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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
India
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
73
Citations
20083
World Ranking
321
National Ranking
1

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
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For advancing the understanding of key transport mechanisms in microfluidics including electrohydrodynamic coupling in the presence of hydrophobic interactions for contributions to the understanding of electrokinetic transport of blood through microchannels and for medical device development
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 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

Suman Chakraborty is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in India and has a substantial body of research primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Computational Mechanics, and Infectious Diseases. The research focuses notably on Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, Biosensors and Analytical Detection, Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics, Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies, and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation.

Among recent publications attributed to Chakraborty, key papers include:

  • "Challenges and opportunities in 2D heterostructures for electronic and optoelectronic devices" (2022), published in iScience
  • "Democratizing nucleic acid-based molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases at resource-limited settings - from point of care to extreme point of care" (2024), published in Sensors & Diagnostics

Additional notable works by Chakraborty's coauthors and collaborations include:

  • "PDMS microfluidics: A mini review" (2020), Journal of Applied Polymer Science
  • "Smartphone-Enabled Paper-Based Hemoglobin Sensor for Extreme Point-of-Care Diagnostics" (2021), ACS Sensors
  • "Phase-field modeling of multicomponent and multiphase flows in microfluidic systems: a review" (2020), International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow

Frequent coauthors in Chakraborty's research network include Prasana K. Sahoo, Pratyaksh Karan, Aditya Bandopadhyay, Chirodeep Bakli, and Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty. Numerous publications have appeared in venues such as Physics of Fluids, arXiv (Cornell University), Langmuir, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Soft Matter, indicating a consistent engagement with fluids and materials science domains.

Academic contributions are recognized through Fellowships with professional societies including the American Physical Society (APS) awarded in 2017, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2015, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). The citation for the APS fellowship highlights advancements in understanding transport mechanisms in microfluidics, specifically electrohydrodynamic coupling under hydrophobic conditions, electrokinetic transport of blood in microchannels, and medical device development.

Best Publications

  • PDMS microfluidics: A mini review

    Kiran Raj M;Suman Chakraborty

  • Analytical solutions for velocity, temperature and concentration distribution in electroosmotic microchannel flows of a non-Newtonian bio-fluid

    Siddhartha Das;Suman Chakraborty

  • A numerical model for heat sinks with phase change materials and thermal conductivity enhancers

    KC Nayak;SK Saha;K Srinivasan;P Dutta

  • Electroosmotically driven capillary transport of typical non-Newtonian biofluids in rectangular microchannels.

    Suman Chakraborty

  • Electroosmosis-modulated peristaltic transport in microfluidic channels

    Aditya Bandopadhyay;Dharmendra Tripathi;Suman Chakraborty

  • Augmentation of peristaltic microflows through electro-osmotic mechanisms

    Suman Chakraborty

  • Microchannel flow control through a combined electromagnetohydrodynamic transport

    Suman Chakraborty;Dibyadeep Paul

  • An enthalpy-based lattice Boltzmann model for diffusion dominated solid liquid phase transformation

    Dipankar Chatterjee;Suman Chakraborty

  • Modelling and experimental study of latent heat thermal energy storage with encapsulated PCMs for solar thermal applications

    Appasaheb Raul;Mohit Jain;Swapnil Gaikwad;Sandip K. Saha

  • Dynamics of capillary flow of blood into a microfluidic channel

    Suman Chakraborty

  • Thermal characteristics of electromagnetohydrodynamic flows in narrow channels with viscous dissipation and Joule heating under constant wall heat flux

    Rajib Chakraborty;Ranabir Dey;Suman Chakraborty

  • A hybrid lattice Boltzmann model for solid–liquid phase transition in presence of fluid flow

    Dipankar Chatterjee;Suman Chakraborty

  • An enthalpy-based hybrid lattice-Boltzmann method for modelling solid-liquid phase transition in the presence of convective transport

    Suman Chakraborty;Dipankar Chatterjee

  • Studies on Optimum Distribution of Fins in Heat Sinks Filled With Phase Change Materials

    S.K. Saha;Kandadai Srinivasan;P. Dutta

  • Heat transfer correlations for PCM-based heat sinks with plate fins

    SK Saha;P Dutta

  • Hydraulic jumps due to oblique impingement of circular liquid jets on a flat horizontal surface

    R. P. Kate;P. K. Das;Suman Chakraborty

  • Modeling of a domestic frost-free refrigerator

    J.K. Gupta;M. Ram Gopal;S. Chakraborty

  • Numerical analysis of latent heat thermal energy storage using encapsulated phase change material for solar thermal power plant

    Kunal Bhagat;Sandip K. Saha

  • Electrokinetics in polyelectrolyte grafted nanofluidic channels modulated by the ion partitioning effect

    Antarip Poddar;Debonil Maity;Aditya Bandopadhyay;Suman Chakraborty

  • Electrokinetically modulated peristaltic transport of power-law fluids

    Prakash Goswami;Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty;Aditya Bandopadhyay;Suman Chakraborty

  • Streaming-field-induced convective transport and its influence on the electroviscous effects in narrow fluidic confinement beyond the Debye-Hückel limit.

    Suman Chakraborty;Siddhartha Das

  • Mass flow-rate control through time periodic electro-osmotic flows in circular microchannels

    Suman Chakraborty;Subhashis Ray

Frequent Co-Authors

Sunando DasGupta
Sunando DasGupta Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Siddhartha Das
Siddhartha Das University of Maryland, College Park
Pradip Dutta
Pradip Dutta Indian Institute of Science
Tapas K. Maiti
Tapas K. Maiti Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Sushanta K. Mitra
Sushanta K. Mitra University of Waterloo
Nilanjan Chakraborty
Nilanjan Chakraborty Newcastle University
Hiranmay Saha
Hiranmay Saha JIS University
Saptarshi Basu
Saptarshi Basu Indian Institute of Science
Prasanta Kumar Das
Prasanta Kumar Das Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Mohammad Hassan Saidi
Mohammad Hassan Saidi Sharif University of Technology

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