Fluid Dynamics Research Lab, Mathematics Department@IITRPR

Our group looks at theoretical investigations of various fluid flow problems such as Viscous fingering (VF) instability in miscible and immiscible fluids. We also investigate influence of hydrodynamic instability in the flow based separation (ex: Liquid Cromatography). These fascinating hydrodynamic problems are modelled mathematically and both qualitative and quantitative analyses are performed.

Recent Publications

Nand, S., Sharma, V., Das, S. K., Padhee, S. S., Mishra, M., (2022), Effect of Hele–Shaw cell gap on radial viscous fingering , Sci Rep 12, 18967.
Seya, S., Suzuki, R. X., Nagatsu, Y., Ban, T., Mishra, M.(2022), Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force, Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 938, A18.
Kumar, A., Mishra, M.(2022), Nanoparticles impact on miscible viscous fingering with absorbing boundary condition at inlet, Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 044001.
Maharana, S. N., Mishra, M.(2022), Effects of low and high viscous product on Kelvin–Helmholtz instability triggered by A+B->C type reaction, Physics of Fluids 34, 012104.
Maharana, S. N., Mishra, M.(2021), Reaction induced interfacial instability of miscible fluids in a channel, J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 925, A3.
Sharma, V., Othman, H., Nagatsu, Y., Mishra, M., (2021), VISCOUS FINGERING OF MISCIBLE ANNULAR RING , J. Fluid Mechanics, vol. 916, A14.
Suzuki, R. Tada, H., Hirano, S. Ban, T., Mishra, M., Takeda, Risa, Nagatsu, Y (2021), ANOMALOUS PATTERNS OF SAFFMAN–TAYLOR FINGERING INSTABILITY DURING A METASTABLE PHASE SEPARATION, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP), 2021, 23, 10926-10935.
Kim, M. C., Pramanik, S., Sharma, V., Mishra, M. (2021), UNSTABLE MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENTS IN RADIAL FLOW WITH CHEMICAL REACTIONS, J. Fluid Mechanics, 2021, vol. 917, A52.
Pramanik, S., Mishra, M. (2021), Role of density gradients on miscible Rayleigh–Taylor fingers in porous media, AIP Advances 11, 085201.

Awards and Achievements

Prof. Manoranjan Mishra became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India.
Ms. Priya Verma received International Travel Support (ITS) which includes Airfare, registration fees, and VISA fees waivers by SERB to attend the 19th International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD2022), held at Sendai, during 09-11 November 2022.
Mr. Surya Narayan Maharana received International Travel Support (ITS) which includes Airfare, registration fees, and VISA fees waivers by SERB to attend the 75th APS/DFD meeting to be held in Indianapolis, USA, during 20-22 November 2022.
Mr. Surya Narayan Maharana received CSIR, Govt. Of India, Travel Grant to attend the 75th APS/DFD meeting in Indianapolis, USA, from 20-22 November 2022.
Manoranjan Mishra's collaborative work with team of researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology and Osaka University Japan conferred by the Frontier Award of The Division of Fluid-Particle Processing of the Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan

Paper Title: Fingering pattern induced by spinodal decomposition in hydrodynamically stable displacement in a partially miscible system.
Manoranjan Mishra's collaborative work with team of researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology and Osaka University Japan awarded with Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics Award 202O.

Paper Title: Phase separation effects on partially miscible viscous fingering dynamics.
Priyanka Banga received the PMRF fellowship .
Dr. Manoranjan Mishra received the Japan Society of Promotional Science (JSPS) invitation fellowship 2019-2020.
Dr. Satyajit Pramanik awarded The best Thesis award at the 7th convocation of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar 2018.
Dr. Manoranjan Mishra is selected for the 32^nd P.L. BHATNAGAR MEMORIAL AWARD LECTURE, Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) to be held at Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, November 27-30, 2018.
Vandita Sharma received travel Grant from CSIR to attend 12^th European Fluid Mechanics Conference 2018, Vienna, Austria, September 9-13, 2018.
Manoranjan Mishra became a member of the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, India.
Vandita Sharma was awarded with Best Oral Presentation Award at Research Conclave - 2018, IIT Ropar, April 21, 2018.
Vandita Sharma won excellent work award for the poster presentation at the first forum of the Chinese Society of Visualisation, Science and Art St John’s University, Taiwan, September 2017.

Recent Events and Updates

Priya Verma visiting Prof. C. Y. Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan from Feb 2023 to April 2023 for a research collaboration.
Dr. Manoranjan Mishra visiting Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo during August 2019 till May 2020.
Vandita Sharma, is visiting Prof. C. Y. Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan from August 2019 to January 2020 for a research collaboration.
Vandita Sharma is visiting International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019 held at Valencia, Spain, July 15-19, 2019.
Vandita Sharma presented a contributed paper titled Control of radial miscible viscous fingering in International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019, held at Valencia, Spain, July 15-19, 2019.
Vandita Sharma received International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) financial support to attend ICIAM, 2019.
Surya Narayan Maharana, Tarani Meher and Priya Verma participated in West Asian Mathematical School: Recent Developments and Applications of Partial Differential Equations, from Theory to Simulation, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Aug 29 - Sep 03, 2019.
Surya Narayan Maharana participated in National Centre for Mathematics Workshop: System of Conservation Laws: Theory and Numerics, held at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangaluru, Aug 05-17, 2019.
Priya Verma and Tarani Meher to attended An Introductory Course on High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Feb 25- Mar 01, 2019.
Manoranjan Mishra, gave an oral presentation on Transition to reaction-induced viscous fingering at 71st Annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics, Atlanta, November 18-20, 2018.
Manoranjan Mishra is selected for the 32^nd P.L. BHATNAGAR MEMORIAL AWARD LECTURE, INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (IMS) to be held at Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, November 27-30, 2018.

Popular Scientific News article

News in EurekAlert (27-JAN-2020) Discovery of a new liquid-liquid interfacial deformation by partial miscibility.
News in EurekAlert (28-Sept-2020) New study may revise a theory of flowing viscous liquids that was accepted for 60 years.
News in EurekAlert (5-July 2021) A new understanding of patterns in fluid flow.

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Welcome to Fluid Dynamics Research Lab

Fluid Dynamics Research Lab
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Punjab - 140001, India

***Welcome to Fluid Dynamics Research Lab***

Fluid Dynamics Research Lab Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Punjab - 140001, India

Welcome to Fluid Dynamics Research Lab

Fluid Dynamics Research Lab
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Punjab - 140001, India