NIT Durgapur

Department of Mechanical Engineering

JAYABRATA DHAR Durgapur, West Bengal, India, 713209
D.O.B.: 28/06/1987
Mobile: (+91)8017362102
Email: [email protected]

RESEARCH & EDUCATION

Assistant Professor, 2022 (April) – 2022 (September),

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Human Frontiers (Post-Doctoral) Fellow, 2019 – 2022,

Physics of Living Matter Group
The Physics and Materials Science Department,
University of Luxembourg - Limpertsberg Campus,
L-1511 Luxembourg

Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018 – 2019,

Team DIMENV, Geosciences Rennes (UMR 6118),
Université Rennes 1, France

PhD student, 2013 - 2017,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
PhD advisor: Dr. Suman Chakraborty

Master of Technology (MTech), 2011–2013,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
MTech specialization: Thermal Science and Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), 2007–2011,

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India

Higher Secondary Education (12th Standard), 2006,

St. Joseph’s College, West Bengal, India
Indian School Certificate Board

Secondary Education (10th Standard), 2004,

St. Joseph’s College, West Bengal, India
Indian Council of Secondary Education

PUBLICATIONS

Referred Journal Papers:

1. Bandopadhyay, A., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. (Sept, 2013). "Effects of solvent-mediated nonelectrostatic ion-ion

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 interactions on a streaming potential in microchannels and nanochannels". Physical Review E, 88(3), 33014, APS.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.033014 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
2. Dhar, J., Bandopadhyay, A., & Chakraborty, S. (Nov., 2013). “Electro-osmosis of electrorheological fluids”.
Physical Review E, 88(5), 53001, APS. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.053001 (SCI/Scopus
Indexed)
3. Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S. (March, 2014). “Alterations in streaming potential in presence of time
periodic pressure-driven flow of a power law fluid in narrow confinements with nonelectrostatic ion-ion interactions”.
Electrophoresis, 35(5), 662–669, Wiley-VCH. https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201300428 (SCI/Scopus
Indexed)
4. Dhar, J., Bandopadhyay, A., & Chakraborty, S. (July 2015). “Taylor–Couette flow of electrorheological fluids under
electrical double layer phenomenon”. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 223, 165–175, Elsevier.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2015.07.001 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
5. Majumder, S., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. (October, 2015). “Resolving Anomalies in Predicting Electrokinetic
Energy Conversion Efficiencies of Nanofluidic Devices”. Scientific Reports, 5, 14725, Nature Research.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14725 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
6. Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S. (Aug., 2015). “Electro-capillary effects in capillary filling dynamics of
electrorheological fluids”. Soft Matter, 11(35), 6957–6967, Royal Society of Chemistry.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5SM01092F (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
7. Dhar, J., Jaggi, P., & Chakraborty, S. (June, 2016). “Oscillatory regimes of capillary imbibition of viscoelastic fluids
through concentric annulus”. RSC Adv., 6(65), 60117–60125, Royal Society of Chemistry..
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA05002F (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
8. Goswami, P., Dhar, J., Ghosh, U., & Chakraborty, S. (March, 2017). “Solvent-mediated nonelectrostatic ion-ion
interactions predicting anomalies in electrophoresis”. Electrophoresis, 38(5), 712–719, Wiley-VCH.
https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201600394 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
9. Poddar, A., Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. (July, 2017). “Electroosmosis of Nematic Liquid Crystals under Weak
Anchoring and Second-Order Surface Effects”. Physical Review E, 96(1), 013114.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013114 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
10. Mukherjee, S., Goswami, P., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & Chakraborty, S. (July, 2017). “Ion-Size Dependent
Electroosmosis of Viscoelastic Fluids in Hydrophobic Microchannels: An Analytical Approach”. Physics of Fluids,
29(7), 072002, AIP Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4990841 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
11. Dhar, J., & Chakraborty, S. (Sept., 2017) “Spontaneous Electrorheological Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals under
Taylor-Couette Flow Configuration”. Physics of Fluids, 29(9), 092008, AIP Publishing.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5003379 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
12. Mukherjee, S., Das, S. S., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & and Chakraborty, S. (Sept., 2017) "Electroosmosis of
Viscoelastic Fluids: The Role of Wall Depletion Layer" Langmuir, 33(43), 12046-12055, American Chemical
Society. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02895 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
13. Dhar, J. and Chakraborty, S. (April, 2018) "Electrically modulated capillary filling imbibition of nematic liquid
crystals" Phys. Rev. E, 97(4), 043107, American Physical Society.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.043107 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
14. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. (June, 2018) "Electro-thermally driven transport of a
non-conducting fluid in a two-layer system for MEMS and biomedical applications" J. App. Phys, 123(24), 24490,
American Institute of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011659 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
15. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bandyopadhyay, S., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. (Sept., 2018) "Energy-Efficient
Generation of Controlled Vortices on Low-Voltage Digital Microfluidic Platform" App. Phys. Lett, 113(12), 124103,
American Institute of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5042143 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
16. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. (Feb., 2019) “Joule heating-induced particle
manipulation on a microfluidic chip” Biomicrofluidics, 13(1), 014113, American Institute of Physics.
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5082978 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
17. Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., and Chakraborty, S. (Jan., 2019) “Patterned surface charges coupled with

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 thermal gradients may create giant augmentations of solute dispersion in electro-osmosis of viscoelastic fluids” Proc. R. Soc.
A, 475, 20180522, Royal Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0522 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
18. Dhar, J., Mukherjee, S., Raj M, K. and Chakraborty, S. (Jan., 2019) “Universal oscillatory dynamics in capillary
filling” Europhys. Lett, 125 (1) , 14003, IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/125/14003
(SCI/Scopus Indexed)
19. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. (Sept., 2019) “Directionally controlled open channel
microfluidics” Phys. of Fluids 31 (9), 092003, AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5118728
(SCI/Scopus Indexed)
20. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Chakraborty, S. and Bhattacharya, A. (June, 2020) “Alternating Current Electrothermal
Flow for Cooling of Localized Hot Spots in Microelectronic Devices” IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging
and Manufacturing Technology 10 (6) 1020 – 1027. IEEE.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9025244 (DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2020.2976659)
(SCI/Scopus Indexed)
21. Paul, A., Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., S, Ghosal and Chakraborty, S. (April, 2020) “The effect of the finite size of ions
and Debye layer overspill on the screened Coulomb interactions between charged flat plates” Electrophoresis 41 (7-8),
607-614, Wiley-VCH. https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.201900318 (SCI/Scopus Indexed)
22. Dhar, J., Meunier, P. and Meheust, Y. (June, 2022) “Convective dissolution of carbon dioxide in two- and three-
dimensional porous media: The impact of hydrodynamic dispersion” Physics of Fluids 34, 064114;
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0086370
23. Dhar, J., Thai, A. L. P., Ghoshal, A., Giomi, L. and Sengupta, A. (July, 2022) “Self-regulation of phenotypic
noise synchronizes emergent organization and active transport in confluent microbial environments” Nat. Phys. 18, 945–
951. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01641-9
24. Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., DasGupta, S. and Chakraborty, S. (July, 2022) “Electrokinetically Augmented Load
Bearing Capacity of a Deformable Microfluidic Channel” Physics of Fluids, 34, 082019;
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0101298
25. Dhar, J.*, Sengupta, A, Danza, F., Ghoshal, A., Müller, S. and Kakavand, N. (Nov, 2021) “Phytoplankton
actively shuttle cytoplasmic lipid droplets to control vertical migration in nutrient-limited environments” (*Joint first author),
Science Advances, 8 (44). 1-16; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn6005
Patents granted:

1. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A., Chakraborty, S. (Filed: 05/06/2019, Granted: 26/09/2022) “System
For Particle Manipulation And Aggregation”, Patent No.: 407594; Ref. No. 201931022341 (Indian Institute
of Technology Kharagpur)

Referred Conference Papers:

1. Mukherjee, S., Dhar, J., Dasgupta, S., & and Chakraborty, S. (2017) "Forced convection in electroosmotic flow of
Phan-Thien-Tanner fluids". INCOM 2018, pp: INCOM18-062, 4th Jan to 6th Jan, 2018, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India.
2. Dhar, J., Nadal, F., Borgne, TL., Meunier, P. and Méheust, Y. (2019) “Solubility Trapping Of CO2: Analog
Experiment and Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling”. EGU General Assembly 2019, Geophysical Research
Abstracts vol. 21, pp: EGU2019-17594, 7th April to 12th April, 2019, Vienna, Austria. (Poster presentation)
3. Kunti, G., Dhar, J., Bhattacharya, A. and Chakraborty, S. (2019) “Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow for
Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Microprocessor Hot Spots” 25th International Workshop on
THERMINIC, 25th Sept. to 27th Sept., 2019, Lecco, Italy.
4. Dhar, J., Nadal, F., Borgne, TL., Meunier, P. and Méheust, Y. (2019) “Gravitational Instability and Convection
in a Granular Porous Medium: Pore Scale Experimental Study and Implications for Solubility Trapping Of CO2”
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, pp: abstract #H41E-01, 9th Dec. to 13th Dec., 2019, San
Francisco, California, USA. (Oral presentation)
5. Dhar, J., Danza, F., Ghoshal, A. and Sengupta, A. (2021) “Emergent activity of motile phytoplankton in nutrient
landscapes” DPG BPCPPDYSOE 2021, BP 2.3 BPb-pp-1, 22nd March to 24th March, 2021, Dresden,

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6. Dhar, J., Ashraf, S., Meunier, P., Nadal, F. and Méheust, Y. (2021) “Gravitational instabilities in a 2D
porous medium for carbon dioxide sequestration”. Interpore 2021, 31st May to 3rd June, 2021, University
of Stuttgart, Germany. (Online Oral presentation)
7. Dhar, J., Meunier, P., Nadal, F. and Méheust, Y. (2021) “Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in 2D and 3D
Dispersive Porous Medium”. Interpore 2021, 31st May to 3rd June, 2021, University of Stuttgart,
Germany. (Online Oral presentation)
8. Dhar, J., Ghoshal, A. and Sengupta, A. (2021) “Bioconvective chaos shapes dynamics and lifetime of harmful
algal blooms”. 20th HFSP Awardees Meeting 2021, Session 1-32, pp: 106, 5th July to 8th July, 2021,
HFSP Office Online Event. (Online Poster presentation)
RESEARCH AREAS

Topics Analytically and Numerically researched on:

1. Electrokinetic flows of Dielectric Electrorheological and Viscoelastic Fluids.

2. Nematic Liquid Crystals
3. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in porous medium
4. Stability of shape-changing phytoplankton
5. Bioconvection flows
6. Stokesian Dynamics
7. Capillary filling dynamics

Topics Experimentally researched on:

1. Capillary filling Phenomenon of complex fluids.

2. Crack Dynamics and Prevention.
3. Refractive Index Matched visualization of porous medium flows
4. Bioconvection flow of algae (Species: HA3017 and HA3374)
5. Active nematic flow in E. Coli bacterial suspensions.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Language: Python / MATLAB / C++

Math Packages: MATLAB, MAPLE
Image Processing: MATLAB / OpenCV
CFD Packages: COMSOL Multiphysics, OpenFOAM, FEniCS
FDM: 2D and 3D codes for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability using Geometric Multigrid Methods and
Parallelization.
Editor Tools: MS Office, LaTeX
Post-processing Tools: Paraview, ImageJ, MATLAB
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS