Faculty details

Prof.SOURAV SENGUPTA

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Chemical Engineering

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

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About Me: I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad. I work in the broad area of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, with my research interests spanning hydrodynamic stability, non-Newtonian flows, flow dynamics in porous media, biological fluid dynamics, electrokinetics and microscale transport, etc. Please visit https://people.iitism.ac.in/~souravsengupta for more information.

Research Interest: Hydrodynamic Stability, Non-Newtonian Flows, Flow Dynamics In Porous Media, Biological Fluid Dynamics, Electrokinetics And Microscale Transport, Modelling & Simulation, Physics-informed Data-driven Modelling

Teaching

At IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

  • Course Instructor, Membrane Science and Engineering (CHD417) [elective course for fourth-year B.Tech candidates] - Winter 2024-2025.

  • Course Instructor, Computational Tools for Chemical Engineers Lab (NCHC104) [core course for first-year B.Tech candidates] - Winter 2024-2025.

  • Course Instructor, Computational Techniques in Chemical Engineering (CHC503/NCHC503) [core course for first-year M.Tech candidates] - Monsoon 2022-2023, Monsoon 2023-2024, Monsoon 2024-2025.

  • Course Instructor, Computational Techniques Lab (CHC507) [core course for first-year M.Tech candidates] - Monsoon 2022-2023, Monsoon 2023-2024, Monsoon 2024-2025.

  • Course Instructor, Modelling and Simulation (CHD507) [elective course] - Winter 2022-2023, Winter 2023-2024.

  • Course Instructor, Process Simulation Lab (CHC309) [core course for third-year B.Tech candidates] - Winter 2022-2023, Winter 2023-2024.

 

At IIT Kharagpur

  • Teaching Assistant, Advanced Numerical Analysis Laboratory [core course for first-year MTech candidates] - Autumn 2018-2019, Autumn 2019-2020, Autumn 2020-2021

  • Teaching Assistant, Fluid Flow Laboratory and Design [core course for second-year BTech candidates] - Spring 2017-2018, Spring 2019-2020, Spring 2020-2021

  • Teaching Assistant, Mass Transfer - II [core course for third-year BTech candidates] - Spring 2018-2019

  • Teaching Assistant, Process Equipment Design - I [core course for third-year BTech candidates] - Autumn 2017-2018

  • Teaching Assistant, Fuel Laboratory [core course for second-year BTech candidates] - Spring 2016-2017

 

Academics

  • PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2016 - 2021 [PhD Thesis: Hydrodynamic stability of non-Newtonian fluid-porous channel flows]

  • MTech, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2014 - 2016 [CGPA: 9.82; ranked 2nd in the Batch] [Mtech Thesis: Modelling of non-solvent induced phase separation during membrane casting]

  • BE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University; 2009 - 2013 [CGPA: 9.27; ranked 5th in the Batch]

Position

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad; 2022 - present

  • Production Engineer, Refineries Division, Indian Oil Corporation Limited; 2013 - 2014

Awards and Honors

  • Director's commendation for excellent teaching feedback in the course "Computational Techniques in Chemical Engineering" in Monsoon 2022-2023 session, at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

  • Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Best PhD Thesis Award [formally known as Innovative Student Projects Award at Doctoral Level for PhD Thesis] in 2022

  • Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) Ambujas Young Researcher’s Award in 2016

  • Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Best MTech Thesis Award [formally known as Innovative Student Projects Award at Master’s Level for MTech Thesis] in 2016

  • All India Rank 36 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014 in Chemical Engineering (among 15844 candidates)

  • Campus Placement offer (during Bachelors programme) in 2013 from Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), a Fortune 500 company. Worked at IOCL for one year, resigned thereafter to pursue higher studies. 

  • Selected for the TIFR Visiting Students’ Research Programme (VSRP) in 2012, a competitive summer fellowship programme awarded by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. 

  • Selected for the JNCASR Summer Research Fellowship Programme (SRFP) in 2011, a competitive fellowship programme jointly awarded by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Bangalore, India. 

  • Qualified in National Standard Examination in Astronomy (NSEA) 2006, (i.e., 1st Level of Astronomy Olympiad), by being among Top 300 students across India, and became eligible to appear for Indian National Astronomy Olympiad (INAO), conducted by HBCSE, TIFR, Govt. of India. Also, recipient of the Certificate of Merit, for being placed in the State's Top 1% (in the state of West Bengal), issued by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT), in NSEA 2006. 

Publications

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

2025

13. A. Kumar, H. Gupta, O. Ghangrekar, S. Sengupta, S. De, “Power law rheology on mass transport of neutral solute induced by mixed electroosmotic flow through rough microtube with porous wall”, Physics of Fluids, 37 (2025) 022040. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255007

 

2023

12. S. Sengupta, T. Dasgupta, D. Roy, M. Dejam, S. De, “Combined electroosmotic and pressure-driven transport of neutral solutes across a rough, porous-walled microtube”, Electrophoresis, 44 (2023) 711-724. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.202300005

11. S. Sinha, D. Roy, S. Sengupta, S. Neogi, S. De, “Froth flotation as primary treatment of flowback water: removal of total organic carbon and prediction of kinetics”, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 101 (2023) 4160-4169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cjce.24728

 

2021

10. S. Sengupta, S. De, “Effect of the transition layer on the stability of a fluid-porous configuration: Impact on power-law rheology”, Physical Review Fluids, 6 (2021) 063902. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.063902

9. S. Sengupta, S. De, “Long-time instability and transient behavior of pressure-driven flow of a power-law fluid in a plane channel overlying a porous layer”, Physics of Fluids, 33 (2021) 054109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0050723

 

2020

8. S. Sengupta, S. De, “Effect of Couette component on the stability of Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid-porous system: modal and non-modal approaches”, Physics of Fluids, 32 (2020) 064103. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0010865


 

2019

7. S. Sengupta, S. De, “Stability of Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid overlying an anisotropic and inhomogeneous porous layer”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 874 (2019) 573-605. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.464

6. S. Sengupta, S. De, “Couette-Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid through a channel overlying a porous layer”, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 265 (2019) 28-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2019.01.002

5. R. Mondal, S. Mondal, K. V Kurada, S. Bhattacharjee, S. Sengupta, M. Mondal, S. Karmakar, S. De, I. Griffiths, “Modelling the transport and adsorption dynamics of arsenic in a soil bed filter”, Chemical Engineering Science, 210 (2019) 115205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2019.115205

 

2018

4. S. Sengupta, A. Jain, S. De, “Criteria for unique steady state for enzymatic depectinization of bael (Aegle marmelos) juice in a continuous stirred tank reactor”, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 3 (2018) 333-343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7RE00212B

3. A. Jain, S. Sengupta, S. De, “Fundamental understanding of fouling mechanisms during microfiltration of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) extract and their dependence on operating conditions”, Food & Bioprocess Technology, 11 (2018) 1012-1026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11947-018-2074-9

2. K. A. Ninga, S. Sengupta, A. Jain, Z. S. C. Desobgo, E. J. Nso, S. De, “Kinetics of enzymatic hydrolysis of pectinaceous matters in Guava juice”, Journal of Food Engineering, 221 (2018) 158-166. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2017.10.022

1. A. Jain, S. Sengupta, S. De, “Effect of process parameters on aqueous extraction of thymol and other phytonutrients from herbal seed Ajwain (Trachyspermum ammi L.)”, Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 11 (2018) 27-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmap.2018.09.001

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

2020

3. S. Sengupta, S. De. “Modal and non-modal stability of plane Couette-Poiseuille flow of a viscoplastic fluid overlying a porous layer”. 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 22 - 24 November 2020, Chicago, IL, USA (Virtual Edition).

 

2018

2. S. Sengupta, S. De. “Criteria for a Unique Steady State for Guava Juice Depectinization in a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor”. AIChE Annual Meeting 2018, 28 October - 2 November 2018, held at David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

 

2015

1. S. Sengupta, S. De.  “Thermodynamic Modelling of Membrane formation by Phase Inversion technique”. Chemical Engineering Congress (CHEMCON) 2015, 27-30 December 2015, held at IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • Start-up Research Grant (SRG), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, 2023-2025

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • Life Member, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers [IIChE]
  • Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association [ISCA]
  • Life Member, Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer [ISHMT]
  • Life Member, Institution of Engineers (India) [IEI]
  • Life Member, National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power [NSFMFP]

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

  • Member, Departmental Post Graduate Committee (DPGC), Department of Chemical Engineering; 2024-present. 
  • Member, Institute Library Advisory Committee (LAC), IIT (ISM) Dhanbad; 2024-2025.
  • Member, Departmental Website Management Committee, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad; 2024 - present.
  • Faculty Advisor, Institute Anti-Ragging Squad, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad; 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025.

Guidance

Ph.D. Supervision

  • Arpan Gupta [2024 - ongoing]

  • Abinasa Sahoo [2025 - ongoing]

  • Ramesh Yadav [2025 - ongoing]

M. Tech. Supervision

  • Arpita Purkayastha [2023-2025]

  • Shivani Kumari [2023-2025]

  • Meenakshi Ravada [2024-2026]

B. Tech. Supervision

  • Indranil Sen [2021-2026] (dual major)

  • Jayesh Badgujar [2021-2025] 

  • Raja Babu [2021-2026] (dual major)

 

 

Alumni

M. Tech. Alumni

  • Karan Gaur [2022-2024] [Next: PhD scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi]

  • Sanket Gaikwad [2022-2024] [Next: Technology Transfer Officer, Scimplify]

B. Tech Alumni

  • Ashutosh Pareek [2020-2024] [Next: Market Analyst and Quant Analyst, Futures First]

  • Priyanshu Maurya [2020-2025] [Next: MTech (as part of dual degree programme), Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad]

  • Srishti Khandelwal [2020-2024] [Next: Software Development Engineer, PhonePe]

  • Atharva Kukde [2019-2023] [Next: Data Engineer at Business Intelligence Unit, Axis Bank]

  • Smriti Kumari [2019-2023] [Next: Technical Management Trainee, DCM Shriram Ltd.]