Research Areas

• Bioinformatics and Molecular Modelling based approaches for Protein 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;
• Data science and AI for catalyst and drug design.  
• 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.

• 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

• Distributed Systems
• Data Sciences

• Computational Geomechanics, Hydraulic fracture propagation modelling, Meshfree methods.
• Engineering Properties of rocks and soil; Rock mass characterization; Rock Failure Mechanism. 
• Geothermal Energy
• Well Logging

• Power Quality Aspects in Distribution Power System and interactive Microgrid. 

• Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Partial Differential equations, Hyperbolic conservation laws. 
• Linear Algebra Applications in Machine Learning/Deep Learning.

• 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.

• 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.
• Reservoir Simulation