Saptarshi Basu, PhD, FNAE Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering DST-Swarnajayanti Fellow in Engineering Sciences Associate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Phone : 91-776-08-08825 (Cell)/91-80-2293-3367 (Office)

1. EDUCATION 

Ph.D [Doctor of Philosophy] in Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA, 08/2004- 05/2007. o Dissertation Title: Optical diagnostics and computational modeling of reacting and non-reacting single and multiphase flows (2007); Advisor: Prof. B.M Cetegen o Publication Number: AAI3269486; ISBN: 9780549085058; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: B, page: 4083; 252 pages.

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M.S [Master of Science] in Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA, 02/2003- 11/2004. o Thesis Title: In-situ optical diagnostics in a PEM fuel cell using near IR absorption spectroscopy (2004); Advisor: Prof. B.M Cetegen CGPA for MS and PhD: 4.021/4.000

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B.E [Bachelor of Engineering] in Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, 06/1996-06/2000. First Class Honors

2. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS  Associate Professor [Tenured], Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore September 2014-Current  Associate Faculty, Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Research, May 2016-current  Professor by Courtesy, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, November 2010 - October 2020

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 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore May 2010 – September 2014  Assistant Professor [Tenure Track], Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, August 2007 - May 2010  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, February 2003 - July 2007  Consultant (Management Consultancy Services), Cogentech Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd., India, December 2001 - January 2003  Consultant (Management Consultancy Services), PriceWaterHouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd., India, June 2000-December 2001

3. ACADEMIC HONORS o Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Engineering Science [Similar to Presidential Young Investigator Award in USA], Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2013-2014 [Awarded to 1-2 researchers across all Engineering disciplines annually nationwide] o Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering [FNAE]; Election Year 2016 o Prof. K.N Seetharamu Medal and Prize conferred by Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer [Regional center of ICHMT] in recognition to the contributions made in the area of thermal transport processes [Awarded to 1 researcher every two years across India] o Graduate Research Fellowship [First Position] from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut for Outstanding Academic Research, Spring 2007 o Recipient Graduate Summer Fellowship from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut for Outstanding Academic Performance, Spring 2004 o Nominated for Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut for Outstanding Academic Performance, Spring 2006 o Honoria & Travel Award from Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Fall 2003 & Fall 2005 o Travel Award from Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Spring 2007 2

o DST SERC Fast Track Award for Young Scientist, August 2011 o V.M.K Shastri Award for Best Paper and Oral Presentation, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013 o Finalist, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences-2016

4. RESEARCH INTERESTS [THERMAL AND FLUID S CIENCES] Combustion Instability, Optical Diagnostics in Fuel cells, Plasma Processing of Nano-ceramics, Flame-Vortex Interactions, Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems, Thin Film Energetic Materials, Biofuels, Droplet Dynamics in Plasma and Combustion Flame, Radiative Heating of Droplets, Acoustic Levitation of Functional Droplets, Atomization and Sprays, Boiling, Droplet Drying

5. TEACHING I. Courses Taught [University of Central Florida]     

EML 4703: Fluids II [Fall 2007], 3 credits, Undergraduate [Senior] EML 6712: Viscous Fluid flow [Spring 2008], 3 credits, Graduate EML 4304: Thermo-Fluids Measurements [Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010], 2 credits, Undergraduate [Senior and Junior] EML 3303/EAS 3800 : Measurements I [Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2009], 3 credits, Undergraduate [Junior] EML 5105: Statistical Thermodynamics [Spring 2010], 3 credits, Graduate

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Convection Heat Transfer [Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2016], 3 credits, Graduate Thermodynamics [Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2014], 3 credits, Graduate Special Topics in Combustion [Fall 2012], 3 credits, Graduate [New Course] Experimental Engineering [Spring 2013-2015], 3 credits, Graduate NPTEL course: Heat transfer and combustion in multiphase systems

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6. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIA TION AND ACTIVITIES       

Editor, Advanced Powder Technology, Elsevier [https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advanced-powder-technology/editorial-board] Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Member, Combustion Institute Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Affiliate, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Member, Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society) Member, ISHMT [Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer]

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Project Leader, Concentrated Solar Power [Thermal storage thrust], Indo-US Clean Energy Center [funded by DOE and DST]

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Project Leader & Core Member, National Combustion Center [Funded by DST-India]

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Reviewer [Technical]: 1. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 2. Journal of Power Sources 3. ASME Heat Transfer Conferences [IMECE, ISHMT, SolarPaces] 4. Surface and Coating Technology 5. International Journal of Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow 6. Combustion and Flame 7. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 8. Energy 9. Applied Energy 10. IMECHE: Journal of Power and Energy 11. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 12. Heat Transfer Research 13. Materials Chemistry and Physics 14. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 15. Indo-US Science and Technology Forum 16. Combustion Symposium 17. Heat Transfer Engineering 18. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 19. Journal of Propulsion and Power 20. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences 21. International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 22. ASME Turbo Expo

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23. Physics of Fluids 24. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 25. ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications 26. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 27. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 28. Applied Energy 29. Chemical Engineering Science 30. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 31. Applied Physics Letters 32. Nature Scientific Reports 33. Theronostics 34. Analytical Chemistry 35. Langmuir 36. Applied Thermal Engineering 37. Physical Review E 38. Physical Review Letters 

Invited Reviewer [Technical and Panel]: 1. National Science Foundation [USA] panels for “Combustion, Fire and Plasma”, “Multiphase Transport” and “SBIR: Heat Exchangers and Fluid Flow” 2. Indo-US Science and Technology Forum

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Guest Editor, Advances in Mechanical Engineering Associate Editor, ASME 15th International Heat Transfer Conference [August 10-15, 2014] in Kyoto, Japan Advisory Committee Member, ILASS-Asia-2016 Session Chair 1. Proceedings of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute 2009, University of Maryland College Park, Oct 18-21 2009, 2. 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS, Chennai in December 2011 3. 12th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2-6, 2012 4. 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Rome, Italy, 9-13 September 2012

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Chief Organizer and Workshop Chair

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1. Indo-US Workshop on Biofuel Spray and Combustion, Bangalore, June 2011 

External Expert in the Selection Committee 1. Promotion of Technical/Scientific Officers in Central Power Research Institute

7. RESEARCH LABORATORY DEVELOPME NT I. UN I VE RSI TY OF CE NT RA L FLO RI DA I had set up a state of the art Optical Diagnostics Facility in UCF for combustion and thermo-fluids research. The laboratory is named, “Gas Dynamics and Laser Diagnostics”. The laboratory is now equipped with a.) Seven High speed cameras, b.) Three PIV Lasers, c.) High speed lasers, d.) Sirah Dye laser, e.) Acoustic levitator, f.) Two Imager intense cross correlation cameras, g.) Multiple PMTs, h.) Multiple Computers, i.) Three Diode laser systems, j.) Long distance microscope, k.) Endoscope for PIV, l.) Fiber optics for laser beam delivery, m.) IR- Camera, n.) External image intensifier, o.) Spectrophotometer, p.) Multiple photodiodes and q.) Lock-in amplifier I I. I N DI A N I NSTI TUT E O F SCI E NCE I have setup a state of the art Experimental Facility in IISc for combustion and thermofluids research. The laboratory is named, “Multiphase Flow, Combustion and Laser Diagnostics”. The laboratory is now equipped with 1.) PMTs, 2.) AVT RGB Camera, 3.) Acoustic Levitator, 4.) Imager Intense Cross Correlation Cameras, 5.) Three Diode Laser Systems, 6.) Lock-in Amplifier, 7.) Fiber Optics, 8.) Navitar Zoom Lens Assembly, 9.) PCB Microphones, 10.) Multiple Computers, 11.) CNI Green Laser, 12.) FLIR IR Camera, 13.) PTU, 14.) DAQ Systems, 15.) RGB Camera, 16.) FLIR IR-Camera, 17.) 130 mJ Nd:YAG Laser with fourth harmonic generator, 18.) Soot Detection Unit, 19.) CO2 Laser, 20.) Cobalt CW Laser, 21.) Photron High Speed Camera, 22.) Syringe pumps, 23.) Pzieo controllers, 24.) Diffusers and 25.) Micro-PIV System

8. THESIS/DISSERTATION SUPERVISION A. CHAIR I. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

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SUPE RVI SI O N: 2 PHD S T UDE NT S [2 COMPLE T E D] A ND 4 MS ST UDE NT S [4 C O MPLE T E D] 1. Christopher Zinner [Master of Science] Thesis Title, “METHANE AND DIMETHYL ETHER OXIDATION AT TEMPERATURES AND PRESSURE” Status: Completed and Approved, May 2008  Currently with Siemens Energy

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2. Derek Lambe [Master of Science] Thesis Title: “WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY FOR WATER VAPOR AND CARBON DIOXIDE SPECIES MEASUREMENT NARROW CHANNEL APPLICATIONS” Status: Completed and Approved, July 2009  2nd Lieutenant and A-10 Structures Engineer at United States Air Force  Manager, Gooch & Housego, Orlando, FL 3. Navid Khatami [Master of Science] Thesis Title: “Analysis of Swirling Flows, Perturbed and Non-perturbed” Completed May 2010  Currently PhD student, UCF with Prof. O. Ilegbusi 4. Abhishek Saha [Master of Science] Dissertation Title: “VAPORIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF PURE AND BLENDED BIOFUEL DROPLET INJECTED INTO HOT STREAM OF AIR” Status: Completed and Approved June 2010 5. Uyi Idahosa [Doctor of Philosophy] Dissertation Title: “COMBUSTION DYNAMICS AND FLUID MECHANICS IN NONPREMIXED SWIRLING FLAMES” Status: Completed and Approved May 2010  Corporate Leadership Staff (CLS), GE Oil & Gas, USA  Combustion Research Engineer, GE Global Research Center New York 6. Abhishek Saha [Doctor of Philosophy] Dissertation Title: “Experimental Studies in Acoustically Levitated Droplet” Status: Completed and Approved May 2012  Best Dissertation Award (University Level)

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Current Position: Associate Research Scholar (under Prof. C.K Law), Princeton University Post Doctoral Research Associate (under Prof. C.K Law), Princeton University

II. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE SUPE RVI SI O N: 9 PHD ST UDE NT S [3 CO MPLE T E D] , 2 MS C ST UDE NT S [ 2 C O MPLE T E D] , 6 ME ST UDE NT S [ 5 CO MPLE T E D] A ND 8 PRO JE C T A SSI ST A NT S Graduated PhD Students 

Deepu P [Doctor of Philosophy] PhD Thesis Title: DYNAMICS OF DROPLETS UNDER SUPPORT, ACOUSTIC AND/OR AMBIENT FLOW EXCITATION Status: Completed and Approved, June, 2014  Assistant Professor, IIT-Patna  Post Doctoral Research Associate, International Center for Theoretical Sciences with Prof. Rama Govindarajan, July-2016-December-2016  Post Doctoral Research Associate, TIFR-Hyderabad with Prof. Rama Govindarajan, July-2015-July-2016  Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, June-2014 to June-2015  Prof. K.V Subba Rao Medal for Best PhD Thesis/Dissertation in ME

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Ankur Miglani [Doctor of Philosophy] PhD Thesis Title: Insights into vaporization and precipitation dynamics of burning and acoustically levitated nanofluid droplets Status: Completed and Approved, November, 2015  INDO-US Post Doctoral Fellow, Purdue University, USA  BK 21 Post Doctoral Research Associate, KAIST, South Korea  Awarded Indo-US Post Doctoral Fellowship

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R. Santhosh [Doctor of Philosophy] PhD Thesis Title: TRANSITION AND ACOUSTIC RESPONSE OF VORTEX BREAKDOWN MODES IN UNCONFINED COAXIAL SWIRLING FLOW AND FLAME Status: Completed and Approved, January, 2016

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Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Nottingham, UK [Rolls Royce University Technology Center]

Current PhD Students            

Binita Pathak [Master of Science; continuing for PhD; finished colloquium] S. Basha [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Lalit Kumar Bansal [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Apratim Sanyal [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Advaith S [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Kuppuraj R [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Prasenjit Kabi [Doctor of Philosophy]** [finished comprehensive] K. Pandey [Doctor of Philosophy] Bhavin Rathod [Doctor of Philosophy] [finished comprehensive] Omkar Hegde [Doctor of Philosophy] Rampada Rana [Doctor of Philosophy] Sonu Kumar [Doctor of Philosophy]

MSc Students  Dilip Sanadi [Master of Science completed] o MSc Thesis Title: Dynamics of Hollow Cone Spray in an Unconfined, Isothermal, Co- Annular Swirling Jet Environment o Currently PhD student in TU-Delft  Binita Pathak [Master of Science completed] o MSc Thesis Title: Study of droplet dynamics in heated environment ME Students  P. Gaikwad [Master of Engineering]: Completed o Currently Assistant Professor, Sharda University, Delhi  Santanu Mishra [Master of Engineering]: Completed o Currently Edison Research Engineer, GE India Research Laboratory  Abhishek Awachat [Master of Engineering]* o Currently CFD Engineer, Time Tooth Technologies  D.Vikas [Master of Engineering]*: Completed  Santosh Singh [Master of Engineering]  Akash Kumar Munjani [Master of Engineering]  Durgesh Sarma [Master of Engineering]*: Completed

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o Currently Research Engineer, Mercedes Benz Research, Bangalore Project Assistants/Associates  Shubham Chowdhury  Sameer Dharwade o PhD student, University of Washington at Seattle  Arun Chandran  Anirban Sinha o Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University o PhD student, University of Connecticut  P. K Unnikrishnan  Naresh  M. Kannan  Utpal Chetia  N. Prabhu  Prateek Anand  U. Agarwal**  P. Sharma  Saroj Kumar Panda [Project Assistant]* o Currently PhD student, IIT-Delhi Post Doctoral Research Associates 

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Manu KV [PhD, 2014 from Aerospace Engineering Department, IISC]; February, 2014-August 2015 o Currently Assistant Professor, IIST-Trivandrum o Previously Assistant Professor at BMS College of Engineering *R. Anandalakshmi [PhD 2013, Chemical Engineering, IIT-Madras]; May 2013December, 2013 o Currently Assistant Professor at IIT-Guwahati H. Maity [PhD 2015,ISI-Kolkata]: October 2016-current [DS Kothari Fellow] P. Deepu [PhD 2014, Mechanical Engineering, IISc-Bangalore]; December 2013July, 2014

* Jointly with Prof. P. Dutta ** Jointly with Dr. S. Chaudhuri

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B. MEMBER OF DISSERTATION OR THESIS COMMITTEE/CO-ADVISOR UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA CO-ADVISOR 1. Navid Aminimanash [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 2010  [Currently Research Engineer, Siemens AG, Orlando, FL] 2. Xin Gu [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 2011  [Currently Senior Physics Validation Engineer, Exa Corporation, Boston] 3. Erick Tijerno [Master of Science]: Completed 2012  [Currently Research Engineer, Cummins INC USA] MEMBER OF DISSERTATION OR THESIS COMMITTEE 4. Denitsa Milanova [Bachelor of Science, Honors Thesis]: Completed  [Currently PhD student, Stanford University] 5. Jan Marsh [Bachelor of Science, Honors Thesis]: Completed 6. Humberto Zuniga [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed  [Currently Research Engineer, Siemens AG, Orlando, FL] 7. Mark Ricklick [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed  [Application Engineer at CD-adapco, Orlando, FL] 8. Slim Menzli [Master of Science]: Completed 9. Sylvette Rodriguez [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 10. Monica Bonadies [Master of Science]: Continuing 11. An Lee [Master of Science]: Completed 12. Carson Slaubaugh [Master of Science]: Completed 13. Ehsaan Tafti [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 14. Jared Pent [Master of Science]: Completed 15. Parveen Sachdeva [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 16. Virendra Singh [Doctor of Philosophy]: Expected Completion 2010 17. Jeff Nguyen [Doctor of Philosophy]: Expected Completion 2010 18. Xiliang Li [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed 19. Nghia Tran [Doctor of Philosophy]: Expected Completion 2013 20. Dianne Vazquez [Master of Science]: Completed 21. Jason Dunn [Master of Science]: Completed 22. Josh Lee [Master of Science]: Completed

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23. Josh Lee [Doctor of Philosophy]: Completed

C. EXTERNAL EXAMINER FO R PH.D/MS DISSERTATION    

Jadavpur University, India Bengal Engineering and Science University, India IIT-Kharagpur IIT-Madras

9. JOURNAL ARTICLES T O T A L = 9 7 A C C E PT ED ( 5 M O R E U N D E R R EV I E W ) JOURNAL A P P LI E D P H Y S I C S L ET T E R S J O U R N A L O F F L UI D ME C H AN I C S PHYSICS OF FLUIDS PHYSICAL REVIEW E E X P ER I M EN T S I N F L UI D S I N T E RN A T I O N A L J O UR N A L O F HE AT A N D M A S S T RA N S F E R C O M B U S T I ON A N D FLA M E LANGMUIR S O F T M A T T ER A S M E J O U R N A L O F HE A T T R AN S F E R J O U R N A L O F A P P LI E D P H Y S I C S P H Y S I C S L ET T ER S A I N T E RN A T I O N A L C OM M U N I C AT I ON S I N H E A T A N D M A S S T R A N S F ER C H E M I C A L EN G I N E E RI N G SC I EN C E PHYSICAL C H E M I ST R Y C HE M I C A L PHYSICS J O U R N A L O F P O W ER S O U R C E S A CT A MA T ER I L I A N AT U R E S C I E N T I F I C RE P O R T S E N ER G Y A P P LI E D T H ER M A L EN G I N E ER I N G JOURNAL OF THE A M ER I C AN C E RA M I C S O C I E T Y A T O M I Z A T I ON A N D S P R A Y S OTHERS

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Binita Pathak# and Saptarshi Basu*

Phenomenology of break-up modes in contact free externally heated nanoparticle laden fuel droplets

Physics of Fluids (2016), Vol 28, Issue 12, pp 123302; DOI: 10.1063/1.4971162

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S.Basu*, L. Bansal#, A. Miglani# Deepu, P. #, Kallurkar, S. #, Anand, P. #, and Saptarshi Basu

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Kuppuraj, R#; Basu, Saptarshi*

Insights into the dynamics of Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017), Vol spray-swirl interactions 810, 82-126

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Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea#, Saptarshi Basu*, Sandeep Hatte#, & Lalit Bansal# A Sanyal#, S Basu*

Insights into Vapor-Mediated Interactions in a Nanocolloidal Droplet System: Evaporation Dynamics and Affects on SelfAssembly Topologies on Macro-to Microscales Evolution of internal flows in mechanically oscillating sessile droplets undergoing evaporation Insights into Drying of Noncircular Sessile Nanofluid Droplets toward Multiscale Surface Patterning Using a Wall-Less Confinement Architecture

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Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 4878-4878, DOI: 10.1039/C6SM90093C

Stability of a liquid film flowing down an inclined anisotropic and inhomogeneous porous layer: an analytical description

Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2016) Vol 807, pp 135-154 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.613

Langmuir (2016) 32(40), 10334-10343 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03024

Chemical Engineering Science (2017); DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2017.01.057

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Prasenjit Kabi#, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, and Saptarshi Basu*

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Lalit Bansal#, Suman Chakraborty, and Saptarshi Basu* A Shaikeea#, S Basu*

Confinement-induced alterations in the evaporation dynamics of sessile droplets

Soft Matter (2017) (Accepted; In press) DOI: 10.1039/C6SM02429G

Evaporating Sessile Droplet Pair: Insights into Contact Line Motion, Flow Transitions and Emergence of Universal Vaporisation Pattern

Applied Physics Letters (2016) 108 (24), 244102 10.1063/1.4953836

A Sanyal#, S Basu*, S Chaudhuri

Controlling particle deposit morphologies in drying nanoparticle laden sessile droplets

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Langmuir (2016) 32(42), 10977-10986 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02962

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2016) 18, 14549 – 14560 10.1039/C6CP01272H

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A Sanyal#, S Basu*

How natural evaporation temporally self tunes an oscillating sessile droplet to resonate at different modes

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Sandeep Hatte#, Mira-Hernández, C., Advaith, S#., Tinaikar, A. #, Chetia, U.K. #, Manu, K.V. #, Chattopadhyay, K., Weibel, J.A., Garimella, S.V., Srinivasan, V. and Saptarshi Basu* A Tinaikar#, S Advaith#, U Chetia#, KV Manu#, S Basu*

Short and long-term sensitivity of lab-scale thermocline based thermal storage to flow disturbances

Applied Thermal Engineering (2016), 109, 936-948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appltherm aleng.2016.04.138

Spatio-temporal Disruption of Thermocline by Successive Laminar Vortex Pairs in a Single Tank Thermal Energy Storage

Applied Thermal Engineering (2016) 109, 924-935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appltherm aleng.2016.04.105

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S Basu*, L Bansal#, A Miglani#

Towards Universal Buckling Dynamics in Nanocolloidal Sessile Droplets: Effect of Hydrophilic to Superhydrophobic Substrates and Evaporation Modes

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B Pathak#, P Xavier, S Bose, S Basu*

Thermally induced phase separation in levitated polymer droplets

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Modulation of buckling dynamics in nanoparticle laden droplets using external heating # L Bansal , A Morphological transitions and Miglani#, S Basu* buckling characteristics in a nanoparticle laden sessile droplet resting on a heated hydrophobic substrate # D. Sanadi , K. Analysis of Hollow Cone Spray Rajamanickam#, S. Injected in an Unconfined, Basu* Isothermal, Co- Annular Swirling Jet Environment A. Davanlou, J. Effect of viscosity and surface Lee, S. Basu and R. tension on breakup and

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Langmuir (2016) 32 (19), 4784–4791 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00902

Soft Matter (2016) 12 (22), 4896 – 4902 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM00837B

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2016) 18 (47), 32477-32485 10.1039/C6CP06283K Langmuir (2016) 32 (11), 2591–2600; DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00544 Physical Review E 93, 042605 (2016)

Atomization and Sprays [2017;accepted; In press] DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.2016016249 Chemical Engineering Science; Volume 131, 2015, Pages 243–255; DOI:

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B. Pathak#, Saptarshi Basu*

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Shaikeea, Angkur#; Basu, Saptarshi *

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Prasenjit Kabi#, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Saptarshi Basu* Manu KV#, Pranit Deshmukh#, Saptarshi Basu*

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coalescence of bicomponent sprays Deformation pathways and breakup modes in acoustically levitated bicomponent droplets under external heating Combustion and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Nanofluid Fuel Droplets: A Short Review

10.1016/j.ces.2015.03.057 Physical Review E (2016) 93 (3), 3103: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.033103

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; Vol 96, pp 482-503; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.01. 053 Langmuir (2016) 32 (5), 1309-1318; DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b04570

Insight into the Evaporation Dynamics of a Pair of Sessile Droplets on Hydrophobic Substrate Transitions and blowoff of Combustion and Flame (2016) 164, 35unconfined non-premixed 52; DOI: swirling flame 10.1016/j.combustflame.2015.10.034 Deployment architecture for RSC Advances (2015; Royal Society of controlled morphologies in Chemistry); sessile, mixed colloidal droplets DOI: 10.1039/C5RA13635K Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a thermocline based Thermal Storage tank

L Bansal#, A Miglani#, S Basu*

International Journal of Thermal Sciences (2016) 100 pp 333-345 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2015.10.016 Physical Review E (2016) 92, 042304 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.042304

Universal buckling kinetics in drying nanoparticle laden droplets on a hydrophobic substrate # A. Miglani , S. Coupled Mechanisms of Nature Scientific Reports (2015); Basu* Precipitation and Atomization in DOI: 10.1038/srep15008 Burning Nanofluid Fuel Droplets P. Deepu#, P. Stability of Poiseuille flow in a Physical Review E 92, 023009 (2015); Anand#, S. Basu* fluid overlying an anisotropic and DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.023009 inhomogeneous porous layer Manu KV#, P. Effects of Instabilities and Applied Thermal Engineering Volume # Anand , U. Coherent Structures on the 87, August 2015, Pages 768–778 Chetia#, Saptarshi Performance of a Thermocline Basu* Based Thermal Energy Storage # B. Pathak , S. Phenomenology and control of Journal of Applied Physics Vol 117, Basu* buckling dynamics in Issue 24, pp 244901 (2015) multicomponent colloidal droplets R. Santhosh#, S. Acoustic response of vortex Physics of Fluids 27, 033601 (2015); Basu* breakdown modes in a coaxial http:// dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4913703 isothermal unconfined swirling

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jet Prasenjit Kabi#, Saptarshi Basu, Apratim Sanyal#, and Swetaprovo Chaudhuri A. Miglani# and S. Basu*

Precision Stacking of Nanoparticle Applied Physics Laden Sessile Droplets to Control 063101 (2015); Solute Deposit Morphology 10.1063/1.4907945

Sphere to ring morphology transformation in drying nanofluid droplets in a contactfree environment

Soft Matter (Royal Society of Chemistry); 11.11 (2015), pp 22682278. DOI: 10.1039/C4SM02553A

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U. Idahosa#, R. Santhosh#, A. Miglani# and S. Basu *

Invited paper in ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (2016), 8(1), 011008

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Binita Pathak#, Saptarshi Basu*

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L. Bansal#, P. Deepu#, S.Basu*

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A. Sanyal#, S. Basu* and S. Chaudhuri B. Pathak#, A. Sanyal# and S. Basu*

Response Dynamics of Recirculation Structures in Coaxial Nonpremixed SwirlStabilized Flames Subjected to Acoustic Forcing Comparison of Convective and Radiative Heating Modes on the Thermophysical Changes of a Cerium Nitrate Droplet Experimental Analysis of Water Vapor Diffusion Through Porous Membranes in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Agglomeration front dynamics: Drying in sessile nano-particle laden droplets Experimental study of shape transition in an acoustically levitated and externally heated droplet Instabilities in a fluid overlying an inclined anisotropic and inhomogeneous porous layer Effect of evaporation and agglomeration on droplet shape oscillations Effect of particle concentration on shape deformation and secondary atomization characteristics of a burning nanotitania dispersion droplet Oscillation dynamics of sessile droplets subjected to substrate vibration

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P. Deepu#, Sameer Dawande#, S.Basu* P. Deepu# and S. Basu*

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P. Deepu#, Shubham Chowdhury# and S. Basu*

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ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 8(1), 011009 (2016). ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 137.12, 121005 (2015); DOI: 10.1115/1.4030921 Chemical Engineering Science, Vol 123 (2015) pp 164-169 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.11.020 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 137.12, 121006 (2015); DOI: 10.1115/1.4030922 Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol 762 R2; DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.644 Chemical Engineering Science; Volume 119, 8 November 2014, Pages 212217; DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.08.033 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Volume 137, 102001 (2015); DOI:10.1115/1.4030394

Chemical Engineering Science Volume 118, (2014), Pages 9–19; DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.07.028

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A. Sanyal#, S. Basu*, S. Chowdhuri#, P. Kabi # and S. Chaudhuri P. Deepu#, S. Basu* and R. Kumar R. Santhosh#, A. Miglani# and S. Basu * Uyi Idahosa#, S. Basu* and Ankur Miglani P. Deepu#, S. Basu* Ankur Miglani#, S. Basu*, R. Kumar

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Suppression of instabilities in burning droplets using preferential acoustic perturbations Precision Control of Drying Using Rhythmic Dancing of Sessile Nanoparticle Laden Droplets

Combustion and Flame 161 (2014) 3181–3190; DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2014.06.010 Applied Physics 163108 (2014)

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Multimodal Shape Oscillations of Chemical Engineering Science; Volume Droplets excited by an Air Stream 114, (2014), Pages 85–93; DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2014.04.019 Transition in vortex breakdown Physics of Fluids 26, 043601 (2014); modes in a coaxial isothermal DOI: 10.1063/1.4870016 unconfined swirling jet System Level Analysis of ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Acoustically Forced Nonpremixed Engineering Applications; 6(3), 031015 Swirling Flames (2014); doi:10.1115/1.4027297 Spectral response of a droplet in Physics of Fluids 26, 022103 (2014) pulsating external flow field. Insight into Instabilities in Burning Physics of Fluids 26, 032101 (2014); Droplets. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4866866 Top downloaded article in the month of March 2014

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Experimental analysis of shape Physics Letters A 378 (2014) 539–548; deformation of evaporating DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2013.12.015 droplet using Legendre [Impact Factor of Journal: 2] polynomials

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Adsorption Study of Silica Gel Energy Procedia Volume 49, 2014, Particle for Improvement in Pages 656–665; DOI: Design of Adsorption Beds used 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.071 in Solar Driven Cooling Units.

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M. Saleem#, L. Bansal#, D. Sarma#, A. Ambiranjan, P. Kumar, S. Basu* J. Lee, S. Basu and R. Kumar

Solar Thermal Power System Energy Procedia; Volume 49, 2014, Augmented with LHP. Pages 295–304; DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2014.03.032

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Comparison and Cross-Validation of Optical Techniques in Different Swirl Spray Regimes. Dynamics and fracture of ligaments from a droplet on a vibrating surface. Scalar transport in diffusion flame

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Atomization and Sprays, 23 (8): (2013); DOI: 10.1615/AtomizSpr.2013008110 Physics of Fluids 25, 082106 (2013); DOI: 10.1063/1.4817542 International Communications in Heat

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R. Santhosh#, Ankur Miglani# and Saptarshi Basu* Saptarshi Basu, Erick Tijerino, and Ranganathan Kumar Binita Pathak#, Saptarshi Basu* and Ranganathan Kumar Binita Pathak#, P. Deepu#, Saptarshi Basu* and Ranganathan Kumar A. Miglani#, D. Joo, S. Basu and R. Kumar

wrapped up by an air and fuel and Mass Transfer, Volume 47 (2013), side vortex Pages 32–40; DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2013.07. 008 Transition and acoustic response Physics of Fluids 25, 083603 (2013); of recirculation structures in an DOI:10.1063/1.4817665 unconfined co-axial isothermal swirling flow. Insight into morphology changes Applied Physics Letters Vol 102, Issue of nanoparticle laden droplets in 14, 141602 (2013) acoustic field. Heat and Mass Transfer and International Journal of Heat and Chemical Transformation in a Mass Transfer 63 (2013) pp 301-312 cerium nitrate droplet Modeling of agglomeration inside International Journal of Heat and a droplet with nanosuspensions Mass Transfer 59 (2013) pp 161–166 in an acoustic field.

Nucleation dynamics and pool boiling characteristics of high pressure refrigerant using thermochromic liquid crystals Breakup and coalescence characteristics of a hollow cone swirling spray.

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 60(2013) pp 188–200;

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Volume 59, April 2013, Pages 316–327

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Criteria for Thermally Induced Atomization and Catastrophic Breakup of Acoustically Levitated Droplet. Nanoparticle agglomeration in an evaporating levitated droplet at different acoustic amplitudes.

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Correlations of Vaporization International Communications in Heat Performance of Conventional and and Mass Transfer; Volume 39, Issue Biofuel Sprays in a Crossflow 10 (2012), Pages 1478–1486 Heated Chamber.

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P. Deepu#, S. Basu*, A. Saha# and R. Kumar P. Deepu#, S. Basu* and R. Kumar X. Gu, S. Basu and R.Kumar Abhishek Saha#$, S. Basu$ and R. Kumar$ $ Equal contribution by all authors A. Saha#, S. Basu, R. Kumar

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D. Vikas#, S. Basu* and P. Dutta

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Navid AminiManesh, Saptarshi Basu and Ranganathan Kumar A. Saha#, S.Basu, C. Suryanarayana and R.Kumar

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Spreading and Atomization of Droplets on a Vibrating Surface in a Standing Pressure Field. Vaporization dynamics of functional droplets in a hot laminar air jet. Vaporization and Collision Modeling of Liquid Fuel Sprays in a Co-axial Fuel and Air Pre-mixer. Scaling analysis: Equivalence of convective and radiative heating of levitated droplet.

Applied Physics Letters; Vol. 101,Issue: 14 (2012), pp 143108 - 143108-5

Velocity and Rotation Measurements in Acoustically Levitated Droplets Thermally induced secondary atomization of droplet in an acoustic field In-situ Measurements of Concentration and Temperature during Transient Solidification of Aqueous Solution of Ammonium Chloride using Laser Interferometry Dispersion and Vaporization of Biofuels and Conventional Fuels in a Crossflow Pre-mixer Effects of acoustic-streaminginduced flow in evaporating nanofluid droplets Particle image velocimetry and infrared thermography in a levitated droplet with nanosilica suspensions. Modeling of a reacting nanofilm on a composite substrate

Physics Letters A; Volume 376, Issue 45 (2012), Pages 3185–3191

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; 56 (2013) pp 69–79 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Volume 55, Issue 19 (2012), Pages 5322–5335; Applied Physics Letters; Vol.100, Issue 20 (2012), 204104

Applied Physics Letters; Vol. 100, Issue: 5, 054101 (2012) International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer ; Volume 55, Issue 7, March 2012, Pages 2022–2034

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2012), Pages 336-346 Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Vol. 692 (2012), pp. 207-219 Invited Paper in Experiments in Fluids; Volume 52, Issue 3 (2012), Page 795807 Energy, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 1688-1697;

Experimental analysis of thermo- International Journal of Heat and physical processes in acoustically Mass Transfer, 53 (25). pp. 5663-5674 levitated heated droplets. (2010)

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Virendra Singh, Ajay Singh Karakoti, Amit Kumar, Abhishek Saha#, Saptarshi Basu and Sudipta Seal Ranganathan Kumar, Erik Tijerno, A.Saha# and Saptarshi Basu U. Idahosa#, A. Saha#, C.Xu and S.Basu*

Precursor Dependent Microstructure Evolution and Nonstoichiometry in Nanostructured Cerium Oxide Coatings Using the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Technique. Structural morphology of acoustically levitated and heated nanosilica droplet

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Baki Cetegen, Saptarshi Basu

Infrared thermography and numerical study of vaporization characteristics of pure and blended bio-fuel droplets Review of Modeling of Liquid Precursor Droplets and Particles Injected into Plasmas and HighVelocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) Flame Jets for Thermal Spray Deposition Applications

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Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 93 (11). pp. 3700-3708 (2010)

Applied Physics Letters, 97, 123106 (2010)

Non-Premixed Acoustically Combustion and Flame, Volume 157, Perturbed Swirling Flame Issue 9, September 2010, Pages 1800Dynamics 1814; Top 25 downloaded articles in the time span of July 2010 to September 2010 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issue 19, September 2010, Pages 3862-3873 Invited Paper, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Volume 18, Numbers 5-6, 769-793, 2009

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Water vapor and carbon dioxide International Journal of Heat and species measurements in narrow Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issue 4, channels 2010, Pages 703-714.

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Navid Amini Manesh, Saptarshi Basu and Ranganathan Kumar

Experimental flame speed in Combustion and Flame, Volume 157, multi-layered nano-energetic Issue 3, pp 476-480, March 2010; materials.

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Abhishek Saha#, V. Singh, S. Seal and Saptarshi Basu*

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S. Chaudhuri, A. Mukhopadhyay, M.S Biswas, B. M.

Vaporization and precipitation characteristics of cerium nitrate precursor droplets heated by monochromatic irradiation. Control of Combustion in a Thermally Stabilized Burner

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Surface and Coatings Technology 203 (2009) 2102–2115

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, Journal of Power and Energy, Vol 223 No. A2

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pp 127-139 Thermo-physical processes in Surface and Coatings Technology 203 cerium nitrate precursor droplets (2009) 2081–2091 injected into high temperature plasma Modeling of liquid ceramic precursor droplets in a high velocity oxy-fuel flame jet. Modeling of thermo-physical processes in liquid ceramic precursor droplets heated by monochromatic irradiation Fluid mechanics and heat transfer of liquid precursor droplets injected into high temperature plasmas. Modeling of thermo-physical processes in liquid ceramic precursor droplets injected into a plasma jet. Spatially-resolved optical measurements of water partial pressure and temperature in a PEM fuel cell under dynamic operating conditions. Computational Study of Scalar Mixing in the Field of a Gaseous Laminar Line Vortex. Effect of Hydraulic jump on hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a thin liquid film flowing over a rotating disk analyzed by Integral Method Soot Topography in a planar diffusion flame wrapped by a line vortex. Analysis of hydrodynamics and heat transfer in a thin liquid film flowing over a rotating disk by integral method.

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ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol 130, Issue 7 2007, 071501

Invited paper, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, Volume 17, Number 1, pp 60-72, 2008 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 50, Issues 17, August 2007, Pages 3278-3290 Journal of Power Sources, 162 (2006), pp 286-293

Physics of Fluids, Vol 19, Issue 5, May 2007, 053601 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129, May 2007, pp 657-663

Combustion and Flame, 146 (2006), pp 687-697 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol 128, March 2006, pp 217-225

In-situ Simultaneous Journal of Power Sources, 159 (2006), Measurements of Temperature pp 987-994 and Water Partial Pressure in a PEM Fuel Cell under Steady State

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and Dynamic Cycling In-situ optical diagnostics for ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and measurements of water vapor Technology, Vol 3, February 2006, pp concentration and temperature 1- 7 in PEM fuel cell

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B.M Cetegen, M.W Renfro, S.Basu, Fiber Optic based in-situ diagnostics for PEM fuel cells. US Patent Number: 8,268,493 [Granted on September, 2012] Co-axial-effervescent hybrid atomizer for scramjet engine [invention disclosure filed] Design and development of optically accessible thermocline based molten salt thermal storage test bed [invention disclosure filed]

11. SELECTED CONFERENCES & INVITED PAPERS T O TA L = 8 7 C.1 Basu, S., Xu, H., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2003), In-situ optical diagnostics for measurements of water vapor concentration and temperature in PEM fuel cell, Proceedings of the Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University Park, PA, 2003 C.2 Basu, S., Xu, H., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2003), In-situ optical diagnostics for measurements of water vapor concentration and temperature in PEM fuel cell, RAD-IV THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RADIATIVE TRANSFER, June 20-25, 2004, Istanbul, TURKEY arranged by ICHMT (International center for heat and mass transfer) published by Begell House Inc. DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2004.RAD-4.440 C.3 Basu, S., Xu, H., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2004), In-situ optical diagnostics for measurements of water vapor concentration and temperature in PEM fuel cell, First International Conference on Fuel Cell Development and Deployment, Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, Storrs, CT, 2004 C.4 Basu, S., Xu, H., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2004), In-situ optical diagnostics for measurements of water vapor concentration and temperature in PEM fuel cell, Conference on Fuel Cell Power Sources and Systems, U.S. Army RDECOM, Columbia, SC, 2004

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C.5 Basu, S., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2004), In-situ optical measurements and monitoring of water vapor concentration in PEM fuel cell, NEW ENGLAND TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS CONFERENCE, September 2004 C.6 Basu, S., Renfro, M. W., and Cetegen, B. M. (2005), Simultaneous in-situ measurements of temperature and water partial pressure in a PEM fuel cell under steady and dynamic cycling conditions, Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, November 13-16, 2005, University of Central Florida in Orlando C.7 Basu, S. and Cetegen, B. M. (2005), Laser induced incandescence measurements in vortex combustion, Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, November 13-16, 2005, University of Central Florida in Orlando C.8 M. Gell, E. Jordan, N. Padture, B.M Cetegen, S. Basu, L. Xie and X. Ma, ProcessingMicrostructure Relations in the Solution Spray Process for Making Thermal Barrier Coatings and Dense Coatings, Proceedings of the Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 30, September 25-28, 2005. C.9 S.Basu and B.M Cetegen, Modeling of liquid ceramic precursor droplets heated by CO2 laser irradiation, 5TH National US COMBUSTION MEETING, San Diego - MARCH 25–28, 2007 C.10 S.Basu and B.M Cetegen, Ceramic formation in liquid precursor droplets injected into plasmas and premixed flames, 5TH National US COMBUSTION MEETING, San Diego MARCH 25–28, 2007 C.11 S.Basu, M.W Renfro and B.M Cetegen, Spatially Resolved Measurements and Modeling of Water Vapor and Temperature in PEM Fuel Cells, The Fifth International Conference on FUEL CELL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY, JUNE 28-30, 2007, New York C.12 S. Basu, S. Chaudhury and B.M Cetegen, Soot Topography in a Planar Diffusion Flame Wrapped by Interacting Line Vortices, Proceedings of the Fall Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section, The Combustion Institute, 21-24 October 2007, Charlottesville, VA C.13 E.H. Jordan, M. Gell, P. Bonzani, D. Chen, S. Basu, B. Cetegen, F. Wu, and X. Ma, Making Dense Coatings with the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray Process, Thermal Spray 2007: Global Coating Solution, B.R. Marple, M.M. Hyland, Y.-C. Lau, C.-J. Li, R.S. Lima, and G.

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Montavon, Eds. (Materials Park, OH, USA), ASM International, 2007, p 463-470, eproceedings, ISBN: 13:978-0-87170-855-7 [Citations: 11] C.14 Eric H Jordan, Dianying Chen, Maurice Gell, Baki Cetegen and Saptarshi Basu, Factors Promoting High Density in the Solution Precursor Plasma Spray of Dense Nano Scale Materials, MS&T’07 Materials Science and Technology 2007 Conference and Exhibition, September 16-20 2007, Detroit, Michigan C.15 Saha, V. Singh, S. Seal, B. Cetegen, E. Jordan and S. Basu, Thermo-physical processes in liquid precursor droplets injected into high temperature plasmas, 2nd International Workshop on suspension and solution thermal spraying 2008, France C.16 Abhishek Saha, Derek Lambe, S. Seal, B. Cetegen, E. Jordan and Saptarshi Basu, Precipitation in liquid precursor droplets heated by a CO2 laser, 2nd International Workshop on suspension and solution thermal spraying 2008, France C.17 E. Jordan, B. Cetegen, M. Gell, D. Chen, S. Basu, M. Teicholz and X. Ma, Fundamental understanding of the liquid precursor plasma spray process through modeling and experiments, poster presentation in International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition 2008 C.18 Abhishek Saha, Saptarshi Basu, Sudipta Seal and Virendra Singh, Precipitation kinetics in cerium nitrate precursor droplets heated by monochromatic irradiation, Nano Florida 2008, Sept 2008 C.19 Abhishek Saha and Saptarshi Basu, Thermo-physical Processes in Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Injected into High Temperature Plasma, poster presentation in 33rd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC), Jan 2009 C.20 Virendra Singh, Sudipta Seal, Saptarshi Basu and Abhishek Saha, Deposition mechanism of nano ceria coating by Solution precursor plasma spray, 33rd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC), Jan 2009 C.21 Derek E. Lambe, Kyle Seleski, Ranganathan Kumar and Saptarshi Basu, Novel In-situ Laser Based Diagnostics For Measurement Of Water Vapor And Carbon-Dioxide In The Gas Distribution Channels Of A Fuel Cell, The Seventh International Conference on

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Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels ,June 22-24, 2009 at the POSTECH Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea. C.22 S. Choudhuri, S.Basu, D. Lambe, A. Saha and B. Cetegen, Computational study of scalar mixing in the field of interacting Laminar Vortices, 6th US National Meeting of the Combustion Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, May, 2009 C.23 S.Basu, B. Dubas, A. Saha and R. Kumar, Vaporization Characteristics of Pure and Blended Bio-Fuel Droplets Injected into Hot Stream of Air, 6th US National Meeting of the Combustion Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, May, 2009 C.24 S.Basu, U. Idahosa, A. Saha and C.Xu, Characterization of Swirl Stabilized Flames Dynamics: Transfer Functions And Frequency Response, 6th US National Meeting of the Combustion Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, May, 2009 C.25 S.Basu, U. Idahosa, A. Saha and C.Xu, Characterization of Combustion Dynamics In Swirl Stabilized Flames, ASME Power 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2009 C.26 S. Basu, D. Lambe, S. Szlendak, R. Kumar, Non-Invasive Detection of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations In Narrow Channels with Simultaneous Liquid Water Measurement, Poster Presentation at Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells 2009 C.27 S.Basu, U. Idahosa, A. Saha, C.Xu, On the Fluid Dynamics of Acoustically Perturbed NonPremixed Swirling Flames, Proceedings of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute 2009, University of Maryland College Park, Oct 18-21 2009. C.28 A. Saha, R. Clapp, S.Basu, R. Kumar, Modeling and Experimental Study of Pure and Blended Bio-Fuel Droplets Injected into Hot Stream of Air, Proceedings of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute 2009, University of Maryland College Park, Oct 18-21 2009. C.29 U Idahosa, A Saha, S Basu, Laser Diagnostics in Acoustically Perturbed Non-Premixed Burner to Visualize Effects of Equivalence Ratio and Swirl-Intensity, Workshop On application of Laser In Mechanical Industries (WALMI), Jadavpur University, India, January, 2010

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C.30 A Saha, R Kumar, S Seal, S Basu, Study of Vaporization and Precipitation Characteristics in Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation, Workshop On application of Laser In Mechanical Industries (WALMI), Jadavpur University, India, January, 2010 C.31 U. Idahosa, C. Xu and S. Basu, Acoustic Perturbation Effects On The Fluid Dynamics And Swirling Flame Response In A Non-Premixed Co-Flow Burner, Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2 (PARTS A AND B) , pp. 1309-1321, ISBN: 978-0-7918-4397-0, doi:10.1115/GT2010-23735, ASME Turbo Expo 2010: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, GT 2010; Glasgow; United Kingdom; 14 June 2010 through 18 June 2010 C.32 A. Saha, E. Tijerino, R. Kumar and S.Basu, IR-Thermography, Laser induced Fluorescence and High speed imaging of Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation, 15th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics 2010, Lisbon, Portugal C.33 E. Tijerino, A. Saha, R. Kumar and S.Basu, Vaporization Characteristics of Acoustically Levitated Nanofluid Droplet, 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels , Montreal, Canada, 2010 C.34 E Tijerino, A Saha, R Kumar, S Basu, Acoustically Levitated Nanofluid Droplet Vaporization, 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada, August 1-5, 2010 C.35 A. Saha, E. Tijerino, R. Kumar and S.Basu, Radiative heating of acoustically levitated nano-silica droplets: Internal flow pattern leading to ring or bowl shaped structure, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Volume 55, Number 16, November 21–23, 2010; Long Beach, California C.36 Navid Aminimanesh#, Saptarshi Basu and Ranganathan Kumar, Heat transfer analysis of a reacting nanofilm deposited on a composite substrate, Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-10), Hyderabad, December 10-13, 2010 C.37 A. Saha, E. Tijerino, R. Kumar and S.Basu, Heat transfer and chemical transformation of levitated droplets containing dissolved and undissolved phases, Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-10), Hyderabad, December 10-13, 2010

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C.38 Xin Gu, Saptarshi Basu, Ranganathan Kumar, Numerical Simulation of Atomized Biofuel and conventional Fuel Dispersion and Vaporization in a Crossflow Premixer, Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-10), Hyderabad, December 10-13, 2010 C.39 Uyi Idahosa and Saptarshi Basu, Fluid dynamics of Swirl Stabilized flames subjected to accoustic forcing, Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC-10), Hyderabad, December 10-13, 2010 C.40 L. Tran, M. Valentino, A. Saha, C. Slabaugh, M. Ricklick, J. Kapat, S. Basu, PIV Study on the Dimple Mid-plane of a Narrow Rectangular Channel with Dimples Applied to One Wall, ASME Turbo Expo (Paper # GT2011-46132 ), Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 5 (PARTS A AND B) , pp. 1517-1527, ISBN: 978-0-7918-5465-5, doi:10.1115/GT2011-46132, ASME 2011 Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition, GT2011; Vancouver, BC; Canada; 6 June 2011 through 10 June 2011 C.41 Xin Gu, Saptarshi Basu, Ranganathan Kumar, Simulation of Biofuels and Conventional Fuels Dispersion and Vaporization in a Cross-flow Premixer, 23rd Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS Americas) May 15-18, 2011, Ventura, California C.42 Abhishek Saha, Saptarshi Basu, Ranganathan Kumar, Radiatively Heated Levitated Nano-silica droplet: Mechanism of bowl formation, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, December 27-30, 2011, Madras C.43 S. Mishra and S. Basu, A computational study of heat transfer, soot production and transport in an acetylene-air laminar diffusion flame in the field of a line vortex, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, December 27-30, 2011, Madras C.44 P. Deepu, S. Basu , B. Pathak and Ranganathan Kumar, Vaporization studies of functional droplets in a convective environment, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, December 27-30, 2011, Madras C.45 D. Vikas, S. Basu and P. Dutta, Laser Interferometric Measurements of Temperature and Concentration in Solidification of Binary Alloy, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, December 27-30, 2011, Madras

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C.46 Abhishek Saha, Ranganathan Kumar, Saptarshi Basu, Agglomeration and precipitation kinetics on acoustically levitated droplet containing solute particles, 24th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS Europe), 5-7 September, 2011, Estoril, Portugal C.47 Ankur Miglani, R Santhosh, S Basu, Dynamic response of acoustically perturbed Isothermal swirling flow field, Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference on IC Engines and Combustion NIT-Calicut, Kerala, India: 10-13 December, 2011: Paper No: 2- 019 C.48 P. Deepu, S. Basu , B. Pathak and Ranganathan Kumar, Vaporization studies of functional droplets in a convective environment, Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference on IC Engines and Combustion NIT-Calicut, Kerala, India: 10-13 December, 2011 C.49 S. Mishra and S. Basu, A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF FLAME DYNAMICS ON SOOT PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT FOR AN ACETYLENE-AIR LAMINAR DIFFUSION FLAME IN THE FIELD OF A ONVECTING LINE VORTEX, Seventh Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, 11-15 September, 2011,Sardinia, Italy C.50 Gu, Xin; Basu, Saptarshi; Kumar, Ranganathan, Analysis of a Collision Model in a CoAxial Liquid Fuel Spray in a Heated Air Chamber, 12th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, September 2-6, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany; ISBN: 97888-903712-1-9 C.51 Lee, Josh; Saha, Abhishek; Basu, Saptarshi; Kumar, Ranganathan, Effects of Injection Pressure on Spray Atomization Characteristics with Measurement Technique CrossCorrelation, 12th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, September 2-6, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany; ISBN: 978-88-903712-1-9 C.52 Deepu, P; Saha, Abhishek; Basu, Saptarshi; Kumar, Ranganathan, Shape Deformation and Atomization of Functional Droplets in Contact with a Vibrating Surface, 12th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, September 2-6, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany; ISBN: 978-88-903712-1-9 C.53 Saha, Abhishek; Basu, Saptarshi; Kumar, Ranganathan, Thermally Induced Breakup of Levitated Droplet, 12th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, September 2-6, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany; ISBN: 978-88-903712-1-9

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C.54 B. Pathak, S. Basu, R. Kumar, Agglomeration Dynamics of an Evaporating Acoustically Levitated Droplet, 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, September 9-13, 2012, Rome, Italy C.55 A. Saha, S. Basu, R. Kumar, Levitated Droplet Evaporation: Scaling Analysis for Equivalence between Radiative and Convective heating, 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, September 9-13, 2012, Rome, Italy C.56 Ankur Miglani, S. Basu and R. Kumar, SHAPE CHANGE DYNAMICS OF ACOUSTICALLY EXCITED NANOCERIA DISPERSION DROPLET UNDERGOING BURNING, 8th World Congress on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Lisbon 2013 C.57 P. Deepu, S. Basu and R. Kumar, Characteristics of surface ligaments on ultrasonically excited droplets, 8th World Congress on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Lisbon 2013 C.58 R. Santhosh, A. Miglani and S. Basu, MIXING TRANSFER FUNCTION AND COHERENCE CHARACTERISTICS IN ACOUSTICALLY EXCITED SWIRLING FLOW, 8th World Congress on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Lisbon 2013 C.59 A. Sanyal, S. Basu and R. Kumar, ORTHOGONAL MODES OF THERMALLY INDUCED OSCILLATIONS OF AN ACOUSTICALLY LEVITATED DROPLET , 8th World Congress on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Lisbon 2013 C.60 Santhosh R, Ankur Miglani and Saptarshi Basu, Recirculation structures in isothermal swirling flow field :Transition from vortex breakbown to torroidal form, global acoustic response and possible implications on flame response, National Propulsion Conference February 21-23, 2013, IIT-Madras C.61 J.Lee, A.Davanlou, S.Basu, R.Kumar, The Effects of Surfactant on Simplex Nozzle Spray Behavior and Its Comparison to Liquid Fuels, IMECE2013-65116, ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego C.62 Binita Pathak, Saptarshi Basu, COMPARISON OF CONVECTIVE AND RADIATIVE HEATING CHARACTERISTICS OF A CERIUM NITRATE DROPLET, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India

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C.63 Apratim Sanyal, Saptarshi Basu, Ranganathan Kumar, DOMINANT OSCILLATION MODES IN A RADIATIVELY HEATED ACOUSTICALLY LEVITATED DROPLET, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India  *BEST PAPER AWARD C.64 Lalit Bansal, Saptarshi Basu, MEASUREMENT OF WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION AND MASS FLUX THROUGH A POROUS MEDIA, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India C.65 A.Miglani, Saptarshi Basu, Ranganathan Kumar, Self Excited Oscillations in Burning Functional Pendant Droplets, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India C.66 P. Deepu, Saptarshi Basu, R. Kumar, SHAPE OSCILLATONS OF DROPLETS SUSPENDED IN AN AIR JET AT INTERMEDIATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India C.67 R. Santhosh, A. Miglani, Saptarshi Basu, Non-premixed Swirling Flame Dynamics in Atmospheric Double Concentric Burner, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMTASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference 2013, organized by IIT Kharagpur, India C.68 A. Sanyal, Saptarshi Basu, Pramod Kumar, Adsorption Study of Silica Gel Particle for Improvement in Design of Adsorption Beds used in Solar Driven Cooling Units, SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) September 17–20, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA C.69 M. Salem, L. Bansal, Saptarshi Basu, Solar Thermal Power System Augmented with LHP, SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) September 17–20, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA C.70 Saleem M Basha, Lalit K Bansal, Saptarshi Basu and Amrit Ambirajan, PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND BUBBLE VISUALISATION WITHIN THE EVAPORATOR OF A LOOP HEAT PIPE, 17th International Heat Pipe Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, October 13-17, 2013

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C.71 A. Miglani, Saptarshi Basu, R. Kumar, Shape deformation dynamics of acoustically pulsed functional pendant droplet undergoing burning, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania C.72 R. Santhosh, A. Miglani and Saptarshi Basu, Transitions in Swirling flows in Double Concentric Burner, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania C.73 A Sanyal, S Basu, P Kumar, Effect of single silica gel particle adsorption on the transport processes in a humid air stream, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania C.74 P Deepu, R Kumar, S Basu, Spreading and atomization dynamics of ultrasonically excited droplets, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania C.75 A Miglani, S. Basu, Secondary atomization pathways in burning functional droplets subjected to travelling pressure wave, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2014, 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Volume 59, Number 18 C.76 S.Basu, R. Santhosh, Acoustic response of an isothermal coaxial swirling jet, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2014, 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Volume 59, Number 18 C.77 D. Sanadi, S. Basu,Characterization of unconfined isothermal hollow cone spray – annular swirling jet interaction, ASME 2014 Gas Turbine India Conference, New Delhi 1517, 2014 C.78 Dilip Sanadi, Saptarshi Basu, "Characterization of vortical flow structures within swirling jet in an unconfined isothermal environment" Paper #OS10-57 Eleventh International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD-2014) October 8-10, 2014, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan C.79 R. Santhosh and Saptarshi Basu, “Experimental Study of Transitions in Swirling nonpremixed Flames in a Co-flow Atmospheric Burner”, 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion, Beijing, China, July 2015

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C.80 B. Pathak and Saptarshi Basu, Instabilities in acoustically levitated and laser irradiated bi-component droplet, ICLASS 2015, Tainan, Taiwan, August 2015 C.81 D. Sanadi, K. Rajamanickam, S. Basu, Effect of co-annular, isothermal swirling stream on droplet centricity in the spray field of a hollow cone spray atomizer, ICLASS 2015, Tainan, Taiwan, August 2015 C.82 L. Bansal, S. Basu, Buckling dynamics in evaporating nanoparticles laden droplets on various hydrophobic heated substrates, 90th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 5-8, 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA C.83 B. Pathak, S. Basu, Control of buckling dynamics in contact-free mixed colloidal droplet, 90th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 5-8, 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA C.84 SAPTARSHI BASU,S. Advaith, Utpal Chetia, A. Tinaikar, K.V Manu, MIXING DYNAMICS ACROSS A STRATIFIED INTERFACE, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference , 17th to 20th December, 2015 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India C.85 APRATIM SANYAL, Saptarshi Basu, DRYING OF NANO SILICA SESSILE DROPLETS SUBJECTED TO SUBSTRATE OSCILLATIONS, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMTASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference , 17th to 20th December, 2015 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India C.86 Study of evaporation dynamics in sessile and extended nanoparticle laden droplets, Prasenjit Kabi, Saptarshi Basu, and Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, CompFlu -2016, 2-4 January, 2016 -Pune, India C.87 Saptarshi Basu, Droplets, Sprays and Flow in combustors: Insights into different spatio-temporal scales, invited lecture at INAE Annual Convention, December 8-9 2016, Ahmedabad

12. BOOKS 1. Optical diagnostics and computational modeling of reacting and non-reacting single and multiphase flows (2007); Publication Number: AAI3269486; ISBN: 054908505X, 9780549085058; Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: B, page: 4083; 252 pages 32

13. INVITED SEMINARS/KEYNOTE LECTURES 

"Fundamental Studies of different reacting and non-reacting systems", Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-Kharagpur, India, June 23rd 2009

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"Fundamental Studies of different reacting and non-reacting systems", Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India, June 22nd 2009

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"Fundamental Analyses of different reacting and non-reacting systems", Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc-Bangalore, India, 2009

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"Fundamental Analyses of different reacting and non-reacting systems", Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT-Kanpur, India, 2009

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“Thermo-Physical Processes in Acoustically Levitated Functional Droplets Heated by Monochromatic irradiation”, ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell Research Seminar Series, 2011

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“Combustion Dynamics and Fluid Mechanics in Acoustically Perturbed Non-Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Flames”, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany, 2011

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“Vaporization and Atomization of Functional Micro Droplets Containing nanoadditives”, Optische Messtechniken für die Charakterisierung von Transportprozessen an Grenzflächen, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany, 2011

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“Nanoadditives in Liquid and Gaseous Fuels”, Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad 2011

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“Shape oscillations and flame dynamics in droplets”, Indo-US Workshop on Flame Stability, IIT-Madras, 6-8 August, 2012

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“Blowoff Dynamics in Flames”, NCCRD combustion dynamics workshop, IIT-Madras, 24th August, 2012

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“Spray Combustion”, DST-SERC Summer School on Combustion, DRDL-Hyderabad, July 2012

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“Combustion dynamics” [4 lectures]: DST-SERC Winter School, Jadavpur University Kolkata, December 2012

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“Combustion diagnostics” [1 lecture]: DST-SERB Winter School, IIT-Indore, October 2013

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“A fundamental analysis of droplet combustion”, International Workshop on Sustainable Energy, Power and Propulsion at Jadavpur University, Kolkata from January 5 – 7, 2015

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“Transition and acoustic response of vortex breakdown modes in a co-axial swirling flow and flame”, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc, February 2015

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Unconfined Non-Premixed Swirling Flame: Effect of Swirl Number on Flame Stabilization, International Workshop on Sustainable Energy, Power and Propulsion at Lucknow, Kolkata from December 20-23, 2015

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Droplets, Sprays and Flow in combustors: Insights into different spatio-temporal scales, invited lecture at INAE Annual Convention, December 8-9 2016, Ahmedabad

14. CURRENT/ PENDING GRA NTS 1 . UN I VE RSI T Y O F CE NT RA L FLO RI DA T O T A L G RA N T S ( I N T ER N A L + E XT E RN AL ) = $ 8 0 0 5 0 0 I N 3 YE AR S Funded Proposals

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PI, Intramural Grant: Presidential Award for Major Equipment from Office of Research and Commercialization in University of Central Florida. Total $ 73000 [funded], 2007 PI, Intramural Grant: In-House Research Grant for project titled , “Study of droplet precipitation under rapid heating conditions as in thermal barrier coating”, Total $ 7500 [funded], 2008 PI, Intramural Grant: In-House Research Grant for project titled , “Water Management in PEM fuel cells”, Total $ 7500 [funded], 2009 Co-PI, proposal titled, “Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion Technologies”, State of Florida & US Army. Total $ 869000 [funded]. My Share : $ 73000, 2008; PI: J. Kapat

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PI, proposal titled, “Combustion dynamics simulation and experiments for gas turbines”, GT analysis and ORC, Total: $ 64000 [funded]. My Share : $ 32000, 2007; co-PI: C. Xu PI, proposal titled, “Aero-validation of a Nova Duct”, Siemens AG, Total $ 230000 [funded]. My Share : $ 115000, 2009; Co-PI: J. Kapat PI, proposal titled, “Aero-validation of a Nova Duct-Phase II”, Siemens AG, Total $ 204000 [funded]. My Share : $ 102000, 2009; Co-PI: J. Kapat PI, FCAAP - Analysis of combustion stability, emission characteristics, fuel atomization and vaporization dynamics of conventional and alternative fuels, State of Florida. FAA National Center of Excellence. Total $ 105000 [funded]. My Share: $ 52500, 2008; coPIs: R. Kumar, R. Chen Co-PI, FCAAP: Detailed Study of Flow Interaction and its Impact on Aerodynamic Performance and Heat Transfer in Turbomachinery Passages, State of Florida. FAA National Center of Excellence. Total $ 128000, [funded], My Share: $ 35000, 2008; PI: J. Kapat PI, UCF/I-4: AERO VALIDATION TESTING FOR Nova Ducts, Florida Hi-Tech Corridor, Total $ 63275, [funded], My Share: $ 32000, 2009; Co-PI: J. Kapat PI, Provost award for undergraduate teaching equipments, Total $ 15000 [funded], 2008 Co-PI, proposal titled, “Small Equipment: Infrared Thermography System for Temperature Measurements in Microchannel/Minichannel and Droplet”, National Science Foundation. Total $ 100000 [funded], My Share: $ 50000, 2009; PI: R. Kumar PI, proposal titled, “Measurements of transients in Midframe, phase IA”, Siemens AG, Total $ 30000 [Funded], My Share: $ 15000, 2009; co-PI: J. Kapat PI, “Equipment grant: Midframe rig and LDV System”, Siemens AG, Total $ 150000 [Approved], My Share: $ 75000, 2010; co-PI: J. Kapat PI, “FCAAP: In-situ laser based measurments of vaporization dynamics of biofuel droplets in Acoustic levitator and prevaporize combustor and Computational validation”, State of Florida. FAA National Center of Excellence., Total $ 60000 [funded], My Share: $ 30000, 2010; Co-PI: R. Kumar

2 . I N DI A N I NSTI T UTE O F SCI E NCE T O T A L F UN DI N G : $ 3 M I L L I ON ~1 2 CR O R E S Total External Funding ($ 1 Million): Rs. 533 lacs + Rs. 9 lacs [pending fund release] Total Internal Funding ($ 0.4 Million): Rs. 32 lacs [Startup] + 110 lacs [Plan XIth grant]

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PI (Sole), “Novel in situ experimentation of water transport in a PEM fuel cell”, SERC Fast Track Award for Young Scientists in Engineering Science Funded Amount: Rs. 20.5 lacs ($ 40000)

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PI (Sole), “Experimental Analysis of Bubble Dynamics and Temperature Field in a Dual Compensation Chamber Loop Heat Pipe”, ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell Funded Amount: Rs. 12.65 lacs ($ 25000)

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PI, “Biofuels: Research Challenges in the Areas of Combustion and Fuel injection”, IndoUS Science and Technology Forum (Bilateral Workshop) Funded Amount: Rs. 4 lacs + Airfare for 15 faculties from India and USA

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PI, “Optimization and sizing of air humidifier for 150 kW fuel cell power system”, Tata Motors Limited Funded Amount: Rs. 36.5 lacs ($ 73000)

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PI (Sole), "Optical Diagnostics of Biofuel Spray Dynamics in a Premixer", Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Scheme [CSIR] Funded Amount: Rs. 12 lacs ($ 25000)

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PI,“Study of Nanoadditives on Soot Topography: Burning Single Droplet and Premixed La minar and Turbulent Flames”, Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) Funded Amount: Rs. 9 lacs ($ 18000)

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PI (Sole), “Study of Combustion dynamics in Stratified Swirl Stabilized Burner”, ARDB Propulsion Panel (DRDO) Funded Amount: Rs. 25 lacs ($ 50000)

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Co-PI, SOLAR COOLING AND PRODUCTION OF POTABLE WATER WITH TWO STAGE SILICA GEL WATER ADSORPTION SYSTEM, Department of Science and Technology Funded Amount: 2.5 crores ($ 500000)

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Project Leader of CSP-5: Storage and hybridization (Multiscale CSP), Indo-US Clean Energy Center (SERIIUS), Funded Amount: 40 crores (100 lacs for CSP-5) (My share: $ 200000)

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Member/Project Leader of Spray and Burner rigs, National Center for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD), Funded Amount: 40 crores (My share: $ 1000000)

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PI, Unified Correlations for Bubble Dynamics and Bubble visualization within the Evaporator of Loop Heat Pipe and Performance studies of LHP, ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell [18.2 lacs] ($ 40000)

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PI, Precipitation, vaporization and flow physics of levitated functional droplets, Department of Science and Technology [38 lacs] ($ 79000) 36

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Co-PI, Fundamental Studies on Transport and Kinetics of adsorption using Silica Gel as an adsorbate, Department of Science and Technology [39 lacs] ($ 80000)

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Co-PI, Atomization, Mixing and Stabilization of Large Hydrocarbon Flames in a Model SCRAMJET Combustor Facility, Brahmos Aerospace Pvt. Limited-Center of Excellence in Hypersonics [5.88 crores](My share: $ 150000)

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PI, Stability and heat transfer analysis of molten salt based Thermocline storage unit, DST-SERI [64 lacs] ($ 135000)

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Swarnajayanti Fellowship [similar to Presidential Young Investigator Award], Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2014 [1.7 crores] ($ 325000)

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PI, Design, Development and Testing of High Shear Atomizer in Gas Turbine Combustors, Defense Research and Development Organization-Government of India, [3.3 crores] ($ 500000)-proposal approved (release of funds awaited)

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Co-PI, Detailed Diagnostics in the Single Cup Sector of a Modern Annular Combustor: Global Parameters from Local Interactions, Defense Research and Development Organization-Government of India, [4 crores] ($ 550000)-proposal approved (release of funds awaited)

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PI, IMPRINT: Hybrid: Latent and Sensible heat thermal storage system for medium and high temperature CSP applications [4 crores; $ 550000]

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Co-PI, Homi Bhabha Center of Excellence in Thermal Storage Systems, BARC [8 crores]

15. OTHER ACTIVITIES UN I VE RSI T Y O F CE NT RA L FLO RI DA 

Member Graduate Committee in the MMAE Department : Activities included Ph.D qualifying examination, graduate awards, alignment of course plans for masters, online masters program, discussion on the requirements and criteria for BS/MS program, revision of graduate data collection so that the computational and experimental skills can be assessed, MS track and course consolidation and course revision

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Chair PhD Qualifier Examination Committee: Chair of the Committee of Examiners for fluid mechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics for the Ph.D qualifier examination in the MMAE department at UCF

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Technical Advisor: Senior design project titled Combustion dynamics and control of a swirl burner. Four UG students were involved.

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Member Energy Systems Committee: Planning and implementation a new industry oriented Masters Program in Energy Systems Engineering.

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Member MMAE External Relations Committee: Plan strategy for creating a giving culture among MMAE's alumni and external partners

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Faculty Mentor [2008-2009]: NSF REU for small scale engineering.

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Member Faculty Search Committee: Coordination and recruitment of tenure track faculties in different disciplines.

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Member, IISc Solar Energy Programme

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Member, IISC-DAE Thermal Loop Research Initiative

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Member, IISc-DST Combustion Center Research Initiative

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Departmental Expert and Senate Nominee in MSc and PhD Comprehensive Examinations

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Member, Department Laboratory Space Committee

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Core Committee Member, National Center for Combustion Research and Development

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Convener, Department Seminar Series 2012-2013

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Project Leader, CSP-5: Indo-US Clean Energy Center

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Team Member, IISc GATE Representative Team

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Member, Department Faculty Search Committee

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