Browsing Mechanical Engineering (ME) by Advisor "Basu, Saptarshi"
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Dynamics of Droplets Under Support, Acoustic And/Or Ambient Flow Excitation
(2018-04-24)The first step on the way to understanding the complicated dynamics of spray is to study the behavior of isolated droplets. In many industrial and natural processes such as turbulent combustion, agricultural sprays, spray ... -
Dynamics of Hollow Cone Spray in an Unconfined, Isothermal, Co-Annular Swirling Jet Environment
(2018-07-20)The complex multiphase flow physics of spray-swirl interaction in both reacting and non-reacting environment is of fundamental and applied significance for a wide variety of applications ranging from gas turbine combustors ... -
Evaporation and Buckling Dynamics of Sessile Droplets Resting on Hydrophobic Substrates
(2018-09-04)Droplet evaporation is ubiquitous to multitude of applications such as microfluidics, surface patterning and ink-jet printing. In many of the process like food processing tiny concentrations of suspended particles may alter ... -
Evaporation Driven Oscillations and Particle Agglomeration in Pure and Complex Fluid Sessile Droplets
A sessile droplet forms a fundamental building block in analyzing particle distribution and deposition in both industrial applications and lab on a chip research such as inkjet printing, surface patterning, photonic crystals, ... -
Experimental and Theoretical Insights into Impact Phenomena of Small Scale Liquid Interfacial Systems
This work explores impact phenomena experimentally and theoretically for various interfacial systems ranging from medical diagnostics to drop impacts on solids and immiscible liquids. We study a hitherto unexplored impact ... -
Externally Induced Instabilities in Contactless Functional Droplets
Many natural and technological processes involve spray or cluster of droplets which are subjected to chaotic external environment. Study of the behavior of a single droplet is therefore crucial to understand the dynamics ... -
Heat Transfer and Visualization Studies in the Evaporator of a Flat Loop Heat pipe
Heat pipes are extensively used in spacecraft thermal control and electronics cooling for transfer of heat from high heat flux zones to low heat flux zones. The major advantage of heat pipe is it can transfer high heat ... -
Insights into evaporation, atomization and precipitate formation of polymer droplets
Evaporation of polymer droplets is an active area of interest due to its applications in systems such as ink jet printing, thin films, spray combustors to name a few. Thus, understanding complex dynamics of evaporating ... -
Insights into Instabilities in Burning and Acoustically Levitated Nanofluid Droplets
(2018-07-16)The complex multiscale physics of nanoparticle laden functional droplets in a reacting environment is of fundamental and applied significance for a wide variety of applications ranging from thermal sprays to pharmaceutics ... -
Insights of Evaporation Dynamics of an Interacting Linear Array of Droplet System
Manipulation of an array of sessile droplets organized in an ordered structure turns out to be of immense consequence in a wide variety of applications ranging from photonics, near field imaging and inkjet printing on one ... -
Insights on the Evaporation and Precipitation of Pathogen-Laden Respiratory Droplets on Inanimate Surfaces
Disease transmission via fluid ejections from infected individuals is a critical public health concern, particularly in high-risk environments like hospitals, public transport, restaurants, and schools. Respiratory droplets ... -
On the development of sensible heat storage for concentrated solar power applications: Thermo-fluid management and materials
Sensible heat storages have extensive use in thermal energy deployment, including concentrated solar power (CSP) applications. Usually, CSP pants demand various techno-economic features in sensible heat storage, such as ... -
Secondary Atomization of a Droplet in Diverse Interaction Settings
Secondary atomisation refers to the process by which liquid droplets, which are already in a dispersed state, are further atomised down into smaller droplets. This process occurs after primary atomisation, which is the ... -
Spatio-temporal Dynamics in Droplet Combustion Under Diverse Flow Conditions
Spray combustion of liquid fuels is one of the most ubiquitous modes of combustion used in a wide range of applications ranging from IC engines for transportation to Gas turbines in propulsion systems, owing to the high ... -
Studies on Flow Dynamics and Spray Swirl Interactions in Gas Turbine Combustor
Coupling of spray with the coherent structures of a highly turbulent flow has been a long-standing problem especially in the context of liquid fuel delivery systems in gas turbine combustors. The atomizer in a gas turbine ... -
Study of Droplet Dynamics in Heated Environment
(2018-04-02)Droplets as precursor are extensively applied in diverse fields of science and engineering. Various contributions are provided previously towards analysis of single phase and multi-phase droplets of single and multiple ... -
Transition and Acoustic Response of Vortex Breakdown Modes in Unconfined Coaxial Swirling Flow and Flame
(2018-07-19)The efficient and enhanced mixing of heat and incoming reactants is achieved in modern gas turbine systems by employing swirling flows. This is realized by a low velocity region (internal recirculation zone -IRZ) zone ... -
Vapor Mediated Interaction in Droplets
Controlling internal flow in evaporating sessile droplets is desirable across applications ranging from lab-on-chip medical diagnostics, DNA profiling to surface patterning. Diffusion-limited evaporation in droplets exhibits ...