IITKGP

Somnath Roy

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

+91-3222-282920

somnath.roy@mech.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Associate Head, Centre for Computational and Data Sciences

Research Areas

My primary area of work is computational fluid dynamics (CFD). I have been working on several applications involving heat transfer, mixing and turbulence. I also investigate CFD problems involving high computational cost and try to propose high performance computing (HPC) methodologies to address them using multi-core clusters and GPGPU platforms. In last few years, I have been mostly involved in addressing flow problems with moving boundaries. My group works on developing immersed boundary method (IBM) based computationally efficient algorithms to solve moving boundary problems and we have utilized these implementations to predict flow and heat transfer in interesting engineering and biological problems including flapping wings, casting, moving fins, deformable arteries etc. 
 
  • Numerical simulation of flow of a shear-thinning Carreau fluid over a transversely oscillating cylinder Alam M.I., Raj A., Khan P.M., Kumar S., Roy S. By Journal of Fluid Mechanics 921 - (2021)
  • Computational analysis of perforation effect on the thermo-hydraulic performance of micro pin-fin heat sink Gupta D., Saha P., Roy S. By International Journal of Thermal Sciences 163 - (2021)
  • Numerical prediction of solidified shell thicknesses obtained in continuous casting with different billet shapes Bhole S.A., Kumar M., Roy S., Panda S.S. By Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications 77 302-316 (2020)
  • Effect of pulse rate variation on blood flow through axisymmetric and asymmetric stenotic artery models Sood T., Roy S., Pathak M. By Mathematical Biosciences 298 1-18 (2018)

Principal Investigator

  • Nodal Center in HPC and AI at IIT Kharagpur under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
  • Workshops for NSM Nodal Centre Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Co-Principal Investigator

  • Hydroelasticity of a Large and High Speed Ships Considering the Slamming and Green Water Impact on Regular and Ir-regular Waves Naval Research Board

Ph. D. Students

Chinmoy Mondal

Area of Research: Fluid Dynamics

Debajyoti Adak

Area of Research: Multi-scale modeling of engineering processes

Debajyoti Kumar

Area of Research: High performance methods in linear solvers

Debashis Dey

Area of Research: Heat Transfer

Naman Bartwal

Area of Research: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Nandan Sarkar

Area of Research: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Pawan Kumar

Area of Research: fluid dynamics

Sharma Siddharth Durgaprasad

Area of Research: CFD for Biological Flows

Shuvranil Sanyal

Area of Research: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Soumitra Dutta

Area of Research: Fluid Structure Interaction

MS Students

Asmita Basu

Area of Research: Machine Learning and HPC

Sayantan Dawn

Area of Research: Biological Flows