Dr.Dipankar Bhanja

Information

  • Designation : Associate Professor
  • Email : dipankar@mech.nits.ac.in
  • Phone : 9435175552

Key Notes

  • Conference: International - 20
  • Journals: 64
  • Conferences: 22
  • Book Chapters: 13
  • Patents: 1
  • PhD: Guided: 7
  • Post Graduates: Guided: 21
  • Under Graduates: Guided: 17

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PUBLICATIONS

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

1

PATENT

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PROJECT

Introduction [Biosketch]

  • Dr. Dipankar Bhanja is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar. Before joining NIT Silchar, he also served as a faculty member at Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, and Dumkal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Murshidabad. He received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College (University of North Bengal) and M.E. and PhD from Jadavpur University. He has more than 23 years of teaching and research experience. His current research areas include Heat Transfer, Porous fin, Constructal design, Bioheat transfer, Solar energy, Optimization, Thermal protective clothing, Phase change materials, etc. He has published more than 100 research papers to date in various refereed national/international journals and conferences. Under his supervision, seven (7) PhD scholars and twenty one (21) PG students completed their research work, and six PhD research scholars are now working under his supervision.

Areas of Interest

  • Extended surface, Porous fin, Constructal design, Bioheat transfer, Solar energy, Thermal protective clothing, Phase change materials, Optimization

Institution Year Degree
Jalpaiguri Govt. Engg. College 2000 B. E. (Mechanical)
Jadavpur University 2002 M. E. (Production)
Jadavpur University 2014 Ph. D.

Teaching Experience
Associate Professor (AGP 9500)
6 July 2022 - Present
NIT Silchar

Assistant Professor (AGP 8000)
25 June 2018 - 5 July 2022
NIT Silchar

Assistant Professor (AGP 7000)
20 November 2015 - 24 June 2018
NIT Silchar

Assistant Professor (AGP 6000)
7 February 2013 - 19 November 2015
NIT Silchar

Assistant Professor
12 August 2009 - 5 February 2013
WBUT

Sr. Lecturer
17 August 2006 - 11 August 2009
WBUT

Lecturer
3 August 2004 - 16 August 2006
WBUT

Lecturer
10 February 2002 - 31 July 2004
WBUT

Aishik Dinda, Jnanaranjan Acharya, Dipankar Bhanja, “Heat Transfer Analysis In Human Skin During Hyperthermia Treatment Using Dual Phase Lag Model: A Finite Difference Approach”, In Proceedings , Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering, ICRAME 2022, February 4th 2022 - February 6th 2022, 2022, NIT Silchar, Indexed in Scopus

Jnanaranjan Acharya, Aishik Dinda, Dr. Dipankar Bhanja, Prof. Rahul Dev Misra, “Effect Of External Step Heating In Biological Tissue Using Dual Phase Lag Bioheat Transfer Model : A Numerical Approach”, In Proceedings Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Recent Advancements in Mechanical Engineering, ICRAME 2022, February 4th 2022 - February 6th 2022, 2022, NIT Silchar, Indexed in Scopus

Pharmacokinetic Study of Topical Drug Delivery for Ph-Sensitive Liposomes for the Treatment of Malignacies

Manjari Singh (2116002) Rahul Kakati (2116043)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Dynamics of splashed droplets impacting tea leaves treated with a fungicide

Abhijit Das (2116092) Rahul Ahmed (2116090)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2025-2026

Thermal Analysis of Stacked- 2D Metallic Fiber Enhanced Beeswax MFPCM with Different Anisotropies

Swapnil Panda (1916033) Pranjal Gogoi (1916039) Partha Pratim Borgohain (1916047) Tridip Borah (1916050)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. Sumit Bhowmik
Academic Year : 2023-2024

Enhancement of Performance of Latent Heat Energy Storage with Fins having Optimum Branching

Anish Chetri (1916086) Himangshu Deka (1916090) Ruchita Hazarika (1916095) Vishesh Agrahari (1916019)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2023-2024

Computational Investigation on Optimal Design Analysis of Fins to Enhance Performance of Solar Air Heater

Parthiv Protim Borah (1812034) Anup Kumar Mahato (1812037) L Bishanta Singha (1812039)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Thermal Analysis of Kalina Cycle

Amit Kumar (1712077) Ashutosh Shukla (1712085) Arsh Srivastava (1712093) Aman Rai (1712103)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Parametric Study of Fibre Properties in Heat and Mass Transfer under Body Heat and Sweat Release

Arnab Roy (16-1-2-020) Bhaskar Gope (16-1-2-024) Nishan Deb (16-1-2-013) Madhurjya Kumar Nath (16-1-2-004)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Analysis of Thermal Wave Propagation in Blood-Perfused Tissue for Hyperthermia Treatment

Hirakjyoti Deka (15-1-2-002) Rajnandan Borthakur (15-1-2-040) Saptomi Baruah (15-1-2-120)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Study of Thermal Performance Parameters of Endo-Reversible Dual Miller Cycle

Manash Gogoi (15-1-2-030) Hrishikesh Boruah(15-1-2-041) Suraj Hazarika (15-1-2-042)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Analysis of Bio-Heat Transfer in Human Tissue and Solution of the Governing Equation Under Various parametric Conditions

Amitrajit Bhattacharjee (14-1-2-001) Abhishruti Dutta (14-1-2-028) Bhargav Panging (14-1-2-110)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2018-2019

Prediction and Comparison of Performance Parameters of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) using Zeotropic Mixture as Working Fluids

Aditya Singh (14-1-2-035) PylaRamanaRaju (14-1-2-045) Aakash Das (14-1-2-099)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Study on ideal adiabatic analysis of alpha Stirling engines for sinusoidal volume variations

Rishav Kanth (13-1-2-040) Swagatam Sengupta (13-1-2-051) Ravi Shankar Kumar (13-1-2-037)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2017-2018

A comparatrive study of pure and Zeotropic mixtures in low temperature organic rankine cycle

Pintu Kumar (13-1-2-014) Rahul Kumar (13-1-2-035) Pranav Kumar Sinha (13-1-2-111)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Modelling of velocity and size distribution of liquid droplets using maximum entropy function

Shreyosi Bhattacharjee (12-1-2-107) Nabajyoti Dutta (12-1-2-003) Paran Baruah (12-1-2-007) Priyangkush Baruah (12-1-2-039) Dwaipayan Nobis (12-1-2-006) Indraneel Mukherjee (12-1-2-025)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Thermal analysis of solar air heater

Satya Prakash (11-1-2-032) Pawan Kumar (11-1-2-055) Shyamal Mala (11-1-2-071) Rajat Kumar (11-1-2-052) Ritu Raj (11-1-2-041)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Thermal analysis of a solar absorber collector system by considering variable thermophysical characteristics

Suman Sarmah (11-1-2-010) Rupesh Sahu (11-1-2-037) Brajendra Kumar (11-1-2-035) Akash Gaur (11-1-2-016) K. Rana Pratap Singh (11-1-2-021)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. P. L. Choudhury
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Analytical study on annular porous fin

Sharat Kumar Nayak (10-1-2-072) Ujjawal Kumar (10-1-2-076) Apoorv Singh (10-1-2-060) Ankit Kumar (10-1-2-077) Vikash Kadyan (10-1-2-078)
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Weakly non-linear temporal instability analysis of viscous planar liquid sheet co-flowing with two viscous gas-streams in the presence of confinement considering initial varicose mode of disturbance

Lakhya Jyoti Bora
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2024-2025

Thermal Analysis of Protective Footwear under Extreme Cold Environment

Plabita Bhuyan
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2023-2024

Melting Behaviour of Phase Change Material in Various Shapes Tube Heat Exchangers

Sourav Chatterjee
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Numerical Modelling of Bioheat Transfer through Human Skin for Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment

Aishik Dinda
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2022-2023

Estimation of Heat And Moisture Transfer During Steam Exposure Through Thermal Clothing And Skin Temperature Distribution

Parul Thapa
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Investigation of Melting Phenomenon of PCM in Latent Heat Energy Storage System With Vertical Fins

Anirban Roy
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2021-2022

Numerical Modelling and Thermo-Hydraulic Performance Enhancement of Wavy Double Layered Microchannel Heat Sink With Height Tapering

Santanu Borah
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2020-2021

Modeling of Thermal Protective Cloth under Hot Steam Exposure

Krishna Kanhaiya
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Thermal performance analysis of PVT system with cooling arrangement

Shashank Pal
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2018-2019

Numerical study of heat transfer performance and flow characteristics of microchannel heat sink with micro pin-fins

Shreekant Kumar Sahu
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. Sujit Nath
Academic Year : 2018-2019

Study of heat transfer using Pennes heat equation in a biological tissue for skin burn and hyperthermia

Kashmiri Deka
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Thermo-hydraulic study of tapered double layer microchannel heat sink using nanofluid for electronic chip cooling

Avinash Kumar
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. Sujit Nath
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Experimental and computational investigations of cluster Savonius turbines and its comparison with a single Savonius water turbine

Thochi Seb Rengma
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. Agnimitra biswas
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Thermal analysis of a constructal T-shaped fin subjected to natural convection

Hifzur Hasan Ahmed
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Effect of absorptive coating on exergy optimized pin fin of an absorber in a solar air heater

Rwisumwi Basumatary
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Numerical modeling of phase change material to enhance heat transfer using extended surfaces

Abhijeet Borthakur
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

CFD analysis of heat transfer and pressure drop for fin and tube heat exchanger with different shapes of tubes having inline and staggered arrangements

Mohd Zeeshan
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Analytical, experimental and computational predictions in performance and optimum design analysis of porous fins of various profiles

Subhasis Chakravarthy
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Thermal analysis of porous fin subjected to variable thermo-physical parameters

Aaditya Chandel
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Optimal sizing and Techno-economic evaluation of Stand-alone hybrid renewable energy system for production building of Department of mechanical Engineering, NIT Silchar

Sachin Gangwar
Completed
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Dr. Agnimitra biswas
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Thermal analysis of a T-shaped fin with simultaneous heat and mass transfer

Saheera Azmi Hazarika
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja

Advancement in Firefighter Safety: A Novel Numerical Model for Predicting Thermal Damage and Establishing Safety Criteria

Jnanaranjan Acharya
Completed :  7 March 2025
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Co Supervisor : Prof. R. D. Misra
Academic Year : 2019-2020

Numerical Analysis of Latent Heat Thermal Storage for Thermo-Heightened Performance

Pallab Bhattacharjee
Completed :  8 January 2024
Supervisor : Dr. Sujit Nath
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2017-2018

Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Optimum Orientation of Fin Arrayed Heat Sinks

Pabitra Kumar Mandal
Completed :  6 May 2022
Supervisor : Prof. S. C. Rana
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2016-2017

Evaluation of Thermal Performance and Geometric Optimization of T-shaped and Fork-shaped Fins Subjected to Simultaneous Heat and Mass Transfer

Saheera Azmi Hazarika
Completed :  15 May 2021
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Modelling of Atomization by Disintegration of Liquid Sheet of Inviscid, Viscous and Viscoelastic Fluid

Debayan Dasgupta
Completed :  10 March 2021
Supervisor : Dr. Sujit Nath
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2015-2016

Determination of Optimum Design Parameters for the Thermal Performance of Porous Fins of Various Shapes Using Swarm Intelligence

Tuhin Deshamukhya
Completed :  28 May 2020
Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

Computational Investigation for System Performance Enhancement of Heat Sink with Perforated Pin Fins

Ambarish Majhi
Completed :  11 January 2019
Supervisor : Prof. P. K. Patowari
Co Supervisor : Dipankar Bhanja
Academic Year : 2014-2015

APPARATUS FOR FRICTION STIR PROCESSING OF MATERIALS

“A SYSTEM FOR STUDYING AND PERFORMING THE PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR MIZO LANGUAGE”

India
Patent Registration ID, 411003-001
APPARATUS FOR FRICTION STIR PROCESSING OF MATERIALS, (**GRANTED**)

Sl.No: 1

Title Of Research Project: " Modeling of distribution and tracking of droplets for Agricultural sprays: AI assisted "

Sponsored By: SERB or ANRF

Overall Budget: Rs 660000

Duration: Jan 31, 2024 - Jan 30, 2027 (3 years)

Status: Ongoing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Dipankar Bhanja, NIT Silchar

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