National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

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EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • Transport Processes
Areas of Interest
  • Thin-film dynamics, Interfacial fluid mechanics, Non-Newtonian flows, Computational fluid dynamics

Akhilesh Kumar Sahu Associate Professor & PIC (Physical Education)

Chemical Engineering

sahuak@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2257

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SPONSORED PROJECTS

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

1

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Akhilesh Kumar Sahu

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

Room Number: CH-228

Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

PhD (IIT Kanpur)

Design of Micro cryogenic coolers for phased array receiver. ISRO
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Running   Sponsored
Numerical Study of Coating Flows on Non-Flot Discrete Objects SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

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Total Publications: 24
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P. Gupta, S. Panda, A. K. Sahu, and D. Kumar,"Effect of confinement on flow around a rotating elliptic cylinder in laminar flow regime", Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol.145, no.10, pp.10131 (18 s), American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, January 2023, 10.1115/1.4062621       Article

C. Routa, P. Balaji, and A. K. Sahu,"Numerical investigation of effect of surface pattern and rotation on power-law fluid flow and heat transfer around a cylinder in laminar flow regime", Physics of Fluids, vol.35, pp.073101, AIP, June 2023, 10.1063/5.0155045       Article

D. Kumar and A. K. Sahu,"Non-Newtonian fluid flow over a rotating elliptic cylinder in laminar flow regime", European Journal of Mechanics-B/Fluids, Elseviere, January 2022, 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2022.01.005       Article

P. Gupta, D. Kumar, and A. K. Sahu,"Steady Flow of Power-Law Fluids Past an Inclined Elliptic Cylinder", Recent Trends in Fluid Dynamics Research, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, ch.6, pp.63-74, Springer Singapore, January 2022, 10.1007/978-981-16-6928-6_6       Inbook

D. Kumar and A. K. Sahu,"Momentum and heat transfer characteristics of a rotating elliptical cylinder in vortex shedding flow of power-law fluids", Physics of Fluids, vol.34, pp.103112, AIP Publishing, October 2022, 10.1063/5.0114516       Article

A National conference on Recent Trends in Fluid Dynamics Research (RTFDR-21) Chemical Engineering (Conference)

  • CH3215 : Processing and Handling of Materials {Theory}
  • CH420 : Computational Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • CH421 : Simulation Modeling and Optimization Techniques in Chemical Process {Theory}
  • CH4312 : Optimization Techniques in Process Design {Theory}
  • CH4313 : Computational Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • CH6101 : Advanced Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • CH621 : Advanced Fluid Dynamics {Theory}
  • CH2172 : Fluid Dynamics Laboratory {Practical}
  • CH272 : Fluid Dynamics Laboratory {Practical}
  • CH4373 : Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory {Practical}
  • CH471 : Process Plant Simulation Laboratory – I {Practical}
  • CH472 : CFD Laboratory {Practical}
  • CH474 : Process Plant Simulation Laboratory - II {Practical}
  • CH6372 : Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [4]
Numerical Investigation of Power-law Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Over a Rotating Elliptic Cylinder in Laminar Flow Regime
Deepak Kumar
Enrolled: Jul 2016
Graduated :  2022
Supervisor
Numerical Investigation of Power-law Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer around a Rotating Patterned Cylinder in Laminar Flow Regime
Chinu Routa
Enrolled: Jan 2017
Thesis Submitted
Supervisor
Synthesis of inorganic porous framework based hybrid materials for effective energy and environment applications
Debabrata Panda
Enrolled: Jan 2020
Thesis Submitted
Co-Supervisor
Computational Fluid dynamics
Nicky Pattnaik
Enrolled: Jan 2023
Continuing
Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [1]
Heat Transfer, CFD
Md. Sharique Aman
Enrolled: Nov 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
M.Tech by Research Students [2]
A Numerical Study of Thin Liquid Film Flow over a Topographically Patterned Rotating Cylinder
Shaleka Agrawal
Graduated :  2016
Supervisor
Numerical Study of Power-law Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Channel with Periodically Upper and Lower Walls Mounted Obstacles
Swayam Prabha Misra
Graduated :  2018
Supervisor