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Dr. Arvind Pattamatta

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Office: 104, Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory
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Lab Website: Multiscale Thermal Transport Research Laboratory

Biography

Arvind Pattamatta is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo, NY in 2009. He is the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for the year 2013, INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2015 and JSPS invitational fellowship for the year 2017. His research interests are in the area microscale energy transport and thermal management of devices. He has authored more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is current Secretary of the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer.

His current research interests include

  • Microscale energy transport

  • Phase change heat transfer

  • Multiphase flows

  • Electronics & Battery thermal management

  • Computational fluid dynamics & heat transfer.

Awards and Honors

  1. Invitational fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) to visit Kyushu University, May-July 2017.

  2. Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung to conduct research at TTD, TU Darmstadt, 2013-2014.

  3. Young Engineer Award (YEA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2015.

  4. Awarded visiting professorship by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to visit TU Braunschweig, June-August 2011.

Recent Publications [2021-2023]

  1. Dhanalakota, P., Malla, L.K., Dileep, H., Mahapatra, P.S. and Pattamatta, A., 2022. Effective thermal management of heat sources in sustainable energy devices using a compact flat thermosyphon. Energy Conversion and Management, 268, p.116041.

  2. Malla, L.K., Dhanalakota, P., Mahapatra, P.S. and Pattamatta, A., 2022. Thermal and flow characteristics in a flat plate pulsating heat pipe with ethanol-water mixtures: From slug-plug to droplet oscillations. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 194, p.123066.

  3. Dhanalakota, P., Abraham, S., Mahapatra, P.S., Sammakia, B. and Pattamatta, A., 2022. Thermal performance of a two-phase flat thermosyphon with surface wettability modifications. Applied Thermal Engineering, 204, p.117862.

  4. Josyula, T., Mahapatra, P.S. and Pattamatta, A., 2022. Internal flow in evaporating water drops: dominance of Marangoni flow. Experiments in Fluids, 63(2), p.49.

  5. Josyula, T., Esther Blesso Vidhya, Y., Vasa, N.J., Mahapatra, P.S. and Pattamatta, A., 2022. Nonaxisymmetry and flow transition in evaporating water drops. Applied Physics Letters, 120(1), p.011602.

  6. Adapa, B.R., Revulagadda, A.P., Pattamatta, A. and Balaji, C., 2022. Film cooling Studies on Combined three-dimensional Slot and Effusion jet Configuration of an annular Combustor liner. International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 49.

  7. Chowdhury, I.U., Mahapatra, P.S., Sen, A.K., Pattamatta, A. and Tiwari, M.K., 2021. Autonomous transport and splitting of a droplet on an open surface. Physical Review Fluids, 6(9), p.094003.

  8. Vidhya, Y.E.B., Pattamatta, A., Manivannan, A., Vasa, N.J., 2021. Influence of fluence, beam overlap and aging on the wettability of pulsed Nd3+:YAG nanosecond laser-textured Cu and Al sheets. Applied Surface Science 548, 149259.

  9. Thomas, T.M., Chowdhury, I.U., Dhivyaraja, K., Mahapatra, P.S., Pattamatta, A., Tiwari, M.K., 2021. Droplet Dynamics on a Wettability Patterned Surface during Spray Impact. Processes 9, 555.

  10. Ramakrishnan, B., Hoang, C.H., Khalili, S., Hadad, Y., Rangarajan, S., Pattamatta, A., Sammakia, B., 2021. Experimental Characterization of Two-Phase Cold Plates Intended for High-Density Data Center Servers Using a Dielectric Fluid. Journal of Electronic Packaging 143, 020904.

  11. Abraham, S., Takawale, A., Stephan, P., Pattamatta, A., 2021. Thermal Characteristics of a Three-Dimensional Coil Type Pulsating Heat Pipe at Different Heating Modes. Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications 13, 041011.

  12. Kalichetty, S.S., Sundararajan, T., Pattamatta, A., 2021. Effect of wall proximity on the lateral thermocapillary migration of droplet rising in a quiescent liquid. Physics of Fluids 33, 022107.

  13. Josyula, T., Mahapatra, P.S., Pattamatta, A., 2021. Insights into the evolution of the thermal field in evaporating sessile pure water drops. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 611, 125855.

  14. Guggilla, G., Narayanaswamy, R., Stephan, P., Pattamatta, A., 2021b. Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Train of Droplets Impinging Over a Hot Surface: From Film Evaporation to Leidenfrost Point. Journal of Heat Transfer 143, 061602.

  15. Guggilla, G., Narayanaswamy, R., Stephan, P., Pattamatta, A., 2021a. Influence of flow rate and surface thickness on heat transfer characteristics of two consecutively impinging droplets on a heated surface. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 165, 120688.

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