FACULTY
Biography
"I finished my B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and then did my M.Sc.(Engg.) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from IISc. Bangalore. After that I finished my Post Doctoral research in Laboratory of Cell Physics, I.S.I.S., University of Strasbourg, France. I joined IIT Ropar in 2013 as a faculty in School of Mechanical, Materials and Energy Engineering and later shifted to newly established Department of Chemical Engineering in 2017."
Education
- Ph.D. (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore)
- M.Sc. (Engg.) (Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore)
- B.Tech. (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Teaching
- Computational Fluid Mechanics (MEL466)
- Statical Physics (MEL473)
- Applied Fluid Mechanics (MEL476)
- Fluid Mechanics (CH204)
- Control Engineering Lab (MEP305)
- Biology for Engineers (MEL617)
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics (MEL629)
- Convective Heat Transfer (MEL509)
- Chemical Engineering Theromodynamics (CH601)
- Introduction to Biorheology (CH616)
Selected Publications
- Spatial fluctuations at the vertices of epithelial monolayers: a quantitative study of regulation by the Rho-pathway, E. Fodor, V. Mehandia, J. Comelles, R. Tyagrajan, N. S. Gov, P. Visco, F. van Wijland and D. Riveline, Biophysical Journal, 2018, 114, pp 939-946,
- Investigation of diabatic patient's fingernail quality to monitor type 2 diabetes induced tissue damage, P. Sihota, R. N. Yadav, V. Dhiman, S. K. Bhadada, V. Mehandia & N. Kumar, Sci. Rep., 2019, 9, pp 3193
- Development of HFD-fed/low dose STZ treated female Sprague Dawley rat model to investigate diabatic bone fragility at different organization levels, P. Sihota, R. N. Yadav, S. Poleboina, V. Mehandia, S. K. Bhadada, K. Tikoo, N. Kumar, JMBR Plus, 2020, 4(10), e10379.
- Soluto-thermo-hydrodynamics influenced evaporation kinetics of saline sessile droplets, A. Kaushal, V. Jaiswal, V. Mehandia, P. Dhar, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, 2020, 83, pp130-140
- Ferrohydrodynamics governed evaporation phenomenology of sessile droplets, A. Kaushal, V. Mehandia, and Purbarun Dhar, Physics of Fluids, 2021, 33, 022006
Projects
- Best from waste - Processing orthopaedic waste from hospitals into affordable, high-quality orthobiologics for regenerative applications
- Linear and Non-Linear Bulk Rheology of Cell Monolayer