Heat Transfer Lab


My area of interest broadly encompasses engineering applications involving macro-scale multi-phase multi-component systems. Understanding transport phenomena of mass, momentum, energy and species is crucial to describe phase-change dynamics as well as micro/macro structure of phases. The focus of our research is on developing theoretical and numerical models to predict solidification dynamics and micro-structure that goes hand-in-hand with experimental studies to validate model predictions. The applications include manufacturing processes such as casting and welding, thermal energy storage, cyclic cooling device and thermal comfort in buildings and apparels. In particular, my current research topics are as follows,

  • Latent heat based storage device for moderate and high temperature applications
  • Alloy solidification process
  • Vapor adsorption refrigeration systems
  • Electronic cooling
  • Rapid cooling with flash evaporation process
  • PCM based cool and warm vest for extreme climatic conditions


    • Prodyut Ranjan Chakraborty
    Associate Professor
    Room 226, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    IIT Jodhpur, Karwad
    Jodhpur, 342037
    eMail: pchakraborty@iitj.ac.in
    Phone: (91 291) 244 9058

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    • Journal: Monde, A. D., & Chakraborty, P. R. (2018). Prediction of Cooling Curves for Controlled Unidirectional Solidification Under the Influence of Shrinkage: A Semi-analytical Approach. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 49(6), 3306-3316.
    • Book Editor:Tyagi, H., Agarwal, A. K., Chakraborty, P. R., & Powar, S. Advances in Solar Energy Research.
    • Book Chapter: Shrivastava, A., & Chakraborty, P. R. (2019). Shell-and-Tube Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage (ST-LHTES). In Advances in Solar Energy Research (pp. 395-441). Springer, Singapore.
    • Conference: Monde Aniket, Chawla Oaj, Bhuyar Vedant, Vijay Mohit, and Chakraborty Prodyut R, “Performance evaluation of latent heat based cool pack configuration for thermal comfort: a numerical approach”, 5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, ThermaComp2018, IISc Bangalore, INDIA, July 9-11, 2018
    • Conference: Shrivastava Amit, Kumar Dileep, and Chakraborty Prodyut R “Numerical analysis of latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) performance: a 2-d axisymmetric approach”, 5th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, ThermaComp2018, IISc Bangalore, INDIA, July 9-11, 2018