Dr. Arup Kumar Das, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
IIT Roorkee, India
Link: https://www.iitr.ac.in/~ME/Das_Arup_Kumar
Email: arup.das@me.iitr.ac.in
Phone/Mobile: 01332284802
Arup Kumar Das, PhD, is currently working as an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical &Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur in the years of 2006 & 2010, respectively. He did his post-doctoral research in UPMC, Paris, France (2011-12). He has been distinguished with several awards,among those it is worth mentioning,Best Thesis award from Indian National Academy of Engineers, Young Scientist award from Indian National Science Academy in 2015 and Institute Research Fellow in 2019 for his excellent research background by IIT Roorkee. Before joining IIT Roorkee in the year of 2014, he worked as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati (2010-11), IIT Roorkee (2012-13), IITKharagpur (2013-14) within India. Since his joining in IIT Roorkee he has developed Two-phase Flow lab and Microfluidics lab. He is also a lifetime member of Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Research Area and Expertise
His current research is focused on the two-phaseflow, microfluidics, boiling heat transfer and numerical methods. He has authoredand co-authoredover 90 peer-reviewed journals with more than 1100 citations and has h-index17 and i10-index27 to his credit. He is also a distinguished inventor with 6 registered patents in his name. Dr. Das and his team have recently developed a low-cost ventilator set-up to fight against the COVID-19 crisis, which is remarkable.