
Bimalendu Mahapatra
Inspire Faculty
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, 2025
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, 2024
- PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2023
- MTech, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, 2018
- BTech, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang, 2015
Research Interests
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Complex Fluids & Constitutive Modelling of Polymeric/Bio Fluids
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Electrokinetics, Microfluidics & Mixing in Confined Geometries
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Multiphase Flow & Interfacial Dynamics (Theory–Computation–Experiment)
Selected Recent Publications
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Mahapatra, B., Ruangkriengsin, T., Stone, H. A., & Boyko, E. (2025). Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1009, A12.
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Ruangkriengsin, T., Brandão, R., Mahapatra, B., Boyko, E., & Stone, H. A. (2024). Translation of a sphere towards a rigid plane in an Oldroyd-B fluid. Physical Review Fluids, 9(8), 083303.
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Mahapatra, B., Jana, R., & Bandopadhyay, A. (2024). Solute band transport in electroosmotic-pressure-driven flow of Carreau–Yasuda fluid over micropillar arrays. Physics of Fluids, 36(2).
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Mahapatra, B., & Bandopadhyay, A. (2023). Experimental investigations on geometry modulated solute mixing in viscoelastic media. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 62(9), 4095–4108.
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Mahapatra, B., & Bandopadhyay, A. (2022). Efficacy of microconfined fluid mixing in a combined electroosmotic and pressure driven transport of complex fluid over discrete electrodes. Physics of Fluids, 34(4).