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Dr Sanat Kumar Singha is an assistant professor at Assam Energy Institute (a center of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology), Sivasagar, India. He was a post-doctoral research associate under the supervision of Professor Subir K Das at the Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India. Prior to that, he was a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, under the joint guidance of Professor Prasanta K Das and Professor Biswajit Maiti. His research interests lie in phase transitions, interfacial phenomena, irreversible processes, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

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Education
Ph.D 2019 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal
M.Tech 2012 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand
B.Tech 2010 Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal 
Experience
November 2020 - Present Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Sivasagar Campus
July 2019 - October 2020 Research Associate, Theoretical Sciences Unit at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
August 2017 - May 2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (HITK)

 

Thermal and Fluids Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Flow Operations
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources
Machine Design Engineering
  • Engineering Drawing
  • Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering
  • Theory of Machines
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
  • Advanced Manufacturing Processes
  • Corrosion and Material Selection
  • Industrial Engineering and Management
  • Manufacturing Technology - I
  • Manufacturing Technology - II
  • Piping Drawing Basics and Development of Plot Plan
  • Quality Analysis and Quality Control
  • Workshop Technology
Environmental and Social Sciences
  • Community Internship
  • Engineering Economics
  • Health, Safety, and Environment
  • Universal Human Values
Research Interests
  • Anomalous Relaxation
  • Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
  • Irreversible Processes
  • Phase Transitions
  • Interfacial Phenomena
Research Projects
  • Project Title: Performance Characteristics of Fin-Assisted Two-Phase closed Thermosyphons
    Agency: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) under Seed Grant to New Faculty
    Amount: INR 10,00,000
    Duration: 2021-2023
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Sanat Kumar Singha
  • Project Title: Hybrid Digester-Based Efficient Biogas Production from Agricultural Waste
    Agency: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) under Institute Research Grant
    Amount: INR 3,50,000
    Duration: 2021-2024
    Principal Investigator: Dr. Koushik Guha Biswas
    Co-Investigators: Dr. Debashis Panda and Dr. Sanat Kumar Singha
Journal Publications

S. Chatterjee, S. Ghosh, N. Vadakkayil, T. Paul, S. K. Singha, and S. K. Das, "Mpemba effect in pure spin systems: A universal picture of the role of spatial correlations at initial states," Physical Review E, 110, L012103 (2024). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 2.4]

N. Vadakkayil, S. K. Singha, and S. K. Das, "Influence of roughening transition on magnetic ordering," Physical Review E, 105, 044142 (2022). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 2.4]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Availability analysis of two dimensional nucleation on cylindrical substrates,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 137, 390 (2019). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 5.8]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Influence of salinity on the mechanism of surface icing: implication to the disappearing freezing singularity,” Langmuir, 34, 9064 (2018). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 3.9]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Thermodynamic formulation of the barrier for heterogeneous pinned nucleation: implication to the crossover scenarios associated with barrierless and homogeneous nucleation,” Journal of Chemical Physics, 146, 234702 (2017). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 3.1]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Thermostability analysis of line-tension-associated nucleation at a gas-liquid interface,” Physical Review E, 95, 012802 (2017). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 2.4]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Effect of a triple contact line on the thermokinetics of dropwise condensation on an immiscible liquid surface,” RSC Advances, 6, 41506 (2016). [SCI | Q2 | IF: 4.6]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Thermokinetics of heterogeneous droplet nucleation on conically textured substrates,” Journal of Chemical Physics, 143, 204703 (2015). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 3.1]

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Inclusion of line tension effect in classical nucleation theory for heterogeneous nucleation: A rigorous thermodynamic formulation and some unique conclusions,” Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, 104706 (2015). [SCI | Q1 | IF: 3.1]

Conference Publications

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Crossover scenarios during dropwise condensation associated with lenticular morphology,” 13th National Conference on Complex Fluids, CompFlu, Bhopal, India, December 5-7, 2019.

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “A thermokinetic model for dropwise condensation on a planar substrate with conical pores,” 13th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, HEFAT, Portorož, Slovenia, July 17-19, 2017.

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Effect of triple line on spherical-substrate-mediated condensation,” 9th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF, Florence, Italy, May 22-27, 2016.

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Kinetics of heterogeneous condensation on conical textures,” 23rd National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IHMTC, Trivandrum, India, December 17-20, 2015.

Books / Book Chapters

S. K. Singha, P. K. Das, and B. Maiti, “Thermostability analyses of substrate-geometry-associated physical models of heterogeneous nucleation,” in Advances in Materials Science Research, Volume 41, M. C. Wythers (Ed.), Nova Science Publishers (2020).

  • Convener, Departmental Under-Graduate Committee (DUGC), Department of Mechanical Engineering, RGIPT Sivasagar Campus (AY: 2025-26) 
  • Convener, Computing and Information Services Committee (CISC), RGIPT Sivasagar Campus (From 22-Aug-2022 to till date)
  • Member Secretary, Purchase Committee, RGIPT Sivasagar Campus (FY: 2025-26)
  • Chairperson, Admission Committee, RGIPT Sivasagar Campus (Session: 2025-26)
  • Member, Research and Development Committee, RGIPT Jais Campus (From 13-May-2021 to 03-Jan-2023)
  • Chairperson, Laboratory Establishment Committee, RGIPT Sivasagar Campus (From 27-Nov-2020 to 21-Aug-2022)
Memberships
  • Life Member of the Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME)
  • Life Member of the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT)
Recognition from NPTEL
  • NPTEL STAR (Motivated Learners) in Jul-Dec 2024 Session
  • NPTEL STAR (Believers) in Jan-Apr 2024 Session
  • NPTEL STAR (Enthusiasts) in Jan-Apr 2024 Session
Fellowships
  • MHRD (Govt. of India) Fellowship while pursuing PhD, 2012-2017
  • MHRD (Govt. of India) Fellowship while pursuing MTech, 2010-2012
Academic Achievements
  • Secured All India Rank 431 in GATE-2010 in Mechanical Engineering
PhD Students
  • Ms. Aparajita Baruah (M.Tech, Dibrugarh University and B.Tech, ASTU)
Present and Past Collaborators
  • Dr. Subir K. Das (Professor, Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR)
  • Dr. Prasanta K. Das (Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur)
  • Dr. Biswajit Maiti (Ex-Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur)

Ms. Aparajita Baruah

  • Research Topic : Anomalous Relaxation in Memory-Induced Thermal Transport
  • Awarding Institution : RGIPT
  • Year : July, 2024

Dr Sanat Kumar Singha

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
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