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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
India
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
26894
World Ranking
588
National Ranking
3

Materials Science

D-Index
59
Citations
24920
World Ranking
7225
National Ranking
105

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in India Leader Award
  • 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)
  • 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

Sarit K. Das is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India. Their research primarily spans engineering with significant contributions in subfields such as computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and water science and technology.

Their work covers a range of specialized topics including solar-powered water purification methods, membrane separation technologies, heat transfer and supercritical fluids, nuclear reactor physics and engineering, adsorption and cooling systems, nuclear engineering thermal-hydraulics, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kapil Garg, Himanshu Tyagi, Somenath Gorai, Devranjan Samanta, and Ravi Beniwal.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, which are:

  • Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Engineering
  • Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications
  • Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications

Representative publications by Sarit K. Das include:

  • "Thermal design of a humidification-dehumidification desalination cycle consisting of packed-bed humidifier and finned-tube dehumidifier," 2021, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Experimental investigation of a low-cost humidification-dehumidification desalination cycle using packed-bed humidifier and finned-tube heat exchanger," 2023, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress
  • "Numerical investigations on the difference between aiding and opposing flows in the developing regime of laminar mixed convection in vertical tubes," 2022, Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications
  • "Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Turbulent Mixed Convection Flows in Vertical Tubes," 2023, Heat Transfer Engineering
  • "Thermodynamic Analysis of the Volumetric Absorption Solar Collector-Driven Direct Contact Membrane Distillation System," 2022, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications

Sarit K. Das has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). This award acknowledges distinguished contributions to engineering.

Best Publications

  • TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT FOR NANOFLUIDS

    Sarit Kumar Das;Nandy Setiadi Djaya Putra;Peter Thiesen;Wilfried Roetzel

  • Heat Transfer in Nanofluids—A Review

    Sarit Kumar Das;Stephen U. S. Choi;Hrishikesh E. Patel

  • A benchmark study on the thermal conductivity of nanofluids

    Jacopo Buongiorno;David C. Venerus;Naveen Prabhat;Thomas McKrell

  • Pool boiling characteristics of nano-fluids

    Sarit K. Das;Nandy Setiadi Djaya Putra;Wilfried Roetzel

  • Natural convection of nano-fluids

    Nandy Putra;Wilfried Roetzel;Sarit K. Das

  • Computationally Guided Photothermal Tumor Therapy Using Long-Circulating Gold Nanorod Antennas

    Geoffrey von Maltzahn;Ji-Ho Park;Amit Agrawal;Nanda Kishor Bandaru

  • Thermal conductivities of naked and monolayer protected metal nanoparticle based nanofluids: Manifestation of anomalous enhancement and chemical effects

    Hrishikesh E. Patel;Sarit K. Das;T. Sundararajan;A. Sreekumaran Nair

  • Nanofluids : science and technology

    Sarit K. Das

  • Effect of particle size on the convective heat transfer in nanofluid in the developing region

    K.B. Anoop;T. Sundararajan;Sarit K. Das

  • Model for Heat Conduction in Nanofluids

    D. Hemanth Kumar;Hrishikesh E. Patel;V. R. Rajeev Kumar;T. Sundararajan

  • The deuteron spin-dependent structure function g1d and its first moment

    V.Yu. Alexakhin;Yu. Alexandrov;G.D. Alexeev

  • A micro-convection model for thermal conductivity of nanofluids

    Hrishikesh E. Patel;T. Sundararajan;T. Pradeep;A. Dasgupta

  • A MICRO-CONVECTION MODEL FOR THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF NANOFLUIDS

    H. E. Patel;K. B. Anoop;Thirumalachari Sundararajan;Sarit Kumar Das

  • An experimental investigation into the thermal conductivity enhancement in oxide and metallic nanofluids

    Hrishikesh E. Patel;T. Sundararajan;Sarit K. Das

  • A new measurement of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries on a transversely polarised deuteron target

    E.S. Ageev;V.Yu. Alexakhin;Yu. Alexandrov;G.D. Alexeev

  • Selective Molecular Transport through Intrinsic Defects in a Single Layer of CVD Graphene

    Sean C. O'Hern;Cameron A. Stewart;Michael S H Boutilier;Juan Carlos Idrobo

  • Collins and Sivers asymmetries for pions and kaons in muon–deuteron DIS

    M. Alekseev;V.Yu. Alexakhin;Yu. Alexandrov

  • Pool boiling of nano-fluids on horizontal narrow tubes

    Sarit K. Das;Nandy Setiadi Djaya Putra;Wilfried Roetzel

  • Rheological and flow characteristics of nanofluids: Influence of electroviscous effects and particle agglomeration

    K. B. Anoop;S. Kabelac;T. Sundararajan;Sarit K. Das

  • Entropy generation due to flow and heat transfer in nanofluids

    Pawan K. Singh;K.B. Anoop;T. Sundararajan;Sarit K. Das

Frequent Co-Authors

Thirumalachari Sundararajan
Thirumalachari Sundararajan Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Thalappil Pradeep
Thalappil Pradeep Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Bengt Sundén
Bengt Sundén Lund University
Tanmay Basak
Tanmay Basak Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Nandy Putra
Nandy Putra University of Indonesia
Robin H. A. Ras
Robin H. A. Ras Aalto University
Suman Chakraborty
Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
In Cheol Bang
In Cheol Bang Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Indranil Manna
Indranil Manna Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

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