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Anurag Tripathi
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Research Interest
Modelling and Simulation of Complex Fluids, Soft Matter, Granular Materials
Office
FB 456,
Department of Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Modelling and simulation of Complex fluids, Rheology and segregation of Granular Materials, Processing and handling of Particulate Solids
Education
Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2012-2013
PhD, IIT Bombay, 2011
Thesis Title: Rheology and Segregation of Granular Mixtures
Thesis Supervisor:Prof. D. V. Khakhar
B.Tech, IIT Bombay, 2005
Selected Publications
A. Tripathi and A. C. Balazs, "Fluid-driven motion of passive cilia enables the layer to expel sticky particles" Soft Matter, 10 (9), 1416 - 1427 (2014).
A. Tripathi, A. Bhattacharya and A. C. Balazs, "Size selectivity in cilia-particle interactions: Mimicking the behaviour of suspension feeders", Langmuir, 29 (14), 4616 (2013).
A. Tripathi and D. V. Khakhar, "Density difference-driven segregation in a dense granular flow", J. Fluid Mech., 717, 643 (2013).
A. Tripathi and D. V. Khakhar, Rheology of binary granular mixtures in the dense flow regime", Phys. Fluids, 23, 113302 (2011).
A. Tripathi and D. V. Khakhar, Numerical simulation of the sedimentation of a sphere in a sheared granular fluid: A granular Stokes experiment", Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108001, (2011).
Awards & Fellowships
Award of Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for the year 2009-2011.
Travel grant award from American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) for 63rd Annual Meeting of APS-DFD 2010 at Longbeach, CA 2010.
Best oral presentation award at Research Scholar Symposium 2010, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 2010 and ChEmference09, IIT Madras, Chennai 2009.
Keywords
Complex fluids, Fluid Mechanics, Granular, DEM simulation, Particulate solids
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2012-2013