Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
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Dr. Dipti Prasad Mishra

Joined Institute on : 19-Dec-2012

  • Professor
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Ph.D.
Contact Address

C II/72, Outer Campus, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi - 835215, Jharkhand

Plot No. 903, Rath Road, Old Town, Bhubaneswar - 751002, Odisha.

  • Phone Office - 7250582643
  • Phone Residence - 7250582643
  • Email - dpmishra@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 26 Years

Research : 18 Years
Professional Background

Dipti Prasad Mishra has received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He received his ME and BE in Mechanical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla (currently VSSUT, Burla). Before joining the Birla Institute of Technology he worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in ITER, SOA University at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. His current research focuses on CFD application to improve performance of various heat exchanging devices.
Research Areas
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Award and Honours

CONVENER

  1. International Conference Thermo-Fluid and System Design 2022 (ICTFSD 22), 22nd – 23rd March – 2022, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi – 835215, Jharkhand
Publications

International Journal Publications

  1.  Prediction of Entrance Length and  Suction Rate for a Cylindrical Sucking Funnel, D.P.Mishra & S.K.Dash, International journal for numerical methods in fluids, Vol. 63(4), pp. 681-700, 2010, ISSN: 1097-0363.
  2.  Isothermal Jet Suction through the Lateral openings of a Cylindrical Funnel, D.P.Mishra, S.K.Dash & P.A.Kisan, Journal of ship research, Vol. 54(4), pp. 268-280, 2010, ISSN: 0022-4502.
  3.  Numerical Investigation of Air Suction Through the Louvers of a Funnel due to High Velocity Air Jet, D.P.Mishra & S.K.Dash, Computers & Fluids, Vol. 39(9), pp. 1597-1680, 2010, ISSN: 0045-7930.
  4.  Maximum Air Suction into a Louvered Funnel through Optimum Design, D.P.Mishra & S.K.Dash, Journal of ship research, Vol. 56(1), pp. 1-11, 2012, ISSN: 0022-4502.
  5.  Numerical Analysis of Mixed Convection through an Internally Finned Tube, S. K. Rout, D.P. Mishra, D. N.Thatoi and A. K. Acharya, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 4, pp. 1-10, 2012, ISSN: 1687-8132.
  6.  Numerical Analysis of Flow Field around a surface Mounted Square-Based Pyramid, S. Beura & D.P.Mishra, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 38,  pp. 1166-1173, 2012, ISSN: 1877-7058
  7.  CFD supported performance estimation of an internally finned tube heat exchanger under mixed flow condition, S.K.Rout, D.N.Thatoi, A.K.Acharya & D.P.Mishra, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 38, pp. 585-597, 2012, ISSN: 1877-7058.
  8.  Analysis of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of an Internally Finned Tube, K. Mohapatra & D.P. Mishra, Advances and Applications in Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 15(1), pp. 17-40, 2014, ISSN: 0973-4686.
  9.  Maximum Air Entrainment into a Mixing Pipe through Optimum Design, D.P.Mishra, M.K.Samantaray & S.K.Dash, Ships and offshore structures, Vol. 9(6), pp. 605-618, 2014, ISSN: 1744-5302.
  10.  Effect of Wall Taper and Attack Angle on Mean Flow Structure around a Pyramid, S.Beura & D.P.Mishra, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computational and Applied Science, Vol. 8(6), pp. 490-498, 2014, ISSN: 2279-0055.
  11.  Effect of fin Configuration on Heat  transfer of an Annulus tube, D.P.Mishra & K. Mohapatra,American International Journal of Research in Formal, Applied and Natural Sciences, Vol. 1(6), pp. 63-69, 2014, ISSN: 2328-9785.
  12.  Numerical Investigation of Air Entrainment into a Mixing Pipe Due to High Velocity Jet, D.P.Mishra & M.K.Samantaray, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 9 (26), pp. 8781-8786, 2014, ISSN: 0973-4562.
  13.  Effect of Fin and Tube Configuration on Heat Transfer of an Internally Finned Tube, D. P. Mishra & K. Mohapatra, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 25(8), pp. 1978-1999, 2015, ISSN:0961-5539. 
  14. Numerical Investigation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Finned Micro-channels with Nano-fluids, Deepak Kumar & D.P. Mishra, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 813-814, pp 723-728, 2015, ISSN: 1660-9336.
  15. Effect of pipe configurations on air entrainment into a louvered cylindrical pipe: a comparison between open and close entrance of a pipe, S.R. Sahu & D. P. Mishra, International Journal of Engineering Research, Vol..4(4), pp : 173-177, 2015, ISSN:2319-6890.
  16. Numerical Analysis of Natural Convective Heat Transfer over a Vertical Cylinder Using External Fins, Anwesha Panigrahi, D.P.Mishra & Deepak Kumar, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 813-814, pp 707-712, 2015, ISSN: 1660-9336.
  17. Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of an Internally Ribbed Tube, K. Mohapatra & D.P. Mishra, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 12(2), pp. 85-103, 2015, ISSN: 1823-5514.
  18. Numerical Analysis of Winglet Type Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger, S. K. Sarangi & D. P. Mishra, Carbon Science and Technology, Vol. 8(3), pp. 129-138, 2016, ISSN: 0974-0546.
  19. Numerical investigation of maximum air entrainment into cylindrical louvered pipe, S. R. Sahu and D. P. Mishra, International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 13 (2), pp. 3278 – 3292, 2016, ISSN: 2229-8649.
  20. Numerical Investigation of Jet Impingement Heat Transfer on a Flat plate, A. Nabadavis & D. P. Mishra, Carbon Science and Technology, Vol. 8(4), pp. 1-12, 2016, ISSN: 0974-0546.
  21. Maximum Air Suction into Horizontal Open Ended Cylindrical Louvered Pipe, S.R.Sahu & D.P.Mishra, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 12(2), pp. 388-404, 2017, ISSN: 1823-4690.
  22. Effect of Winglet Location on Heat Transfer of a Fin-and-tube Heat Exchanger, S.K.Sarangi & D.P. Mishra, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 116, pp. 528-540, 2017, ISSN:1359-4311.
  23. Computation of Air Entrainment into a Mixing Pipe: An Experimental and Numerical Analysis, D.P Mishra & S.C. Paramanik, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 16(2), pp. 11-28, 2019, ISSN: 1823-5514.
  24. Numerical Analysis of Thermo-Fluid Performance of Fin-and-tube Heat Transfer Surface using Rectangular Winglets,S.K. Sarangi, D.P. Mishra & P. Mishra, Journal of Heat Transfer ASME, Vol. 141 (10), pp. 101801-1 – 101801-13, 2019, ISSN: 0022-1481.
  25. Parametric Investigation of Wavy Rectangular Winglets for Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Fin-and–Tube Heat Transfer Surface, S.K. Sarangi, D.P. Mishra & P. Mishra, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 615-628, 2020, ISSN: 1735-3572.
  26. CFD Supported Performance Analysis of an Innovative Biomass Dryer, S. Anand, D.P. Mishra & S.K. Sarangi, Renewable Energy, Vol. 159, pp. 860-872, 2020, ISSN: 0960-1481.
  27. Analysis and Optimization of the Curved Trapezoidal Winglet Geometry in a Compact Heat Exchanger, S. K. Sarangi, D.P. Mishra, H. Ramachandran, N. Anand, V. Masih & L. S. Brar, Applied Thermal Engineering, 182, 116018, 1-14, 2021, ISSN:1359-4311. 
  28. Effect Tube Shape on Thermo-fluid Performance of a Winglet Supported Fin-and-tube Heat Exchanger Having Staggered Tubes, Shailesh Kumar Sarangi & Dipti Prasad Mishra, Materials Today: Proceedings, 41, 228-232, 2021, ISSN:2214-7853.
  29. Analysis and Optimization of the Curved Trapezoidal Winglet Geometry in a High efficiency Compact Heat Exchanger, S. K. Sarangi, D.P. Mishra, H. Ramachandran, N. Anand, V. Masih & L. S. Brar, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 164, 106872, 1-15, 2021, ISSN:1290-0729.
  30. Thermo-fluid Performance Enhancement of a Fin-and-tube Heat Exchanger by Rectangular Winglets, S. K. Sarangi & D.P.Mishra, Proceeedings of Mechanical Engineering – Part A, Journal of Power and Energy, 236(4), 738-751, 2022, ISSN: 0957-6509.
  31. Thermo-fluid Performance Evaluation of a Split-winglet Supported Elliptical Tube type Fin-and-tube Heat Transfer Surface, S. K. Sarangi & D.P.Mishra, Scientia Iranica Transactions B: Mechanical Engineering, 29(4), 1782-1794, 2022, ISSN: 1026-3098.
  32. Computational Performance Analysis of Solar Chimney using Surface Modifications of a Absorber Plate, Ayan Sengupta, D.P.Mishra & S. K. Sarangi, Renewable Energy, 185, 1095-1109, 2022,ISSN: 0960-1481.
  33. Performance Evaluation of a Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger based on Different Shapes of Winglets, Rishikesh Sharma, Shailesh Kumar Sarangi, D. P. Mishra & L. S. Brar, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications (ASME), 15, 050905-1 to 050905-10, 2023, ISSN: 1948-5093.
  34. Application of Surface Response Methodology and Artificial Neural Network to Optimize the Curved Trapezoidal Winglet Geometry for Enhancing the Performance of a Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger, Rishikesh Sharma, Dipti Prasad Mishra, Marek Wasilewski and Lakhbir Singh Brar, Energies (MDPI), 16(10), 4209, 1-30, 2023, ISSN:1996-1073.
  35. A Comprehensive Review on Vertex Generator Supported Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques in Heat Exchangers, Shailesh Kumar Sarangi and Dipti Prasad Mishra, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 149, 7839-7867, 2024, ISSN: 1388-6150.
  36. Performance Enhancement of a Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger with the Novel Arrangement of Curved Winglets using a Multi-objective Optimization Approach, Rishikesh Sharma, D. P. Mishra and Lakhbir Singh Brar, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer,157, 107804-1-16, 2024, ISSN: 0735-1933.
  37. Multi-objective optimization of fin and tube heat exchanger with triple inclined straight winglets for performance enhancement, Rishikesh Sharma, D.P. Mishra, Saurav Chakraborty, Om Prakash and Lakhbir Singh Brar, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, 32(3), 61-87, 2025, ISSN: 1065-5131. 
  38. Data-driven optimization of asymmetric curved winglets in fin-and-tube heat exchangers, Rishikesh Sharma, D.P. Mishra, and Lakhbir Singh Brar, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 97, 1-21, 2025, ISSN: 2210-6510.
  39. Neural Network-Guided Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization of Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchangers Incorporating Novel Curved Winglets, Rishikesh Sharma, Dipti Prasad Mishra, and Lakhbir Singh Brar, International Scientific Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 165, 1-24, 2026, ISSN: 0952-1976.

 International Conference Publications

  1. Coupled Radiation and Conduction Analysis in presence of Variable Property Non-gray CO2 Gas, Recent Trend in Heat & Mass Transfer,   ISRTHMT O0-142, IIT Guhawati, Year 2002.
  2. Study of effect of Louvers opening area and Multiple Nozzles on Suction   Rate due to high velocity Air Jet, International Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering, Oct. 4-6, Ujjain Engineering College, Ujjain, pp. TH9-TH14, Year 2007.
  3. Theoretical Estimation of Suction  Rate due to High Velocity Jet, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Dec. 27-29, IIT Kharagpur, pp. 611-613 Year 2007.
  4. Numerical Investigation of Air Suction into a Louvered Funnel, International conference on ship & offshore Technology , Dec. 10-11, IIT Khargpur, pp. 55-62 Year 2009.
  5. CFD supported performance estimation of an internally finned tube heat exchanger under mixed flow condition, International conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing, Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, Nagarcoil, Tamilnadu, Apr. 10-11, pp. 587-597, Year 2012.
  6. Numerical Analysis of Flow Field around a surface Mounted Square-Based Pyramid, International conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing, Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, Nagarcoil, Tamilnadu, Apr. 10-11, pp. 1166-1173, Year 2012.
  7. Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics of Finned and Un-finned Tube, Nirma University International Conference on Engineering, Nirma University, Ahemedabad, Nov. 28-30, Year 2013.
  8. Heat Transfer and Pressure drop Assessment of a Vertex Generator Supported Fin-and-tube Heat Exchanger, International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Processing and Design (ICAMPD-2019), School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, 18-20 October Year 2019.
  9. Heat Transfer Enhancement in Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger by Winglets with Punched holes, 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC-2019), Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, 28-31 December Year 2019.
  10. Thermo-Fluid Performance Evaluation of an Elliptical Tube type Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger Supported with Winglets,International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences (ICITFES-2020), Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 10-12 February Year 2020.
  11. Analysis of Thermo-fluidic and Phase Change Behaviour of Liquid Steel in a Continuos Billet Caster Mould: Effect of Casting Speed, International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development (ICRAMERD-2020), Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITER, Siksha O Anusandhan University, 24-25 July Year 2020.
  12. Effect of Tube Shape on Thermo-fluid Performance of a Wnglet Supported Fin-and-tube Heat Exchanger having Staggered Tubes, International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development (ICRAMERD-2020), Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITER, Siksha O Anusandhan University, 24-25 July Year 2020.
  13. Performance Evaluation of Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger based on Different Shapes of Winglets, International Conference on Thermo-Fluids and System Design (ICTFSD 2022), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, 22-23 March Year 2022.
  14. Multi-objective optimization of fin and tube heat exchanger with diagonally aligned straight winglets for performance enhancement, International Conference on Thermo-Fluids and System Design (ICTFSD 2024), Department of Mechanical Engineering, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, 04-05 April Year 2024.

National Conference Publications

  1. Numerical investigation of winglet supported fin-and-tube heat exchanger, National Conference on Recent Advancement in Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Feb. 18-19, Year 2019.
  2. Performance study of direct and indirect solar dryers: A Review, National Conference on Recent Advancement in Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Feb. 18-19, Year 2019.

Number of  Ph. D. Student Guided: 3

Number of Ph. D. Student Enrolled: 1
Member of Professional Bodies

Institution of Engineers, India 

Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, India

Indian Society for Technical Education, India
Current Sponsored Projects
  • Co-Investigator of the project titled “Investigation of Stones as Sensible Thermal Heat Storage Materials for Concentrated Solar Power Applications”, DST under SERB CRG, New Delhi, India, March/2022. (24.85L)
  • Co-Investigator of the project titled “Ädvanced Research in Energy Technology and Materials Testing”, DST FIST 2022, New Delhi, India, December/2022. (88L)
Text and Reference Books

AUTHORED BOOK PUBLISHED

  1. Jet Suction into a Louvered Funnel, D.P.Mishra & S.K.Dash, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany 2010, ISBN: 978-3-8433-5540-7.
  1. Thermo-fluid Performance of Internal Finned Tube, D.P.Mishra & K. Mohapatra, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-659-86260-1.

EDITED BOOK PUBLISHED

  1. Current Advances in Mechanical Engineering, S.K. Acharya & D.P. Mishra,, Lecturer Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2020, doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3 
  2. Thermo-Fluids and System Design, Lakhbir Singh Brar, Omprakash, Saurav Chakraborty, Arun Kumar Sharma & Dipti Prasad Mishra, BS Publications, Hyderabad, India, 2022. ISBN: 978-93-91910-44-0

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. CFD-Supported Designing of a Louvered Cylindrical Mixing Pipe for Maximum Air Entrainment, S. R. Sahu and D. P. Mishra, Design and Optimization of Engineering Products, IGI Global USA, pp. 105-131, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3401-3.ch006, 2018.
  1. Performance Study of Direct and Indirect Solar Driers: A review Sumeet Anand and D.P.Mishra, Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Advancement in Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Publications, Hyderabad, India, pp. 124-131, e-ISBN: 978-93-8830-572-3.
  1. Parametric Investigation of Fin-and-tube Heat Transfer Surface Supported with Winglets, S.K Sarangi, D.P.Mishra and P.Mishra, Proceedings of National Conference on Recent Advancement in Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Publications, Hyderabad, India, pp. 113-123,e-ISBN: 978-93-8830-572-3.
  2. Analysis of Thermo-fluidic and Phase Change Behaviour of Liquid Steel in a Continuous Billet Caster Mould: Effect of Casting Speed, Rishikesh Sharma, S. Ganguly, D.P. Mishra, Praveen Mishra and A.N.S.S. Swain, Current Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature Singapore Pvt. Ltd. pp. 171-180, e-ISBN: 978-981-33-4795-3, 2020.
  3. Thermo-Fluid Performance Evaluation of an Elliptical Tube Type Fin-and-Tube Heat Exchanger with Winglets, S.K. Sarangi and D.P. Mishra, Theoretical Computational, and Experimental Solutions to Thermo-Fluid Systems, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature Singapore Pvt. Ltd. pp. 23-33, ISBN: 978-981-33-4164-7, 2021.

 
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Patent Published 

  1. Indian Design Application No. 202331078668 dated 24.11.2023, Title: A Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger, Applicant Name: Birla Institute of Technology, Inventor Name: Dr. L.S. Brar, Dr. D.P. Mishra, R. Sharma, Dr. Om Prakash and Dr. Nirmal Kumar.
  2. Indian Design Application No. 202431035393 dated 10.05.2024, Title: A Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger with Inclined Continuos Vertex Generator, Applicant Name: Birla Institute of Technology, Inventor Name: Dr. L.S. Brar, R. Sharma and Dr. D.P. Mishra.
  3. Indian Design Application No. 202531056687 dated 05.09.2025, Title: A Fin and Tube Heat Exchanger System using Sinusoidal Vertex Generators, Applicant Name: Birla Institute of Technology, Inventor Name: Dr. L.S. Brar, R. Sharma, Dr. D.P. Mishra and Om Prakash.