Faculty
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 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
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
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
Shuchi completed her M.tech from NIT- Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh in may 2023.
Midhun Abraham
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.
MS
Monu Kumar
Research area: Droplet dynamics
He is interested in dynamics inside the droplets on subcooled substrates under static conditions. He is currently studying the convective current inside a sessile drop on a subcooled substrate in a controlled environment with the help of PIV, LASER, and IR cameras.
Mohd. Zahid
Guide: Prof. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra
Co-guide: Prof. Arvind Pattamatta
Research area: Condensation, Droplet frequency on surfaces
MTech
Rahul Sharma
Research area: Droplet dynamics
Rahul completed his bachelor's from Government Engineering College Mainpuri, U.P and currently pursuing M.tech in thermal Engineering. He is now working on Simulations of drop impacts on a heated and non-heated mesh using VOF method.
Harikrishnan K
Research area: Microchannels
He has completed B.E in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University in 2020 and currently pursuing M.Tech. His work focusses on designing parallel microchannel evaporator based on flow and temperature maldistribution by numerical study.
Indrajit Mahadev Patil
Research area: Battery thermal management
Indrajit is currently pursuing an M.Tech in Thermal Engineering, having completed a B.Tech degree from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai. His current focus is on studying the Thermal Management of batteries using phase change materials.
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