National Center for Combustion Research and Development

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Faculty
Dr. Pradip Dutta
DESIGNATION

Professor Dept of Mechanical Engg., IISc Bangalore



CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Thermal and Energy Systems, Solar Thermal Energy Conversions, Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Solidification and Materials Processing

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. SK Singh, G. Phanikumar,  K Chattopadhyay, P Dutta, “Experimental and Numerical Studies on Friction Welding of Thixocast A356 Aluminum Alloy”, Acta Materialia, vol. 73(0): pp.177 - 185, 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
  2. Anirban Bhattacharya, Apoorva Kiran, Shyamprasad Karagadde, Pradip Dutta, “An Enthalpy Method for Modeling Eutectic Solidification”, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 262 . pp. 217-230, 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
  3. S. Mitra, P. Kumar. K. Srinivasan and P. Dutta, “Simulation study of a two-stage adsorber system”, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 72, Issue 2, 22 November 2014, Pages 283–288.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  4. P. Dutta, P. Kumar, K.C. Ng, S. Srinivasa Murthy, K. Srinivasan, “Organic Brayton Cycles with solid sorption thermal compression for low grade heat utilization, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 62, Issue 1, 10 January 2014, Pages 171–175.                                                                                                                                                                                    
  5. Shyamprasad Karagadde, Anirban Bhattacharya, Gaurav Tomar, and Pradip Dutta, “A coupled VOF–IBM–enthalpy approach for modeling motion and growth of equiaxed dendrites in a solidifying melt”, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 231, Issue 10, 2012, pp. 3987–4000.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  6. G. R. Madhusudhana1, Pradip Dutta, and K. N. Seetharamu, “Mixed convection adjacent to non-isothermal vertical surfaces”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 55, Issues 17–18, August 2012, Pages 4580–4587                                                                                                                                                                                                               
  7. S. K. Saha and P. Dutta, “Thermal Management of Electronics using PCM-based Heat Sink Subjected to Cyclic Heat Load”, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, Part C, 2 (3), 2012, pp. 464-473.

AWARDS

  1. INAE Outstanding Teacher Award, 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  2. Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA) (elected in 2014).                                                                                                                                              
  3. Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NASI) (elected in 2014).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  4. Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (elected in 2012).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  5. Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); (elected in 2011).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  6. Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (elected in 2005).                                                                                          
  7. VASVIK Award for Excellence in Industrial Research (Category: Mechanical and Structural Sciences and Technology), 2010.         
  8. IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, IISc, 2013.                                                                                                           
  9. Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Chair Professorship Award, 2012-2014.

PROJECTS

  1. Solar Energy Research Institute for India and United States (SERIIUS)- a consortium under the joint clean Energy Research and Development Centre (JCERDC) – Government of India ((DST&DBT), US Government (DOE).                                                                        
  2. Solar Cooling and Production of Potable Water with 2-Stage Silica Gel – Water Adsorption system – DST                                         
  3. Development of a Mechanistic Model for Shrinkage Prediction – General Motors, USA                                                                 
  4. Process Development in Semisolid Forming and Squeeze Casting of Aluminium Alloy Components for Automobile Consortium project with TIFAC, TVS Motors, Sundaram Clayton, Mahindra and Mahindra