Satyajit Pramanik

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Designation: 
Ph.D. Student
Email: 
satyajitp@iitrpr.ac.in
Department: 
Department of Mathematics
Biography: 

He has recieved his M.Sc. in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2011. His research interest includes theoretical understanding of Saffman-Taylor instability in miscible systems in the the presence of the Korteweg stress. His PhD fellowship is sponsored by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), DAE, Govt. of India. Also selected for CSIR and DST-INSPIRE PhD fellowships. He has submitted his Ph.D. thesis on October 5, 2015.
 
Awards: 
1. Outstanding poster award at the School on hands-on research in complex systems, ICTP, June 14 - July 11, 2014.
2. International travel grant from NBHM for attending the international conference EFMC9 at Rome, Italy, 2012.
3. Partial travel support from the organizers to attend the internation conference FLOW14 at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, 2014.
4. Partial travel suppport from the ICTP for attending the school on hands-on research in complex systems at the ICTP, 2014.
5. Awarded with INSTITUTE SILVER MEDAL for the academic year 2010-2011 on being adjudged to be the best student in order of merit among   the students graduating with M.Sc. in Mathematics from IIT KHARAGPUR.
6. Recipient of UGC PG MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE UNIVERSITY RANK HOLDERS 2009-2011.
7. Selected for the DST-INSPIRE Ph.D. fellowship - 2012.
 
Publications:
 
International Journals:
9. T. K. Hota, S. Pramanik, M. Mishra (2015), Nonmodal linear stability analysis of miscible viscous fingering in porous media, Phys. Rev. E 92, 053007.
8. S. Pramanik, A. De Wit, M. Mishra (2015), Viscous fingering and deformation of a miscible circular blob in a rectilinear displacement in porous media, J. Fluid Mech. Rapids, 782, R2.
7. S. Pramanik, T. K. Hota, M. Mishra (2015), Influence of viscosity contrast on buoyantly unstable miscible fluids in porous media, J. Fluid Mech. 780, 388-406.
6. T. K. Hota, S. Pramanik, M. Mishra (2015), Onset of fingering instability in a finite slice of adsorbed solute, Phys. Rev. E 92, 023013.
5. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2015), Viscosity scaling of fingering instability in finite slices with Korteweg stress, Europhys. Lett. 109, 64001.
4. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2015), Effect of Peclet number on miscible rectilinear displacement in a Hele-Shaw cell, Phys. Rev. E 91, 033006.
3. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2015), Nonlinear simulations of miscible viscous fingering with gradient stresses in porous media, Chem. Eng. Sci., 122, 523-532.
2. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2014), Comparison of Korteweg stresses effect on the fingering instability of higher or less viscous miscible slices: Linear stability analysis, Chem. Eng. Sci., 110, 144-152.
1. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2013), Linear stability analysis of Korteweg stresses effect on miscible viscous fingering in porous media, Phys. Fluids. 25, 074104.
 
International Conference Proceedings/Abstracts:
13. S. Pramanik, Viscosity scaling in hydrodynamic instabilities in porous media, Springer Proceedings in Complexity Series (accpeted).
12. T. K. Hota, S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, A general approach to the linear stability analysis of miscible viscous fingering in porous media, Springer Proceedings in Complexity Series (accpeted).
11. S. Pramanik, H. C. Kuhlmann and M. Mishra (2015), Influence of Korteweg stress on the miscible viscous fingering instability including double diffusive effects, Twelfth International Conference on Flow Dynamics, October 27-29, 2015, Sendai, Japan.
10. S. Pramanik (2014), Transient interfacial tension in miscible viscous fingering, School on Hands-on Research on complex systems, June 30-July 11, 2014, ICTP, Italy. 
9. S. Pramanik and M. Mishra (2014), Dispersion effect on miscible viscous fingering in microfludic Hele-Shaw cell, 1st international conference on Micro & Nanofluidicds: Fndamentals and applications (FLOW14), May 18-21, 2014, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
8.S. Pramanik, (2013), Influence of P\'{e}clet number on the miscible viscous fingering instability: Linear stability theory, 58th meeting of ISTAM, December 18-21, 2013, BESU, Kolkata, India.
7. M. Mishra, S. Pramanik, (2013), Influence of transient interfacial tension on the misible viscous fingering, 66th Annual meeting of APS - DFD, November 24-26, 2013, Pittusburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
6. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2013), Miscibe viscous fingering of pushed versus pulled interface, COMSOL conference, October 17-18, 2013, Bangalore, India.
5. M. Mishra, S. Pramanik, (2013), Self-similar linear stability analysis of miscible viscous fingering instability, ICMMANS, Lucknow, India, July 1-3, 2013.
4. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2013), Viscous fingering of a miscible slice with Korteweg stresses: A Linear stability theory, MaCKiE, IIT Madras, Chennai, India, February 4-6, 2013.
3. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra, (2012), Effects of Korteweg stresses on the viscous fingering of a miscible slice in porous media, 57th congress of  Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM 2012), December 17-20, Pune, India (Conference Proceedings).                                  
2. S. Pramanik, G. L. Kulukuru, M. Mishra (2012), Miscible Viscous Fingering: Application in Chromatographic Columns and Aquifers, COMSOL conference, November 1-2, Bangalore, India (Conference Proceedings).
1. S. Pramanik, M. Mishra (2012) Stability of miscible displacement in porous media: Effect of Korteweg stress, EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Conference 9 (EFMC9), Rome, Italy, September 9-13, 2012.

Presentation:
6. Oral presentation at the First CS-DC-15 world e-conference, 2015.
5. Poster presentation in the 1st Internationsl conference on micro & nanofluidics: fundamentals and applications 2014, Univrsity of Twente, the Netherlands.
4. Poster presentation in the school on hands on research in complex systems, 2014, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
3. Oral presentation in the school on hands on research in complex systems, 2014, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
2. Poster presentation in the International conference of Mathematics and Chemical Kinetics in Engineerings, 2013, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
1. Oral presentation in the 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, 2012 in Rome, Italy.

Personal Homepage:
https://sites.google.com/site/satyajitpramanik

Areas of Research: 
Fluid Dynamics
Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Ordinary Differential Equations
Education: 
B.Sc. (Mathematics Honours) University of Kalyani, 2009
M.Sc. (Mathematics) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2011
Work Experience: 
January, 2012 - Till date: PhD, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar
December, 2015 - Till Date, Visiting researcher at IIT Kharagpur
October, 2014 - March, 2015: Ernst Mach Scholar at Tu Wien, Austria
May, 2014 - June, 2014: Visiting researcher at ULB, Belgium
July, 2011 - December, 2011: Worked as a JRF in the DST project at IIT Ropar
Resume: 
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Faculty Supervisor: 
Dr. Manoranjan Mishra