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Dr Arvind Pattamatta

Professor

Multiscale Thermal Transport Research Laboratory

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600 036, India

Phone : +9104422574654

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Education

Education

B.E. in

Aeronautical Engineering

University of Madras, Chennai, India 

2001

M.Tech in    
Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 

2003

Ph.D. in

Aerospace Engineering

State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 

2009

Research Interests

Research interest

  • Microscale energy transport

  • Phase change heat transfer

  • Multiphase flows

  • Electronics & Battery thermal management

  • Computational fluid dynamics & heat transfer

Prof Exp

Professional Experience

Awards

Honors and Awards   

  • Invitational fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) to visit Kyushu University, May-July 2017

  • Visiting professorship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to visit TU Darmstadt, June-August 2016

  • Young Engineer Award (YEA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2015

  • Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung to conduct research at TTD, TU Darmstadt, 2013-2014

  • Visiting professorship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to visit TU Darmstadt, June-August 2011

  • Certification on ‘Teaching and Learning’ , Organized by the Center for Continuing Education, IIT Madras in collaboration with Texas A and M university, 2010

  • Certificate in High Performance Computing, SUNY Buffalo, 2009

  • Certification from teaching proficiency workshop, SUNY Buffalo, 2008

  • Certification from future faculty training workshop, SUNY Buffalo, 2008

  • Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified from GE India, 2004

  • Received ‘Project of the Month’ Award, GE India, 2004

Editorship

 Editorship

Teaching

Teahing
Invited

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

  • Thermodynamics

  • Heat Transfer

  • Thermal Power Engineering

  • Mechanical Engineering Lab

Graduate Courses

  • Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer

  • Convective Heat Transfer (NPTEL Webcourse)

  • Micro and Nanoscale Energy Transport (NPTEL Webcourse)

  • Thermal Engineering Lab

Invited Lectures

  • Invited Keynote Speaker in the worksop on Interfacial Engineering at Multiple Spatio-temporal Scales, IISc Bangalore, 29-31, January, 2024.

  • Invited Keynote Speaker in the two-Day Workshop on 'Thermal Management Techniques: Innovations and Insights' , IIT Madras, 10-11, January, 2024.

  • Invited Keynote Speaker in the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, at IIT Patna,14-17, December, 2023. 

  • Invited Speaker in the short course Measurement Techniques for Interfacial Phenomena held at Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Madras, 6-8, March, 2023.

  • Invited Speaker in the One week Short term course (online) (sponsored by TEQIP-III) Computational Fluid Dynamics For Solving Engineering Problems held at Mechanical Engineering Department, MNIT Jaipur, 7 – 11 August, 2020.

  • Invited Speaker in the pre-conference workshop on ”Nanofluids” organized during Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) held at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, July 2, 2019.

  • Invited Speaker for a short term course on ’Radiation Heat Transfer’ held at Jawaharlal Nehru technological University Kakinada (JNTUK), May 9-14, 2019.

  • Keynote Speaker in National Conference on “ Critical Heat Flux and Mutiphase Flow”at IIT(BHU), Varanasi, jointly Organized by IIT(BHU) IIT(Bombay), 22nd - 23rd December, 2018

  • Invited lecture titled “Insights into the Thermo-hydrodynamics of a Unit cell Model of a Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP) through Experiments and CFD”, TEQIP Workshop held at NITK Surathkal, September 6, 2018.

  • Invited speaker on “Thermocapillarity in Microfluidics’ for a short term course on ’Microfluidics based healthcare diagnostics and interfacial phenomena”, held between Nov 6-11, 2017 at IIT Madras.

  • Invited lecture titled “Insights into the Thermo-hydrodynamics of a Unit cell Model of a Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP) through Experiments and CFD”, 106th Institute Interest Seminar Series, International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, June 8, 2017.

  • Invited Lecture titled “Numerical Investigation on the Thermo-Hydrodynamics of liquid-gas-solid interfaces: Selected Case Studies”, at IIT Ropar on May 5, 2017.

  • Guest lecture on “Heat Transfer Characteristics of nano particulate suspensions”, at School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, February 1, 2017.

  • Invited lecture during Faculty Development Training Programme on “Thermal Engineering”, held on December 13, 2016 at University College of Engineering Villupuram.

  • Invited lecture titled “Insights into the Thermo-hydrodynamics of a Unit cell Model of a Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP) through Experiments and CFD”, Indo-French Workshop on Phase-Change Thermal Systems, November 29 to December 01, 2016, Khajuraho (MP), India.

  • Invited lecture on “Modeling Tools for Simulation of heat transfer in Nanofluids and flow boiling in micro-channels”, Workshop on Micro Nano Fluidics and Engg., IIT Madras, September 3, 2016.

  • Invited Talk in TEQIP-II Sponsored FDP on “Computational Fluid Dynamics”, at College of Engineering Adoor between January 11-15, 2016.

  • Guest lecture on “Lattice Boltzmann Methods for the Simulation of fluid and heat transport Phenomena’ during AICTE sponsored National conference on ‘Advances in Computational Methods for Simulation of Transport Processes in Engineering”, between 24th to 26th June 2015, Sri Venkateswara college of Engineering, Sriperumbudur.

  • Invited Talk on “Pulsating Heat Pipes: An Alternative Passive Reactor Containment Cooling System”, by the Division of Arms Control Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 15-17, 2013.

  • Invited Lecture on “Heat Exchanger Design”, organized for BHEL, IIT Madras, Feb 23, 2013.

  • Invited Lecture on Micro/Nano scale heat transfer at Short Term Course on ‘Recent Advancements in Microfluidics’, IIT Madras, Jan 17, 2013.

  • “Lattice Boltzmann Methods”, A Three day workshop at the Centre for Converging Technologies, University of Rajasthan, Dec 2011.

  • “Modeling energy transport in nanostructures”, CTFD Division, National Aerospace Lab, Bangalore, India, May 13, 2009.

  • “Modeling thermal energy transport in nanostructures”, IBM Semiconductor R&D Center, Vermont, Dec 23, 2008.

  • “Nanoscale Heat Transfer in Thermoelectric Materials”, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Feb 7, 2008.

Conferences Organized

  • Co-organized a two-Day Workshop on 'Thermal Management Techniques: Innovations and Insights' with Prof. Marco Marengo, University of Pavia on 10-11, January, 2024.

  • Co-chaired Professor Arcot Ramachandran Centenary Symposium on Heat Transfer and Energy Systems with Prof. C. Balaji, IIT Madras, on 11 December,  2023.

  • Organizing secretary for the ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass transfer conference (IHMTC-2021) conducted by IIT Madras.

  • Co-organized a short course on "Measurement Techniques for Interfacial Phenomena" with Prof. Cameron Tropea,            Tu Darmstadt, Germany on March 6-8, 2023.

  • Organized a Gian course on ”Special Topics in Micro Scale Flow and Heat Transport” by Dr. Peter Stephan, Tu Darmstadt, Germany.

  • Co-organized a two-day workshop on ”Nanoengineered interfaces for energy and health care” organized by Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, 16-17 March 2020.

  • Co-organized a three-day workshop on ”Next Generation Electronic Systems: Heterogeneous Integration, Thermal and Power Management, Related Machine Learning” co-hosted by Binghamton University, IIT Madras and IIT Ropar, October 6, 7 & 8, 2020.

  • Resource Person for the One day workshop on ”Research Proposal Writing” conducted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), August 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  • Coordinated the pre-conference workshop on ”Fluid flow and heat transfer at Micro/Nanoscales” organized during the Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM) held at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, July 2, 2019.

  • Co-Organized a joint workshop between IIT Madras and SUNY Binghamton titled ’Energy Optimization in Data Centers’ on Feb 5, 2019.

  • Served as a member of Organizing Committee for ”Fourth Engineers Conclave-2016 (EC-2016)” held jointly with IIT Madras and INAE on Sep 1-3, 2016.

  • Organized an Indo-German workshop titled ”Modeling and Measurement Techniques for Microscale Flows” at IIT Madras between Feb 23-25, 2015.

Conferences organized
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