowledge of inclined impingement hydraulic jump and jump-jump interactions.
3.Develop scheme for adaptive meshing to capture different multiscale transport of properties.
4.Propose combined mesh based particle formulation for tackling bulkier interface and small scale features.
Mr. T. Sudhakar
Year of registration: 2016
Present status: Ongoing (part time)
Research Problem:
Understanding of complex two phase flow structures using Lattice Boltzmann method. Main objectives of the problem are as follows:
1. Study of droplet motion in sudden contraction and expansion inside channel.
2. Study of droplet motion in the T-Channel using Lattice structure for different velocity ratio and boundary conditions.
Mr. Lokesh Rohilla
Year of registration: 2017
Present status: Ongoing
Research Problem:
My Research involves experimental and corresponding numerical simulations of liquid gas interactions. The experiments involves studying the bubble dynamics under different conditions. The specific objectives which have been achieved are:
1.Transformation of the Taylor bubble to an annular bubble.
2.Fluidic study of the Taylor bubble around an insert in viscous fluids.