Faculty details

Prof.Vishnu Teja Mantripragada

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Fuel, Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering

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

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Research Interest: Process Metallurgy, Alternate Ironmaking, Green Steelmaking, Sustainable Metallurgy, Multiphysics Processes, Transport Phenomena, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Teaching

  1. Numerical Methods in Metallurgical Engineering – Jul 2024
  2. Mathematical Modeling of Metallurgical Processes – Jul 2023, Jul 2022
  3. Thermodynamics and Kinetics – Jan 2023, Jan 2024, Jan 2025
  4. Waste Processing and Management – May 2023, Jul 2022, Jan 2022
  5. Transport Phenomena – Jul 2023
  6. Research Methodology – Jul 2024, Jan 2025
  7. Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory – Jul 2023
  8. Computer Applications in Metallurgical Engineering Laboratory – Jul 2024

Academics

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher
    Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
    Jan 2020 – Jun 2021

  • M.S. + Ph.D. (Dual Degree)
    Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
    Jul 2013 – Sep 2019
    Thesis: Study of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Gas-Stirred Steelmaking Ladles

Position

  • Assistant Professor
    Department of Fuel, Minerals, and Metallurgical Engineering,
    Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India
    Jul 2021 – Present

Awards and Honors

  • Support Grant Winner – Selected as a winner of the support grant ($500) for the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea. (May 2024)

  • Teaching Appreciation – Received a letter of appreciation from the Director, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, for excellent teaching feedback in two different courses in the Monsoon semester 2022-23. (Jan 2023)

  • Excellent Reviewer – Recipient of the Reviewer Appreciation Certificate awarded by the journal Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, Springer. (May 2022)

  • Best Paper Award – For the paper “An optimization of microchannel heat sink with offset grooves for enhanced thermal performance”, presented at the International Conference on Advances in Thermal Engineering and Applications (ICTEA 2021), SRM Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. (Mar 2021)

  • Institute Research Award – In recognition of exemplary research conducted during the research period at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. (Sep 2019)

  • Third Prize for Demonstration of Amphibian Robot Prototype – Awarded in Conscientia 2011, Annual Technical and Astronomy Festival, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum. (Mar 2011)

Publications

Books Published

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

  1. Lipak Kumar Sahoo, Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Sabita Sarkar. Mathematical Modeling of Fluidized Bed Magnetizing Roasting of Iron Ore Fines, Steel Research International, 2400446, 2025, DOI:10.1002/srin.202400446.
  2. Soumen Chakraborty, Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Aranyak Chakravarty, Debkalpa Goswami, Antarip Poddar. Unravelling the complex interplay between abnormal hemorheology and shape asymmetry in flow through stenotic arteries, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 257, 108437, 2024, DOI:10.1016/j.cmpb.2024.108437.
  3. Pankaj Kumar and Vishnu Teja Mantripragada. An Optimization of Grooves Structure for Thermal Performance Enhancement in Microchannel Heat Sink, Heat Transfer Engineering, 45, 1–12, 2023, DOI:10.1080/01457632.2023.2268868.
  4. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Antarip Poddar. Rheology dictated spreading regimes of a non-isothermal sessile drop, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 951, A42, 2022, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.900.
  5. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. Multi-Objective Optimization of Bottom Purged Steelmaking Ladles, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 75, 2289–2298, 2022, DOI:10.1007/s12666-022-02602-9.
  6. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Krishanu Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, and Sabita Sarkar. Modeling of powder production during centrifugal atomization, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy, 7, 620–629, 2021, DOI:10.1007/s40831-021-00370-2.
  7. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Srikrishna Sahu, and Sabita Sarkar. Morphology and flow behavior of buoyant bubble plumes, Chemical Engineering Science, 229, 116098-116113, 2021, DOI:10.1016/j.ces.2020.116098.
  8. Prithvi R.Y., Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, and Sabita Sarkar. On path oscillation of a particle-laden bubble in stationary liquid, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 73, 2061-2067, 2020, DOI:10.1007/s12666-020-01966-0.
  9. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. Slag eye formation in single and dual bottom purged industrial steelmaking ladles, Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 59(2), 159-168, 2020, DOI:10.1080/00084433.2020.1715697.
  10. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, Prithvi R.Y., and Sabita Sarkar. On oscillations of asymmetrically coalescing bubbles. Minerals Engineering, 132, 76-83, 2019, DOI:10.1016/j.mineng.2018.12.002.
  11. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. Wall stresses in dual bottom purged steelmaking ladles. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 139, 335-345, 2018, DOI:10.1016/j.cherd.2018.09.036.
  12. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. Prediction of drop size from liquid film thickness during rotary disc atomization process. Chemical Engineering Science, 158, 227-233, 2017, DOI:10.1016/j.ces.2016.10.027.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. Somenath Mukherjee, Vishnu Teja Mantripragada. Machine Learning Approach for Accurate Slag Eye Predictions in Steelmaking Ladles. Proceedings of the International Conference on Fundamental and Industrial Research on Materials (iConFIRM 2023), Springer Proceedings in Physics, 308, 2020 DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-4557-9_5.
  2. Ayush Mishra, Amit Varakhedkar, Vishnu Teja Mantripragada, and Pankaj Kumar. Numerical study of thermal performance with nanoparticles and grooves in microchannel. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India, 912, 042062, 2020, DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/912/4/042062.
  3. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. On Modeling of Modified Single Strand Slab Caster Tundish. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking & Steelmaking (STIS-2017), IIT Kanpur, India, 259-262, 2017.
  4. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada. A numerical study on mixing time in dual bottom plug argon stirred steel making ladles. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Science and Technology of Ironmaking & Steelmaking (STIS-2017), IIT Kanpur, India, 391-394, 2017.
  5. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar. Study of transient behavior of slag layer in bottom purged ladles: A CFD approach. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2017), Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA, 145-154, 2017, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-57864-4.

Patents

  1. Vishnu Teja Mantripragada and Sabita Sarkar, Single or multi-strand tundish for better inclusion separation, Indian Patent No: 201741034594, Publication date: 02-08-2019, Grant Date: 28-11-2023.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

  • Microwave integration in urban mining processes for sustainable recovery of critical elements, Rs. 40,75,270/-, Ministry of Mines, 2025, CO-PI (Ongoing)
  • To establish a Center for Advanced Microscopy for Reclamation and Alloy Development (C.A.M.R.A), Rs. 1,17,00,000/-, DST FIST, 2023, CO-PI. (Ongoing)
  • Investigation of Iron ore reduction characteristics in a hybrid microwave furnace using carbon/hydrogen, Rs. 15,00,000/-, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, 2022, PI. (Ongoing)

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • Life member, Indian Institute of Metals
  • Member, The Institution of Engineers, India.

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

  • Convenor, International Workshop on “CFD in Practice: Fundamental Research to Recent Industrial Applications”, 16 – 20 December 2024, jointly organized by the departments of Mechanical Engineering & Fuel Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.

Guidance

Ongoing

PhD
  1. Sachin Kumar
  2. Soumen Chakraborty
  3. Somenath Mukherjee
MTech
  1. Divakar Trivedee
  2. Monish Saika

Completed

MTech
  1. Rishabh Singh Bais (2024)
  2. Kratika Jain (2023)