
Nalinikanta Behera
Inspire Faculty
Postdoctoral Fellow, Clemson University, USA, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Bombay, 2025
PhD, IIT Kharagpur, 2023
ME, IISc, Bangalore, 2016
BTech, VSSUT, Burla, 2013
Research Interests
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Complex Fluids & Constitutive Modelling of Polymeric/Bio Fluids
- Electrokinetics, Microfluidics & Mixing in Confined Geometries
- Multiphase Flow & Interfacial Dynamics (Theory–Computation–Experiment)
Selected Recent Publications
• Behera, N, and Thaokar R., (2025) Numerical modeling of giant pore formation in vesicles under msPEF-induced electroporation: Role of charging time and waveform, Bioelectrochemistry, 164, 108926
• Santra, S., Behera, N., and Chakraborty, S., (2024), Modulating droplet electrohydrodynamics via the interplay of extensional flow and an alternating current electric field, Physics of Fluids, 36, 102017.
• Behera, N., Poddar, A. and Chakraborty, S., (2023) Eccentricity-induced dielectrophoretic migration of a compound drop in uniform external electric field, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 963, A17.
• Behera, N., and Chakraborty, S., (2023) Electric-field-mediated morpho-dynamic evolution in drop-drop coalescence phenomena in the inertio-capillary regime, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 956, A22.
• Behera, N., and Chakraborty, S. (2022). Electrically modulated relaxation dynamics of pre-stretched droplets post switched-off uniaxial extensional flow, Soft Matter, 18, 3678-3697.