Dipin S. Pillai
Name: Dipin S. Pillai
ID: CH10D017
Email id: dipinsp@gmail.com
Contact: Room No 447, Sindhu Hostel, IIT Madras
Educational Background:
B.E. (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani Goa Campus, Goa- Class of 2010
Currently pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Awards and Honors:
1. Recipient of the Dhirubhai Ambani foundation Undergraduate Scholarship.
2. Best Poster Award for the poster titled Jetting to dripping transition of bi-fluid flows in circular channels by D.S. Pillai and Pushpavanam at Dynamics Days Asia Pacific - 08 (DDAP 08), IITM-IMSc, Chennai India. Jul 21-24, 2014
3. Institute Research Award in recognition of the quality and quantity of research work on 56th Institute Day, IIT Madras, 2015
Research Interests:
1. Hydrodynamic instabilities in multiphase flows
2. Mathematical modeling of physico-chemical systems
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications:
5. D. S. Pillai, B. Dinesh, T. Sundararajan, S. Pushpavanam, A Viscous Potential Flow model for core-annular flow, APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, Published Online, 2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2015.12.017
4. S. Paruya, N. Goswami, S. Pushpavanam, D. S. Pillai, O. Bidyarani, Periodically-forced density wave oscillations in boiling flow at low forcing frequencies: Nonlinear dynamics and control issues, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, Volume: 140, Pages: 123–133, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2015.09.037
3. D. S. Pillai, J.R. Picardo, S. Pushpavanam, Shifting and breakup instabilities of squeezed elliptic jets, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW, Volume: 67, Pages: 189–199, 2014; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.09.004
2. D. S. Pillai, Prasanth Narayanan, S. Pushpavanam, T. Sundararajan, A. Jasmin Sudha, P. Chellapandi, A nonlinear analysis of the effect of heat transfer on capillary jet instability, PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, Volume: 24, Issue: 12, Article Number: 124106, 2012; DOI: 10.1063/1.4772974
1. D. S. Pillai, P. Prabhasankar, B. S. Jena, C. Anandharamakrishnan, Microencapsulation of Garcinia Cowa Fruit Extract and Effect of its use on Pasta Process and Quality, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD PROPERTIES, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, 2012; DOI: 10.1080/10942912.2010.494756
Conference Papers/Posters:
5. D. S. Pillai, S. Pushpavanam. Jetting to dripping transition of bi-fluid flows in circular channels. Dynamics Days Asia Pacific - 08 (DDAP 08), IIT Madras-IMSc, Chennai India. Jul 21-24, 2014.
4. D. S. Pillai, K. Jahnavi, S. Pushpavanam. Buckling Instability of Viscous Jets in Diverging Microchannels. Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD 2013), Technion, Haifa, Israel. July 8-11, 2013
3. D. S. Pillai, J.R. Picardo, S. Pushpavanam. On the Capillary and Shifting Instability of Elliptic Jets. Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (BIFD 2013), Technion, Haifa, Israel. July 8-11, 2013
2. D. S. Pillai, P. Narayanan, A.J. Sudha, T. Sundararajan, S. Pushpavanam. Effect of heat transfer on capillary instability. Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering (MaCKiE 2013), IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Feb 4-6, 2013
1. D. S. Pillai, S. Pushpavanam, T. Sundararajan, A.J. Sudha. Non-linear analysis of the effect of heat transfer on capillary instability. 2nd Indo-German Workshop on Advances in reactions and separation processes, Bad Herrenalb, Germany. Feb 20-22, 2012
Academic Work Experience:
The following are the list of Teaching Assistantship duties carried out by me:
1. Reaction Engineering Lab for undergraduate chemical engineering students in second year. The faculty in charge was Prof. S. Pushpavanam
2. Course on Singularity and Bifurcation Theory under the formal name of Steady State and Dynamic Modeling of Physico-chemical Systems. The lectures were delivered by Prof. S. Pushpavanam.
3. Course on Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Pattern Formation under the formal name of Multiphase Flow. The course instructor was Prof. S. Pushpavanam and my fellow TAs were jason R. Picardo and Anil B. Vir. Three of the lectures were delivered by me in the course, which are available online as part of NPTEL program as well as on YouTube.
About Me:
Having been brought up in and around a defence milieu, I naturally picked up things that has kept me physically active. I enjoy playing any sport, however, table tennis, cricket and football in that order are my favourites. Music has been another of my best friends, ever since i started to like them. I pick up guitar and enjoy playing it when i get bored. Reading is something which i never liked, however, I am picking it up as a hobby. A lot of what has shaped me into what I am today, I think, I owe it to the four individuals who make up my awesome family (mom, dad and two sisters, in that order again ! :))