DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Associate Professor

FF5, CFD Center, Fluid Systems Laboratory

PhD Jadavpur University, India

+91-44-2257-4692

pallab[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra received his Ph.D. and B.E. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University in 2014 and 2007 respectively. He worked as a Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd., Bangalore from 2007 to 2009 and as a post-doc researcher in the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA from 2014 to 2016.
  • His research interests include (not limited to) Surface engineering and wettability patterning, Open surface microfluidics, Multiphase flow, Single and multiphase heat transfer.

  1. V. Ganesan Faculty Fellowship, 2023
  2. Early-Career Level Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA), 2022
  3. SERB Early Carrier Research Award (ECRA), 2019
  4. ISEES (International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability) Young Scientist Award 2017
  5. CSIR (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) Senior Research Fellowship, 2012

  1. Laxman Kumar Malla, Davis T. Vempeny, Hemanth Dileep, Praveen Dhanalakota, Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Pankaj Srivastava and Arvind Pattamatta, Thermal performance comparison of flat plate pulsating heat pipes of different material thermal conductivity using ethanol-water mixtures, Applied Thermal Engineering (2024) 194 121475.
  2. R Gayathri, S Kar, M Nagai, Pallab Sinha Mahapatra and Tuhin Subhra Santra, Massively Parallel High-Throughput Single-Cell Patterning and Large Biomolecular Delivery in Mammalian Cells Using Light Pulses, Small (2023) 2303053.
  3. Tibin M. Thomas, Pallab Sinha Mahapatra Ranjan Ganguly, and Manish K Tiwari, Preferred Mode of Atmospheric Water Vapor Condensation on Nanoengineered Surfaces: Dropwise or Filmwise?, Langmuir (2023) 39 5396–5407.
  4. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Ranjan Ganguly, Aritra Ghosh, Souvick Chatterjee, Sam Lowrey, Andrew D. Sommers, and Constantine M. Megaridis, Patterning wettability for open-surface fluidic manipulation: fundamentals and applications, Chemical Reviews (2022) 122 16752–16801.
  5. Subhashis Patari, Priyankan Datta and Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, 3D Paper-based milk adulteration detection device, Scientific Reports (2022) 12 13657.