Dr. Avinash Chandra

Dr. Avinash Chandra
Associate Professor

Designation:

Associate Professor

Specialization:

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Industrial Scale RTD Analysis, Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer; Radiotracer Applications; Bioprocess & Natural Products

Email:

avinash.chandra@thapar.edu

Email: avichiitk@yahoo.com; avinashcha@gmail.com;

Contact No.: +91 (175) 239 3444; 3348 (O); +91 (175) 239 3105 (Fax) ; Mobile : + 91 9914255295; + 91 7376992594

Research Area:

  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Industrial scale RTD using radiotracer
  • Non-Newtonian Fluid flow & Heat Transfer
  • Radiotracer applications
  • Bioprocess and Natural Products

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Education:

  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, INDIA (2012)
  • M. Tech., Chemical Engineering, HBTI Kanpur, INDIA (2005)
  • B. Tech., Chemical Engineering, IET, Lucknow, INDIA (2000)
  • PG Diploma in Operation Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University, INDIA (2004)

Certificate course:

Certificate course in “Radiation Safety Aspects in the Research Application of Ionizing Radiation”, IARP, BARC, Mumbai, INDIA ( 2014)

Thesis supervision:

  • Ph.D.: 03 (Ongoing)
  • M.E./ M. Tech.: 04 (Completed)
  • MSc Dissertation: 04 (02 Completed; 02 Ongoing)

Research Projects

  1. Project Title:- Investigation of Hydrodynamics and RTD of Pulp Digester Using Radiotracer Technique; Funding agency: DAE-BRNS
    Duration: July 2014- March 2018
  2. Project Title:- Solvent Free Microwave Assisted Extraction of Essential Oil from Turmeric; UGC     Duration: October 2013- March 2016.
  3. Project Title:-Modified steam distillation process for cleaner production of essential oil from turmeric; Funding agency: Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala                                           Duration: October 2013- March 2015

Experience:

  • 12 years of Teaching & Research

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

  1. Life time membership of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE), India (2012 Onwards)
  2. Scientific and Technical Committee & Editorial Review Board Member, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, USA (2015 Onwards).
  3. Member of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association (IPPTA), India (2016 Onwards).
  4. Life time Member of National Association for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry (NAARRI), India (2017 Onwards).
  5. Member of International Society for Tracer and Radiation Application (ISTRA), Vienna, Austria (2017 Onwards).

Publications and other Research Outputs

SCI

  1. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Flow over and forced convection heat transfer in Newtonian fluids from a semi-circular cylinder”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (2011) 225-241.
  2. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Momentum and heat transfer characteristics of a semi-circular cylinder immersed in power-law fluids in the steady flow regime”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54 (2011) 2734-2750.
  3. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Influence of power-law index on transitional Reynolds numbers for flow over a semi-circular cylinder”, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 35 (2011) 5766-5785.
  4. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Mixed convection from a heated semi-circular cylinder to power-law fluids in the steady flow regime”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55 (2012) 214-234.
  5. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Laminar free convection from a horizontal semi-circular cylinder to power-law fluids”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55 (2012) 2934-2944.
  6. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Momentum and heat transfer from a semi-circular cylinder to power-law fluids in the vortex shedding regime”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, 63 (2013) 489–510.
  7. Sheoran Meenakshi, S. Goswami, H.J. Pant, J. Biswal, V.K. Sharma, Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P. K. Bajpai, S. M. Rao, A. Das, “Measurement of residence time distribution of liquid phase in an industrial-scale continuous pulp digester using radiotracer technique”, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 111, (2016) 10-14.
  8. Datta Arghya, D. Datta and Avinash Chandra, “Separation and recovery of copper from aqueous solutions using tri-n-butyl phosphate in benzene”, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 221 (2016) 139-148.
  9. Meenakshi Sheoran, Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P.K. Bajpai and H.J. Pant, “Residence time distribution studies using radiotracers in chemical industry—A review”, Chemical Engineering Communications, in Press (2018) DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2017.1410478.
  10. Arvind K. Gautam and Avinash Chandra, “A computational study of liquid-solid interfacial free energy (γ) for SW-Ge potential model”, in press (2018) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2018.04.001

Non-SCI

  1. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Effect of Prandtl number on natural convection heat transfer from a heated semi-circular cylinder”, International Journal of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, Mechatronic and Manufacturing Engineering 6, 1 (2012) 146-152.
  2. Chandra Avinash, S. Prajapati, S.K. Garg, A.K. Rathore, “Extraction of turmeric oil by continuous water circulation distillation”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Applied Science, 2, (2016) 404-410.
  3. Chandra Avinash and H. Singh, “Heat Transfer In Jacketed Vessel Equipped with Down-Pumping Pitched Blade Turbine”, Computational Thermal Science, 7 (2015) 527-537.
  4. Chandra Avinash, S. Prajapati, S.K. Garg and A.K. Rathore, “Extraction of turmeric oil by continuous water circulation distillation”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Applied Science, 2, (2016) 404-410.
  5. Sheorana Meenakshi, Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P.K. Bajpai, H.J. Pant and S.M. Rao, “Investigation the flow behavior of continuous pulping digester using radiotracer technique to optimize the operating conditions”, IPPTA: Quarterly Journal of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association, 28 (2016) 33-40.

Conferences

International

  1. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Effect of Prandtl number on natural convection heat transfer from a heated semi-circular cylinder” in ICFMHTT-2012: International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, January 15-17, 2012, Paper ID: 61000.
  2. Chandra Avinash and H. Singh, “Turbulent Heat Transfer in Agitated Vessel Equipped with Pitch Blade Turbine” in CHT-15: 6th International Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 25-29, 2015. Paper ID: CHT-15-046.
  3. Sheoran Meenakshi , Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P.K. Bajpai, H.J. Pant, “Radioactive tracing of an industrial scale continuous pulp digester” in ICARST-2017: 1st International conference on Application of Radiation Science and Technology, International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2017. Paper ID: 57.

National

  1. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Two-dimensional transient flow over a semi-circular cylinder” in CHEMCON-2012, NIT, Jalandhar, INDIA, December 27-30, 2012 Paper ID:P-147.
  2. Chandra Avinash, A.K. Tiwari, R.P. Chhabra, “Effect of non-Newtonian rheology and orientation on fluid flow and heat transfer from a semi-circular cylinder” in SERC School & Sixth Symposium on “Rheology of Complex Fluids”, IIT Guwahati, INDIA, January 3-7, 2012.
  3. Chandra Avinash and R.P. Chhabra, “Unsteady forced convection heat transfer from a heated semi-circular cylinder” in ACE 2013, IIT Roorkee, INDIA, February 22-24, 2013, Paper ID: Paper #ACE-2013-0069.
  4. Chandra Avinash, M. Gandhi, and R. K. Gupta, “Mixed convection heat transfer from a semi-circular cylinder placed in a vertical channel to air” in CHEMCON-2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA, December 27-30, 2014 Paper ID: FM-0031.
  5. Chandra Avinash, B. Metha, and D. Datta, “Forced convection heat transfer from a confined semi-circular cylinder” in CHEMCON-2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA, December 27-30, 2014 Paper ID: HT-0018.
  6. Chandra Avinash, J. Singh, and V.K. Sangal, “Forced convection heat transfer in agitated vessel equipped with 4-blade pitched turbine” in CHEMCON-2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA, December 27-30, 2014 Paper ID: HT-0022.
  7. Chandra Avinash and S. Bansal, “Extraction of essential oil from Curcuma Longa L.” in CHEMCON-2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA, December 27-30, 2014 Paper ID: BC-0007.
  8. Dipaloy Datta, S. Kumar and Avinash Chandra “Investigation of extraction of Nicotinic Acid using TBP and TOA dissolved in a binary mixture” in CHEMCON-2014, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA, December 27-30, 2014 Paper ID: PI-0017.
  9. Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Avinash Chandra, R.K. Gupta, “Experimental investigation of 3D-mixed convection heat transfer from a semi-circular cylinder placed in rectangular channel”, in ACEE’16, NIT Jalandhar, April 22-23, 2016, Paper ID: 107.
  10. SheoranMeenakshi , Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P.K. Bajpai, H. J. Pant, S. M. Rao, “Investigation the flow behavior of continuous pulping digester using radiotracer technique to optimize the operating conditions” in IPPTA Zonal Seminar-2016, Chandigarh, INDIA, August 4-5, 2016.
  11. Sheoran Meenakshi, Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia, P.K. Bajpai, H.J. Pant and S.M. Rao, “RTD Investigation of an Industrial three Tube pulp digester using radiotracer” in National Symposium on Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology in Industry, Healthcare and Agriculture (ARRTIHA-2016), Thapar University, Patiala, INDIA, November 28-29, 2016.
  12. Sehgal Hunar , T. Jain, N. Malik, Avinash Chandra, and S. Singh, “Isolation and chemical analysis of turmeric oil from rhizomes” in CHEMCON-2016, Chennai (IIT Madras, Anna University and CLRI, Chennai) INDIA, December 27-30, 2016 Paper ID:094.
  13. Chandra Avinash, Navjot Kaur and A.K. Gautam, “Pilot scale wheat straw pulping in continuous pulp digester” in CHEMCON-2017, Haldia (Haldia Institute of Technology & IICHE) INDIA, December 27-30, 2017.
  14. Gautam Arvind K. and Avinash Chandra, “The computation of melting temperature for tetrahedral liquids” in CHEMCON-2017, Haldia (Haldia Institute of Technology & IICHE) INDIA, December 27-30, 2017.
  15. Sheoran Meenakshi, Avinash Chandra, H. Bhunia and H.J. Pant, “Radiotracer application for RTD investigation of pulp digester” in NICSTAR-2018, Mumbai (National Association for Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry, NAARRI, Mumbai), INDIA, March 5-7, 2018.

Professional memberships:

  1. Life member of International Society for Tracer and Radiation Application (ISTRA), Vienna, Austria.
  2. Life member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IICHE), India.
  3. Life member of National Association for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation in Industry (NAARRI), India.
  4. Life Member of Indian Society of Heat & Mass Transfer (ISHMT), IIT Chennai, India.
  5. Member of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association (IPPTA), India.
  6. Scientific and Technical Committee & Editorial Review Board Member, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, USA.

Awards and Honours

  1. Foreign travel grant received from CSIR & IIT Kanpur for participating in conferences held at Zurich, Switzerland (January 2012).
  2. Cash Award (2 Nos.) for Paper Publication in Reputed International Journal, IIT Kanpur, (March 2011 & October 2011).
  3. Foreign travel grant received from SERB & CICS for participating in conferences held at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, (May 2015).
  4. Performance cash award of Rs. 75,000/- received from Thapar University, Patiala (August, 2015).
  5. Best poster award received in National Symposium on Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology in Industry, Healthcare and Agriculture (ARRTIHA-2016), Thapar University, Patiala, INDIA (November, 2016).
  6. International travel grant received from International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), Vienna for Participating in Conference held at International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), Vienna, Austria (April, 2017).

Description of Research Interests

Dr. Avinash Chandra’s research interest is computational fluid dynamics (CFD), non-Newtonian/ Newtonian fluid flow and heat transfer, industrial scale residence time distribution (RTD) analysis, application of radiotracer, extraction of valuable components (essential oil, bioactive molecules, etc.) from the natural herbs / aromatic plants, etc. He is working on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the fundamental and real/industrial problems to explore flow/ heat/ mass transfer fields and engineering parameters. It includes the CFD of Newtonian and non-Newtonian power-law fluids.

Dr. Chandra has undertaken a DAE-BRNS sponsored research project entitled “Investigation of Hydrodynamics and RTD of Pulp Digester Using Radiotracer Technique” with the collaboration of BARC and Satia Industries Ltd. Muktsar (Punjab). The industrial scale pulp digester is being analysed with using various radiotracers. A pilot scale pulp digester is also designed, fabricated and installed by Dr. Chandra as a departmental asset for future research.

Additionally, Dr. Chandra is actively working on the process development for the extraction of valuable components (essential oil, bioactive molecules, etc.) from the natural herbs / medicinal and aromatic plants. He has completed two sponsored project on it funded by UGC and TIET. A continuous water circulation distillation (CWCD) and solvent free microwave distillation (SFMD) have been developed by him to obtain the essential oil from herbs/ medicinal and aromatic plants.