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D-Index
42
Citations
7998
World Ranking
1804
National Ranking
40

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Sameer Khandekar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. Their research contributions focus primarily on engineering and materials science, with particular emphasis on computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, surfaces, coatings and films, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their work spans several topics including fluid dynamics and heat transfer, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, heat transfer and boiling studies, solar-powered water purification methods, heat transfer and optimization, fluid dynamics and thin films, as well as nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions.

Frequent collaborators in their research projects include K. Muralidhar, Gopinath Sahu, Ankush Kumar Jaiswal, Ram Krishna Shah, and Debartha Chatterjee.

Sameer Khandekar's research outputs have appeared consistently in several publication venues, particularly:

  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • Proceeding of Proceedings of the 26th National and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference December 17-20, 2021, IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Langmuir

Among their recent papers are:

  • Cooling of high-power LEDs by liquid sprays: Challenges and prospects, 2020, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Thermal management of high-power LED module with single-phase liquid jet array, 2020, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Copper wick based loop heat pipe for thermal management of a high-power LED module, 2022, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Thermal performances of a flat-plate pulsating heat pipe tested with water, aqueous mixtures and surfactants, 2022, International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Other notable papers relevant to the field include Engineering applications of ferrofluids: A review published in 2021 in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials authored by Madhusree Kole.

Sameer Khandekar has authored book publications as well, notably "Drop Dynamics and Dropwise Condensation on Textured Surfaces" published by Springer Nature in 2020.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Closed loop pulsating heat pipes: Part A: parametric experimental investigations

    Piyanun Charoensawan;Sameer Khandekar;Manfred Groll;Pradit Terdtoon

  • Understanding operational regimes of closed loop pulsating heat pipes: an experimental study

    Sameer Khandekar;Nicolas Dollinger;Manfred Groll

  • Closed loop pulsating heat pipes Part B: visualization and semi-empirical modeling

    Sameer Khandekar;Piyanun Charoensawan;Manfred Groll;Pradit Terdtoon

  • Operational limit of closed loop pulsating heat pipes

    Honghai Yang;S. Khandekar;M. Groll

  • An insight into thermo-hydrodynamic coupling in closed loop pulsating heat pipes

    Sameer Khandekar;Manfred Groll

  • Thermal performance of closed two-phase thermosyphon using nanofluids

    Sameer Khandekar;Yogesh M. Joshi;Balkrishna Mehta

  • Performance characteristics of pulsating heat pipes as integral thermal spreaders

    Honghai Yang;Sameer Khandekar;Manfred Groll

  • Nano-Cutting Fluid for Enhancement of Metal Cutting Performance

    S. Khandekar;M. Ravi Sankar;V. Agnihotri;J. Ramkumar

  • THERMOFLUID DYNAMIC STUDY OF FLAT-PLATE CLOSED-LOOP PULSATING HEAT PIPES

    S. Khandekar

  • Engineering applications of ferrofluids: A review

    Madhusree Kole;Madhusree Kole;Sameer Khandekar

  • Multiple quasi-steady states in a closed loop pulsating heat pipe

    Sameer Khandekar;Anant Prasad Gautam;Pavan K. Sharma

  • Local heat transfer measurement and thermo-fluid characterization of a pulsating heat pipe

    Mauro Mameli;Marco Marengo;Sameer Khandekar

  • Thermally induced two-phase oscillating flow inside a capillary tube

    S.P Das;Vadim Nikolayev;F. Lefevre;B. Pottier

  • Cooling of high-power LEDs by liquid sprays: Challenges and prospects

    Sameer Khandekar;Gopinath Sahu;K. Muralidhar;Elizaveta Ya Gatapova

  • LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS OF FLOW IN A PULSATING HEAT PIPE: A REVIEW

    Sameer Khandekar;Pradipta K. Panigrahi;Frédéric Lefèvre;Jocelyn Bonjour

  • Thermo-hydrodynamics of closed loop pulsating heat pipes

    Sameer Khandekar

  • Dropwise Condensation Underneath Chemically Textured Surfaces: Simulation and Experiments

    Basant Singh Sikarwar;Nirmal Kumar Battoo;Sameer Khandekar;K. Muralidhar

  • Dropwise Condensation on Inclined Textured Surfaces

    Sameer Khandekar;Krishnamurthy Muralidhar

  • Dropwise Condensation Studies on Multiple Scales

    Basant Singh Sikarwar;Sameer Khandekar;Smita Agrawal;Sumeet Kumar

  • Local entropy generation for saturated two-phase flow

    Rémi Revellin;Stéphane Lips;Sameer Khandekar;Jocelyn Bonjour

  • Pulsating heat pipes: a challenge and still unsolved problem in heat pipe science

    M. Groll;S. Khandekar

Frequent Co-Authors

Jocelyn Bonjour
Jocelyn Bonjour Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Marco Marengo
Marco Marengo University of Pavia
Kantesh Balani
Kantesh Balani Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Run Hu
Run Hu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Rémi Revellin
Rémi Revellin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Oleg Kabov
Oleg Kabov Novosibirsk State Technical University
Xiaobing Luo
Xiaobing Luo Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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