Students

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Ph. D.

Ongoing
	Name	Broad Area of Research	Status (since)
16	Tarun Kulshrestha	Passive Techniques for Solar Desalination	Ongoing (July 2021)
15	Sohom Goswami	Atmospheric Water Harvesting	Ongoing (July 2020)
14	Debarth Chatterjee	Solar Energy based Water Desalination	Ongoing (August 2018)
Degree Awarded/Thesis Submitted/ Open Seminar Delivered
13	Manish Bhendura	Evaporation-driven Convective Flow in an Air-Water System Enclosed in a Top-cooled Cavity (in association with Dr. K. Muralidhar)	Thesis Submitted July, 2023
12	Ankush K. Jaiswal	Drop-on-drop Impact on a Dry Substrate: Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer	Degree Awarded: August 12, 2022
11	Gopinath Sahu	Thermal Management of High-Power Devices by Liquid Jets and Sprays,(in association with Dr. K. Muralidhar)	Degree Awarded: April 13, 2022
10	Ram Krishna Shah	Single-phase and Two-phase Convective Transport Phenomena in Ferrofluids	Degree Awarded: March 03, 2022
9	Prem Bhukkal	Design and Development of Loop Heat Pipes for Terrestrial and Avionic Applications	Degree Awarded: August 12, 2021
8	Maneesh Punetha	Containment Thermal Hydraulic Studies Towards Understanding Post-Severe Nuclear Accident Scenarios	Degree Awarded: October 22, 2020
7	Mahesh K. Yadav	Steam Condensation Studies Towards Understanding Post-Severe Nuclear Accident Scenarios	Degree Awarded: March 25, 2019
6	Praveen M. Somvanshi	Coalescence Characteristics of Liquid Drops on a Hydrophobic Surface with Application to Dropwise Condensation (in association with Dr. K. Muralidhar)	Degree Awarded: December 28, 2018
5	Vyas Srinivasan	Thermo-hydrodynamics of Isolated Taylor Liquid Plugs	Degree Awarded: August 31, 2018
4	Balkrishna Mehta	Local Thermo-hydrodynamics of Oscillating Flows in mini-/micro channels	Degree Awarded: June 2014
3	Basant Singh Sikarwar	Modeling Dropwise Condensation underneath Inclined Textured Surfaces (in association with Dr. K. Muralidhar)	Degree Awarded: April 06, 2013
2	Manoj K. Moharana	Thermo-hydrodynamics of Internal Convective Flows in Mini-/ Micro channels	Degree Awarded: December 2012
1	Mauro Mameli	Pulsating Heat Pipes: Numerical Modeling and Experimental Assessment (@Uni-Bergamo, Italy)	Degree Awarded: April 2012

M. Tech./ MSR

(√ : Thesis work published in peer reviewed international journal)

2022-2024
			To be finalized


2021-2023
62	Deven Patel (MSR)	-	Area: Freezing of Saline Solutions	Ongoing
61	Srikanta Panigrahi		Falling droplets on Superhydrophobic and Superhydrophilic Elastic Cantilever Beams	Ongoing
60	Col. Tushar Nambiar	-	Waste Heat Recovery for Generation of Potable Water from Melting	November 2023
59	Col. Rajat Behl	-	Passive Heating of a Barrack in High Altitude Areas	October 25, 2023
2020-2022
58	Satyam Kadam	-	Area: Compact Heat Exchanger Design for Two-Phase Duty	Ongoing (On Leave till final examination)
57	Ravi Sidhpuria	√	Artificial Fog Formation and its Collection Dynamics	November 22, 2022
56	Prateek Yadav	√	Pore-Scale Analysis of Evaporation from Structured Meshes	May 30, 2022
2019-2021
55	Sumit Kumar Yadav	-	Exploration of Hydrogen Mixing Studies using Rainbow Schlieren Technique	October 11, 2021 (MT Report)
54	Tarun Kulshrestha	√	Solar thermal desalination	Converted to PhD Program
2018-2020
53	Mayur Gachke	√	Thermal Management of High-Power LEDs using Loop Heat Pipes (LHP)	September 02, 2020 (MT Project)
52	Raghav Gupta	-	Design of Solar-Powered Passive Desalination Device with Integrated Two-phase Thermosyphon	August 12, 2020 (MT Project)
51	Kawarpreet Singh	-	Thermosyphon Wall as a Passive Fire Protection Device	August 12, 2020 (MT Project)
2017-2019
50	Abhinav Bhanawat	√	Effect of Surface Inclination on Steam Condensation Heat Transfer in the Presence of Air	May 16, 2019
49	Harsimranjeet Singh	-	Liquid Spray Cooling for High-Power Electronic Devices	May 16, 2019
2016-2018
48	Rajat Dixit (MS by Research)	-	Heat Transfer Augmentation during Internal Flows using Active and Passive Winglets	October 05, 2018
47	Ajay Choudhary	√	Experimental Investigation of Helium Stratification and Mixing in a Cylindrical Enclosure' as per the following schedule:	May 07, 2018
46	Lt. Col. Akhil Singh Charak	-	Solar Powered Mobile Refrigerated Cart	May 04, 2018
2015-2017
45	Pankaj Goyal	-	Thermal Transport Aspects of Vertical Coalescence of Droplets on a Heated Horizontal Surface	July 27, 2017
44	Maj. Kunal Tagunde	-	Development of Two-Phase Thermosyphon Based Heat Exchanger System for Industrial Application	July 19, 2017
43	Tapas Ranjan	√	Evaporation Characteristics of a Confined Liquid Bridge between Two Heated Parallel Plates	July 04, 2017
42	Ravi Sharma	-	Development and Performance Evaluation of Flexible Heat Pipes under Vibrational Loads	June 21, 2017

2014-2016
41	Bhimashankar D. Wangaskar	√	Development of Bi-porous Wicks for Loop Heat Pipe Application	July 29, 2016
40	Maj. Rajdeep Bhattacharya	√	Thermal Energy Storage in Phase Change Materials (PCM): Experiments and Simulations	July 14, 2016
39	Ahsen Parwez	√	Design and Validation of Experimental Setup to Study Steam Condensation for Nuclear Containment Safety	June 07, 2016
38	S. K. Singh	√	Inverse estimation of Time Dependent Wall Heat Flux using Temperature Data	May 31, 2016
37	Tanmay S. Jaipurkar	√	Design and Development of Flexible Heat Pipes	May 17, 2016
2013-2015
36	Sunil Khicher	-	Feasibility of Integrating Flat Thermosyphon with Passive Auto-Catalytic Recombiner	November 20, 2015
35	Amit Saraswat	√	Enhancement of Thermal Transport in Phase-Change Materials	August 21, 2015
34	Rahul Ojha	-	Drainage of Immiscible Liquid Plugs in a Capillary Tube	July 21, 2015
33	Kamaljeet Kaur	-	Study of Hydrogen Mitigation using Passive Autocatalytic Recombiner (in association with Dr. Deepak Kunzru)	May 18, 2015
2012-2014
32	G. Divakar Naidu	√	Boiling jets for high heat flux thermal management	August 18, 2014
31	Mahendra Arya	√	Pool Boiling on Nano-structured Micro Wires	August 12, 2014
30	Ajay Kumar Jain	√	Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) based Sensor for Two-Phase Flows (in association with Dr. Bishakh Bhattacharya)	May 24, 2014
29	Ravindra Sonawane	√	Inverse Heat Conduction based Non-intrusive Thermal Boundary Condition Sensor: Modeling and Experiments	May 12, 2014
2011-2013
28	Ashish Soni	-	Flow Structure Interaction of Flexible Arterial Model under Cardiac Flow Conditions (in association with Dr. P. K. Panigrahi)	August 05, 2013
27	Sanchit Kumar Singh	√	Wetting Dynamics and Evaporation of Sessile Droplets on Nano-porous Alumni Surfaces	May 8, 2013
26	Rohan Nemade	-	Experimental Study of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer and Bubble Dynamics of Ethanol-Water Mixtures	July 31, 2013
2010-2012
25	Lal Chandra Shah	-	Experimental Investigation of Passive Containment Cooling through Pulsating Heat Pipes	July 27, 2012
24	Rehan Raza	-	Understanding drop coalescence through simulation and experiments (in association with Dr. K. Muralidhar)	July 19, 2012
23	Gyan Rangan Rana	√	Hydrodynamics of segmented gas-liquid flow inside a square micro-channel (in association with Dr. P. K. Panigrahi)	June 22, 2012
22	Ashish Bajpai	√	Thermo-hydrodynamics of Isolated Liquid Plugs Moving Inside a Dry Capillary Tube	May 05, 2012
21	M. Siddharth Chandra	-	Droplet Evaporation Studies on Textured Surfaces (M. Sc. Thesis)	May 01, 2012
2009-2011
20	Tushar Sahu	-	Hydrodynamics of moving Liquid-gas Interface Inside a Capillary (in association with Dr. P. K. Panigrahi)	August 01, 2011
19	Abhik Mazumdar	√	Local Nusselt Number for Gas-Liquid Taylor Bubble Flow in a Rectangular Mini-channel: An Experimental Study	July 30, 2011
18	Misbah Jafary	-	Simulation of Equilibrium Shapes of Micro-droplets using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics	May 04, 2011
2008-2010
17	Someshwar Pandey	-	Two-phase Thermosyphon and Pulsating Heat Pipe for Passive Cooling of Containments: A Feasibility Study	August 06, 2010
16	Vivek Silwal	√	Design and Development of Pulsating Heat Pipe based Heat Exchanger	August 06, 2010
15	Abhimanyu Dhyani	-	Heat Transfer in Thermally Developing Laminar Pulsating Flow in a Square Mini-channel	September 29, 2010
2007 - 2009
14	Vadiraj A. Hemadri	√	Thermal Performance Characterization of Embedded Pulsating Heat Pipe Radiators by Infrared Thermography	June 24, 2009
13	Ashwani Dwivedi	-	Experimental Study of Simultaneously Developing Flow in a Mini-channel (D_hyd = 390 micrometer)	June 25, 2009
2006-2008
12	Yati Jain	-	Single Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe: Experiments and Modeling	May 01, 2008
11	Ashutosh Bhatnagar	√	Pulsating Heat Pipe based Power Electronics Cooling Module: Experiments and Modeling	May 01, 2008
10	Smita Agrawal	√	Dropwise Condensation on Chemically Modified Surfaces	May 01, 2008
9	Mohit S. Shrivastav	-	Mini-channel with Built-in Obstruction: Experiment and Computations (in association with Dr. Arun Saha)	May 01, 2008
2005 - 2007
8	Anant P. Gautam	√	Operating Characteristics of a Single-loop Pulsating Heat Pipe	August 03, 2007
7	Aabid Ali	-	Liquid Crystal Thermography of Developing Single-phase Flows through a Mini-channel Array.	July 19, 2007
6	Gaurav Agarwal	√	Thermo-hydrodynamics of Developing Single -phase Flow in a Rectangular Mini-channel Array	June 15, 2007
5	Gagan Deep Bansal	√	Liquid Crystal Thermographic Studies of Dropwise Condensation	May 21, 2007
4	Vivek Agnihotri	√	Nanofluids: Wetting Characteristics and Engineering Implications	May 18, 2007
2004 - 2006
3	Manoj Rao	√	Thermo-hydrodynamic Characteristics of Narrow Channel Flows - Liquid Crystal Thermography and Numerical Modeling (in association with Dr. Rajeev Gupta, NIT, Bhopal)	January 12, 2007
2	Balakrishna Mehta	√	Thermal Performance of Closed Two-phase Thermosyphons with Nanofluids	June 23, 2006
1	Ashish Gupta	√	Heat Transfer Characteristics of Embedded Pulsating Heat Pipe Based Radiators	June 19, 2006

B. Tech. Projects

2020
Vasu Bansal Vinod Kanwar Vishal Singh	Solar Desalination using Humidification-Dehumidification (HDH) Cycle
2019
Atul Bimbrawh Rahul Kumar Avinash Kumar	Solar Energy and Peltier Coupled Water Purification System
2017
Archit Tripathi, Abhinav Kumar Vikas Marmat	Wall Mounted Solar Harvestor for Residential Building Applications
2015
Navneet Singh Piyush Jain Varun Rai	Internal Nano-Polishing of Micro-Tubes using Ferrofluids Patent filing under progress Judged the best project for the year 2015-2016
2014*
Ankush Panwar Prabhanshu Pavecha Shobhit Yadav	Compact Air Cooler with Nano-structured Surfaces Indian Patent Filed *Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. Varkey Cherian Award, 2014
Abhishek Srivastava Rishav Garg Shashank Kumar Utkarsh Sinha	Bicycle Mounted Solar Energy Harvesting Unit (in association with Dr. B. Bhattacharya) Indian Patent filed
2013
Aashish Agarwal Shashank Jatav Gudepu Santosh Kumar	Thermal Management System for High Power Solid State Lasers
Nikita Jaipuria Ram Mohan Meena Samujwal K. Suman	Vibration Response of a Two-Phase Passive Heat Transfer Device for Space Qualification (in association with Dr. B. Bhattacharya)
2011*
Rishi Tripathi Sandeep Kanaujia Shailesh Chouriya	Flat Plate Micro Heat Pipe Array for Electronics Cooling * (Certificate of merit - one of the outstanding projects for year 2009)
2010
Ankur Agarwal Chowdhari Ankit Deepak Shailendra Pal Veer Singh Ujjval Gahoi	Liquid Crystal and Infra-red Thermography of Pulsating Laminar Flows
2009*
Amit Kumar Singh Chauhan Atul Kumar Piyush Kumar Singh	Controlled Oscillatory Capillary Flow Generator * (Certificate of merit - one of the outstanding projects for year 2009)
2008
Sameer Behere Abhinav Agrawal Abhishek Kumar	Design and Development of Thermosyphon based LPG Ovens for household applications
Nilanjan Saha Ankur Sanghai Nitesh Chandra	Design and Development of automatic 'Medhuwada' making machine (in association with Dr. J. Ramkumar)
2007*
Amber Maheshwari Nikhil Gupta Amogh Dikshit	Design and Development of Planer Mini Pulsating Heat Pipes * (Certificate of merit - one of the outstanding projects for year 2007)
2006*
Ankur Sinha Subrajit Banerjee Sandeep Kumar	Design and Development of Heat Pipe Based Radiator * (Certificate of merit - one of the outstanding projects for year 2006)
Shalabh Agarwal Anurag Saxena Saurav Sao	Design and Development of Two-Phase Flow Visualization Set-up (Air-water/ Boiling)