Dr. Arnab Sarkar

Associate Professor
Department/School/Unit Name
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT(BHU)
Phone No(s): 08953829592
Email: arnab.mec@iitbhu.ac.in
Area of Interest: Wind Climate Modeling, Renewable Energy, Hybrid System, Microfluidics

Dr Arnab Sarkar received two Gold Medals in his Master of Mechanical Engineering at Jadavpur University in 2003 for being topper in the department as well as in the faculty of engineering and technology. He was also a DAAD Doctoral Fellow at Ruhr-University Bochum Germany from 2007-09. He started his teaching career at the department of Mechanical Engineering in erstwhile IT-BHU in 2004. Subsequently, he became Associate Professor in 2016. He along with his colleagues also established Centre for Energy and Resources Development which is a Centre of Excellence under FAST scheme of MHRD.

He taught several courses both in undergraduate and postgraduate levels such as Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Non-conventional Energy Resources, Power Plant, Turbo Machines, Applied Thermodynamics, Universal Human Values, Advanced Thermodynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Bio-transport Mechanism and Gas Dynamics.

Dr. Sarkar's research interests lie on the broad area of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics. At present, he is working on the application of fluid mechanics related to renewable energy harvesting and biomicrofluidics which results publications in highly cited journals such as Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Talanta, Physics of Fluids, Analyst, Biomicrofluidics, Microchemical Journal, Energy, Renewable Energy, Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Energy Storage, Fuel etc. He has published 42 articles in SCI/SCIE journals and investigated many projects so far as PI with a total budget of approximately 3 crores from various funding agencies such as BRNS, BIS, IDAPT, MHRD, DST, SERB, CST UP etc. Under SERB FIRE scheme he is currently collaborating with General Electrics. He has also presented almost 30 articles in various national and international conferences.

He delivered his Key Note addresses in many institutions of national importance such as IIT Delhi, IIT (BHU), NIT Hamirpur, NIT Patna, NIT Silchar, NIT Meghalaya etc. He was the invited speaker in JDS, 2019 and F&R Energy, 2020 which was held in Nancy, France and Huston, TX, USA respectively. He is the Reviewer of many prestigeous journals such as Energy, Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Physics of Fluids, Scientific Reports (Nature) etc. The certificate of outstanding contribution in reviewing has also been awarded to him by Energy journal (Elsevier). He is the Editor of Frontiers in Built Environment and is also becoming Guest Editor of Energies. Through his energy related projects, he is exploring wind energy harvesting and is integrating the same with other renewable energy resources such as solar and biomass for sustainable power supply to the gridlines. He is also estimaing wind loading to energy related structures such as stacks, cooling towetrs and so on through computational simulation supported by experimental studies including fabrication of physical simulator of cyclone. Off late, he has developed a new BIS code (IS 18315) for estimating cyclonic factor.

He is also the Principal Investigator of an MoE project under STARS scheme related to energy efficient pathology. In collaboration with IIT Kharagpur, he has recently established the proof of concept of the laboratory scale prototype of a Complete Blood Count (CBC) test kit on a portable spinning disc under energy efficient paradigm which has been covered by most of the leading newspapers and media channels such as Financial Express, Times Now, Economic Times, The Hitavada, The Week, Amar Ujala, Sakshi, Business Standard, Millennium Post, Express Healthcare, Anandabazar Patrika, Zee News etc. In this regard, he also filed patent entitled 'A Point of Care System Comprising Blood/Body Fluid Counting Kit' along with his coresearchers. For this research his team is the recipient of Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award. In order to implement his DST project, his team is developing a portable spinning disc for estimating concentrations of different vitamins and minerals in blood plasma along with hemoglobin and plasma glucose by combining electrochemical and optical sensors, which is the need of the hour for effective monitoring of women's health during different stages of pregnancy specially in this pandemic situation. In a nutshell, the focus of this research is the establishment of a novel diagnostic delivery model enabled by disruptive technology for better healthcare at lower cost and validate the same through case studies combining empowerment of underserved population as human resources with niche diagnostic technology where paper based microfluidic platforms and spinning disc augmented by AI/ML are tools to establish the proposition of better care at lower cost. His team is also developing novel economic and business models for further commercialization of those portable microfluidic devices.

Dr. Sarkar is also the recipient of the Best Teacher Award in 2021 from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He is the only faculty member from the department of mechanical engineering of IIT (BHU) who is the winner of Research Excellence Fellowship from 1994 alumni of IIT (BHU) in 2022. Again in 2023, he was conferred the Best Teacher Award for his postgraduate teaching and research.

 

 

 

  • Master of Engineering, Jadavpur University (Gold Medalist)
  • DAAD Doctoral Fellow, Ruhr-University Bocum, Germany

Ph.D. Thesis Guided:

Completed: G.K. Gugliani, R.K. Singh, V.K. Sonker, A.S. Pareta, M. Prakash, R. Ram

Ongoing: N. Gautam, D. Kumar, A. Ranjan, S. Kumar, A.C. Kashyap, H.K. Yadav, M.N. Gupta, V. Verma, M. Srivastava, D.M. Yenurkar, S. Ahmed

M.Tech./M.Tech.(IDD) Thesis Guided: 32 (Completed)

Research Publication data
 
Journal Papers published: 42
Conference Papers published: 30
 
Best 5 Journal Publications
 

  1. Gugliani GK, Sarkar A, Ley C, Mandal S. New methods to assess wind resources in terms of wind speed, load, power and direction, Renewable Energy, 2018; 129:168-182, IF 5.439
  2. Prakash M, Sarkar A, Sarkar J, Mondal SS, Chakraborty JP. Proposal and design of a new biomass based syngas production system integrated with combined heat and power generation, Energy, 2017; 133: 986-997, IF 5.537
  3. Singh RK, Sarkar A, Chakraborty JP. Effect of torrefaction on the physicochemical properties of pigeon pea stalk (Cajanus cajan) and estimation of kinetic parameters, Renewable Energy, 2019; 138: 805-819, IF 5.439
  4. Prakash M, Sarkar A, Sarkar J, Mondal SS, Chakraborty JP, Sahoo RR. Performance assessment of novel biomass gasification based CCHP systems integrated with syngas production, Energy, 2019; 167:379-390, IF 5.537
  5. Agarwal R, Sarkar A, Chakraborty S. Interplay of Coriolis Effect with Rheology Results in Unique Blood Dynamics on a Compact Disk, Analyst, 2019; DOI: 10.1039/C9AN00645A, IF 4.019

 
Journal Papers published in last 5 years (2014-onwards)
 

  1. Gugliani GK, Sarkar A, Ley C, Mandal S. New methods to assess wind resources in terms of wind speed, load, power and direction, Renewable Energy, 2018; 129:168-182.
  2. Prakash M, Sarkar A, Sarkar J, Mondal SS, Chakraborty JP. Proposal and design of a new biomass based syngas production system integrated with combined heat and power generation, Energy, 2017; 133: 986-997.
  3. Singh RK, Sarkar A, Chakraborty JP. Effect of torrefaction on the physicochemical properties of pigeon pea stalk (Cajanus cajan) and estimation of kinetic parameters, Renewable Energy, 2019; 138: 805-819.
  4. Prakash M, Sarkar A, Sarkar J, Mondal SS, Chakraborty JP, Sahoo RR. Performance assessment of novel biomass gasification based CCHP systems integrated with syngas production, Energy, 2018; 167: 379-390.
  5. Singh RK, Sarkar A, Chakraborty JP. Influence of Alternate Fuels on the Performance and Emission from Internal Combustion Engines and Soot Particle Collection using Thermophoretic Sampler: A Comprehensive Review, Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2018; DOI: 10.1007/s12649-018-0338-2.
  6. Gugliani GK, Sarkar A, Mandal S, Agrawal V. Location wise comparison of mixture distributions for assessment of wind power potential: A parametric study, International Journal of Green Energy, 2017; 14(9): 737-753.
  7. Sarkar A, Gugliani G, Deep S. Weibull model for wind speed data analysis of different locations in India, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2017; 21(7): 2764-2776.
  8. Sarkar A, Kumar N, Mitra D. Extreme wind climate modeling of some locations in India for the specification of the design wind speed of structures, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014; 18(5): 1496-1504.
  9. Singh NK, Sarkar A, Deo A, Gautam K, Rai SK. Estimation of suitable methodology for determining Weibull parameters for the vortex shedding analysis of synovial fluid, Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research, 2016; 37(1): 21-30.
  10. Sarkar A, Mondal SS. External and internal irreversibility on the example of heat engine, Resonance: A Journal of Science Education, 2018; 23(5): 535-544.
  11. Gugliani GK, Sarkar A, Bhadani S, Mandal S. A novel approach for accurate assessment of design wind speed for variable wind climate, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2018; 23(2):608-623.
  12. Agarwal R, Sarkar A, Chakraborty S. Interplay of Coriolis Effect with Rheology Results in Unique Blood Dynamics on a Compact Disk, Analyst, 2019; DOI: 10.1039/C9AN00645A
  13. Poddar S, Parasa MK, Vajanthri KY, Chaudhary A, Pancholi UV, Sarkar A, Singh AK, Mahto SK. Low Density Culture of Mammalian Primary Neurons in Compartmentalized Microfluidic Devices, Biomedical Microdevices, 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s10544-019-0400-2 
  14. Sarkar A, Deep S, Datta D, Vijaywargiya A, Roy R, Phanikanth VS. Weibull and Generalized Extreme Value Distributions for Wind Speed Data Analysis of Some Locations in India, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019; DOI: 10.1007/s12205-019-1538-4 

Invited Magazine Articles

  1. Sarkar J, Sarkar A. Natural Ventilation and Clean Indoor Environment, Cooling India, 2017; Vol. 12, No. 10, p. 48.
  2. Sarkar J, Sarkar A. Wind Driven Ventilation: A Holistic Approach of Cooling, Cooling India, 2017; Vol. 13, No. 2, p. 40.

 
Selected Conference Publications (2013-onwards)
 

  1. Sarkar A, Mahato J. Specification of design wind speed for cyclone events in India, 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, Structural Engineering Research Centre, December 2013, Chennai, India.
  2. Sarkar A, Singh AK. Wind climate modeling for estimation of along wind load, 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, Structural Engineering Research Centre, December 2013, Chennai, India.
  3. Sarkar A, Gugliani G, Agrawal V, Mitra D. Wind climate modeling of India for specification of design wind and fatigue load, 14th International Conference on Wind Engineering, June 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  4. Gugliani GK, Sarkar A, Gupta A, Mandal S, Prince. Determination of cyclonic factor in different wind zones of India, 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, December 2017, Auckland, New Zealand.
  5. Singh RK, Sarkar A, Chakraborty JP, Effect of torrefaction on the physicochemical properties of piegeon pea stalk (cajanus cajan), TCS 2018, Alabama, USA. 

 
Conference Proceeding Edited
 
Mandal S, Kumar R, Maiti PR, Sarkar A, Prasad K, Kumar S. Proceedings of 8th National Conference on Wind Engineering, 2016.
 
Conference/Workshop Organized

1. International Workshop on Energy and Resources Development, May 2015, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Role: Convener
2. 8th National Conference on Wind Engineering, December 2016, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Role: Organizing Secretary and Treasurer
 
Technology Transfer
 
Developed and transferred technology regarding cyclonic factor to Beauro of Indian Standard (BIS) for the revision of IS 15498 (Guidelines for improving the cyclonic resistance of low-rise houses and other buildings) and Dr. Arnab Sarkar has been included as a member of IS 15498 of CED 57 for implementing the revision of the code.
 
Membership of Professional Bodies
 

  1. Indian Society for Wind Engineering
  2. International Association of Wind Engineering
  3. Association of Engineers
  4. Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

 
Reviewer
 
Reviewer in Applied Energy (Elsevier), Energy Conversion and Management (Elsevier), Energy (Elsevier), Wind Energy (Wiley),Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of King Saud Arabia (Elsevier), International Journal of Sediment Research (Elsevier), Internal Journal of Civil Engineering (Springer), International Journal of Green Energy (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Ambient Research (Taylor & Francis), Defense Science Journal, IEEE Sensor
 
 
 

International level:
1] DAAD Scholarship Awardee, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2007-2009
2] Stibet (DAAD), 2008 Teaching Assistanceship Awardee for conducting special seminar classes for the subject, ‘Safety and Reliability of Engineering Structures’ in English-speaking Master’s course of Computational Engineering from October, 2008 to January, 2009.
3] Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, October 2018 from Energy (Elsevier)
 
National level:
1] University Gold Centred Silver Medal for securing 1ST rank in Master of Mechanical Engineering Examination, Jadavpur University, 2003
2] Sarojini Mazumdar Memorial Gold Centered Silver Medal for securing 1ST rank among all the students of Master of Engineering in Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jadavpur University, 2003
3] Institute Post Doctoral Scholarship, IIT, Kharagpur, 2018-19
4] National Scholarship Awardee, 1995
 

Post Graduate:  Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics, Non-Conventional Energy Resources

Under Graduate:  Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Thermodynamics

Curriculum Developed:  Wind Power Meteorology

  • Warden, Limbdi Hostel, from 2013 onwards
  • Convener, Creative Practices, 2015-2018
  • Lab In Charge, Fluid Mechanics & Renewable Energy, from 2011 onwards 
  • Secretary, Faculty Committee, 2015-2018

 Invited/Key Note Lecture
 

  1. Wind climatology for the specification of design wind load and wind energy potential, Identification of Issues for Sustainable Urban Built-Environment through Symposium of Indo German Experts (“Sustainable UBE”), October 2012, IIT, Delhi
  2. Study of wind induced actions on slender structures using Weibull and generalized extreme value distribution, International Workshop on Wind Disaster Management – Challenges Ahead, February 2013, Royal Group of Institutions, Guwahati
  3. Uncertainty Quantification of a Random Vitiate, Faculty Development Program on Nanofluid and Its Engineering Application, November 2017, IIT (BHU), Varanasi
  4. Extreme value statistics for specification of design aerodynamic coefficient, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Innovations & Technology Management, December 2017, NIT, Hamirpur
  5. Wind Energy: Current and Future Perspective, Renewable Energy and Applications (REA-2018), December 2018, NIT, Patna
  6. Wind Power Meteorology: Wind Data Modeling for Wind Resources Assessment, Advances in Power Generation from Renewable Energy Sources (APGRES-2019), February 2019, Govt. Engineering College, Banswara, Rajasthan

Session Chair

  1. 8th Asia Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, Structural Engineering Research Centre, December 2013, Chennai, India
  2. International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering Innovations & Technology Management, December 2017, NIT, Hamirpur
  3. Advances in Power Generation from Renewable Energy Sources (APGRES-2019), February 2019, Govt. Engineering College, Banswara, Rajasthan

Guest of Honor

1. Advances in Power Generation from Renewable Energy Sources (APGRES-2019), February 2019, Govt. Engineering College, Banswara, Rajasthan