Dr. Somnath Santra

Assistant Professor
Phone: +91-xxxxxxxxx
Email: somnath[at]mech.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 01/01/2024
Academic/Industrial Experience: Research – 2 years
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (FULL DETAILS )

  • Post Doctorate from Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique,  CNRS (The National Center for Scientific Research),  France.

          Project title: Electrokinetics effects on blood flow under the supervision of Prof. Chaouqi Misbah ( Director of Research at the French                                                        National Center of Research)

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

           Research Objective: Elctrohydrodynamics of droplets in micro-confinement under the supervision of Prof. Suman Chakraborty

  • M.Tech. in Thermal Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India

          Thesis: Analysis of mass transport mechanism in an arterial wall under the  the supervision of Prof. Somnath Chakrabarti

  • B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, India

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Bio fluid mechanics  ( Dynamics of red blood cells, Mass transport in arterial wall etc.)
  • Microfluidics
  • Multi-phase/Interfacial flows
  • Modulation of droplet morphodynamics using Electrical/ Thermal Field/ Magnetic field
  • Droplet dynamics under extreme conditions

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Somnath Santra is  currently working as an Assistant Professor Grade II in the Mechanical Engineering Department at NIT Silchar. Prior to this, he  was postdoctoral researcher in Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He completed his PhD degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He completed Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, and Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology. His research interests include Biological Fluid Dynamics, Microfluidics,  Multiphase flows. He has authored 20 research articles in reputed journals/conferences to date. He is the recipient of Marie-Curie Seal of Excellence Award by the European Commission in 2022, CNRS Postdoctoral fellowship in 2021. He is also recipient of the DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award, 2023. He served as the reviewer of several reputed international journals.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Finite element method in engineering applications
  • Dynamics of solid
  • Fluid Mechanics

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  • S. Das, S. Santra, and S. Chakraborty, Thermally driven dynamics of interacting droplet-pairs in micro-confined shear flow: Beyond the realm of droplet coalescence, Physics of Fluids, AIP Publishing, 042012, 35 (2023) (SD and SS have equal contributions)
  • T. Kahali, S. Santra, and S. Chakraborty, Electrically modulated cross-stream migration of a compound drop in micro-confined oscillatory flow, Physics of Fluids, AIP Publishing, 122015, 34 (2022). [Editor’s pick]
  • S. Santra, S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Electrically modulated dynamics of a compound droplet in aconfined microfluidic environment, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 882, A23 (2020).
  • S. Santra and S. Chakraborty, Steady axial electric field may lead to controllable cross-stream migration ofdroplets in confined oscillatory microflows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 907, A8 (2021).
  • S. Santra, D. P. Panigrahi, S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Shape evolution of compound droplet in thecombined presence of electric field and extensional flow, Physical Review Fluids, 5, 63602 (2020).
  • D. P. Panigrahi, S. Santra, T. N. Banuprasad, S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Interfacial viscosity-inducedsuppression of lateral migration of a surfactant laden droplet in a non-isothermal Poiseuille flow. Physical Review Fluids, American Physical Society, 053603, 6, (2021).
  • S. Santra, A. Jana, and S. Chakraborty, Electric field modulated deformation dynamics of a compounddrop in the presence of confined shear flow, Physics of Fluids, 32, 122006 (2020).
  • S. Santra, S. Mandal, and S. Chakraborty, Phase-field modeling of multicomponent and multiphase flowsin microfluidic systems: a review, Int. J. Numer. Methods Heat Fluid Flow (2020).
  • S. Santra, S. Mandal, and S. Chakraborty, Confinement effect on electrically induced dynamics of a dropletin shear flow, Physical Review E, 100, 033101 (2019).
  • S. Santra, S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Electric field-induced pinch-off of a compound droplet in Poiseuilleflow, Physics of Fluids, 31, 62004 (2019).
  • S. Santra, D. Sen, S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Electrohydrodynamic interaction between droplet pairs in aconfined shear flow, Physics of Fluids, 31, 32005 (2019).
  • S. Santra, S. Das, S. S. Das, and S. Chakraborty, Surfactant-induced retardation in lateral migration ofdroplets in a microfluidic confinement, Microfluid. Nanofluidics, 22, 88 (2018).
  • S. Santra, S. Mandal, and S. Chakraborty, Electrohydrodynamics of confined two-dimensional liquiddroplets in uniform electric field, Physics of Fluids, 30, 62003 (2018).
  • S. Bandyopadhyay, S.Santra, S.S Das, R. Mukherjee*, and S. Chakraborty, Non-wetting Liquid-InfusedSlippery Paper, Langmuir, 37, 13627–13636 (2021)
  • S. Santra, S. Mandal, A. Bandopadhyay, and S. Chakraborty, Electric field-induced droplet deflection inmicroconfined flow, arXiv:1806.00131 (under review).
  • S. Santra, D. K. Mandal, and S. Chakrabarti, A New Approach for Assessing the LDL Species in ArterialWall Layers, J. Inst. Eng. Ser. C 101, 13 (2020).
  • S. Santra, D.K Mandal, S. Chakrabarti, (2017). “Effects of Hemodynamic Parameters and involvedProcesses on Mass Transport through Arterial Wall for Localization and Progression of the Disease,Atherosclerosis: A Review”; International Journal of Transport Phenomenon, 14 (3):183 – 203.
  • S. Santra, D.K Mandal, S. Chakrabarti, (2017). “Effect of pulsatile blood flow on LDL transport in arterial layers”, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, Vol. 18 No. 3, p. 177.
  • S. Santra, D.K Mandal, S. Chakrabarti, (2017). “Assessment of accumulation rate of LDL species in arterial wall layers under hypertension and hyperlipidemia conditions”, International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 79–92.
  • S. Santra, D.K Mandal, S. Chakrabarti, “Effect of Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia on LDL Transport in Arterial Layers for Newtonian and non-Newtonian Aspects of Blood” International Journal of Transport Phenomenon, 14, 3, (2017), 297-306

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  • S. Santra, D.K Mandal, S. Chakrabarti (2018), “Effect of hyperlipidemia and hyperthermia on LDL species transportation in arterialwall layers”, 1st International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, INCOM18 (168-170).
  • S. Santra, Alexander Farutin & Chaouqi Misbah, “Electric field modulated spatial distribution of red blood cells in microflows”,“Dynamics of Capsules, Vesicles, and Cells in Flow”, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France (2023)
  •  S. Santra, Alexander Farutin & Chaouqi Misbah, “Confinement-triggered non-trivial dynamics of red blood cells under conjugateinterplay of electric field and poiseuille flow”, “HYDRODYNAMICS AT SMALL SCALES: from soft matter to bioengineering”,the University of Bordeaux, France (2023)

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award, 2023 from Govt. of India.
  • Awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence award from the European Commission, European Union (EU), 2022
  • CNRS Postdoctoral Fellowship for postdoctoral research in France
  • Participant at the SFB-TRR 75 Summer School 2019, University of Stuttgart, Germany. The trip was fully funded by Indo-German Science & Technology Centre.
  • Institute Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Funded by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), India, 12/07/2016 –12/07/ 2021
  • Institute Fellowship for Post Graduate Research, MHRD, India, 01/07/ 2014 –24/05/2016.

INVITED TALK

  • Title : “Anomalies in Blood Electrokinetics”

    Organizer : BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, D Y Patil International University

    Time and Date: 20th March, 2024, 4:00 pm (EST).

    Host:  Dr. Surabhi Sonam

  •  Title: Electrically modulated maneuvering of soft globules: a perspective of droplets and cells

           Organizer : BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, IIT DELHI

           Time and Date: 18 December, 2023, 11:00 am (EST).

            Host:  Dr. Priti Sinha

  • Title: “Droplet manipulation driven by the interplay of confinement and electrical forcing”.

          Organizer : University of Pennsylvania,  Soft Matter Group.

          Time and Date: 29 th April, 2021, 11:00 am (EST).

          Host: Prof. Arnold Mathijssen

  • Title: “Demonstration of Phase-field modeling for CFD in COMSOL Platform”.

          Organizer : National level online FDP on ” Engineering problem Solving using CFD” organizedby M. E. S. College of Engineering, Pune

         Time and Date: 6th January, 2022, 1:00 pm (IST).

         Host: Dr. Amit R. Patil

BTECH SCHOLAR

Scholar ID                                                                                                                                                                                               Name

2116040                                                                                                                                                                                                 T. Charan Teja

2116083                                                                                                                                                                                                 N Voshitha Dutt Reddy

2116125                                                                                                                                                                                                  Arbind prasad Acharya

2116102                                                                                                                                                                                                 Akaynsha Saikia

MTECH SCHOLAR

 2326502                                                                                                                                                                                              Bibek Chakraborty

PhD SCHOLAR

 1. Kundan Kumar ( Main Supervisor)

 2. Sandip Kumar  (Co-supervisor)

Project Title

Electric Field Modulated Maneuvering of Red Blood Cells In a Network of Bio-Mimetic Deformable Microvessels Under Healthy and Diseased Conditions. ( 35 lakhs for 5 years)

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