Institute of High Performance Computing

• Directors
• Computing Science (CS)
• Electronics & Photonics (EP)
• Engineering Mechanics (EM)
• Fluid Dynamics (FD)
• Material Science & Engineering (MSE)
• IHPC Independent Investigatorship (I³)

Fluid Dynamics (FD)

Dr. Raghvendra GUPTA

• Title: Scientist
• Tel: 64191279
• Email: guptar@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

Research Interests:

• Microfluidics
• Multiphase flow and heat transfer modelling
• Phase change phenomena

Qualifications:

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney, 2010.
• M Eng, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2004.
• B Tech, Chemical Engineering, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India, 2002.

Published Journals/ Articles:

Journals

• Leung, S. S. Y., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "Gravitational Effect on Taylor Flow in Horizontal Microchannels." Chemical Engineering Science, (2012), 69, 553-564.
• Asadolahi, A.N., R. Gupta, S. S. Y. Leung, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "Validation of a CFD Model of Taylor Flow Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer." Chemical Engineering Science, (2012), 69, 541-552.
• Leung, S.S.Y., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "Effect of Flow Characteristics on Taylor Flow Heat Transfer.", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, (2011) doi: 10.1021/ie200610k.
• Asadolahi, A.N., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "CFD Approaches for the Simulation of Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Taylor Flow." Chemical Engineering Science, 66 (2011), 5575-5584.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "Taylor Flow in Microchannels: A Review of Experimental and Computational Work.", The Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows, 2 (2010), 1-31.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "CFD Modelling of Heat Transfer in the Taylor Flow Regime." Chemical Engineering Science, 65 (2010), 2094-2107.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. "On the CFD Modeling of Taylor Flow in Microchannels." Chemical Engineering Science, 64 (2009), 2941-2950.
• Gupta R., P. E. Geyer, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes, “Thermohydraulic performance of a periodic trapezoidal channel with a triangular cross-section”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 51 (2008), 2925-2929.

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Conferences

• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes, “On the CFD modelling of annular flow in microchannels”, oral presentation, Second Australian and New Zealand Micro and Nanofluidics Symposium, April 28-29, 2011.
• Leung, S.S.Y., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes, “Flow and heat transfer characteristics of Taylor flow in microchannels”, oral presentation, Second Australian and New Zealand Micro and Nanofluidics Symposium, April 28-29, 2011.
• Leung, S.S.Y., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes, “Gravitational effects on Taylor flow in horizontal microchannels”, poster presentation, Second Australian and New Zealand Micro and Nanofluidics Symposium, April 28-29, 2011.
• Asadolahi, A.N., R. Gupta, D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes, “CFD methodologies for the modelling of hydrodynamics and heat transfer in Taylor flow”, poster presentation, Second Australian and New Zealand Micro and Nanofluidics Symposium, April 28-29, 2011.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. “On the importance of buoyancy in Taylor flow in horizontal microchannels”, oral presentation, International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Tampa, USA, June, 2010.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. “Heat Transfer Modelling for Taylor Flow in Microchannels.” poster presentation, IMRET11, Kyoto, Japan, March, 2010.
• Gupta, R., D. F. Fletcher and B. S. Haynes. “Numerical Challenges in the modelling of multiphase flow inmicrochannels.” poster presentation, Australian ANSYS-Users Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2008.
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