Gautam Biswas

Gautam Biswas
Born (1956-05-23)May 23, 1956
Residence Guwahati, India
Nationality Indian
Fields Fluid Mechanics, Convective Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Boiling Heat Transfer
Institutions Director, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Gautam Biswas (Bengali: গৌতম বিশ্বাস; born 23 May 1956) is a distinguished professor and currently (2013 onwards) the director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.[1] A faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Kanpur, he served the Institute in various capacities including the Dean of Academic Affairs.[2] Prof Gautam Biswas is a Fellow of the all three major science academies of India, such as, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA, New Delhi),[3] the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS, Bangalore) and the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI, Allahabad). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Institution of Engineers (IEI). He was the occupant of the position of GD and VM Mehta Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Prof Biswas is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and guided 16 PhD theses. In the year 2011, he was awarded the esteemed J C Bose National Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.[4]

Academics

Prof. Biswas completed his Baccalaureate in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calcutta (IIEST, Shibpur) in 1979. In the year 2013, he was bestowed with the Distinguish Alumni Award of BESU (currently IIEST, Shibpur) by the Hon’ble President of India. He completed his MTech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1981 and 1985 respectively. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and JSPS Invitation Fellow at the Yokohama National University, Japan. He has been a Guest Professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award to Prof. Biswas on the occasion of its 62 Convocation of the Institute on July 31, 2016.[5]


Gautam Biswas has made original contributions of long lasting value in the areas of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. His work on enhancement of heat transfer using delta-winglet type vortex generators is a major contribution[6][7] which is included in the advanced international text books.[8] The innovative concept has been used by the Industry for various HAVC systems. Furthermore, he has contributed significantly in understanding the bluff body flows.[9] His work on large-eddy simulation of flow past bluff bodies[10] and heat transfer in impinging jets[11] have been deeply admired by the scientific community. Contributions of Prof. Biswas pertaining to handling free surface flows[12] and some of his investigations related to prediction of bubble growth in film boiling[13][14][15] are considered to be path breaking. Prof. Biswas and co-researchers analyzed impact of falling drops on a liquid surface[16][17] and made fundamental contributions to the body of knowledge related to partial coalescence and the transition between coalescence and splashing. He has made significant impact through his publications on formation of air bubbles from a submerged orifice.[18][19]

Awards and special mentions

Awards and editorship

Administration

References

  1. ↑ "Gautam Biswas takes over as IIT-Guwahati director". The Times of India.
  2. ↑ "Prof Gautam Biswas takes charge as Director of IIT-Guwahati". Business Standard India. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Indian Fellow". Insaindia.org.in. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "J C Bose National Fellowship". serb.gov.in. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "IIT Kharagpur announces its alumni awards". The Indian Express. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Biswas, G.; Mitra, N. K.; Fiebig, M. (1 January 1994). "Heat transfer enhancement in fin-tube heat exchangers by winglet type vortex generators". International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. pp. 283–291. doi:10.1016/0017-9310(94)90099-X. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Biswas, G.; Torii, K.; Fujii, D.; Nishino, K. (1 November 1996). "Numerical and experimental determination of flow structure and heat transfer effects of longitudinal vortices in a channel flow". International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. pp. 3441–3451. doi:10.1016/0017-9310(95)00398-3. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  8. ↑ "Principles of Convective Heat Transfer".
  9. ↑ Saha, A. K; Biswas, G; Muralidhar, K (1 February 2003). "Three-dimensional study of flow past a square cylinder at low Reynolds numbers". International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. pp. 54–66. doi:10.1016/S0142-727X(02)00208-4. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  10. ↑ Srinivas, Y.; Biswas, G.; Parihar, A. S.; Ranjan, R. (1 January 2006). "Large-Eddy Simulation of High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flow Past a Square Cylinder". Journal of Engineering Mechanics. pp. 327–335. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9399(2006)132:3(327). Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  11. ↑ Cziesla, T.; Biswas, G.; Chattopadhyay, H.; Mitra, N. K. (1 October 2001). "Large-eddy simulation of flow and heat transfer in an impinging slot jet". International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. pp. 500–508. doi:10.1016/S0142-727X(01)00105-9. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  12. ↑ Gerlach, D.; Tomar, G.; Biswas, G.; Durst, F. (1 February 2006). "Comparison of volume-of-fluid methods for surface tension-dominant two-phase flows". International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. pp. 740–754. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2005.07.045. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  13. ↑ Tomar, G.; Biswas, G.; Sharma, A.; Welch, S. W. J. (1 September 2008). "Multimode analysis of bubble growth in saturated film boiling". Physics of Fluids (1994-present). p. 092101. doi:10.1063/1.2976764. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  14. ↑ Hens, Abhiram; Biswas, Gautam; De, Sudipta (1 January 2014). "Analysis of interfacial instability and multimode bubble formation in saturated boiling using coupled level set and volume-of-fluid approach". Physics of Fluids (1994-present). p. 012105. doi:10.1063/1.4861760. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  15. ↑ "Effect of superheat and electric field on saturated film boiling".
  16. ↑ "Generation of secondary droplets in coalescence of a drop at a liquid–liquid interface".
  17. ↑ "Regimes during liquid drop impact on a liquid pool".
  18. ↑ "Computational investigation on bubble detachment from submerged orifice in quiescent liquid under normal and reduced gravity".
  19. ↑ "Bubble formation and dynamics in a quiescent high-density liquid".

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