Prodyut Ranjan Chakraborty is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering, IIT Jodhpur. He received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the North Bengal University in 2000, and his M.Sc. Engineering in 2004, and a PhD in 2011, both from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Before his joining IIT Jodhpur, he served two years at the Department of Material Physics in Space in German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne, as a postdoctoral research fellow. He also worked as a Research Analyst at the Applied CFD Lab, GE Global Research Center, Bangalore, during the years 2004 and 2005. His primary area of research is Heat and mass transfer, Latent heat thermal energy storage for high temperature applications, Absorption Cooling, Active and passive thermal management, Flash evaporation for cooling and desalination applications.

Key Publications:

• Enthalpy porosity model for melting and solidification of pure substance with large difference in phase specific heats, Prodyut R. Chakraborty*, Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 81, pp. 183-189, 2017.
• "Hydrodynamic and thermal model for gravity-driven smooth laminar film flow undergoing flash evaporation cooling: Case study and correlation development", Manvendra Sharma, Deepak Dandotiya, Kirankumar R. Hiremath, Anand K Plappally, Prodyut R. Chakraborty, Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 9, 2023, 093608, DOI: 10.1063/5.0160883.
• Binary alloy solidification and freckle formation: Effect of shrinkage-induced flow on solutal instability and macro-segregation, Monde, A. D., Shrivastava, A., Jakhar, A., & Chakraborty, P. R., Physics of Fluids, 33(3), 037108, 2021.
• Shrinkage-induced flow during directional solidification of pure substance in a bottom cooled cavity: A study on flow reversal phenomena, Monde, A. D., Chawla, O., Kumar, V., Karagadde, S., & Chakraborty, P. R., Physics of Fluids, 32(4), 047104, 2020.
• Optimizing Graphite-Enhanced Composite PCMs for Superior Thermal Transport in Shell and Tube Latent Heat Storage Systems, A. Shrivastava, N. Kumar, P. R. Chakraborty, Energy and Buildings, Volume 325, 2024, 115008,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.115008.

Ongoing Projects:

• Smart Apparel for Desert Warfare: integration of active and passive cooling through hybrid thermal management (PI), DRDO, (DIA-CoE IITJ), India.
• Concept to realization: Combined thermal wave heat and mass recovery cycle-based compact and efficient solar adsorption cooling/heating system (PI), SERB CRG, India.
• A novel hybrid solar thermal power and desalination plant for remote areas (Co-PI), DST, India.
• Cascaded Latent Heat Storage (CLHS) for high temperature CSP applications, material development and characterization to lab-scale setup (PI), DST, India, 2018-2022.
• Thermal modeling of PCM cool Vest and PCM warm jacket (PI), Defence Research & Development Organisation, Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur, India 11/09/2015 -10/09/2017,1-D, 2-D thermal modelling, experimental set-up.