FACULTY
Biography
Dr. Sasmal did his BTech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calcutta in 2009 and subsequently, he obtained his MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2011. He obtained his PhD from the Monash University, Australia in 2016. After that, he did a postdoc from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include in the areas of complex fluids, polymer physics, microfluidics, etc. His research group uses both simulation and experiment tools to investigate various types of complex fluids over a wide range of length and time scales.
Education
- PhD (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2016)
- M.Tech (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2011)
- B.Tech (University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India, 2009)
Awards
- Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), Monash University, Australia (2012-2016)
- Early Career Research (ECR) Award, Govt. of India.
Selected Publications
- A. Chauhan, P. M. Sahu, C. Sasmal, Effect of polymer additives and viscous dissipation on natural convection in a square cavity with differentially heated side walls, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, in press, 2021.
- C. Sasmal, Unsteady motion past a sphere translating steadily in wormlike micellar solutions: A numerical analysis, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 912 (A52-15), 2021.
- Mohd Bilal Khan, C. Sasmal, Elastic instabilities and bifurcations in flows of wormlike micellar solutions past single and two vertically aligned microcylinders: Effect of blockage and gap ratios, Physics of Fluids, 33 (033109), 2021.
- Mohd Bilal Khan, C. Sasmal, Effect of chain scission on flow characteristics of wormlike micellar solutions past a confined microfluidic cylinder: a numerical analysis, Soft Matter, 16 (5261-5272) 2020.
- C. Sasmal, Flow of wormlike micellar solutions through a long micropore with step expansion and contraction, Physics of Fluids, 32 (013103) 2020.
Projects
- Study and design of a cost-effective prosthetic mechanical heart valve, Funded by SERB, Govt. of India, Rs. 46 Lakhs.
- Electrophoresis of topologically complex DNA molecules in a microfabricated porous media, Funded by IIT Ropar (ISIRD Grant), Rs. 80 Lakhs.