IITKGP

Responsibilities

  • Chairman, Neheru Museum Science & Technology
  • Warden, Vikram Sarabhai residential Complex - 1 (Gents Block)
  • Rector Nominee(Male) - Technology
  • Coordinator, PMKVY 4.0
  • Professor-in-Charge, Do It Yourself (DIY)
  • Nodal Officer, ESDP

Research Areas

  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Transport in porous medium
  • Electrohydrodynamics
  • Microfluidics
Research areas encompass:
1. Microfluidics
2. Transport through porous media
3. Electrohydrodynamic phenomena
  • Electric-Field-Induced Pattern Formation in Layers of DNA Molecules at the Interface between Two Immiscible Liquids by Hardt S., Hartmann J. , Zhao S. , Bandopadhyay A. Physical Review Letters 124 064501- (2020)
  • Enhanced reaction kinetics and reactive mixing scale dynamics in mixing fronts under shear flow for arbitrary Damkohler numbers by Bandopadhyay A., Borgne T. L., Meheust Y. , Dentz M. Advances in water resources - (2017)
  • Steering a thermally activated micromotor with a nearby isothermal wall by Poddar A., Bandopadhyay A., Chakraborty S. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 915 - (2021)
  • The impact of stretching-enhanced mixing and coalescence on reactivity in mixing-limited reactive flows by Sen S., Singh P., Heyman J., Le Borgne T., Bandopadhyay A. Physics of Fluids 32 - (2020)
  • The Lagrangian kinematics of three-dimensional Darcy flow by Lester D.R., Dentz M., Bandopadhyay A., Le Borgne T. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 918 - (2021)
  • Electrical switching of a surfactant coated drop in Poiseuille flow by Poddar A., Mandal S. , Bandopadhyay A. , Chakraborty S. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 870 27-66 (2019)
  • Hydrodynamic Dispersion and Lamb Surfaces in Darcy Flow by Lester D., Bandopadhyay A. , Dentz M. , Borgne T. L. Transport in Porous Media 130 902-922 (2019)
  • Shear flows accelerate mixing dynamics in hyporheic zones and hillslopes by Bandopadhyay A., Davy P. , Borgne T. L. Geophysical Research Letters 45 659-668 (2018)

Principal Investigator

  • BabyWhispr - AI powered acoustic analysis of infant cries for caretakers GLOBALLYGI EXPERIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
  • M N Faruqui innovation centre projects Arjun Malhotra endowment to IIT Kharagpur
  • Structured Resin Printed Electrode integrated Active Microfluidic Chip (StREAM-Chip) for flow control and Particle/Droplet manipulation Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Test and Analysis in Design and Innovation Workshop Various Government and Non-Government Organisations

Co-Principal Investigator

  • MOCVD growth and p-type doping of Ga2O3 for solar blind UV photodetector applications Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • MOCVD growth and p-type doping of Ga2O3 for solar blind UV photodetector applications Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)
  • Negative-pressure Optimized Vacuum AQUA-cooling unit (NOVAQUA) Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Ph. D. Students

Anushka

Area of Research: Transport Processes

Bikash Mohanty

Area of Research: Microscale transport

Chitradittya Barman

Area of Research: Fluid Mixing

Rahul Mallick

Area of Research: Fluid flow in narrow confinements