Shubhadeep Mandal
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral Fellow, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 2020
PhD, IIT Kharagpur, 2018
MTech, IIT Kharagpur, 2014
BE, Jadavpur University, 2012
Research Interests
Complex Fluids: Motion of colloids in liquid crystals
Biological Fluid Dynamics: Low-Reynolds-number swimming/locomotion
Active Soft Matter: Self-propelled droplets
Mesoscopic Simulations: Multiparticle collision dynamics and Lattice Boltzmann methods
Teaching
- ME 261 Engineering Mathematics
- ME 202 Microhydrodynamics
Selected Recent Publications
- Chakraborty, P., Roy, R., and Mandal, S., 2025. Smart navigation of microswimmers in Poiseuille flow via reinforcement learning.European Physical Journal E, 48, 30.
- Ramprasad, M., Mandal, S., and Mahapatra, P. S., 2025. Motion of a microswimmer in a lattice of obstacles: Effect of thermal fluctuations. Physical Review E, 111, 065402.
- Guchhait, S., Sontakke, S., Mandal, S., and Dey, R., 2025. Flow fields around active droplets squeezing through tight confinements. Physical Review Fluids, 10, 044202.
- Roy, R. and Mandal, S., 2025. Chemically active particles in extensional flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1008, p.A40.
- Mandal, S., Mason, T.J., Croft, A.C. and Mazza, M.G., 2025. Cooperativity of Confined Nematic Microswimmers: From One to Many. Physical Review Letters, 134, 128302.
Additional Information
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, 2020-2022