Meet the Team
Faculty Member
Arvind Pattamatta is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo, NY in 2009. His research interests are in the area of microscale energy transport and thermal management of devices. Prof Arvind Pattamatta is also the founding coordinator for the ISRO-IIT Madras Centre of excellence for Fluid and Thermal sciences since 2025.
Awards & Honors
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Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (2013)
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INAE Young Engineer Award (2015)
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JSPS invitational fellowship (2017)
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Gopal Chandra Pal
Vapor chamber Design for Electronics cooling
Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (2025)
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His doctoral research focused on the coalescence dynamics of small droplets during condensation on superhydrophobic surfaces, combining experiments with numerical simulations. His broader research interest lies in applying the fundamentals of interfacial phenomena on engineered surfaces to design advanced devices that harness phase-change heat transfer for high performance cooling technologies.
PhD Scholars
MD Moitur Rahman
Flow boiling in microchannels
Co-Guide: Prof. Sarit K. Das
MTech from Jadavpur University
As a Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF), he is currently studying flow boiling in parallel microchannel evaporators using IR cameras, specifically looking at applications in spacecraft electronics cooling.
Midhun Abraham
Vapor chambers
Co-Guide: Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
Master's from Government Engineering College, Thrissur
His passion lies in heat transfer with particular focus on electronic cooling, two phase flows and convective heat transfer.
Sathyasree
Thermal management of batteries
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M.Tech from NIT Calicit
Sathyasree is a Research Scholar at the IIT Madras, working in the area of immersion cooling for advanced thermal management of lithium-ion battery systems, within the desired temperature range using phase-change techniques like heat pipes, flow boiling etc.
Viraj Dusane
Spray Cooling
Co-Guide: Prof. Ramesh Narayanaswamy (Curtin University)
M.Tech from NIT Surat
He is currently working on spray cooling using an IR camera. His research focuses on the thermal analysis of sprays for electronic cooling applications.
Ambreena Abass
Thermal management of batteries
Co-Guide: Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
MTech from NIT Srinagar in 2024
Focuses on cooling high-power where she worked on Phase Change Materials for thermal applications. Her current focus is on cooling high-power electronic devices by enhancing heat dissipation efficiency by integrating fins in vapor chamber design.
Shuchi Chaurasia
Modeling and simulation of fluid flows
Co-Guide: Prof. Peter Stephan (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
​M.Tech from NIT Hamirpur (2023)
Joint Doctoral Ph.D. (JDP) scholar with IIT Madras and TU Darmstadt. Her research focuses on developing advanced computational solver for multiphase fluid flows using the open source CFD software OpenFOAM.
Sujatha S
Battery thermal management systems
Co-Guide: Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
BTech from APEC Anna University, M.S from IIT Madras
She completed her BTech in Chemical Engineering from APEC Anna University and M.S in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras. Her research focuses on battery thermal management systems
MTech Students
Shreyash Acharjee
Thermal management of batteries using Immersion cooling
B.E from PDA College of Engineering
Lokesh Dinakaran D J
Spray Cooling
B.Tech from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (2025)
Hadee Muhamed
Microchannels
B.Tech from Government Engineering College, Barton Hills
Pranav Madhavan
Development of Multiphase OpenFOAM Solver
B.Tech from NITK Surathkal (2023)
Prakhar Aditya Tiwari
Phase change solver development
Bachelor's from BIT Durg
Technical Staff
M. Surendra Kumar
Laboratory Operations & Technical Support
Alumni
Dr. Satyanand Abraham
Post Doc (2018-2020)
Present Position: Assistant Professor NIT, Warangal
