Dr. Pitambar R Randive

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Associate Professor
Phone: +91-7896544874, 6003592310
Email: pitambar[at]mech.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 15/11/2015
Academic/Industrial Experience: 20 + years
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (FULL DETAILS )

  • B. E. – Yashawantrao Chavan College of Engineering , Nagpur (Nagpur university)
  • M. Tech. – Vishvesvaraiya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur,
  • Ph.D. – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India,

 

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Mesoscopic Modelling of Transport Phenomena in Multi phase flows
  • Energy storage and conversion (Batteries, fuel cells)
  • Scram jet Engine
  • Natural and Mixed Convection Flows
  • Porous media flows

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Pitambar Randive is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department . He has received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Nagpur University in 1997. Further, He obtained his Masters in mechanical engineering with specialization in heat power engineering from VNIT (Earlier known as V.R.C.E.) Nagpur in 2001. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2014.

PATENT(S)

 

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Battery and Fuel cell Technology
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Convection Heat Transfer
  • Computer Aided Design of Thermal System
  • Lattice Boltzmann Method,
  • Batteries and Fuel Cell Technology
  • Advanced Fluid Mechanics,
  • Conduction and Radiation.
  • Computational methods and computer programming,
  • Turbomachinery

MEMBER

associate member of Aeronautical Society of India

Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

 

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. D K Deka, GC Pal, S Pati, PR Randive,2021, Natural Convection from Two Cylinders in an Enclosure with Sinusoidal Bottom Wall: A Numerical Study, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7711-6_36,351-359,978-981-15-7710-9, International Springer Singapore Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7711-6_36DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7711-6_36
  2. BK Kanchan, PR Randive, S Pati, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy …,2021, Numerical Investigation on the Influence of Reactant Gas Concentration on the Performance of a PEM Fuel Cell://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5955-6_159 1679- 1689, 978-981-15-5954-9. In: Bose M., Modi A. (eds Springer Proceedings in Energy. Springer, Singapore.
  3. Suman Debnath, Biplab Das, and P. R. Randive, Experimental energy and exergy analysis of flat plate solar air collector having different spacing and tilt angle, AIP Conference Proceedings 1998, 020014 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049110 4. Pitambar Randive, Saurabh Bhardwaj, Amaresh Dalal (2017) Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Capillarity-Induced Resonance of Blob Inside a Circular Tube. In: Saha A., Das D., Srivastava R., Panigrahi P., Muralidhar K. (eds) Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power – Contemporary Research. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, New Delhi DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2743-4_106 Publisher Name Springer, New Delhi Print ISBN 978-81-322-2741-0 Online ISBN 978-81-322-2743-4 eBook Packages 5. L. Suneetha, PR Randive, KM Pandey, A Comparative Evaluation of Combustion Characteristics of Strut and Wall Injection Technique in a Cavity-Based Scramjet Combustor, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 823-833
  4. L Suneetha, PR Randive, KM Pandey,Numerical Investigation on the Influence of Turbulence Models on Prediction of Flow Characteristics of a Scramjet Combustor, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 835-844
  5. D Bhowmick, PR Randive, S Pati,Effect of thickness of porous layer on thermo-hydraulic characteristics and entropy generation in a partially porous wavy channel,Advances in mechanical engineering, 119-130… 8. Pitambar Randive,Saurabh Bhardwaj,Amaresh Dalal,Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Capillarity-Induced Resonance of Blob Inside a Circular Tube,September 2017,DOI:10.1007/978-81-322-2743-4_106, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power – Contemporary Research (pp.1121-1130)

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

 

  • Associate warden Hostel 9B
  • NBA co-coordinator
  • Associate Dean(Faculty Welfare)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

 

 

S Debnath, B Das, P Randive, Energy and exergy analysis of plain and corrugated solar air collector: effect of seasonal variation International Journal of Ambient Energy 43 (1),                         2796-2807(2022)

M Faizan, S Pati, P Randive, Implications of novel cold plate design with hybrid cooling on thermal management of fast discharging lithium-ion battery

Journal of Energy Storage 53, 105051(2022)

S Chakravarthy, P Randive, Interplay of Self-Throttling and Air Throttling on Combustion Enhancement of the scramjet combustor Acta Astronautica(2022)

Debnath, B. Das, P. Randive, “Experimental energy and exergy analysis of flat plate solar air collector having different spacing and tilt angle”, Renewable Energy Technologies: Issues and Perspectives (RETIP 2017) AIP Conf. Proc. 1998, 020014-1–020014-9; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5049110.(2022)

 

MP Boruah, PR Randive, S Pati, S Chakraborty,Morpho-dynamic evolution due to inertia-mediated impact of a compound drop on a deep liquid pool Physics of Fluids 34 (3), 032106(2022)

S Pati, A Borah, MP Boruah, PR Randive,,Critical review on local thermal equilibrium and local thermal non-equilibrium approaches for the analysis of forced convective flow through porous media International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 132, 105889(2022)

GC Pal, G Nammi, S Pati, PR Randive, L Baranyi,Natural convection in an enclosure with a pair of cylinders under magnetic field Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 30, 101763(2022)

MP Boruah, PR Randive, S Pati, KC Sahu, Charge convection and interfacial deformation of a compound drop in plane Poiseuille flow under an electric field Physical Review Fluids 7 (1), 013703(2022)

DK Deka, S Pati, PR Randive, Implications of capillarity-wettability interaction on geometrically mediated droplet splitting mechanism Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 633, 127873(2022)

 

A Chourasia, D Kumar Deka, D Bhowmick, S Pati, PR Randive,Natural Convection Inside a Porous Square Enclosure Embedded with Two Elliptic Cylinders Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 1-18(2022)

Manash Boruah, Anik Sarker, Pitambar Randive, Sukumar Pati, and Kirti Sahu,2021, Tuning of regimes during two-phase flow through a cross-junction” Physics of Fluids – (accepted): MS #POF21-AR-04364R12021

DK Deka, S Pati, PR Randive, PP Mukherjee,Implications of capillarity-wettability interaction on geometrically mediated droplet splitting mechanism, Colloids & Surfaces A COLSUA-D-21-03410R1(accepted) 2021

S Chakravarthy, P Randive, S Pati, Implication of air-throttling on combustion characteristics of cavity-strut based scramjet combustor Acta Astronautica 188, 171-184, 2021

A Sarker, MP Boruah, PR Randive, S Pati The role of compound droplet size on transition from jetting to bubble entrapment during its impact on liquid Physics of Fluids 33 (10), 102103, 2021

L Suneetha, P Randive, KM Pandey Implication of self-throttling on combustion performance in a strut-based scramjet combustor Acta Astronautica, Volume 186, September 2021, Pages 228-241

D Bhowmick, PR Randive, S Pati,Implication of corrugation profile on thermo-hydraulic characteristics of Cu-water nanofluid flow through partially filled porous channel,International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer 125, 105329, 2021

BK Kanchan, PR Randive,Implication of Non-Uniform Anode Particle Morphology on Lithium-Ion Cell Performance,Journal of The Electrochemical Society 168 (5), 050552, 2021

BK Kanchan, P Randive, S Pati Implications of non-uniform porosity distribution in gas diffusion layer on the performance of a high temperature PEM fuel cell International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 46 (35), 18571-18588, 2021

S Chakravarthy, P Randive, LES study on the effect of cavity configuration on combustion characteristics of a scramjet combustor with air-throttling , International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021

N Goswami, PR Randive, S Pati Natural convection from a pair of heated cylinders in a square cavity with non-uniform temperature on the side walls Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series C 102 (2), 389-396, 2021

BK Kanchan, PR Randive, S Pati On the Implication of Porosity Configuration on Lithium-Ion Cell Performance: A Numerical Study Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 18 (1), 011006, 2021

S Debnath, B Das, P Randive,Energy and exergy analysis of plain and corrugated solar air collector: Effect of seasonal variation International Journal of Ambient Energy, 1-35 2020

S Pati, R Roy, N Deka, MP Boruah, M Nath, R Bhargav, PR Randive, Optimal heating strategy for minimization of peak temperature and entropy generation for forced convective flow through a circular pipe International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 150, 119318 2

D Bhowmick, S Chakravarthy, PR Randive, S Pati Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2020,Numerical investigation on the effect of magnetic field on natural convection heat transfer from a pair of embedded cylinders within a porous enclosure 1-23

L Suneetha, P Randive, KM Pandey International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyImplication of diamond shaped dual strut on combustion characteristics in a cavity-based scramjet combustor

BK Kanchan, PR Randive, S Pati Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage On the Implication of Porosity Configuration on Lithium-Ion Cell Performance: A Numerical Study 18 (1)

S Shivankar, PR Randive, S Pati Effects of undulated wall on the hydrodynamic and thermal transport characteristics of turbulent jet 2020 International Journal of Thermal Sciences 152, 106297

BK KanchanP Randive, S Pati 2020 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Numerical investigation of multi-layered porosity in the gas diffusion layer on the performance of a PEM fuel cell

Debayan Bhowmick, Pitambar R. Randive*, Sukumar Pati, Himanshu Agrawal, Amit Kumar, Piyush Kumar Srivastava, Natural convection heat transfer and entropy generation from a heated cylinder of different geometry in an enclosure with non-uniform temperature distribution on the walls, journal of thermal calimometry(accepted)

Lakka Suneetha, P.Randive, K. M. Pandey, Numerical Investigation on Influence of Diamond Shaped Strut on the Performance of a Scramjet Combustor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy(accepted)

L Suneetha, P Randive, KM Pandey Advances in flame stabilization process on a dual mode scramjet-A Review Materials Today: Proceedings 18, 104-108 2019

L Suneetha, P Randive, KM Pandey Numerical investigation on implication of dual cavity on combustion characteristics in strut based scramjet combustor International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2019

L Suneetha, P Randive, KM Pandey , Numerical investigation on mixing behavior of fuels inreacting and non-reacting flow condition of a cavity-strut based scramjet combustor International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44 (31), 16718-16734

Pitambar Randive,Amaresh Dalal, Partha P.Mukherjee,2018, Probing the influence of confinement and wettability on droplet displacement behavior: A mesoscale analysis, European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids Available online 1 November 2018 In Press,

Manash Protim Boruah, Anik Sarker, Pitambar R. Randive, Sukumar Pati and Suman Chakraborty, Wettability-mediated dynamics of two-phase flow in microfluidic T-junction, Physics of Fluids 30, 122106 (2018);

Manash Protim Boruah, Pitambar R. Randive and Sukumar Pati , Effect of non-uniform asymmetric heating on the thermal and entropy generation characteristics for flow of Al2O3-water nanofluid in a micro-channel, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, , https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-06-2018-0327

Manash Protim Boruah, Pitambar R. Randive, Sukumar Pati, Hydrothermal performance and entropy generation analysis for mixed convective flows over a backward facing step channel with baffle International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 125, October 2018, Pages 525-542

S Debnath, B Das, PR Randive, KM Pandey,Performance analysis of solar air collector in the climatic condition of North Eastern India, Energy, 165, 281-298

Bhardwaj Saurabh Randive; Pitambar Dalal Amaresh Lattice Boltzmann simulations of coalescence of two droplets on a rectangular channel wall considering wetting effects, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, ., 2017 Vol.17 No.5 pp.281 – 289

Randive, P., Dalal, A., and Mukherjee, P. P., Mesoscopic Modeling of Capillarity-induced Two-phase Transport in a Microfluidic Porous Structure”, Transport in Porous Media.,Transp Porous Med (2018) 122:673–691

Randive, P., Dalal, A., Sahu, K. C., Biswas, G., and Mukherjee, P. P., 2015, “Wettability effects on contact line dynamics of droplet motion in an inclined channel”, Physical Review E, Volume 91, p. 053006.

Randive, P., and Dalal, A., 2015, “Influence of geometry on mobilization of trapped blob”, European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids, Volume 53, Pages 1-10.

Randive, P., Dalal, A., and Mukherjee, P. P., 2015, “Mesoscopic Simulation of Blob Resonance in a Model Porous Pathway”, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Volume 18(2), Pages 215-232.

Randive, P., and Dalal, A., 2014, “Influence of viscosity ratio and wettability on droplet displacement behavior: A mesoscale analysis”, Computers and Fluids, Volume 102, Pages 15-31.

Randive, P., Dalal, A., and Mukherjee, P. P., 2014, “Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Two-phase Behavior Under Acoustic Excitation: Capillarity-wettability Interaction”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 74, Pages 460-472.

Randive, P., Dalal, A., and Mukherjee, P. P., 2014, “Probing the Influence of Superhydrophobicity and Mixed Wettability on Droplet Displacement Behavior”, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Volume 17(4), Pages 657-674.

Randive, P., and Dalal, A., 2013, “Capillarity-induced Resonance of Blobs in a 3-D Duct: Lattice Boltzmann Modelling”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 65, Pages 635-648.

Saurabh Tripathi, Krishna Murari Pandey, Pitambar Randive. Computational Study on Effect of Obstacles in Pulse Detonation Engine, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, ICRTES, Visakhapatnam 2018, 7(4.5) 2018 113-117.

Debnath, B. Das, P. Randive, Influences of pentagonal ribs on the performance of rectangular solar air collector, ICAE 2018, Hong Kong. Proceedia Engineering, Elsevier (Scopus Indexed)

NATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. Pitambar Randive, Amaresh Dalal , Mobilization study of the capillarity-induced resonance of blobs in a converging-diverging duct, ISME J. of Thermofluids,vol. 4(1), 21-25,2018

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Vijay Singh, Debayan Bhowmick, Pitambar Randive, Sukumar Pati; “Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Offset Jet on The Different Surface Undulation”; International Conference cum Exhibition on Thermal Analysis and Energy Systems. (ICTAES-2018). Hindustan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.
  2. A Sarker, MP Boruah, P Randive, S Pati, Effect of Capillarity-Viscosity Interaction on Coalescence of Droplets in a Confined Channel, Fluid mechanics and fluid power conference, IIT bombay, 2018
  3. Suman Debnath, Abhilekh Sonowal, Biplab Das, Pitambar Randive and K.M. Pandey, Performance analysisof solar air collector in north eastregion of Iindia Proceedings of SEEP2017, 27-30 june 2017, bled, slovenia
  4. Lakka suneetha, P.Randive, K.M.Pandey, Advancess in flame stabilization process on a dual mode scramjet-A Review, 2018,International Conference on Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
  5. Randive, P., Bhardwaj, S., and Dalal, A., 2014, “Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Capillarity-Induced Resonance of Blob Inside a Circular Tube”, Paper No: 526, 5th International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Kanpur, India.
  6. Randive, P., and Dalal, A., 2013, “Effect of Viscosity Ratio on Droplet Dynamics”, Paper No: HMTC1300574, 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Kharagpur, India.
  7. Randive, P., and Dalal, A., Mukherjee, P. P., 2013, “Simulation of Blob Dynamics Inside a Channel Under Acoustic Excitation”, Paper No: HT2013-17372, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  8. Randive, P., Kulkarni, A. P., and Thombre, S. B., 2006, “Effect of Fin Array Parameters on Variation in Heat Transfer Coefficient for Natural Convections in Fins”, WSEAS Transaction, Volume 1, Pages.567­572.

PHD SCHOLARS

 

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision
 1 Suman Debanth
15-03- 02-115		  completed  Solar energy  Co-supervisor
2 Lakka Suneetha
16-03-02-105		 completed Combustion Main supervisor
3  Manash Protim Boruah
17-3-02-110		 completed Droplet Dynamics Main supervisor
4 Subhashis Chakrwarti ongoing Combustion Sole supervisor
5 Brajesh Kanchan ongoing Battery Sole supervisor
6  M. Faizan ongoing Battery Co- Supervisor
7 Narendra Babu C H ongoing Battery Co- Supervisor
8 Lai Cheng Chetia ongoing Droplet dynamics Co-Supervisor
9 Samiron Neog ongoing Battery Sole Supervisor
10 Nilesh Birajdar ongoing Battery Sole Supervisor
11 Debayan Bhowmick ongoing Porous media Sole Supervisor

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Roll Number Name Year Project Title
 2026422 PULAK ROY Time periodic electroosmotic flow of non-Newtonian fluids in a parallel plate microchannel with slip- dependent zeta potential
2026417 SAMUJJWAL SARMA Electro coalescence of Droplet Pair Under the Effect of Dc Electric Field
 19-26-406 Anik Sarker​ Coalescence of single and compound drop on a liquid pool-Effect of inertia and electric field
1926409 Bilkis Sultana Numerical Investigation On Implications Of Pulsatile Flow On Battery Thermal Management
18-22-111 Sreedeep Mohanta Numerical investigation of electrochemical characteristics of Li-Ion Battery
18-22-115 Avinash Mali Numerical investigation of Marangoni induced coalescence of simple and compound drop in a liquid pool

 

 

 

About Pitambar R Randive

Dr. Pitambar Randive is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department . He has received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Nagpur University in 1997. Further, He obtained his Masters in mechanical engineering with specialization in heat power engineering from VNIT (Earlier known as V.R.C.E.) Nagpur in 2001. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2014.