Mechanical Engineering

Faculty Details

Jayabrata Dhar Assistant Professor
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Joined the Institute in 2022
jdhar[dot]me[at]nitdgp[dot]ac[dot]in
Publication

27

Publications

1

Sponsored Projects

0

Consultancy Projects
Education

2

Doctoral Students

0

Continuing Education

0

PG Dissertation
Education

PhD student, 2013 - 2017,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

PhD advisor: Dr. Suman Chakraborty

 

Master of Technology (MTech), 2011–2013,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

MTech specialization: Thermal Science and Engineering

 

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), 2007–2011,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India

 

Higher Secondary Education (12th Standard), 2006,

St. Joseph’s College, West Bengal, India

Indian School Certificate Board

 

Secondary Education (10th Standard), 2004,

St. Joseph’s College, West Bengal, India

Indian Council of Secondary Education

Work Experiences

Assistant Professor, 2022 (April) – 2022 (September),

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

 

Human Frontiers (Post-Doctoral) Fellow, 2019 – 2022,

Physics of Living Matter Group

The Physics and Materials Science Department,

University of Luxembourg - Limpertsberg Campus,

L-1511 Luxembourg

 

Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018 – 2019,

Team DIMENV, Geosciences Rennes (UMR 6118),

Université Rennes 1, France

Research Interest

Numerical and Analytical:

  1. Electrokinetic flows of Dielectric Electrorheological and Viscoelastic Fluids.
  2. Nematic Liquid Crystals
  3. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in porous medium
  4. Stability of shape-changing phytoplankton
  5. Bioconvection flows
  6. Stokesian Dynamics
  7. Capillary filling dynamics

Experimental:

  1. Capillary filling Phenomenon of complex fluids.
  2. Crack Dynamics and Prevention.
  3. Refractive Index Matched visualization of porous medium flows
  4. Bioconvection flow of algae
  5. Active nematic flow in E. Coli bacterial suspensions.
Teachings

UG-course Fluid Mechanics (Third semester 2023-24) at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India

UG-course Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (Seventh semester 2023-24) at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India

PG-course Advanced Turbomachinery (Second semester 2022-23) at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India

UG-course Engineering Mechanics (First semester 2022-23) at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India

UG-course Thermodynamics (First semester 2021-22) at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Telengana, India

UG / PG Students

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Doctoral Students

Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar

JRF
Viscous Instability at pore-scale resolution
Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar

JRF
Viscous Instability at pore-scale resolution
Subhas Pramanik

Subhas Pramanik

JRF
von Karman instability around a bluff body: The effect of downstream obstruction
Subhas Pramanik

Subhas Pramanik

JRF
von Karman instability around a bluff body: The effect of downstream obstruction

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Modulation of Bioconvective Transport at Pore-Scale Resolution Jayabrata Dhar SERB 2,268,530 Sponsored Ongoing 2023-10-19 2025-10-18

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
1 Modulation of Bioconvective Transport at Pore-Scale Resolution Jayabrata Dhar SERB 2,268,530 Sponsored Ongoing 2023-10-19 2025-10-18

Projects

Sl.No. Title Name of the PI Name of the CoPIs Funding Agency Amount (Rs.) Project Type Project Status Date of Initiation Date of Completion
Indexing

12

Google Scholar h-index

16

Google Scholar i10-index

11

Scopus h-index

Journals

ID Details Year
2024 1. Effect of Nonlinear Reaction on Miscible Gravitational Instability through Dispersive Porous Medium S. Gomathi, S. Deepika, T. Saravanakumar, S. Patra, J. Dhar, and S. Karmakar Journal of Energy Engineering 150 (2), 04024005 SCI 10.1061/JLEED9.EYENG-5165 American Society of Civil Engineers https://ascelibrary.org/doi/full/10.1061/JLEED9.EYENG-5165 2024
2022 2. Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in two- and three-dimensional porous media: The impact of hydrodynamic dispersion Dhar, J., Meunier, P. and Meheust, Y Physics of Fluids 34 & 064114 SCI 10.1063/5.0086370 AIP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086370 2022
2022 3. Self-regulation of phenotypic noise synchronizes emergent organization and active transport in confluent microbial environments Dhar, J., Thai, A. L. P., Ghoshal, A., Giomi, L. and Sengupta, A. Nature Physics 18 & 945–951 SCI 10.1038/s41567-022-01641-9 Nature Portfolio https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01641-9 2022
2022 4. Electrokinetically Augmented Load Bearing Capacity of a Deformable Microfluidic Channel Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., DasGupta, S. and Chakraborty, S. Physics of Fluids 34 & 082019 SCI 10.1063/5.0101298 AIP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0101298 2022
2022 5. Active reconfiguration of cytoplasmic lipid droplets governs migration of nutrient-limited phytoplankton Dhar, J.*, Sengupta, A, Danza, F., Ghoshal, A., Müller, S. and Kakavand, N (*Joint first author) Science Advances 8 & 1-16 SCI 10.1126/sciadv.abn6005 AAAS https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn6005 2022
2020 6. Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow for Cooling of Localized Hot Spots in Microelectronic Devices Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Chakraborty, S. and Bhattacharya, A. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 10 & 1020 – 1027 SCI 10.1109/TCPMT.2020.2976659 IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9025244 2020
2020 7. The effect of the finite size of ions and Debye layer overspill on the screened Coulomb interactions between charged flat plates Paul, A., Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., S, Ghosal and Chakraborty, S. Electrophoresis 41 & 607-614 SCI 10.1002/elps.201900318 Wiley-VCH https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900318 2020
2019 8. Joule heating-induced particle manipulation on a microfluidic chip Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. Biomicrofluidics 13 & 014113 SCI 10.1063/1.5082978 AIP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5082978 2019
2019 9. Patterned surface charges coupled with thermal gradients may create giant augmentations of solute dispersion in electro-osmosis of viscoelastic fluids Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., and Chakraborty, S Proceedings of the Royal Society A 475 & 20180522 SCI 10.1098/rspa.2018.0522 Royal Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0522 2019
2019 10. Universal oscillatory dynamics in capillary filling Dhar, J., Mukherjee, S., Raj M, K. and Chakraborty, S. Europhys. Letters 125 & 14003 SCI 10.1209/0295-5075/125/14003 IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/125/14003 2019
2019 11. Directionally controlled open channel microfluidics Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S Physics of Fluids 31 & 092003 SCI 10.1063/1.5118728 AIP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5118728 2019
2018 12. Electrically modulated capillary filling imbibition of nematic liquid crystals Dhar, J. and Chakraborty, S. Physical Review E 97(4) & 043107 SCI 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.043107 American Physical Society https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.043107 2018
2018 13. Electro-thermally driven transport of a non-conducting fluid in a two-layer system for MEMS and biomedical applications Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. Journal of Applied Physics 123(24) & 24490 SCI 10.1063/1.5011659 American Institute of Physics https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011659 2018
2018 14. Energy-Efficient Generation of Controlled Vortices on Low-Voltage Digital Microfluidic Platform Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bandyopadhyay, S., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. Applied Physics Letters 113(12) & 124103 SCI 10.1063/1.5042143 American Institute of Physics https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042143 2018
2017 15. Solvent-mediated nonelectrostatic ion-ion interactions predicting anomalies in electrophoresisSolvent-mediated nonelectrostatic ion-ion interactions predicting anomalies in electrophoresis Goswami, P., Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S. Electrophoresis 38(5) & 712–719 SCI 10.1002/elps.201600394 Wiley-VCH https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201600394 2017
2017 16. Electroosmosis of Nematic Liquid Crystals under Weak Anchoring and Second-Order Surface Effects Poddar, A., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. Physical Review E 96(1) & 013114 SCI 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013114 American Physical Society https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013114 2017
2017 17. Ion-Size Dependent Electroosmosis of Viscoelastic Fluids in Hydrophobic Microchannels: An Analytical Approach Mukherjee, S., Goswami, P., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & Chakraborty, S. Physics of Fluids 29(7) & 072002 SCI 10.1063/1.4990841 AIP Publishing http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4990841 2017
2017 18. Spontaneous Electrorheological Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals under Taylor-Couette Flow Configuration Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. Physics of Fluids 29(9) & 092008 SCI 10.1063/1.5003379 AIP Publishing http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5003379 2017
2017 19. Electroosmosis of Viscoelastic Fluids: The Role of Wall Depletion Layer Mukherjee, S., Das, S. S., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & and Chakraborty, S. Langmuir 33(43) & 12046-12055 SCI 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02895 American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02895 2017
2016 20. Oscillatory regimes of capillary imbibition of viscoelastic fluids through concentric annulus Dhar, J., Jaggi, P., & Chakraborty, S. RSC Advances 6(65) & 60117–60125 SCI 10.1039/C6RA05002F Royal Society of Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA05002F 2016
2015 21. Taylor–Couette flow of electrorheological fluids under electrical double layer phenomenon Dhar, J., Bandopadhyay, A., & Chakraborty, S. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 223 & 165–175 SCI 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2015.07.001 Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2015.07.001 2015
2015 22. Resolving Anomalies in Predicting Electrokinetic Energy Conversion Efficiencies of Nanofluidic Devices Majumder, S., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. Scientific Reports 5 & 14725 SCI 10.1038/srep14725 Nature Portfolio https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14725 2015
2015 23. Electro-capillary effects in capillary filling dynamics of electrorheological fluids Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S Soft Matter 11(35) & 6957–6967 SCI 10.1039/C5SM01092F Royal Society of Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1039/C5SM01092F 2015
2014 24. Alterations in streaming potential in presence of time periodic pressure-driven flow of a power law fluid in narrow confinements with nonelectrostatic ion-ion interactions Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S. Electrophoresis 35(5) & 662–669 SCI 10.1002/elps.201300428 Wiley-VCH https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201300428 2014
2013 25. Effects of solvent-mediated nonelectrostatic ion-ion interactions on a streaming potential in microchannels and nanochannels Bandopadhyay, A., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. Physical Review E 88(3) & 33014 SCI 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.033014 American Physical Society https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.033014 2013
2013 26. Electro-osmosis of electrorheological fluids Dhar, J., Bandopadhyay, A., & Chakraborty, S. Physical Review E 88(5) & 53001 SCI 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.053001 American Physical Society https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.053001 2013

Conferences

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Books

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Patents

ID Details Patent Filed Year
2019 1. System For Particle Manipulation And Aggregation 2022 Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A., Chakraborty, S. Granted 2019
Awards and Recognitions

1. Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Fellow (2019)

2. OPERA Research Grant awarded at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus (2022)

Administrative Responsibilities

Member in the Purchase Committee for Workshop in 2022-23

Course Coordinator for Engineering Mechanics (XECO1) and Engineering Graphics (XES51)

Contact

Email: jdhar.me@nitdgp.ac.in

Ph: +91-8017362102

Office: NAB Faculty Cabin - 101 - > 103

Miscellaneous

1) JRF position for 2 years on a SERB, GOI-funded project. The details of the advertisement can also be downloaded from https://nitdgp.ac.in/p/careers under the 'JRF / Project Staff/Others' tab with the link in '2023-11-22   Application for the post of JRF in SERB project 2023 in the department of Mechanical Engineering'. Email ID: jdhar.me@nitdgp.ac.in. Google link: https://forms.gle/W3dnvGQyC1yb3Dwb6. Last date to apply: 10th December 2023.

Academic Identity

Orcid Id
0000-0002-7487-4929
Scopus Id
55874692500
Researcher Id
CMJ-7073-2022
Google Scholar Id