Dr.Ojing Siram

Information

  • Designation : Assistant Professor
  • Email : ojing@mech.nits.ac.in
  • Phone :

Research Group

  • 1. Low Speed Aerodynamic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Silchar
    2. Wind Tunnel Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati.

Key Notes

  • Conference: International - 6
  • Journals: 13
  • Conferences: 6
  • PhD: Guided: 1
  • Post Graduates: Guided: 2
  • Under Graduates: Guided: 8

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PUBLICATIONS

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

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PROJECTS

Introduction [Biosketch]

  • Dr. Ojing Siram has done his Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati, and persued Post-Doctoral research at IIT Bombay. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of ME, NIT Silchar, India. His field of interest are Renewable energy, Low-speed aerodynamics, Wind and Hydro power, Energy storage and conversion techniques, Integrated systems, and others. Dr. Siram has expertise in instruments like the Stereo particle image velocimetry, Hot-wire anemometry, Wind and water tunnels, High-speed cameras, and others.

Areas of Interest

  • 1. Low Speed Aerodynamics
  • 2. Experimental Fluid Mechanics
  • 3. Renewable Energy & Energy Storage
  • 4. Data Driven Modelling
  • 5. Applied Engineering

Institution Year Degree
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati PhD
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology Nirjuli M. Tech
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology Nirjuli B. Tech

Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology Silchar

Assistant Professor (Contractual)
NERIST

Industrial/Research Experience
Post Doctoral Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Junior Research Fellow
Technology Innovation Hub- IITG

Mebratu Adamu Assegie, Ojing Siram, Pankaj Kalita, and Niranjan Sahoo, “Efficiency Assessment of Compressed Air Energy Storage System Coupled With Thermal Energy Storage Unit”, In Proceedings ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, 2023, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, V001T03A004

Ravi Kumar, Ojing Siram, Ujjwal K Saha, and Niranjan Sahoo, “Wind tunnel assisted analysis on the effect of span-wise separation of small wind turbines: A near wake region study”, In Proceedings ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, 2023, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, V001T06A003

Design and Development of Bio-Inspired Multi-rotor Wind Turbine System for the Urban and Sub-Urban Regions

Padmanav Kakati
Completed :  14 May 2025
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Data Driven Modeling of Small-scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Cluster Mapping and Placement of Multirotor System

Pachurjya Deka
Completed :  14 May 2025
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Data Driven Modeling of Small-scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Cluster Mapping and Placement of Multirotor System

Pranjal Talukdar
Completed :  14 May 2025
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Design and Development of Bio-Inspired Multi-rotor Wind Turbine System for the Urban and Sub-Urban Regions

Parthiv Dutta
Completed :  14 May 2025
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Design and Development of Diffuser-Augmented Helical Hydrokinetic Turbine (DAHHT) for Low to Medium Head Application.

Rudraneel Baidya
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Design and Development of Diffuser-Augmented Helical Hydrokinetic Turbine (DAHHT) for Low to Medium Head Application.

Akanksha Pandey
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Design and Development of Diffuser-Augmented Helical Hydrokinetic Turbine (DAHHT) for Low to Medium Head Application.

Rabikar Roy
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Design and Development of Diffuser-Augmented Helical Hydrokinetic Turbine (DAHHT) for Low to Medium Head Application.

Mayukh Dutta
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Experimental and Numerical Study on the Effect of Erosion on Low-head Hydro Kinetic Turbines

Manabendra Mali
Supervisor : Dr. Agnimitra Biswas
Co Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Design and Development of Low Turbulence Subsonic Wind Tunnel for Aerodynamic Investigation.

Nounelhuto Vupru
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Solar Thermal Drying

Partha Pratim Borah
Ongoing
Supervisor : Dr. Biplab Das
Co Supervisor : Dr. Ojing Siram
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Awards And Honours

    • Ojing Siram and Niranjan Sahoo. Characterizing the helical vortex frequency of HAWT. Best Paper award at 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), December 10-12, 2019, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
    • Ojing Siram, Abhinay Rawat and Niranjan Sahoo. Wind Farm Modeling for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine. Best oral presentation in Research Conclave 17th March 2019, IITG
    • Ojing Siram and Anand Verma. Experimental Characterization of Subsonic Wind Tunnel. Best poster presentation in Research Conclave 16th March 2019, IITG.
    • Under Top 10 in the State Engineering Entrance Exam.

Sl.No: 1

Title Of Research Project: " Design, Development, and Testing of Sediment Erosion-Resistive Micro-Hydro Turbine for off-grid application "

Sponsored By: DST

Overall Budget: Rs 2200000

Duration: Mar 30, 2024 - Mar 30, 2026 (2 years)

Status: Ongoing

Sl.No: 2

Title Of Research Project: " Design, Development, and Performance Analysis of a Diffuser-augmented Low-head Archimedes Screw Hydrokinetic Turbine "

Sponsored By: DST

Overall Budget: Rs 2000000

Duration: Oct 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2026 (2 years)

Status: Ongoing

Some of the Onging Research Activites:-

1. Design of Small-scale VAWT using the Profile of Earleaf Acacea Tree for Multirotor Configuration.

2. Design and Development of Three and Six-component Force Balance for Aerodynamic Studies.

3. In-house Calibration Setup for Motor/Generator (AC/DC) Coupled with RTS for Precise Realtime Monitoring Under Different Loading Condition. 

4. Development of Standlone Sediment Erosion Test Rig.

5. In-house Design and Development of Subsonic Wind Tunnel Facility at NIT Silchar.

6. In-house Design and Development of Small Scale Water Channel System for Hydrodynamic Study at NIT Silchar. 

7. Wind Turbine Wake Modeling.

8. Pneumatic Anti-Drone System for Low Altitude Loitering drones. 

 

Some Expertise of Dr. Siram are- 

1. Wind Tunnel and Water Channel Experimentation

2. Wind Tunnel Instrumentations (Particle Image Velocimetry, Hot-wire Anemometry, Pressure Scanner, Aerodynamics Force Balance, Rotary Torque Sensors, NI DAQ Systems, LabVIEW Program, High Speed Camera, Themal Analysis, Fluid flow sensor, FDM 3D Printer, and Others)

3. Sotware expertise:  SolidWork, MS Visio, ANSYS, LabVIEW, Origin, and Matlab. 

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