Teaching focuses on heat transfer, thermo-fluid analysis, energy storage, and special topics on numerical simulation.
Understanding of the fundamental physicochemical mechanisms and interactions that underlie in electrodes in an energy storage and conversion system (e.g. lithium-ion battery, polymer electrolyte fuel cell). The analysis of thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemistry, transport phenomena, electrode materials and physics, performance analysis and coupled multiphysics design considerations. (Spring 2022, Spring 2024)
Fundamental concepts of numerical solution of transport phenomena (heat, mass, momentum) problems with a goal to develop the ability for sound analysis; mathematical description of advection-diffusion-reaction system using finite volume method; numerical solution of transport phenomena, involving species, charge, thermal, and fluid flow characteristics (Spring 2018, Spring 2020).
Application of basic laws to the analysis of heat and mass transfer; exact and approximate solutions to conduction, convection and radiation problems; current status of single and two-phase heat transfer for application to design. (Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023)
Fundamentals of energy storage (battery) for vehicle electrification and grid storage. The analysis of thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemistry, transport phenomena, electrode materials and physics, performance analysis and coupled multiphysics design considerations. (Spring 2015, Fall 2016)
Application of basic laws to the analysis of heat and mass transfer; exact and approximate solutions to conduction, convection and radiation problems; current status of single and two-phase heat transfer for application to design. (Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation: steady and transient conduction, forced and natural convection, and blackbody and gray body radiation, multi-mode heat transfer, boiling and condensation, heat exchangers. (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation: steady and transient conduction, forced and natural convection, and blackbody and gray body radiation, multi-mode heat transfer, boiling and condensation, heat exchangers. (Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2014)
Integration of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer through application to the design of various thermal systems comprised of several components requiring individual analyses, analysis of the entire system; representative applications of thermal-fluids analysis with a design approach. (Spring 2013, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
Students participated in a week-long series of lectures and hands-on classes on topics related to Energy Storage as part of Global Initiatives of Academic Networks (GIAN) course. Participants from all over India congregated at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati to attend this course. (Summer 2017)
Students participated in a week-long series of short courses and hands-on classes over topics such as methods of solving ODEs and PDEs, finite difference methods, and various research examples from "Physiochemical Fundamentals in Energy Storage: a Simulation Driven Approach," a module from ETSL. Participants consisted of Mechanical Engineering students from DHBW Mannheim and Texas A&M University. (Fall 2014)
Undergraduate students will work on making electrodes and electrochemical measurements for lithium-ion batteries and learn to analyze performance and degradation aspects. (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
Students are challenged to design and fabricate transparent batteries using optimized 3-D microstructures and electrode materials selection. This research endeavour is intended to expose students to the "grand challenge of solar energy exploitation and effective energy storage strategies", as articulated by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing nanomaterials synthesis, fabrication and design building on the sound fundamentals of solar energy physics and physicochemical principles of energy storage. (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)