Bioinformatics and Molecular Modelling based approaches for Protein Engineering.
Chemical Engineering
Process Systems Engineering: Process design and control, Synthesis and optimization of process systems, fault detection and isolation, cyber physical systems.
Photocatalysis by mixed matrix membrane, Simulation of coupled transport in porous medium, Composite membrane for ion transport.
Latent heat based thermal storage systems, Thermodynamic performance analysis of solar stills, Turbine blade cooling: Modelling and simulation.
Renewable Energy Harvesting Systems: Modelling and Simulation; (Candidates with B.Tech. in Electrochemical engineering may also apply)
Data science and AI for catalyst and drug design. (Candidates with B. Tech. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (EIE)/ Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE) and Electronics and Control Engineering with an interest/ exposure in process control/ data science areas of research may also apply)
Surface Engineering: Surface functionalization of polymers, Surface modification of polymeric materials by plasma treatment, Plasma sterilization
Two-phase flow: Hydrodynamic investigations on gas-liquid, liquid-liquid flow through millimeter channels.
Chemistry
Exploitation of smart Nanomaterials in Bio-application
Fluorescent Molecular Materials: Fabrication, Properties and Applications
Materials Chemistry
Organization of materials using block copolymer templates
Sustainable nanomaterials for energy storage and harvesting
Photocatalytic hydrogen generation
Advanced materials for waste water treatment; Environmental monitoring
Frame theory, Sparse representation theory and their applications in Machine Learning.
Mechanical Engineering
Heat transfer and fluid flow analysis, Aerodynamic analysis of turbomachinery flows, Gas turbine blade cooling techniques, biofuel use in gas turbine, waste to energy conversion
Computational fluid dynamics and its applications in oil and gas sector.
Petroleum Engineering
Drilling fluid design and analysis; Enhanced Oil Recovery, Well stimulation techniques
Gas hydrate, Enhance Oil Recovery and Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Design.
Flow assurance problems; Heavy crude oil-in-water emulsion; Enhanced oil recovery; Drilling fluid design and analysis, Petroleum production problems.
Enhanced Oil Recovery; Reservoir Modelling and Simulation; Multiphase Flow and Transport Processes in Porous Media; machine learning and data analytics in EOR.
