Education Qualification

Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering)

Research Areas

FEM, Computational Electromagnetics, Microwave assisted Transport, Computational fluid flow and heat transfer.

Research Ideology

Microwave Assisted Material Processing

• Computational Electromagnetics
• Chemical Reacting Systems
• Material invariant Characteristics
• closed Form Analysis
• Scattering Effect

Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer

• Heat flow Visualization and Thermal Management
• Thermodynamics and Ir-reversibility :Entropy Generation Minimization.

Finite Element Method and Modeling

Awards & Honors

• Best Paper Award, Chemcon-96, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India (1996)
• Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1997)
• Young Engineer Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering (2005)
• Amar Dye-Chem Award (for Excellence in Basic Research and Development in Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2005)
• Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Microwave Technology for Materials Processing (2006)
• UKIERI Research Fellowship, UK-India Education and Research Initiative Joint Research at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (2007)
• Diamond Jubilee Young Achiever’s Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2007)
• NASI – SCOPUS Young Scientist Award, National Academy of Science, India and Elsevier (2009)
• Herdillia Award (for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering), indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2011)
• Dr A V Rama Rao Foundation’s Best PhD Thesis and Research Award (for Excellence in Research) Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (2012)
• Herdillia Award (for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers [2011]
• NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award, National Academy of Science, India and Elsevier [2009]
• Diamond Jubilee Young Achiever’s Award, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers[2007]
• UKIERI Research Fellowship, UK-India Education and Research Initiative, Joint Research at Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK [2007]
• Invited SpeakerInternational Workshop on Microwave Technology for Materials Processing [2006]
• Amar Dye-Chem Award (for Excellence in Basic Research and Development in Chemical Engineering), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers [2005]
• Young Engineer Award, Indian National Academy of Engineering [2005]
  Academic Excellence Award, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India [1997]
• Best Paper Award, Chemcon-96, Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India [1996]