Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |

Distinction in Doctoral Research-2022 by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Shah-Schulman Award-2023 by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers for Best Ph.D. thesis in the area of Interface and Colloid Sciences
Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award by 16th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-16), Dresden, Germany
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship-2022 by European Union to pursue research in the area of Structured Packings at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and Technical University of Munich, Germany
International Travel Grant by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to deliver a keynote talk at 15th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-15), Ottawa, Canada

Journal

Dynamics of particle-scale liquid distribution in Pseudo-2D packed beds: Measurements and volume-of-fluid simulations by Gulia R. S., Ambekar A. S., Buwa V. V. Chemical Engineering Journal 509 - (2025)
Understanding the role of perforations on the local hydrodynamics of gas liquid flows through structured packings by Ambekar A. S., Peters E. , Hinrichsen O. , Kuipers J. Chemical Engineering Journal 486 - (2024)
Effect of Particle Aspect Ratio and Shape on the Particle-Scale Dynamics of Gas Liquid Flow through Packed Beds by Ambekar A. S., Singh K. , Kumari A. , Buwa V. V. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 62 - (2023)
Particle Resolved Turbulent Flow in a Packed Bed: RANS, LES and DNS Simulations by Ambekar A. S., Schwarzmeier C. , Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. AIChE Journal 69 - (2023)
Particle-resolved simulations of local liquid spreading in packed beds: Effect of wettability at varying particle size by Ambekar A. S., Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. Physics of Fluids 34 - (2022)
Forces governing the dynamics of liquid spreading in packed beds by Ambekar A. S., Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 948 - (2022)
Pore-resolved two-phase flow in a pseudo-3D porous medium: Measurements and volume-of-fluid simulations by Ambekar A. S., Mattey P. , Buwa V. V. Chemical Engineering Science 230 - (2021)
Pore-resolved volume-of-fluid simulations of two-phase flow in porous media: Pore-scale flow mechanisms and regime map by Ambekar A. S., Mondal S. , Buwa V. V. Physics of Fluids 33 - (2021)
CFD simulation study of shell and tube heat exchangers with different baffle segment configurations by Ambekar A. S., Sivakumar R. , Anantharaman N. , Vivekenandan M. Applied Thermal Engineering 108 - (2016)

Conferences

Structure-resolved volume-of-fluid simulations of gas-liquid flow through monoliths by Ambekar A. S., Peters E. , Hinrichsen O. , Buwa V. V., Kuipers J. 16th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering - (2024)
Study of gas-liquid flow through random open-cell solid foams by Ambekar A. S., Peters E. , Hinrichsen O. , Buwa V. V., Kuipers J. International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering - (2024)
Understanding the role of perforations on the void-scale hydrodynamics of gas-liquid flows through structured packings by Ambekar A. S., Peters E. , Hinrichsen O. , Buwa V. V., Kuipers J. International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering - (2023)
Dynamics of Particle-scale Liquid Distribution in Trickle Beds: Measurements and Volume-of-Fluid Simulations by Ambekar A. S., Gulia R. S., Buwa V. V. 15th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering - (2022)
Effect of Particle Aspect Ratio and Orientation on the Particle-scale Liquid Spreading in Packed Beds by Ambekar A. S., Singh K. , Kumari A. , Ruede U. , Buwa V. V. 15th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering - (2022)
Particle-resolved Simulations of Local Liquid Spreading in Packed Beds by Ambekar A. S., Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. International Symposium on Catalysis in Multiphase Reactors - (2021)
Particle-resolved Simulations of Turbulent Flow through Packed Bed Reactors: Comparison of Flow Simulations using RANS, LES and DNS by Ambekar A. S., Schwarzmeier C. , Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. International Symposia on Chemical Reaction Engineering - (2021)
Fully Resolved Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulent Flow through Porous Media by Schwarzmeier C., Ambekar A. S., Rüde U. , Buwa V. V. Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference - (2021)
Pore-resolved Simulations of Two-Phase Flow through Porous Media by Ambekar A. S., Phirani J. , Buwa V. V. International Conference on Multiphase Flow - (2019)
Pore-resolved Two-Phase Flow in a Pseudo-3D Porous Medium: Volume of Fluid Simulations and Experimental Validation by Ambekar A. S., Buwa V. V. ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference - (2019)
Dynamics of Forced Imbibition in Interacting Pores by Ambekar A. S., Ashraf S. , Phirani J. ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference - (2019)
Interface Dynamics during Two-phase Flow in Stratified Porous Medium by Ambekar A. S., Buwa V. V., Phirani J. International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels - (2018)

Workshop

Pore-resolved volume-of-fluid simulations of two-phase flow in porous media: Pore-scale flow mechanisms and regime map by Ambekar A. S., Buwa V. V. Workshop on Computational Challenges and Modelling of Coupled Processes in Porous Media - (2021)
High-Performance Computations of Particle-Resolved Multiphase Flows by Ambekar A. S., Karthik G. , Buwa V. V. NSW Workshop on High Performance Computing in Computational Fluid Dynamics - (2020)

Chemical Engineering

Faculty

Aniket Shrikant Ambekar

Research Areas

Ph. D. Students

Md Zaffar Zeshan