Professor & Asst VP Research

Office: 4-31G Mechanical Engineering
Phone: (780) 492-5017
fax     : (780) 492-2200
Website

Education:

Ph.D. (University of Waterloo, Canada)
M.Sc. (University of Victoria, Canada)
B.M.E. (Jadavpur University, India)

Position Summary/ Research Interest:

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics; BioMEMS; Flow through Porous Media; Fuel Cells; Atomization and Sprays

Publications:

Selected Publications:
1. S. Das, S. Chakraborty, and S. K. Mitra, “Redefining electrical double layer thickness in narrow confinements: Effect of solvent polarization”, Physical Review E, Vol. 85, 051508, 2012.

2. P. Waghmare and S. K. Mitra,"A comprehensive theoretical model of capillary transport in rectangular microchannels", Microfluidics Nanofluidics, Vol. 12, pp. 53 – 63, 2012.

3. B. Bera, N. S. K. Gunda, S. K. Mitra and D. Vick, “Characterization of nanometre-scale porosity in reservoir carbonate rock by Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM)”, Microscopy Microanalysis, Vol. 18, pp. 171 - 178, 2012.

4. D. Sen, D. Nobes, and S. K. Mitra, "Optical measurement of pore scale velocity field inside micro porous media", Microfluidics Nanofluidics, Vol. 12, pp. 189 - 200, 2012.

5. G. NagaSiva, B. Bera, N. Karadimitriou, S. K. Mitra and S. M. Majid Hassanizadeh,"Reservoir-on-a-Chip (ROC): A new paradigm in Reservoir Engineering",Lab Chip, Vol. 11, 3785 - 3792, 2011(Featured Article).

6. P. Waghmare and S. K. Mitra, " Contact angle hysteresis of microbead suspensions", Langmuir, Vol. 26, pp. 17082–17089, 2010.

7. P. Waghmare and S. K. Mitra, "Modeling of combined electroosmotic and capillary flow in microchannels", Analytica Chimica Acta,Vol. 663, pp. 117 - 126, 2010 (Featured Article).

8. A. Mohammadpour, P. Waghmare, S. K. Mitra and K. Shankar, "Anodic Growth of Large-Diameter Multipodal TiO2 Nanotubes", ACS Nano, Vol. 4, pp. 7421–7430, 2010.

9. A. S. Rawool, S. K. Mitra and S. G. Kandlikar, "Numerical simulation of flow through microchannels with designed roughness", Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 2, pp. 215-221, 2006.

Awards/Honors:

Fellow of ASME
Fellow of CSME