Faculty details

Prof.Pawan Kumar Singh

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Email: pawan[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number:

Office Number: +91-326-223-5135

Personal Page: Under Construction

Research Interest: Heat Transfer enhancement, Nanofluids, Microfluidics, Thermal management, Thin film evaporation, Heat Pipe

Teaching

 IIT (ISM) Dhanbad (Aug 2015 – present)

  1. Advanced heat Transfer
  2. Engineering Mechanics
  3. Fluid Mechanics
  4. Mechanical Engineering-I
  5. Measurement in Thermal Engineering
  6. Measurement and Control
  7. Mechanical Engineering-II
  8. Microfluidics

Academics

Education

            Ph.D. (Specialization: Mechanical Engineering)-CGPA-8.75

            Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (January 2006-May 2011)

Thesis Title: Hydrodynamic and Thermal Transport in Nanofluids Inside Microchannels

Supervisors: Prof. Sarit Kumar Das & prof. T. Sundararajan

(Thesis submitted: October 2010; Thesis defense: May 2011, PhD. Awarded: July 2011)

M. Tech. (Specialization: Thermal Engineering) CGPA-8.68

            Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (September 2001-January 2003)

Supervisor: Prof. M. Govardhan

B. E. (Mechanical Engineering)-75%

            Madan Mohan Malaviya Govt Engineering College, Gorakhpur, India

(July 1997- June 2001)

Position

Position held

Employer

Duration

Associate Professor

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

April 2022-present

Assistant Professor

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

Aug 2015-March 2022

Research Fellow

National University of Singapore

Nov 2012- Jul 2015

Post-Doctoral researcher

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi

Apr 2010- June 2012

Lecturer

GNIT, Greater Noida

Feb 2003- Nov 2005

Awards and Honors

  1. ASEM_DUO fellowship 2019 for exchange programme with University of Lisbon, Portugal
  2. NUS Postdoctoral Fellowship at NUS-2012,
  3. Masdar Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship-2010
  4. AIR-105 GATE (Mechanical Engineering) with 98.70 percentile in 2001
  5. Approx. 3100 citation with h index 20

Publications

Books Published

Book :

  1. Yan Fan, Poh Seng Lee, Pawan Kumar Singh, Yong Jiun Lee, “Thermal Transport in Oblique Finned Micro/Minichannels: Simulation, Experiment and Analysis, Springer Briefs in Thermal Engineering and Applied Science, 2015.

 

 

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

Journals Papers:

2024

  1. Motilal Chavhan, Pawan Kumar Singh, Enhancing heat pipe performance through hybrid wick structures: Balancing pore size and permeability, Applied Thermal Engineering 256 (2024) 124079, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124079
  2. Saumya Singh , Ankit Kumar, Soubhik Kumar Bhaumik, Pawan Singh & Subramanian Narayanan, Thickness Profile Measurements of Acoustic Induced Maneuvering of Thin Film Evaporation, Heat Transfer Engineering (Acceepted)
  3. Dilip Singh Naruka, Ritesh Dwivedi, and Pawan Kumar Singh 92024), Experimental Investigation to Elucidate the Temporal Effect of Nanofluids on the Thermal Performance of Heat Pipes, Heat Transfer Engineering, DOI:10.1080/01457632.2024.2325278  
  4. Meet Naik, Saumya Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh, An experimental and numerical investigation of thermofluidic properties on the novel curved microchannel heat sink with slotted section, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 243, 15 April 2024, 122493, DOI:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.122493  
  5. Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary, Pawan Kumar Singh, Parametric Influence on the Thermofluidic Characteristics of the Branched Wavy Heat Sink, J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl. Apr 2024, 16(4): 041004 (12 pages), https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064596
  6. K. Gopi Kannan , K.R. Suresh Kumar, R. Dhivagar, S. Sathyanarayanan, Pawan Kumar Singh , Dheeraj Kumar, S. Kalaiselvam, Experimental analysis of the storage of thermal power by a thermosyphon amalgamated nanophase change material in thermal management systems (2024), Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 92, 1 July 2024, 112183
  7. Gopi Kannan K.;Dhivagar R.;Singh P.K.;Nandhakumar E., Synergistic effect of stearic acid/bismuth oxychloride/cupric oxide for thermal storage applications: preparation, stability, rheological and thermophysical analysis, Physica Scripta, Volume 99, Year 2024, DOI:10.1088/1402-4896/ad49e2  
  8. Singh G.;Singh P.K.;Saxena A.;Kumar N.;Singh D.B., Investigation of conical passive solar still by incorporating energy metrics, efficiency, and sensitivity analyses for sustainable solar distillation, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 434, Year 2024, DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139949  

2023

  1. K Gopi Kannan, KR Suresh Kumar, R Dhivagar, S Sathyanarayanan, R Parameshwaran, Pawan Kumar Singh , An experimental study on heat power stored by thermal dissipation in electronic components using thermosyphon integrated hybrid nanocomposite phase change material, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 72, Part D, 30 November 2023, 108630, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.108630-Q2
  2. Gajendra SinghPawan Kumar SinghAbhishek SaxenaRitvik DobriyalNavneet Kumar & Desh Bandhu Singh, Exergo-enviro-economic and yearly productivity analyses of conical passive solar still for sustainable solar distillation, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Accepted) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-29519-0-Q2
  3. S. Singh, P.K. Singh, S.K.Bhaumik, Magnetic-field induced flattening of evaporating ferro-nanofluid meniscus for enhanced cooling, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 218, January 2024, 124785, DOI:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.124785- Q1
  4.  Sakshi Tyagi, Pawan Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Tiwari , Advancements in Performance of Zinc Oxide/Carbon Quantum Dots based Photovoltaic Trigeneration System using Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Volume 60, December 2023, 103501, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2023.103501-Q3
  5. S. Singh, P.K. Singh, S.K.Bhaumik, Experimental investigation of thickness profile in an extended meniscus of thin film evaporation using reflectometry, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Volume 151, 1 February 2024, 111069, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2023.111069. -Q1

2022

  1. Sakshi Tyagi, Pawan Kumar Singh, Arun KumarTiwari (2022) Photovoltaic Parameter Extraction and Optimisation of ZnO/GO based Hybrid Solar Trigeneration System using SCAPS 1D, Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 70, October 2022, Pages 205-224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2022.08.001, IF-5.655, Q1
  2. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh (2022) Influence of oblique angle variations on the thermo-hydraulic characteristics of the oblique fin heat sink with Al2O3 water nanofluid, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications (Accepted),  https://doi.org/10.1080/10407782.2022.2107839, IF-2.569, Q1
  3. Ritesh Dwivedi and Pawan Singh (2022) Thin Film Evaporation: New insights with Nanofluid Inclusion and Component of the Electrostatic Interactions" Physics of Fluids 34, 102005 ; https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0117978. IF-4.980, Q1
  4. Ritesh Dwivedi, Saumya Singh and Pawan Singh (2022) Effect of Nanofluid and Electrostatic Disjoining Pressure on Heat Transfer from an Evaporating Meniscus, Heat Transfer Engineering, Volume 44, Number 19, 28 October 2023, pp. 1733-1746(14), https://doi.org/10.1080/01457632.2022.2148344, IF-2.431, Q2

2021

  1. Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary, Pawan Kumar Singh (2021)Thermofluidic Analysis of Al2O3-water nanofluid cooled branched wavy heat sink, , Applied Thermal Engineering (Accepted)-Q1
  2. Devendra YadavDilip Singh Naruka & Pawan Kumar Singh (2021), The insight flow characteristics of concentrated MWCNT in water base fluid: experimental study and ANN modelling, Heat and Mass Transfer (Accepted). –Q2
  3. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh (2021), Thermofluidic characteristic of a nanofluid-cooled oblique fin heat sink: An experimental and numerical investigation,
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume 171, January 2022, 107214-Q1
  4. Sakshi Tyagi, Pawan Kumar Singh, Arun Kumar Tiwari, Pritam Pain (2021), Optimization and Comparison of Photovoltaic Parameters of Zinc Oxide (ZnO)/Graphene Oxide (GO) and Zinc Oxide (ZnO)/Carbon Quantum Dots (CQDs) Hybrid solar cell using Firefly Algorithm for application in Solar Trigeneration System in Commercial Buildings, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Volume 47, October 2021, 101357.-Q2

2020

  1. Dilip Singh Naruka, ,Ritesh Dwivedi &Pawan Kumar Singh (2020), Experimental inquisition of heat pipe: performance evaluation for different fluids, Experimental Heat Transfer (Accepted), https://doi.org/10.1080/08916152.2020.1713254-Q1
  2. Devendra Yadav, Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary, Pawan Kumar Singh (2020), Rheological characteristics of CeO2, Al2O3 and their hybrid mixture in ethylene glycol base fluid in the wide range of temperature and concentration, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 143, 1003–1019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09863-w.-Q2
  3. Desh BandhuSingh, Gajendra Singh, Navneet Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh, Akhileshwar Nirala, RajeevKumar (2020), Effect of mass flow rate on energy payback time of single slope solar desalination unit coupled with N identical compound parabolic concentrator collectors, Materials today: proceedings, Volume 28, Part 4, 2020, Pages 2551-2556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.05.137
  4. Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary, Pawan Kumar Singh (2020) Influence of secondary pass location on thermo-fluidic characteristic on the novel air-cooled branched wavy minichannel heat sink: A comprehensive numerical and experimental analysis, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 182, 5 January 2021, 115994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.115994. –Q1
  5. Ritesh Dwivedi, Sukumar Pati & Pawan K. Singh (2020),  Combined effects of wall slip and nanofluid on interfacial transport from a thin-film evaporating meniscus in a microfluidic channel, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics volume 24, Article number: 84 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-020-02390-y.-Q2

2019

  1. Ritesh Dwivedi & Pawan Kumar Singh (2019) Numerical analysis of an evaporating thin film region: Enticing influence of nanofluid, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 75:1, 56-70, DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2018.1562745.  –Q1 when published.
  2. Sanjeev Kumar & Pawan Kumar Singh, (2019), Effects of Flow Inlet Angle on Flow Maldistribution and Thermal Performance of Water Cooled Mini-channel Heatsink, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Volume 138, April 2019, Pages 504-511.doi; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.01.014-Q1
  3. Sanjeev Kumar, Mithun Sarkar, Pawan Kumar Singh, Poh Seng Lee, (2019), Study of thermal and hydraulic performance of air cooled minichannel heatsink with novel geometries, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 103 (2019) 31–42, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2019.02.008.-Q1
  4. Sanjeev Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh (2019) A Novel Approach to Manage Temperature Non-Uniformity in Minichannel Heat Sink by Using Intentional Flow Maldistribution, Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 163, 25 December 2019, 114403.-Q1
  5. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar, Poh Seng Lee & Pawan Kumar Singh (2019) , Numerical investigation of thermal and hydraulic performance in novel oblique geometry using nanofluid, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Volume 76, 2019 - Issue 7, DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2019.1642076.- Q1 when published.
  6. Shitanshu Sapre, Kapil Pareek, Rupesh Rohan, Pawan Kumar Singh (2019), H2 refueling assessment of composite storage tank for fuel cell vehicle, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Volume 44, Issue 42, 3 September 2019, Pages 23699-23707. –Q2
  7. Shitanshu Sapre, Kapil Pareek, Rupesh Rohan, Pawan Kumar Singh (2019), Investigation of compressed hydrogen refueling process of 60 L type IV tank used in fuel cell vehicles, Energy Storage (Accepted). https://doi.org/10.1002/est2.91
  8. Devendra Yadav, Prabhat Dansena, Subrata Kumar Ghosh, Pawan Kumar Singh (2019), A Unique Multilayer Perceptron Model (ANN) for Different Oxide/EG 2 Nanofluid’s Viscosity from the Experimental Study, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (Accepted) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.124030- Q2 when published

2018

  1. Pawan K. Singh , Dilip Singh Naruka, Lee Poh Seng (2018), Numerical Investigation Of Flow And Heat Transfer Of Nanofluids In A Wavy Microchannel, International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment,  Volume 19, 2018 Issue 1-2, pages 19-35,

2017

  1. Ong LJYChong LHJin LSingh P.K.Lee PSYu HAnanthanarayanan ALeo HLToh YC (2017) A Pump-Free Microfluidic 3D Perfusion Platform For The Efficient Differentiation Of Human Hepatocyte-Like Cells. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2017 Oct;114(10):2360-2370. doi: 10.1002/bit.26341. Epub 2017 Jun 27.-Q1

2016

  1. Mou N, Yong Jiun Lee, Pawan K Singh, Saif Khan, Lee Poh Seng (2016) Investigations on the Influence of Flow Migration on Flow and Heat Transfer in Oblique Fin Microchannel Array. ASME- J Heat Transfer, Oct 2016, 138(10): 102403 (13 pages) https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4033540  -Q2
  2. Zhong Lin Chiam, Poh Seng lee, Pawan K. Singh, Mou Nasi (2016),  Investigation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Wavy Micro-Channels with Alternating Secondary Branches, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 101, October 2016, Pages 1316-1330.-Q1

2015 and before

  1. Ali, M., Singh, P., Tesfai, W. and Shatilla, Y., “An Experimental Study of Heat Pipe Performance Using Nanofluids,” Int. J. of Green Energy, 2015 (12), 225-229.-Q4
  2. Yong Jiun Lee, Pawan K. Singh, Poh Seng Lee, “Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Investigations on Enhanced Microchannel Heat Sink using Oblique Fins with Parametric Study, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 81, February 2015, Pages 325–336.-Q1
  3. Kalpana Sarojini K G; Manoj Siva V; Pawan K Singh; Pradeep T and Sarit K. Das; Electrical conductivity of metallic and ceramic nanofluids, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 417, 20 January 2013, Pages 39–46(2012). –Q2
  4. Waka Tesfai, Pawan K. Singh; Youssef Shatilla, Muhammad Iqbal, Ahmed A. Abdala, Rheology and Microstructure of Dilute Graphene Oxide suspension, J. Nanoparticle Research, vol15:1989 (2013)-Q1.
  5. Pawan K. Singh, P.V. Harikrishna, T. Sundararajan, S.K. Das, “Experimental and numerical investigation into the hydrodynamics of nanofluids in microchannels”, Experimental Thermal & Fluid Sciences, Volume 42, October 2012, Pages 174–186-Q1.
  6. Waka Tesfai, Pawan K. Singh, Salim Masharqah, Matteo Cheisa, Youssef Shatilla, “Effect of Temperature on Turbulent and Laminar Flow Efficacy Analysis of Nanofluids” Journal of Applied Physics. 111, 064319 (2012)-Q1.
  7. Waka Tesfai, Pawan K. Singh, Salim J. S. Masharqa, Tewfik Souier, Matteo Chiesa, and Youssef Shatilla, “Investigating the effect of suspensions nanostructure on the thermophysical properties of nanofluids”, J. Appl. Phys. 112, 114315 (2012)-Q1.
  8. Pawan K. Singh, P.V. Harikrishna, T. Sundararajan, S.K. Das, “Experimental and numerical investigation into the heat transfer study of nanofluids in microchannel”, ASME- J. of Heat Transfer.  Volume 133, issue 12, December 2011. (In top 10 most downloaded papers in J. heat transfer in Oct 2011-December 2011).-Q1.
  9. Soujit Sen Gupta, V. Manoj Siva, Sreenath Krishnan, T. S. Sreeprasad, Pawan K. Singh,T. Pradeep, and Sarit K. Das, Thermal Conductivity enhancement of nanofluids containing Graphene nanosheets, “J. Appl. Phys. 110, 084302 (2011)-Q1.
  10. Pawan K. Singh, KB Anoop, H. Patel, T. Sundararajan, T.Pradeep, S.K. Das “Anomalous Size Dependent Rheological Behavior of Alumina Based Nanofluids” Int. J. of Micro-Nano Scale Transport, Volume 1, Number 2 / June 2010, pp. 179-188.
  11. Pawan K. Singh, K.B. Anoop, T. Sundararajan, S.K. Das, “Entropy generation due to flow and heat transfer in Nanofluids”, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issues 21-22, October 2010, pp. 4757-4767-Q1.
  12. J. Buongiorno, DC Venerus,......., Pawan K. Singh, H. Patel, S.K. Das., T. Sundararajan, “A Benchmark Study on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids- (INPBE)” - J. Appl. Physics., 106, 094312 (2009) Q1.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. Pawan K. Singh, KB Anoop, H. Patel, T. Sundararajan, T.Pradeep, SK Das, “Anomalous Size Dependent Rheological Behavior of Alumina Based Nanofluids”, 2nd Micro and Nano Flows Conference, West London, UK, 1-2 September 2009.
  2. Pawan K. Singh and M. Govardhan, “Unsteady flow behind an axial compressor”, The AEESEAP International Conference 2005, Engineering a Better Environment for Mankind”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 7-9, 2005.
  3. Pawan K. Singh, T. Sundararajan, SK Das, “Hydrodynamic Study of nanofluid in Microchannel”, ASME 2009 Micro/nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference December 18-21, 2009, Shanghai, China.
  4. Pawan K. Singh, KB Anoop, T. Sundararajan, SK Das, “Entropy generation due to flow and heat transfer in Nanofluids”, 20th National and 9th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Bombay, India, January 4-6, 2010.
  5. Pawan K. Singh, T. Sundararajan, SK Das, “Numerical Simulation of Flow of Nanofluids in Microchannel”, ASME international conference on Heat Transfer, IHTC14, Washington DC, USA,  8th – 13th August, 2010.
  6. Pawan K. Singh, Nouman Ahmed, S.K. Das, Youssef Shatilla, “Exergy analysis of nanofluids in microchannel” Proceeding of ASME 2011 9th International Conference on Nanochannels Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM2011, Edmonton, Canada, June 19-22, 2011.
  7. Nouman Ahmed, Pawan K. Singh, Isam Janajreh, Youssef Shatilla, “simulation of flow inside heat pipe: sensitivity study, conditions and configuration”, Proceedings of ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 9th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference ESFuelCell2011 August 7-10, 2011, Washington, DC, USA.
  8. Waka Tesfai, Pawan K. Singh, Salim J.S. Masharqah, Matteo Cheisa, Youssef Shatilla, “Rheological study of Y2O3 nanofluids” Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, IMECE 2011, November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado.
  9. Pawan K. Singh, Nouman Ahmed, Mohd. Ibrahim Ali, Youssef Shatilla, “Numerical analaysis of nanofluids in heat pipe” Proceedings of the ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering. Congress & Exposition, IMECE 2011, November 11-17, 2011, Denver, Colorado.
  10. Salim J.S. Masharqah, Waka Tesfai, Pawan K. Singh, Matteo Cheisa, Youssef Shatilla, “Thermal Conductivity behavior of Y2O3 nanofluids” Proceedings of the ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference MNHMT 2012, March 3-6, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia.
  11. Mohamed I Ali, Pawan K. Singh, Waka Tesfai, Youssef Shatilla, “An experimental study of heat pipe performance using nanofluids”, “Proceeding of Int conference on Applied energy ICAE 2012, Jul 5-8, 2012, Suzhou, China.
  12. Pawan K. Singh, Samuel Tan, C. J Teo, P.S. Lee, “Flow and Heat transfer in branched wavy microchannels”, Proceedings of the ASME 2013 4th Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference MNHMT 2013, December 11-14, 2013, Hong Kong, China.
  13. Dilip Singh Naruka, Pawan K. Singh, “Effect of Brownian motion on Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids”, Proceeding of the 6th International and 43rdNational Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 15-17, 2016, MNNITA, Allahabad, U.P., India.
  14. Dilip Singh Naruka, Pawan K. Singh, Prabhat Dansena, H.E. Patel, “ Experimental evaluation and ann modeling of thermal conductivity of al2o3 nanoparticles dispersed in different base fluids”, Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFEHeat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), December 27-30, 2017, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
  15. Gautam, Dilip Singh Naruka, Ritesh Kumar, Pawan K. Singh, “ Heat Transfer Performance of a Novel Composite Heat Sink”, Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFEHeat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), December 27-30, 2017, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
  16. Dilip Singh Naruka, Pawan K. Singh, Prabhat Dansena, H.E. Patel, “Thermal conductivity prediction of cuonanofluid using artificial neural network”, INCOM18: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India January 4 – 6, 2018.
  17. Shanti Lata Das, Pawan K. Singh, Nitish Sagar, Dilip Singh Naruka, “Analysis Of Heat Transfer And Fluid Flow In Novel Branched Wavy Microchannel Using Nanofluid”, Proceedings of the 24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFEHeat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2017), December 27-30, 2017, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India.
  18. Devendra Yadav, Ritesh Kumar, Dilip Singh Naruka and Pawan Kumar Singh. “Experimental Investigation on Viscosity of the Nanofluids with different Parameters”. International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering ATSMDE-2017, VJTI, Mumbai, India, 21-22 December, 2017.
  19. Mithun Sarkar, Ritesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh. “Numerical investigation of single phase gas flow through Straight, Wavy and Branched Wavy Minichannels”. International Conference on Advances in Thermal Systems, Materials and Design Engineering ATSMDE-2017, VJTI, Mumbai, India, 21-22 December, 2017.
  20. Sanjeev Kumar, Om P. Pandit, Pawan.K. Singh and A.K.Singh.’’ Thermal analysis of stress distribution in the vicinity of underground coal gasification (UCG)’’International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India January 4 – 6, 2018.
  21. Ritesh Kumar, Nitish Sagar and Pawan Kumar Singh. ‘’Heat transfer and fluid flow in oblique finned channel’’ International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata India January 4 – 6, 2018.
  22. Sanjeev Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh “ Numerical study to investigate flow maldistribution in minichannel heat sink with modified inlet/outlet arrangement” Fifth International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems THERMACOMP2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, July 9-11, 2018.
  23. Ritesh Dwivedi and Pawan Kumar Singh “Decisive influence of nanofluid on thin evaporating meniscus”. 23rd International Conference THERMOPHYSICS 2018 in Smolenice, Slovakia (7th – 9th Nov, 2018). AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1988, No. 1, p. 020043). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5047637.
  24. Devendra Yadav, Ritesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh; Experimental Investigation on Rheology Property of MWCNT-Al2O3/Water Hybrid Nanofluid; International Conference on Thermophysics 2018; Smolenice, Slovakia; 7-9 Nov 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5047636.
  25. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar, and Pawan Kumar Singh. "Heat Transfer Enhancement in Oblique Finned Channel." In Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, pp. 157-167. Springer, Singapore, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6416-7_15.
  26. Sanjeev Kumar, Ritesh Dwivedi, and Pawan Kumar Singh. "Effect of Flow Maldistribution on Thermal Performance of Water-Cooled Minichannel Heat Sink." In Advances in Fluid and Thermal Engineering, pp. 43-52. Springer, Singapore, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6416-7_5.
  27. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh, “Effect of Varying Oblique Angles on Heat Transfer Enhancement in Oblique Channel”, International Conference on Recent Innovations & Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME 2018) NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India, November 8 – 10, 2018.
  28. Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary and Pawan Kumar Singh, “Parametric Study Of Wavy Microchannel Using Nanofluid”, International Conference on Recent Innovations & Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME 2018), NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India, November 8 – 10, 2018.
  29. Badyanath Tiwary, Ritesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh “Effect of varying oblique width on Heat Transfer Enhancement of oblique Channel with Nanofluid”, International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2018) IIT BOMBAY ,INDIA, December 10-12, 2018.
  30. Ritesh Kumar, Badyanath Tiwary and Pawan Kumar Singh “Effect of Wavy Microchannel on Heat Transfer Performance with Nanofluid”, International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP-2018) IIT BOMBAY, INDIA December 10-12, 2018.
  31. Sanjeev Kumar and Pawan Kumar Singh, Numerical Study of intentional flow maldistribution in minichannel heat sink under non uniform heating, International Conference on Thermal Engineering, Gandhinagar, India, Feb 25 -28, 2019. Yadav, D., Tiwary, B., Naruka, D. S., & Singh, P. K. (2019). Scaling Analysis of Nanofluid Flowing Inside a Circular Micro Channel. In Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019). Begel House Inc. https://doi.org/10.1615/IHMTC-2019.700.
  32. Kumar, R., Tiwary, B, & Singh, P. K. (2019). Investigation of Thermal Performance in Novel Wavy Geometry with Nanofluids. In Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), IIT Roorkee
  33. Tiwary, B., Kumar, R., & Singh, P. K. (2019). Parametric Investigation on Thermal Performance in Novel Oblique Geometry with Nanofluids. In Proceedings of the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), IIT Roorkee, India
  34. Kumar, R., Tiwary, B, & Singh, P. K. (2020), Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in Air-cooled Novel Wavy Geometry: Conference: Proceedings of the 8th International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) December 09-11, 2020, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, Assam, India.
  35. Ritesh Dwivedi, Saumya Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh, “Effect of nanoparticles in a polar/non-polar liquid of an evaporating thin-film meniscus”, Proceedings of CONV-22: International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (June 5 – 10, 2022), held in Turkey, available online at ICHMT Digital Library. DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2022.CONV22.
  36. Ritesh Dwivedi, Saumya Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh, “Effect of nanofluid and electrostatic disjoining pressure on heat transfer from an evaporating meniscus”, 1st International Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Sciences (ICFAMMT-2022), in IITRAM & Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India (Jan 20-22, 2022).
  37. Saumya Singh, Ritesh Dwivedi, Soubhik Kumar Bhaumik, Pawan Kumar Singh, “Measurement of evaporating thin film thickness of a microfluidic channel using reflectometer”, 27th International Meeting Thermophysics 2022 (October 4 – 6, 2022), held in Dalešice Brewery, Dalešice, Czech Republic, available online at AIP Conference Proceedings, 2894 (2023), 020018. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162980.
  38. Ankit Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh, and S. Narayanan, “A 3D Numerical Approach for a Microchannel Flow Characteristics under an Acoustic Field.” In Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, ISHMT Digit Libr. (2023), 663–8. https://doi.org/10.1615/IHMTC-2023.1070.
  39. K Gopi Kannan, P Vinoth Kumar, Pawan Kumar Singh, Enhancement in thermal management of electronic devices using thermosyphon assist phase change material: An experimental study, International Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC’2023), Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India, December 14-17, 2023.
  40. K Gopi Kannan, Pawan Kumar Singh, Experimental study on storage of heat power by heat dissipation in electronic modules using thermic fluids and phase change material, International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP’2023), Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India, December 20-22, 2023.
  41. Saumya Singh, Motilal Chavhan, Pawan Kumar Singh, Soubhik Kumar Bhaumik, “Thickness profile measurement of a nanofluid thin film meniscus using reflectometry” 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (December 14-17, 2023), held at IIT Patna. DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2023.400
  42. Saumya Singh, Ankit Kumar, Soubhik Kumar Bhaumik, S. Narayanan, Pawan Kumar Singh, “Effect of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) on the thickness profile of an evaporating thin film meniscus using reflectometry”, 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (December 20-22, 2023), held at IIT Jodhpur.
  43. Saumya Singh, Ankit Kumar, Soubhik Kumar Bhaumik, S. Narayanan, Pawan Kumar Singh, “Transient thickness profile measurement of the extended thin film meniscus using reflectometry”, 2nd International Conference on Futuristic Advancements in Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Sciences (ICFAMMT-2022), in IITRAM & Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India (Jan 19-21, 2024).
  44. Motilal Chavhan, Saumya Singh, Pawan Kumar Singh, “An experimental investigation on thermal performance of heat pipe” 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (December 14-17, 2023), held at IIT Patna. DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2023.1470
  45. Deepika, Kumari, Ashutosh Kumar, and Pawan Kumar Singh. "Numerical simulation of air-water two phase flow regimes in mini channel heat sink." Proceedings of the 27th National and 5th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference December 14-17, 2023, IIT Patna, Patna-801106, Bihar, India. Begel House Inc., 2024.

Patents

Patent:

  1. A SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THICKNESS OF FLAT AND OBLIQUE FILM OF POLAR LIQUID AND NANOFLUID, Indian Patent Application No. 202331006061 dated 31.01.2023 in the name of Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-Applied
  2. AN IMPROVED MICRO-CHANNEL HEAT SINK DEVICE WITH CURVED SECTION FOR EFFICIENT COOLING OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES, Indian Patent Application No. 202331032045 dated  05.05.2023 in the name of Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-Applied

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Sl. No.

Project Title

Amount in Rs. (Lakh)

Role

Funding agency

Duration

Status

Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement In Some Novel Geometries Using Nanofluids For Electronic Cooling Application

33.22

PI

DST (SERB)

2016-2020 (42 Months)

Sanction Date:27.09.2016

Completed

To Augment the Research Facilities In The Department

192

Co-PI

DST

5 Years

Sanction date: 14.03.2019

Ongoing

Effect of Nanofluids On Performance of Heat Pipe

9.6

PI

Institute FRS Scheme

2016-2019 (36 Months)

Sanction date:22.04.2016

Completed

Heat Transfer Performance of a Novel Composite Heat Sink

2.0

PI

TEQIP-II

2016-2017 (6 Months)-25.11.2016

Completed

Study of two phase flow

0.5

PI

SERB

June 2021-present

Completed

Investigation of thermofluidic characteristic of nanofluid-cooled microchannels

0.5

PI

SERB

June 2021-present

Completed

Evaluation of an evaporating nanofluid meniscus for improved performance of Heat Pipes

33.7

PI

DST (SERB)-

December 2021

Ongoing

Measurement of evaporating thin film thickness in microchannels

0.6

PI

SERB

Jun 2022-Dec 2022

Completed

Membership of Scientific Societies

Life member of Indian society of heat and Mass Transfer

Life member of Space Society of Mechanical Engineers

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Sl No

Name of position hold

Duration

From

To

Hostel Warden (Sapphire Hostel)

01.06.2018

30.06.2020

Chief warden (Sapphire Hostel)

01.07.2020

30.06.2021

Convener, DUGC

10.08.2020

25.10.2022

Mechanical in-Charge, Naresh Vashishth Centre for Tinkering and Innovation

18.07.2020

15.06.2024

Member, Documentation cell

14.12.2018

24.10.2021

Member, Dean’s Council (IRAAA)

09.09.2019

Present

Member, Dean’s Council (R &D)

09.09.2019

Present

Member, Goal Setting committee

19.04.2017

11.04.2018

Member, CIIE

18.07.2019

Present

Member, Dept faculty selection committee

September 2019

30.11.2021

Faculty in-charge, Heat Transfer Lab

08.09.2020

Present

Faculty in-charge- Advanced Fluid mechanics and Heat Transfer Lab

08.09.2020

Present

Member, DPAC

 

Reviewer

  1. PhD Thesis, Defense Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune
  2. DST (SERB) ECR project
  3. National Innovation foundation (MANAK Scheme)
  4. Nature-Scientific report
  5. International Journal of heat and Mass Transfer (Received certificate for outstanding contribution in reviewing in IJHMT by Elsevier)
  6. Experimental Thermal & Fluid Science
  7. International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  8. Heat Transfer engineering
  9. Energy
  10. Applied Thermal Engineering
  11. Journal of Molecular Liquids
  12. International Communication in heat and Mass Transfer
  13. Experimental Heat Transfer
  14. Journal of Thermal analysis and Calorimetry
  15. Journal of Nanoparticle research
  16. Thermal Sciences and Engineering Progress
  17. Heat Transfer
  18. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
  19. Ultrasonics and many more
  20. Many national and international conferences

Guidance

Sl.No-

Name

Area of research

Role

Registration/ type

Status

Current status

Sanjeev Kumar

Single and two phase flow maldistrubution in minichannel

Guide

2016/full time

Degree Awarded

Post doc, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi

Badyanath Tiwari

Nanofluids in Oblique finned microchannel

Guide

2017/ full time (project JRF)

Degree Awarded.

TCS R & D, Bangalore

Ritesh Kumar

Nanofluid in Branched wavy microchannel

Guide

2016/ part time (Converted from full time to part time)

Degree Awarded

Lecturer, Bhagalpur Engineering College

Dilip Singh Naruka (2015DR0299)

Nanofluids with heat pipe

Guide

2015/ part time (Converted from full time to part time)

Degree Awarded

Section Engineer, Indian Railway

Sakshi Tyagi

Nanostructure composites for hybrid solar cell

Guide

2016/part time

Degree Awarded

Lecturer, Haldia Institute of technology

Ritesh Dwivedi

Thin film evaporation with nanofluids

Guide

2017/ full time

Degree Awarded

TCS R & D, Bangalore

Gajendra Singh (18DP000382)

Energy and exergy analysis of active solar still loaded with nanofluids

Guide

2018/part time

Thesis submitted

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Saumya Singh (19DR0137)

Thin Film Evaporation

Guide

2019/ Full time

Thesis submitted

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Ankit Kumar (21DR0024)

Acoustofludics

Guide

2021/ Full time

Ongoing

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Kumari Deepika (21DR0083)

Two phase flow maldistribution

Guide

2021/ Full time

Ongoing

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Motilal S Chavhan (22DR0128)

Heat Pipe

Guide

2022/Full time/project

Ongoing

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Kumar Deepak (22DR0106)

Battery Thermal management

Guide

2022/Full Time

Ongoing

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Manish Kumar

Heat Sink and Heat Pipe

Guide

2024/Full Time

Ongoing

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