AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Area of Interest

Thermal Engineering; Heat Transfer; Thermodynamics; Solar Energy; Thermo-fluids; Refrigeration/Heat Pump; Sustainable Technologies

Area of Expertise

Experimental studies (Designing of test rig; Gas-Solid reactors; Visualization; Heat transfer; Refrigeration/Heat pump); Numerical studies (CFD in COMSOL Multiphysics; Reactor modeling; Thermochemical reaction model; Reaction kinetics; Conjugate heat transfer; Thermo-fluid modeling; Microgrid modeling in HOMER)

Area of Research

Thermochemical Gas-Solid Reactions (Specialized in Ammonia and Water based pairs); Solar Energy Utilization; Thermal management (Hybrid Electric Vehicle & Batteries); Thermal Energy Storage; Refrigeration/Heat Pump; PV/Wind Stand-alone Microgrid (Green Hydrogen, Green Ammonia, Polygeneration)

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

DAAD Alumni

Work Experience

Organisation	Role	Tenure
Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal	Assistant Professor - Senior Scale (Current role)	2024- Present
NIT Raipur, Chhattisgarh	Assistant Professor- Temporary	2023 - 2024
German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Stuttgart, Germany	DAAD Postdoctoral Researcher	2021- 2022
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India	Postdoctoral Research Associate	2018 - 2020