Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya

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Dr.

Anirban Bhattacharya

CONTACT Assistant Professor Phone: +91 674 2306380


INFORMATION School of Mechanical Sciences Email: [email protected]
IIT Bhubaneswar
Samantapuri, Bhubaneswar - 751013
India

RESEARCH Multi-scale and multi-phase transport phenomena, Modelling of microstructure evolution,


INTERESTS phase transformation and defect formation in alloys.
WORK Assistant Professor, Mar 2016 – Present
EXPERIENCE School of Mechanical Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar

Postdoctoral Consultant, Mar 2015 – Feb 2016


GE Global Research, Bangalore
Research Topic: Modelling of casting and additive manufacturing for super-alloys.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, June 2014 – Mar 2015


School of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Research Topic: Modelling of porosity and defect formation in alloys and nano-
composites.

Senior Engineer, Aug 2007 – July 2009


General Motors, Bangalore, India
Responsibilities: Development of CFD models for automobile exhaust gas after-
treatment devices.

EDUCATION Ph.D, August 2009 – May 2014


Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
GPA: 8.0/8.0
Advisor: Prof. Pradip Dutta
Thesis Topic: Effect of convection and shrinkage on solidification and microstructure
formation.
(Doctoral work performed as General Motors Fellow under GM-IISc Collaborative
Research Programme).
Internship at General Motors R&D Center, Warren, USA, Sep 2012-Dec 2012.

M.E., August 2005 - July 2007


Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
GPA: 7.9/8.0 (1st Rank in class)
Advisor: Prof. Pradip Dutta
Thesis Topic: An enthalpy-based micro-scale model for binary alloy solidification.

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B.E., August, 2001 - July, 2005
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Aggregate Percentage: 82.7% (Among top 5% in the class)
Project Topic: Design of a two-stage Curtis turbine.

HONORS & • Recipient of General Motors Doctoral Fellowship (2009).


AWARDS • S.V. Shastry Memorial Gold Medal for the best M.E. student in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, IISc (2007).
• Recipient of General Electric (GE) Foundation Scholarship (2006) for Master’s
study.
• All India Rank 2 (out of ~25000 students), in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering,
GATE (2005).
• 99.85 percentile in Common Admission Test (CAT-2004).

JOURNAL • A. Bhattacharya, A. Kiran, S. Karagadde and P. Dutta, “An enthalpy method for modeling
PUBLICATIONS eutectic solidification”, Journal of Computational Physics 262 (2014) 217-230.

• A. Bhattacharya and P. Dutta, “Effect of shrinkage induced flow on binary alloy dendrite
growth: An equivalent undercooling model”, International Communications in Heat and
Mass Transfer 57 (2014) 216-220.

• A. Bhattacharya and P. Dutta, “An enthalpy-based model of dendritic growth in a


convecting binary alloy melt”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat &
Fluid Flow 23 (2013) 1121-1135.

• A. Bhattacharya, S. Karagadde and P. Dutta, “An equivalent undercooling model to


account for flow effect on binary alloy dendrite growth rate”, International
Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 47 (2013) 15-19.

• A. Bhattacharya and P. Dutta, “Role of convection in microstructure evolution during


solidification”, Current Science 105(4) (2013) 113891.

• S. Karagadde, A. Bhattacharya, G. Tomar and P. Dutta, “A coupled VOF–IBM–enthalpy


approach for modeling motion and growth of equiaxed dendrites in a solidifying melt”,
Journal of Computational Physics 231 (2012) 3987-4000.

• A. Bhattacharya and P. Dutta, “A computational model for binary alloy dendrite growth
in presence of solidification shrinkage”, (in preparation).

• A. Bhattacharya, M.J. Walker, G. Tomar and P.Dutta, “A model for predicting shrinkage
driven flow during solidification”, (in preparation).

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CONFERENCE • S. Sarkar, A. Bhattacharya, P. Dutta and S.K. Ajmani, “Numerical simulations of dendrite
PROCEEDINGS growth in a convective binary alloy melt with a super-imposed magnetic field". 5th
International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Dec 12-
14, 2014, IIT Kanpur, India.

• S. Karagadde, A. Bhattacharya, G. Tomar and P. Dutta, “Study of dendrite growth in a


rotational flow field” Proceedings of the 21st National & 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass
Transfer Conference, December 27-30, 2011, IIT Madras, India.

• A. Bhattacharya, S. Karagadde and P. Dutta, “A Scaling Analysis for dendrite tip growth
rate". 3rd International Conference on Advances in Solidification Processes, ICASP3, June
7-10, 2011, Rolduc (Netherlands).

• S. Karagadde, A. Bhattacharya, G. Tomar and P. Dutta, “Numerical modeling of floatation


of equiaxed dendrites”, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Solidification
Processes, ICASP3, June 7-10, 2011, Rolduc (Netherlands).

• S. Karagadde, A. Bhattacharya, G. Tomar and P. Dutta, “Modeling growth and motion of


equiaxed dendrites in a convecting melt". Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies,
ThETA3, December 19-22, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

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