Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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Dr. Ankur Chattopadhyay

Joined Institute on : 14-Oct-2025

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • PhD
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  • Email - ankur.chattopadhyay@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 3 Years

Research : 8 Years

Research Areas

Thermal and Fluids

Award and Honours

Fellowships:

  • Postdoctoral fellowship to pursue research at Aalto University, Finland in Academy of Finland (AoF) project, Feb 2022 – June 2024.
  • Director Fellowship (based on academic excellence during PhD), IIT Ropar, Sep 2019 – Jan 2020.
  • DAAD Fellowship - IIT Master Sandwich Program, 2012.

 

Publications

PEER REVIEWED  JOURNAL ARTICLES (reverse chronological order) 

J15. Purbarun Dhar, Ankur Chattopadhay, Deepak K Agarwal “Morphing evaporative heat and mass transport of nanofluid droplets by electric field ”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 163, 111399 (2025).

J14. Moutushi D. Choudhury, Tapati Dutta, Ankur Chattopadhay, “Pattern formation on hydrophobic PDMS substrates by evaporating droplets: combined effect of substrate stiffness, relative humidity and particle size”, Physica Scripta, 99, 095969 (2024).

J13. Ankur ChattopadhyaySrinivas Rao SOmkar HegdeSaptarshi Basu, “Malleable patterns from the evaporation of colloidal liquid bridge: coffee ring to the scallop shell”, Langmuir, 38, 5590-5602 (2022).

J12. Sreeparna Majee, Atish Roy Chowdhury, Roven Pinto, Ankur Chattopadhyay, Amey Nitin Agharkar, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Saptarshi Basu, “Spatiotemporal evaporating droplet dynamics on fomites enhances long term bacterial pathogenesis”, Communications Biology 4: 1173 (2021).

J11. Purbarun Dhar, Vimal Saini, Ankur Chattopadhyay, and Devranjan Samanta “Electro-viscoelasticity of agarose based electrorheological fluids”, Physics of Fluids, 33, 013101 (2021).

J10. Saptarshi Basu, D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Ankur Chattopadhyay, and Joita Chakraborty. "Dissolution dynamics of a vertically confined sessile droplet", Physical Review E, 103, 013101 (2021).

J9. Omkar Hegde, Ankur Chattopadhyay, and Saptarshi Basu “Universal spatio-topological control of crystallization in sessile droplets using non-intrusive vapor mediation.”, Physics of Fluids, 33, 012101 (2021).

J8. Ankur Chattopadhyay, Raghvendra Dwivedi, A R Harikrishnan, and Purbarun Dhar. “Ferro-advection aided evaporation kinetics of ferrofluid droplets in magnetic field ambience”, Physics of Fluids 32, 082001 (2020).

J7. Ankur Chattopadhyay, Subhajyoti Samanta, Rajendra Srivastava, Rajib Mondal, and Purbarun Dhar. "Elemental substitution tuned magneto elastoviscous behavior of nanoscale ferrite MFe2O4 (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) based complex fluids.Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 491 (2019), 165622.

J6. Purbarun Dhar, Ankur Chattopadhyay, Lakshmi Sirisha Maganti, and Anilakkad Raman Harikrishnan. “Streamer evolution arrest governed amplified AC breakdown strength of graphene and CNT colloids.” European Physical Journal Applied Physics 85, no. 3 (2019): 30402.

J5. Ankur Chattopadhyay and Purbarun Dhar."Dielectric relaxation behaviors and dissipation characteristics of colloidal nanocarbon (graphene and CNTs) complex fluids.Journal of Applied Physics 125, no. 3 (2019): 034103.

J4. Ankur Chattopadhyay and Purbarun Dhar. "Deterministic role of frequency, amplitude and concentration regimes on the complex dielectric relaxation of colloidal complex fluids.Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 555 (2018): 304-313.

J3. Ankur Chattopadhyay, Poonam Rani, Rajendra Srivastava, and Purbarun Dhar. "Electro-elastoviscous response of polyaniline functionalized nano-porous zeolite based colloidal dispersions", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 519 (2018): 242-254.

J2. Ankur Chattopadhyay and Arvind Pattamatta. "A comparative study of submicron phonon transport using the Boltzmann transport equation and the lattice Boltzmann method", Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals 66, no. 4 (2014): 360-379.

J1. Ankur Chattopadhyay and Arvind Pattamatta., "Energy transport across submicron porous structures: a lattice Boltzmann study", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 72 (2014): 479-488.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Ankur Chattopadhyay and Purbarun Dhar. "A nano-colloidal liquid dielectric medium" (Indian Patent number – 440739)