Dr. Pradyumna Ghosh
Pradyumna Ghosh
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Postal Address: Prof. Pradyumna Ghosh, Department of Mechanical Engg, Indian Institute of Technology,
(BHU), Varanasi-221005, UP, India
Work Experience: 20 years+
Which includes Tata Energy Research Institute(TERI), New Delhi, • Graduate Research Assistant,
University of Maryland, College Park, USA, Programmer Analyst, Infosys Technologies Ltd,
Bangalore, India
• Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT, BHU[since 26th Feb, 2016- till date]
[Taught:Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics,
Solar Thermal Energy, Turbom/cs, CFD(In Mechanical Engg as well as Mathematics &
Chemical Engg, Convection heat transfer]
Developed Fluid Mechanics Lab, Heat Transfer Experiments in mini channel with
nanofluids, Plate HX: using Nanofluids, Developed transport phenomenon model
using laser surgery(2015) ]
Research Guidence: 19 M.Tech, [9 Ph.D(Completed) + 3 (Ongoing)]
1 Ph.D student completed on “Numerical Investigation of Cyclone Separators for
Agro-Processing Industry”(Co-Supervisor)
1 Ph.D student completed on “Viscous fingering through porous media in
microgravity”
1 Ph.D student completed on “Performance of plate heat exchanger using various
nanofluids”
1 Ph.D student completed on “Performance improvement of radiator cooling
systems”, 2017
1 Ph.D student completed on "Use of hybrid nanofluids in plate heat exchanger for low temperature application", [Co-Supervisor],2019
1 Ph.D student completed on "Flow boiling behavior of nanofluids”(Chemical Engineering, IIT(BHU), (Co-Supervisor), 2019
1 Ph.D student completed on "Quenching characteristics of dry heated rod using nanofluids" 2021
1 Ph.D student completed on " Study of free convection around inclined plates using PIV", (Co-Supervisor), 2023
1 Ph.D student completed on " Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Performance of Water On Thin Film Coated Micro/Nano Textured Surfaces" 2023
Research Achievement:
“Behaviour of Partially Miscible Fluid in Microgravity”, in response to the first Announcement of Opportunity inviting space experiments on board the China Space Station (CSS) under the United Nations/China Cooperation on the Utilization of the CSS initiative, has been selected for implementation.
http://www.unoosa.org/documents/doc/psa/hsti/CSS_1stAO/CSS_1stAO_FinSelResults_12June2019.pdf
Ongoing Research Project [2022-2025]
"On the augmentation of heat transfer from the external downward facing convex surface of calendria vessel with nano-texturing", BRNS, DAE, Govt Of India.
Research Projects Completed:
- “Quenching behaviour of dry heated rod in Nanofluids”-, BRNS,DAE[2014-March, 18]
• “Development of Intelligent Air-cooling System”- Project Varanasi[15-16]
• Analysis of flow through RHDVP, RHFCU, MECU of a new aircraft fuel management
unit under various aircraft acceleration[DRDO/CEMILAC][2007-08][Hydro-mechanical
circuit has been simulated using Amesim software under various air-craft acceleration]
• Analysis of acceleration (maximum 9g in a single axis) effects on the fluid flow in a
fuel management system newly developed aircraft engine, (HAL, DRDO RCMA(DRDO,
Defence Research and development organization, India FLUENT has been used to
analyze the fuel pump under various acceleration)[2005-06]
• Design and Development of active and passive heat pumping system for Electronic
Cooling in NASA’s ULB Mission, [University of Maryland, USA,1998-2000, as a
Graduate Research Assistant]
• Development of an Advanced Solar-Hybrid Adsorption Cooling System for
Decentralized Storage of Agricultural Products in India, TERI(Tata Energy Research
Institute, New Delhi) and DLR, Stuttgart(German Aerospace Establishment)
collaborative INCO-DC project funded by European Commission, DG XII(1996-97).
Conference/Workshop Organized:
1. Organized jointly with IIT(B) @ IIT(BHU), National Conference on "Critical Heat Flux & Multiphase Flow: Dec, 2018
2. Organized MHRD sponsored GIAN program in IIT(BHU) on “ Volume Averaging
Method for Upscaling in Porous Media”, Jan 2016
3. Organized Short Term course on “ Computational Thermal and Fluid Science and
its Engineering Application”, 25 th -30 th May, 2009, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi-221005.
Book Published:
Thermal convection in microgravity: LAMBERT Academic publisher: ISBN: 978-3-
659-26974-5
Book Chapter:
“Principles of Temperature Measurement with Temperature Probes in Bioheat Transfer
Applications” in the Book “Theory and Applications of Heat Transfer in Humans”
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2018
Some Achievements at a glance:
• Expert committee member DST
• Nominated from India by ISRO for Frank J Malina Astronautics Medal(ASI),
2016
• Visiting Faculty in summer, 2016 @ University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA,
2016
• Distinguished Lectures @ Microgravity Research Center(MRC), ULB, Brussels,
2013
• Chairman of design review committee of HAL, Lucknow for positive displacement
pump for Aerospace Industry since 2012-2017
• Reviewer of JPM(Journal Of Porous Media), ASME Journal Of Heat Transfer,
Journal of Energy, International journal of Thermal Sciences
• Editorial board member of American journal of nanoscience and engineering,
Recent Advances in fluid Mechanics
• Paper [Pradyumna Ghosh, M.K.Ghosh, Streaming Flows in Differentially Heated
Square Porous Cavity under Sinusoidal gjitter, International journal of Thermal
Sciences, 48 (2009), pp. 514-520] has been referred in book DA Nield, A Bejan -
Convection in Porous Media, 2013 Springer
• Paper [Pradyumna Ghosh, M.K.Ghosh, CFD Evaluation of Thermal Convection
inside the DACONConvection Sensor in Actual Space Flight Vol. 3, No. 6, PP.419-
425, Natural Science, 2011] has been placed in Russian Space Station MIRs report,
2012
• Methodology has been developed to judge high aircraft acceleration effect for all
HAL, developed aircraft engine and components.
• Development of an Advanced Solar-Hybrid Adsorption Cooling System for
Decentralized Storage of Agricultural Products in India, TERI(Tata Energy
Research Institute, New Delhi) and DLR, Stuttgart(German Aerospace
Establishment) collaborative INCO-DC project funded by European Commission,
DG XII(1996- 97). Based on this project country programme on solar cooling has
been started across the country.
Publication:
Total Publications in International Journal: 60
Citation: 3311, h index: 23, i10 index: 32
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=z9sV09AAAAAJ&hl=en
Pradyumna Ghosh. ORCID iD. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0926-2974
Selected Papers Twenty Five(25) in International Journals :
Nanofluids/Boiling/CFD/Heat Transfer/Bio Heat Transfer
1. Nitish Kumar, Pradyumna Ghosh, P,Shukla "Boiling Heat Transfer Performance of Pure Water on Binary Oxide-Based Nanoparticles Coatings" ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 146 (3), 033001,2024
2. AK Jha, P Shukla, Pradyumna Ghosh "Investigation of free convection flow around near horizontal surfaces using particle image velocimetry"
Physics of Fluids 35 (5), 2023
3. SS Agarwal, K Kumar, L Chandra, Pradyumna Ghosh " Improved Wake Velocity Distribution Behind a Rising Bubble for Isothermal and Thermally Stratified Liquid Layers" ASME Journal of Heat Transfer ,144 (7), 073701, 2022
4. PR Gupta, Pradyumna Ghosh, J Sarkar, "Effects of probe parameters on radio-frequency ablation of localized liver cancer using a personalized patient treatment planning" Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 46, 102236, 2023
5. Vivek Gupta, Pradyumna Ghosh, “Visualization of Quench Front Propagation on Heated Rod Through Single Jet Impingement, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 142 (9),2020
6. Nirupama Patra, Pradyumna Ghosh,R.S. Singh, A.K.Nayak; “Flow visualization in dilute oxide based nanofluid boiling”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.135 pp. 331–344, 2019
7. Atul Bhattad, Jahar Sarkar, Pradyumna Ghosh ; “Discrete phase numerical model and experimental study of hybrid nanofluid heat transfer and pressure drop in plate heat exchanger”, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 91, pp. 262–273, 2018
8. RR Sahoo, P Ghosh, J Sarkar; “Energy and exergy comparisons of water based
optimum brines as coolants for rectangular fin automotive radiator”; International Journalof Heat and Mass Transfer 105, 690-696, 2017
9. A Bhattad, J Sarkar, P Ghosh; “Improving the performance of refrigeration systems by using nanofluids: A comprehensive review” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
10. P Goel, AK Nayak, P Ghosh, JB Joshi;” Experimental study of bubble departure characteristics in forced convective subcooled nucleate boiling” Experimental Heat Transfer, 1-25,2017
11. Nirupama Patra, Vivek Gupta, EswarPradyumna, Ravi Singh, Pradyumna Ghosh, RS Singh, ArunNayak, “Delay in DNB for flow boiling of diluted oxide based nanofluids”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 89(2017),211-218
12. Arun Kumar Tiwari, Pradyumna Ghosh, Jahar Sarkar,;“Particle concentration levels of various nanofluids in plate heat exchanger for best performance”; International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 89, 1110-1118, 2015
13.Jahar Sarkar, Pradyumna Ghosh, ArjumanAdil; “A review on hybrid nanofluids: Recent research, development and applications”; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 43, 164-177, 2014
14. Arun Kumar Tiwari, Pradyumna Ghosh, Jahar Sarkar, Jigar Parekh, Harshit Dahiya, “Numerical investigation of heat transfer and fluid flow in plate heat exchanger using nanofluids”, 85 (2014) 93-103, International Journal of Thermal Sciences
15. ArjumandAdil, Sonam Gupta, and Pradyumna Ghosh, “Numerical Prediction of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluids in a Minichannel Flow”, Journal Of Energy, 2014
16. Arun Kumar Tiwari, Pradyumna Ghosh, Jahar Sarkar, “Performance comparison of the plate heat exchanger using different nanofluids”, Volume 49, 2013, Pages 141–151, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2013
17.Arun Kumar Tiwari, Pradyumna Ghosh, Jahar Sarkar; “Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of CeO2/water nanofluid in plate heat exchanger” Volume 57, Issues1–2, 2013, Pages 24–32, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013
Microgravity/CFD/Porous Media
18. Pradyumna Ghosh, M.K.Ghosh, “Streaming Flows in Differentially Heated SquarePorous Cavity under Sinusoidal g-jitter”, International journal of Thermal Sciences, 48(2009), pp. 514-520.It has been referred in book DA Nield, A Bejan - Convection in Porous Media, 2013 Springer
19. Pradyumna Ghosh, M.K.Ghosh, “Thermal convection in square porous cavity under transverse oscillatory micro gravity field” Microgravity science and technology. Vol.XIX, Issue 1, pp 25-32, 2007.:It has been referred in book DA Nield, A Bejan - Convection in Porous Media, 2017 Springer
20. Pradyumna Ghosh, Abhishek Sarkar, Subir Das “Analysis of film Condensation along a vertical flat plate under sinusoidal g-jitter” Microgravity science and technology, Vol.25, Issue 2, 2013
21. Sujeet Kumar Shukla, Prashant Shukla, Pradyumna Ghosh “The effect of modeling of velocity fluctuations on prediction of collection efficiency of cyclone separators”, Applied Mathematical Modeling, 2012.
22..S.Das, P.K.Gupta, P.Ghosh, “An approximate solution of nonlinear fractional diffusion-reaction equation” Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35 (2011) 4071–4076.
23. Sujeet Kumar Shukla, Prashant Shukla, Pradyumna Ghosh, “ Evaluation of numerical schemes using different simulation methods for the continuous phase modeling of cyclone separators” Advanced Powder Technology, Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 209- 219, 2011.
24. Soumoyadeep Pal,Sumit Roy, Pradyumna Ghosh, Krishna M. Pillai et.al “A Novel Method for Permeability Estimation from Micro-tomographic Images”, Transport in Porous Media, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 171–190, 2019.
25. Aman Raizada, Krishna M Pillai, Pradyumna Ghosh; " A validation of Whitaker’s closure formulation based method for estimating flow permeability in anisotropic porous media"; Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 156, 106831, 2022
Selected Paper in National/International Conference:
1. K.oertel, U.Sprengel, S.Mande, P.Ghosh ,V.V.N.Kishore., “Development of an
Advanced Solar-Hybrid Adsorption Cooling System for Decentralized Storage of
Agricultural Products in India”., CLIMA, Brussels, Aug20-Sep2, 1997
2. Pradyumna Ghosh.,” Solar-hybrid cooling system-issues and concerns”, International
congress on renewable Energy,pp-101, ICORE-2005, Pune.
3. Pradyumna Ghosh and Prof. M.K.Ghosh,” Transient Analysis of thermal convection in
square porous cavity under transverse sinusoidal micro gravity field” Paper No: G-033,
ISHMT-ASME-Conference, Jan 2006, IIT-Guwahati
4. Pradyumna Ghosh , M.K.Ghosh, KameshGoyal, “Analysis of flow through engine low
pressure filter under various aircraft acceleration”, Eighth National Conference on Air
Breathing Engines and Aerospace Propulsion[NCABE-2006], DIAT Pune, December 12-
14, 2006, pp 129 -135
5. Pradyumna Ghosh , Pankaj Saha,” Thermal Convection along Hot Isothermal Vertical
Flat Plate embedded in porous media under g-jitter” Paper No: PHT-2, ISHMT-ASMEConference2008, JNTU, Hyderabad
6. Pradyumna Ghosh, M.K.Ghosh, “CFD Evaluation of Thermal Convection inside the
DACON Convection Sensor in Actual Space Flight” Proceedings of 2nd National
7. Conference on CFD Applications in Power & Industry sectors held at Corp. R&D,
BHEL,Hyderabad, 28-29th January 2009
8. Pradyumna Ghosh, Abhishek Chandan Sarkar, S.S.Mondal “Analytical solution for
laminar film condensation along a vertical flat plate under sinusoidal g-jitter”
Proceedings of the 20th National and 9th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass
Transfer Conference, January 4-6, 2010, Mumbai, India
9. Tuteja.S,Ghosh.P.,Natural convection in an anisotropic Non-darcy porous medium
(ISHMT_IND_08_015),21st National & 10THISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 27-30, 2011,IIT Madras, India.
10. Tiwari AK, Ghosh P, Sarkar J. Modeling of Thermal Conductivity ofAl2O3/water Nanofluid using Neural Network, National Conference onArtificial Intelligence and Agents Theory & Applications (AIATA-2011),IT-BHU, Varanasi, 9th -11th December 2011, p. 427-430.
11. Tiwari AK, Mangal S, Ghosh P, Sarkar J. A critical review on theinvestigations of thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids,4th International Congress of Environmental Research, SardarVallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India,15th-17th,December2011,pp.248.
12. P.Ghosh, Viscous fingering in two dimensional porous layer under g-jitter39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly 39, 612, 2012 has been placed in NASAASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM(ADS)
13. S Agarwal, A Srivastava, P Ghosh, L Chandra; “A Comparison of VoF based Numerical Scheme with a Single Air Bubble Dynamics in Quiescent Water within an Enclosure”; Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019)
14. Nitish Kumar, Pradyumna Ghosh, Prashant Shukla; “Development of thin porous coating of Cu-Al2O3 composite on SS316 surface to enhance boiling heat transfer”; Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019)
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