• Assistant Professor at Department of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra from February 2024 till date.
• National Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Kharagpur from September 2022 to February 2024.
• Postdoctoral Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar from September 2021 to September 2022.

Mathematical Modelling

Fluid Dynamics

Wave-Structure Interaction

Flow through Porous Media

Hydroelasticity

• Selected for the award of SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellowship, DST, Govt. of India, 2021.
• Selected for the Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at IIT Gandhinagar.
• Awarded the University Gold Medal for First position in First class in B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of North Bengal, India.
• Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial award from Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, India.
• Awarded INSPIRE scholarship, DST, Govt. of India, 2010-2015.
• Qualified JAM, GATE, NET in Mathematics.

Journals

1. Sunil Chandra Barman, Ayan Chanda, Michael Meylan, Two-layer flexural-gravity wave propagation at a blocking point, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 86(2), 699-729, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1137/25M1730454
2. Ayan Chanda, R. Appandairaj, K.G. Vijay, Trilochan Sahoo, and Michael Meylan, Bragg scattering of surface gravity waves by a graded array of surface-piercing porous barriers of arbitrary configurations: a numerical approach, Physics of Fluids, 37, 012119 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0234244. (Chosen as a Featured Article)
3. Koushik Kanti Barman, Ayan Chanda, Chia-Cheng Tsai and Sandipan Mondal, Flexural-gravity wave interaction with undulating bottom topography in the presence of uniform current: an asymptotic approach, Applied Mathematical Modelling, September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2024.05.012.
4. Ayan Chanda, Sunil Chandra Barman, Trilochan Sahoo and Mike Meylan, Flexural gravity wave scattering by an array of bottom-standing partial porous barriers in the framework of Bragg resonance and blocking dynamics, Physics of Fluids, 36, 012129 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0186343.
5. Sunil Chandra Barman and Ayan Chanda, Expansion formulae for flexural-gravity wave propagation during wave blocking, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 480: 20230647 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0647.
6. Koushik Kanti Barman, Ayan Chanda, Chia-Cheng Tsai and Tai-Wen Hsu, Bragg scattering of gravity waves by a sea-bed of varying depth in the presence of uniform current covered by a floating membrane, Physics of Fluids, 36, 012118 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0183629. (Chosen as a Featured Article)
7. Koushik Kanti Barman, Ayan Chanda, and Chia-Cheng Tsai, A mathematical study of a two-layer fluid flow system in the presence of a floating breakwater in front of VLFS, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2023.06.017.
8. Ayan Chanda and Satyajit Pramanik, Effects of a thin vertical porous barrier on the water wave scattering by a porous breakwater, Physics of Fluids, 35, 062120, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153109.
9. Ayan Chanda, Abhijit Sarkar and Swaroop Nandan Bora, An analytical study of scattering of water waves by a surface-piercing bottom-mounted compound porous cylinder placed on a porous sea-bed, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 115, 103764, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2022.103764.
10. Abhijit Sarkar and Ayan Chanda, Structural performance of a submerged bottom-mounted compound porous cylinder on the water wave interaction in the presence of a porous sea-bed, Physics of Fluids, 34, 092113 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0106425. (Chosen as a Editor’s Peak)
11. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Different approaches in scattering of water waves by two submerged porous plates over an elastic sea-floor, Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2022.2025792.
12. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Investigation of oblique flexural gravity wave scattering by two submerged thin vertical porous barriers with different porosities, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 148, Issue 2 (February 2022). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0002071.
13. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Scattering of flexural gravity waves by a pair of submerged vertical porous barriers located above a porous sea-bed, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME, February 2022; 144(1): 011201. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051475.
14. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Investigation of water wave scattering by an elastic sea-bed of varying depth in two superposed fluids covered by an ice sheet, Ocean Engineering, 221, 108510, online 21 January 2021 (18 pages), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108510.
15. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Effect of a porous sea-bed on water wave scattering by two thin vertical submerged porous plates, European Journal of Mechanics- B / Fluids, 84, 250-261, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2020.06.009.
16. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Scattering of linear oblique water waves propagating by an elastic bottom undulation in a two-layer fluid, Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik (ZAMP), 71(4), 107, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-020-01331-7.
17. Ayan Chanda and Swaroop Nandan Bora, Propagation of oblique waves over a small undulating elastic bottom topography in a two-layer fluid owing through a channel, International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 12(2), 2050023, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1142/S1758825120500234.

Conference and Workshop Participations

1. Presented Study of water wave interaction with a submerged bottom-mounted compound porous cylinder in the presence of a porous sea-bed at Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, during December 14-16, 2022, held at IIT Mandi, India.
2. Presented Flexural gravity wave scattering by a pair of vertical porous barriers at AMSI AustMS Workshop on Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets, November 9-11, 2022, The University of Adelaide.
3. Presented Flexural gravity wave scattering by dual submerged vertical porous barriers located above a porous sea-bed at Mathematics and Physics of Fluids, November 1-3, 2021, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
4. Presented Water wave scattering by a pair of submerged vertical porous barriers over a porous sea-bed at International Conference on Advances in Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis, during October 12-15, 2020, held at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
5. Presented Elastic bottom effect on water wave scattering by two submerged thin vertical porous plates at Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, during December 9-12, 2019, held at IIT Bhubaneswar, India.
6. Presented Propagation of oblique waves over an elastic bottom undulation in a two-layer fluid at Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, during December 20-23, 2018, held at Dayanand Sagar University, India.
7. Attended Global Initiative For Academic Networks, Interfacial Instability with Industrial Applications during July 11-24, 2022, held at IIT Ropar, India.
8. Attended Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration, the short-term course Nonlinear Problems in Hydroelasticity, December 13-17, 2021, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
9. Attended ATAL Faculty Development Programme Mathematical Modelling for Problems in Coastal and Offshore Engineering during September 14-18, 2020, held at The Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
10. Attended Global Initiative For Academic Networks, Computational Methods In Hydroelasticity during December 12-16, 2016, held at IIT Kharagpur, India.

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Title: Mitigation of resonant wave sloshing in confined basins: a multiple scale analysis

Grant: ARG-MATRICS

Sponsored agency: Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF)

Principal Investigator: Ayan Chanda

Duration: 2026-2030

Sanctioned amount: 30,00,000