Research Group


Prof. Manabendra Pathak
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Patna
Dr. Mohd. Kaleem Khan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Patna

Current PhD Students


Akash Priy
Email: akash_1821me02 [at] iitp.ac.in
Area of Research: Flow boiling instability
Ajit Kumar
Email: ajit_1921me09 [at] iitp.ac.in
Area of Research: Droplet impact and splashing
Saurabh Sagar
Email: saurabh_2021me14[at] iitp.ac.in
Area of Research: Effect of burnup on ballooning and burst behavior of Zircaloy-4 cladding tubes under simulated LOCA
Mazhar Hussain
Email: mazhar_2121me25[at] iitp.ac.in
Area of Research: Thermal management of electric vehicles
Ajmit Kumar
Email: ajmit_2121me22[at] iitp.ac.in
Area of Research: Turbine blade cooling by microchannels

Past PhD Students


Dr. Yogesh Kumar Prajapati
Email: yogi06_sati [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Twophase flow investigations in different microchannel configurations
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, BIT Sindri
Dr. Md Ashique Hassan
Email: hassan [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Natural convection of viscoplstic fluids in an enclosure
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur
Dr. Siddharth Suman
Email: s.suman [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Burst behaviour of hydrided zircaloy-4 cladding tube under postulated LOCA conditions
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow at PSI Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Sumit Raj
Email: sumitraj.pme15 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Flow boiling characteristics in microchannel heat sinks.
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Dr. Rinku Kumar Gouda
Email: rinku.pme15 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement with Segmented Finned Structured Surface and Rhamnolipid Biosurfactant.
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur
Dr. Israr Ahmad
Email: israr.pme16 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Electrowetting driven droplet for adaptive hotspot cooling for an electronic dvice.
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr. Aashna Raj
Email: aashna_1921me02 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Investigation of wall-bounded flow of lubricating Magnetorheological grease.
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Piyush Kumar
Email: piyush.pme16 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Droplet formation and splitting in a wettability mediated microfluidic T-junction.
Current position: Research Scientist-Associate, at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Dr. Atul Ranjan
Email: atul.pme16 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Pool boiling heat transfer characteristics of microchannel structured and coated surfaces.
Current position: Post-doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Dr. Rishikesh Kumar
Email: rishikesh.pme16 [at] iitp.ac.in
Thesis title: Synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation of thermoelectric modules.

Current M.Tech. Students


Shubham Saurav (2022-24)
M.Tech. project: Lift and drag characteristics of flapping wing
Krish Anand (2022-24)
M.Tech. project: Jet impingment cooling

Past M.Tech. Students


Vivek Karn (2021-23)
M.Tech. project: Flow and heat transfer characteristics of inclined dual jets
Anamitra Phukan (2020-22)
M.Tech. project: Numerical simulation of film boiling considering thermal radiation effect
Ambuj Rai (2020-22)
M.Tech. project: Ivestigation of solar air heater with varying rib height
Naman Kumar (2019-21)
M.Tech. project: Transient flow boiling in diverging microchannels
Kumar Kartik (2019-21)
M.Tech. project: Microchannel heat exchanger
Md. Owais Alam (2018-20)
M.Tech. project: Two-phase closed loop thermosyphonic loop
Ashutosh Kumawat (2017-19)
M.Tech. project: Two-phase closed loop thermosyphonic loop
Shreyansh Shekhar (2017-19)
M.Tech. project: Splashing characteristics of droplet on a rough substrate
Sourav Kumar (2017-19)
M.Tech. project: Flapping flexible wings for micro air vehicle (MAV)
Anurag Shukla (2016-18)
M.Tech. project: Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics in microchannel flow
Badrish Pandey (2016-18)
M.Tech. project: Flow characteristics of ecofriendly refrigerant through adiabatic helical capillary tubes
Mithilish Kumar Koiri (2016-18)
M.Tech. project: Hybrid solar tracking system for PV module
Tapan Sood (2015-17)
M.Tech. project: Blood flow through stenotic arteries
Nitesh Kumar (2015-17)
M.Tech. project: Flow boiling in microchannels
Patel Akashkumar Ambalal (2014-16)
M.Tech. project: Single axis solar tracker
Deep Singh Thakur (2014-16)
M.Tech. project: Thermohydraulic performance of artificially roughened solar air heater
Israr Ahmad (2014-16)
M.Tech. project: Transient natural convection in an enclosure with ventilation ports
Somnath Gore (2014-16)
M.Tech. project: Thermal storage system for parabolic solar collector

Current B.Tech. Students


Prateek and Anush (2020-2024)
B.Tech. project: Optimizing microchannel heat sink design using machine learning
Rajan and Sakshi (2020-2024)
B.Tech. project: Thermal management of EV

Past B.Tech. Students


B. Chaitanya Krishna Reddy (2008-2012)
Saiveer Reddy (2008-2012)
Udayveer Singh (2008-2012)
M. Raghavendra (2008-2012)
Mulagala Pruthvi (2009-2013)
Rondla Sandeep (2009-2013)
Vijay Narayan (2009-2013)
Vishal Yadav (2009-2013)
Aashish Kumar Tripathi (2010-2014)
Ashish Poria (2010-2014)
Gaurav Kumar (2010-2014)
Rupesh Kumar (2010-2014)
Arya Aditya (2010-2014)
M.Hasan Dad Ansari (2010-2014)
Aman Kumar (2010-2014)
Sunny Viz (2010-2014)
Ayush Raj (2011-2015)
Ravi Kumar Meena (2011-2015)
Shubham Deep (2011-2015)
Sarpate Aniket Dileep (2011-2015)
Shashi Ranjan (2011-2015)
N. Trinath (2011-2015)
Devanshu Ganatra (2012-2016)
Sunny Gupta (2012-2016)
Veerendra Kumar (2012-2016)
Mohammad Hussain (2012-2016)
K. Sree Harsha (2012-2016)
K. N. P. Raja Sekhar (2012-2016)
Saurabh Patil (2012-2016)
Shashi Ranjan Kumar (2012-2016)
Nitesh Kumar (2013-2017)
Abhinav Das (2013-2017))
Prashant Luhana (2013-2017)
Keerty Srinath (2013-2017)
Sarpe Aashish Subhash (2013-2017)
Joydeb Mandal (2013-2017)
Neha Verma (2014-2018)
Shefali Das (2014-2018)
Sourabh Jain (2014-2018)
Vishal Singh (2014-2018)
Abhishek Singh (2015-19)
August Dubey (2015-19)
Bhavesh Mendhekar(2015-19)
Karan Gupta(2015-19)
Ashutosh Mishra(2016-20)
Saksham Kumar(2016-20)
Aryan Kumar (2016-20)
Rahul Kumar(2016-20)
Shubham Pathak (2017-21)
Saif Ahmad(2017-21)
Anand Chaudhary(2018-22)
Anand Kishore(2018-22)
P. Sujith Raj(2018-22)
Allagadda Dikshita Reddy (2019-23)
Garlapati Dhruthima(2019-23)
Mohammed Noumaan (2019-23)
Sugnath R.(2019-23)