Ongoing Funded Projects:

• Initiation grant, IIT Kanpur, 2023: “Effect of nozzle geometry on vortex breakdown forms”, 25 lakhs INR (Tolstoy Debbarma) 

• Start-up Research Grant (SERB), 2023: “Bubble and conical forms of vortex breakdown in turbulent swirling jets”, 30 lakhs INR (Tolstoy Debbarma, Smruti Ranjan Jena) 

Ongoing research projects

• The connection between transonic buffet and low-frequency oscillations (Jewel Rupini)

• Effect of nozzle geometry on vortex breakdown in swirling jets (Ritvik Pareek; Tolstoy Debbarma & Dr. Athanasios Giannenas, Johns Hopkins Univ.)

• Vortex breakdown in microfluidic T-junctions and T-vortex mixers (Rahul Meena & Dr. Sandhya Moise, Dr. Hannah Leese, Univ. of Bath)

• Vortex breakdown in the transitional regime in wing-tip vortices (Sameer Mishra, with Prof. Debopam Das)

• Turbulent vortex breakdown in swirling jets (Tolstoy Debbarma, with Prof. Ashoke De)

• Simulations of flows over oscillating cylinders (Ayush Boral, with Dr. Arnab Samanta)

• Vortex breakdown in the human heart (Aman Jain)

• Resolvent analysis of spiral instabilities in swirling jets (Hrithik Shivanagouda Patil)

• Parallelized streaming code for performing spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (Mitul Sidhapara)

• Global linear stability analysis of transonic buffet (Vishw Dipak Patel, with Dr. Rajesh Ranjan)

• A parametric open-source airfoil to study transonic buffet (with Dr. Markus Zauner, Dr. David Lusher, Dr. Andrea Sansica from JAXA and Prof. Neil Sandham from Univ. of Southampton)

• Experimental investigation of low-frequency oscillations (with Dr. Tufan Guha)

• Developing microfluidic tools for the detection of cell-derived extracellular vesicles (Aman Jain, with Dr. Sandhya Moise and Dr. Hannah Leese, University of Bath)

Planned research projects

• Experimental investigation of transonic buffet (with Dr. Burak Tuna & Dr. Rajan Kumar, Florida State University)

• Experimental investigation of vortex breakdown in swirling jets (with Prof. Debopam Das)

• Vortex breakdown on delta wings

• Vortex breakdown in annular swirling jets

• Buffet cells in the transonic regime

• Separation-bubble instability in the transonic regime

• Vortex breakdown in tornadoes (with Dr. Johannes Dahl, Texas Tech University)

Completed research projects

• Effect of forced transition on separation bubble modes in the transonic regime (Shraman Maiti, with Dr. Navaneeth, IIT Ropar)

• The connection between Type I and Type II transonic buffet at high Reynolds numbers  (Parth Jagdish Patil)