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Dr. Samarjeet Chanda
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
04923 226442
Research Area: Heat and Mass Transfer, Inverse Problems in Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Interferometry , Research Area: Optimization
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  • Biosketch

    Work Experience


    1. Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (03/2016-06/2018), Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
    2. Senior Project Officer : IITM-ISRO project (01/2016 - 02/2016), Center for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

    3. Project Officer : IITM-ISRO project and Doctoral candidate, (07/2011 - 06/2015).Center for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
    4. Executive (Mechanical systems design and execution ),1050 MW coal fired thermal power plant, (07/2008 -10/2009) GMR Energy Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

     

    Education

    Ph.D. (upgraded from M.S.(R)) (Mechanical Engineering; Thermal-Fluid Sciences), Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
    B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), R.V.College of Engineering (Visveswaraiah Technological University), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

     

  • Research

    Inverse Problems in Fluid-Thermal Sciences, Battery Thermal management, Heat Transport in Anisotropic Composites, Interferometry, Heat Transport Measurements in Simulated Space Environment (Thermo-Vacuum), Transport in Porous Media, Surrogate Modeling of Flow and Heat Transfer

  • Teaching

    Courses taught/teaching:

    • Heat and Mass Transfer
    • Concepts in Engineering Design
    • Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
    • Engineering Thermodynamics
    • Advanced Heat Transfer
    • Soft Computing

     

     

     

  • Additional Information
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    Faculty Room (Lab 5), Sikharam Block, Nila Campus.

    Ph: 04923 226442

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    Sponsored Research Projects
    Description
    • Design and Development of a Hybrid Heat Sink Based Battery Thermal Management System for Indian Electric Vehicle Industry (SERB-SRG) --Completed.
    • Establishment of a thermo-vacuum facility for simulated outer space thermal experiments (IIT Palakkad-IRG)-- Completed.
    • Estimation of Thermal Contact Conductance of Spacecraft Bolted Joints (ISRO-RESPOND) -- Ongoing.
    • Design and development of a passive thermal management system for battery thermal management (IPTIF-IMPACT) -- Ongoing.
  • Publications
    Data-driven model for predicting the electro-thermal behavior of lithium-ion pouch cell under varying ambient temperature conditions
    Arundas Odungat and Samarjeet Chanda
    Applied Thermal Engineering 265 (125367) (2025)
    Modelling of PCM based composite heat sink under varying ambient conditions: A data driven approach
    Sreenath V.R. and Samarjeet Chanda
    Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 59 (103193) (2025)
    Estimation of spatially varying thermal contact conductance of non-conformal bolted joint
    E Kishor, E Ajul, Samarjeet Chanda, Sovan Lal Das
    Heat and Mass Transfer 60 263–280 (2024)
    Studies on fabrication of protruded multi-shaped micro-feature array on AA 6063 by laser micromachining.
    Murugayan S, D Simson, Chanda Samarjeet, S Kanmani Subbu.
    Journal of Micromanufacturing (2023)
    Thermal performance evaluation of PCM-MF composite heat sinks under varying ambient conditions
    Sreenath V. R. and Samarjeet Chanda
    International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 206 123927;1-18 (2023)
    Estimation of thermal contact conductance of spacecraft heat sink bolted joints
    E Ajul and Samarjeet Chanda
    Applied Thermal Engineering 224 120078;1-20 (2023)
    Comment on “Fluid-like representation of Fickian diffusion”
    Samarjeet Chanda and Ganesh Natarajan
    Physics of Fluids 34 (049101) (2022)
    Prediction of thermal contact resistance in conforming rough metal contacts through regeneration of measured surface profile
    Ajul E, Kishor E and Samarjeet Chanda
    Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India IHMTC 2021-428 (2021)
    Electrochemical thermal modelling of Li-ion battery cell at different discharge rates
    Odungat, Arundas, and Samarjeet Chanda
    Proceedings of CHT-21 ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer. Begel House Inc., 2021. (2021)
    Numerical Study for Drag Reduction of Airfoil Surface using Dimple Pattern
    Ramadasu Sainath, Samarjeet Chanda and Kanmani Subbu Subbian
    AICTE sponsored International Conference on Sustainable materials, Manufacturing and RenewableTechnologies i-SMaRT-2021-94 (ISBN 978-81-951626-3) (2021)
    Effect of laser scanning strategy on residual stress in selective laser melting
    Shidhin Tom, Samarjeet, C, and Kanmani Subbu S
    2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, AIP Publishing ICRAFT2020_1105 (2021)
    Estimation of interfacial evaporative heat flux using inverse heat transfer framework for passive solar distillation system
    Manish Bhendura and Samarjeet, C.
    Journal of Energy and Environment Sustainability (8) 43-48 (2019)
    Prediction of gas production potential and hydrological properties of a methane hydrate reservoir using ANN-GA based framework
    Samarjeet Chanda and R.P.Singh
    Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 11 380-391 (2019)
    Non-intrusive measurement of thermal contact conductance at polymer - metal two dimensional annular interface
    Samarjeet, C., C.Balaji and S.P.Venkateshan
    Heat and Mass Transfer- Springer 55 (2) 327-340 (2018)
    Effect of laser scanning strategy on residual stress in selective laser melting
    Shidhin Tom, Samarjeet, C, and Kanmani Subbu S
    2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, AIP Inc. (2017)
    Joint estimation of thermal and mass diffusivities of a solute-solvent system using ANN-GA based inverse framework
    Samarjeet, C., K.Muralidhar and Y. M.Nimdeo
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences 123 27-41 (2017)
    Estimation of principal thermal conductivities of layered honeycomb composites using ANN-GA based inverse technique
    Samarjeet, C., C. Balaji, S. P. Venkateshan and GovindaRao, Y.
    International Journal of Thermal Sciences 111 423-436 (2017)
    Estimation of Thermal Contact Conductance Using Inverse Analysis
    Rahul S Raj, Samarjeet, C.,Chandrasekhar M., S.P.Venkateshan
    23rd National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC), Thiruvananthapuram, India. (2015)
    A Novel Technique for Estimation of Thermal Contact Conductance between Circular Bolted Joints using Inverse Heat Transfer Methodology
    Samarjeet, C., Chandrasekhar M., C.Balaji, S.P.Venkateshan
    32nd ITCC/ITES, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. (2014)
    Joint Conductance Effects on Estimation of Effective Thermal Conductivities of Anisotropic Composites
    Samarjeet, C., C. Balaji, S. P. Venkateshan, GovindaRao, Y., and A. Ambirajan
    Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer-AIAA 28 (3) 553-560 (2014)
    Benchmarking a Novel Technique for Estimating Principal Thermal Conductivities of an Anisotropic Composite Medium
    Samarjeet, C., C.Balaji, S.P.Venkateshan, A. Ambirajan
    44th AIAA Thermophysics conference, San Diego,USA. (2013)
    Simultaneous Estimation of Principal Thermal Conductivities of an Anisotropic Composite Medium: An Inverse Analysis
    Samarjeet, C., C. Balaji, S. P. Venkateshan, A. Ambirajan, and V. Ramakrishnan
    Journal of Heat Transfer-ASME 135 (2) 021301-8 (2013)
    Studies on influence of anisotropic thermal conductivity of printed circuit board on heat transfer during electronic cooling
    Niju Mohammed.K, Samarjeet, C., S.P.Venkateshan and Sateesh G
    24th National and 2nd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference (IHMTC), BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India. (2012)
    An Inverse Analysis for Estimation of Thermal Conductivity of Orthotropic Composite Medium Using Artificial Neural Network
    Samarjeet, C., C.Balaji, S.P.Venkateshan, A. Ambirajan
    21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IIT Madras, India. (2011)

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