Faculty Member
Dr Arvind Pattamatta
Professor
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. He is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for the year 2013, INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2015 and JSPS invitational fellowship for the year 2017. His research interests are in the area microscale energy transport and thermal management of devices. He has authored more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
Post-Doc
Gopal Chandra Pal
Research area: Vapor chamber Design for Electronics cooling
Gopal received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in 2025. 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
Hemanth D
Co-Guide: Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
Research area: Thermal management of batteries
Hemanth completed his bachelor’s from TKM College of Engineering, Kollam affiliated to APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala in 2019. As a Prime Minister's Research Fellow(PMRF), his research involves Battery Thermal Management System(BTMS) to maintain the battery, especially Li-ion battery , within the desired temperature range. His research aims to develop an efficient battery thermal management system using phase-change techniques like heat pipes, flow boiling etc.
MD Moitur Rahman
Co-Guide: Prof. Sarit K. Das
Research area: Flow boiling in microchannels
Moitur has competed MTech from Jadavpur University and as a Prime Minister's Research Fellow(PMRF), he is currently studying flow boiling in parallel microchannel evaporators using IR cameras. He is specifically looking at the application of the same in spacecraft electronoics cooling.
Viraj Dusane
Co-guide: Prof. Ramesh Narayanaswamy (Curtin University)
Research area: Spray Cooling
Viraj has completed his 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.
Shuchi Chaurasia
Co-guide: Prof. Peter Stephan (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Research area: Modeling and simulation of multiphase fluid flows
Shuchi is a Joint Doctoral Ph.D. (JDP) scholar with IIT Madras and TU Darmstadt, Germany. Shuchi has completed her M.tech from NIT- Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh in may 2023, where she investigated heat transfer enhancement in solar air heater using hybrid roughness geometries. Currently, as a Ph.D scholar, her research focuses on developing advanced computational solver for multiphase fluid flows using the open source CFD software Open FOAM.
Midhun Abraham
Co-guide : Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
Research area: Vapor chambers
Midhun holds a master's degree in internal combustion engines and turbomachinery from Government Engineering College, Thrissur and a bachelor's degree from Sree Narayana College of Engineering, Ernakulam, Kerala. His passion lies in heat transfer with particular focus on electronic cooling, two phase flows and convective heat transfer.
Ambreena Abass
Guide: Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
Co-guide: Prof. Arvind Pattamatta
She completed her MTech from NIT Srinagar in 2024., 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.
Sujatha S
Guide: Prof. Sarit Kumar Das
Co-guide: Prof. Arvind Pattamatta
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
MS
MTech
Shreyash Acharjee
Research area: Thermal management of batteries using Immersion cooling
I completed my B.E degree from PDA College of Engineering.
Hadee Muhamed
Research area: Microchannels
He has completed B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Barton Hills, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala and currently pursuing M.Tech.
Prakhar Aditya Tiwari
Research area: Phase change solver development
Prakhar completed his bachelor's degree from BIT Durg.
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