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Dr. Swati Patel

Assistant Professor

pswati@iitrpr.ac.in
+91-1881-242179
234, TC


Biography

Swati A Patel is currently working as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. She completed M.E. in Chemical Engineering from M.S. University of Baroda, India with the specialization in Polymer Technology. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India focusing on computational modeling and simulation of non-Newtonian fluids. She worked as a post- doctoral researcher at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA on mathematical modeling of pharmaceutical processes. Her research interest is in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Computational modeling of complex fluids, Rheology of complex fluids, Particulate product engineering.

Education

  • Ph.D: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  • M.E. (Polymer Technology): The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
  • B.E. (Chemical Engineering): SVMIT Bharuch, Gujarat, India

Selected Publications

  • G. Mishra, S.A. Patel, R.P. Chhabra, Pulsatile flow of power-law fluids over a sphere: Momentum and heat transfer characteristics, Powder Technology 360 (2020) 789-817.
  • S.A. Patel, R.P. Chhabra, Buoyancy-assisted flow of yield stress fluids past a cylinder: Effect of shape and channel confinement, Applied Mathematical Modelling 75 (2019) 892-915.
  • S.A. Patel, R.P. Chhabra, Laminar convection in Bingham plastic fluids from an isothermal elliptical cylinder, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer 30 (2015) 152-167.
  • S.A. Patel, R.P. Chhabra, Heat transfer in Bingham plastic fluids from a heated elliptical cylinder, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 73 (2014) 671-692.
  • S. A. Patel, R.P. Chhabra, Steady flow of Bingham plastic fluids past an elliptical cylinder, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 202 (2013) 32-53.

Projects

  • Modelling and control of crystal size and shape distributions in ultrasound assisted crystallization. Funded by IIT Ropar through ISIRD. Total budget: 63 Lakhs.

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