Bioinformatics and Molecular Modelling based approaches for Protein Engineering.
Chemical Engineering
Process Systems Engineering: Process design and control, Machine learning applications in process design, Synthesis and optimization of process systems, fault detection and isolation, cyber phys cal 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.
Wastewater Treatment: Adsorption, Photocatalysis, Ozonation, and Bioremediation of various pollutants (e.g., dyes, POPs, AHCs, etc.)..
Air Pollution Control: Metal-organic frameworks and Agro-based adsorbents for VOC (i.e., BTEX) removal..
Bioenergy: Waste to Energy..
Adsorption and separation, Hydrogen energy generation and storage, Molecular simulations and density functional theory, Carbon capture..
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
Exploration of novel materials for electrochemical water splitting and CO2 reduction
Engineering Properties of rocks and soil; Rock mass characterization; Rock Failure Mechanism.
Geothermal Energy
Well Logging
Geochemistry of Earth’s material
Geochemical Exploration of Uranium deposits
Tectonics, Supercontinent cycles and Crustal Evolution
Electrical Engineering
Power Quality Aspects in Distribution Power System and interactive Microgrid.
Mathematics
Linear Algebra, Optimization techniques and their applications in Machine Learning/Deep Learning,Probability and Statistics, Inverse problems.
Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and Related Models
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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.
Solar energy
Desalination and water treatment
PV performance enhancement (Mostly interdisciplinary work hence candidates with specialization in mechanical/energy/environmental/chemical/electrical are preferred)
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.
