IITKGP

Purbarun Dhar

Assistant Professor Grade-I

Mechanical Engineering

purbarun@mech.iitkgp.ac.in

Research Areas

  • Microfluidics and microscale transport
  • Solid Mechanics and Electromagnetism
  • Fluid Dynamics, Interfacial Phenomena
  • Heat Transfer & Thermal Science
  • Rheology, Complex Fluid, Viscoelasticity
All details regarding the research and academics pursued by our group can be found in my personal website (hosted via Google sites). Our research group is known as the Hydrodynamics and Thermal Multiphysics Lab (HTML). Our research is largely curiosity-driven, and the broad areas are listed in the website. Please click on the 'Personal Website' icon at the top-right of this page to view the site. You may also go to the webpage link directly - https://sites.google.com/site/pdhar1990/
Thank you.
  • Oscillatory soluto-thermal convection-driven evaporation kinetics in colloidal nanoparticle-surfactant complex fluid pendant droplets Harikrishnan A., Dhar P. , Gedupudi S. , Das S. By Physical Review Fluids - (2018)
  • Augmenting the Leidenfrost temperature of droplets via nano-bubble dispersion Varaprasad G., Sharma H. , Nirmalkar N. , Dhar P. , Samanta D. By Langmuir - (2022)
  • Thermo-capillarity in microfluidic binary systems via phase modulated sinusoidal thermal stimuli Agrawal S., Das P. , Dhar P. By Physics of Fluids - (2022)
  • Micro-imbibition electro-magneto-hydrodynamics of viscoelastic fluids with interactive streaming potential Roy A., Dhar P. By Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics - (2022)
  • Magneto-elastic effect in non Newtonian ferrofluid droplets impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces Varaprasad G., Samanta D. , Dhar P. By Langmuir - (2021)
  • Interplay of electro-thermo-solutal advection and internal electrohydrodynamics governed enhanced evaporation of droplets Jaiswal V., Dhar P. By Proceedings of the Royal Society A - (2019)
  • Onset of rebound suppression in non-Newtonian drops post-impact on superhydrophobic surfaces Dhar P., Mishra S. , Samanta D. By Physical Review Fluids - (2019)
  • Electromagnetic field orientation and characteristics governed hydrodynamics within pendent droplets Dhar P., Harikrishnan A. , Jaiswal V. By Physical Review E - (2018)
  • Magnetohydrodynamics and magnetosolutal effect governed evaporation dynamics in paramagnetic salt solution pendent droplets under field stimuli Jaiswal V., Dwivedi R. , Harikirshnan A. , Dhar P. By Physical Review E - (2018)

Principal Investigator

  • Characterization, Vaporization andCombustion Dynamics of Gel-Fuel and Gel-Nano-Fuel Droplets
  • Characterization, Vaporization andCombustion Dynamics of Gel-Fuel and Gel-Nano-Fuel Droplets
  • Probing Soluto-thermo-hydrodynamics of Droplet Leidenfrost Effect and Freezing Kinetics with Electromagnetic and Wettability Interventions

Ph. D. Students

Abhishek Kumar Jaiswal

Area of Research: Microscale transport phenomena

Apurba Roy

Area of Research: Microfluidics

Arnov Paul

Area of Research: Microscale thermofluidics

Gaurav Shakya

Area of Research: Two phase flow

Md Sultan

Area of Research: Microhydrodynamics

Neeladri Sekhar Bera

Area of Research: Microhydrodynamics

Patel Dhruvi Yashvantbhai

Area of Research: Microscale thermofluidics

Shubham Agrawal

Area of Research: Microhydrodynamics

Utsab Pal

Area of Research: Microscale transport phenomena