Dr. Amaresh Dalal

+91-361-258-2677

amaresh@iitg.ac.in
amaresh.dalal@gmail.com
Dr. Amaresh Dalal
Current Openings
Seeking motivated PhD students/IPDFs with interests in coding and parallelizing an in-house multiphysics CFD solver. Interested candidates may email me.

Academic & Professional Activities

Conferences, Keynote Talks, Workshops & International Presentations

Academic Events Organized and Coordinated

GIAN Courses Coordinated:

Boiling Heat Transfer with Prof. Vijay K. Dhir (UCLA, USA) during 23 May 23 – 03 June 2016.

Multiphysics Coupling in Energy Storage with Prof. Partha P. Mukherjee (TAMU, USA, presently at Purdue University, USA) during 26–30 June, 2017.

Modeling and Simulation in Energy Storage with Prof. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue University, USA) during 3 – 9 January 2022.

Conferences Organized:

The 8th SAENIS TTTMS International Conference on Emerging Thermal Technologies during 6–8 November 2025 at IIT Guwahati (as Organizing Co-Chair)

The two-day symposium on Advances in Thermo-Fluid Sciences (ATFS 2025) during 4–5 September 2025 at IIT Guwahati (as Organizing Chair).

The 8th International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2020) held in virtual mode during 9–11 December 2020 at IIT Guwahati (as Organizing Secretary).

Workshop Organized:

The 5th National Workshop on “Research Methodology in Fluid Mechanics” held during 22–23 June 2019 at IIT Guwahati under the banner of National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP).

TEQIP Events Organized:

Two-day symposium on “Biomicrofluidics” during 19–20 February 2021.

Five-day course on “Computational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows” during 9–13 November 2020.

Five-day course on “Computational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows” during 17–21 June 2019.

One-day workshop on “State of the Art in Microfluidics” on 9 January 2015.

One-day workshop on “Development of processes and devices for bio-medical applications” on 8 October 2014.

 

Courses Conducted in R&D Labs:

Conducted two-day course on “Turbulence Modelling” on 5 – 6 September 2016 for Scientists of Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, India and delivered 10 hrs lecture.

Delivered a full day lecture on “Basics of CFD, FDM and FVM” on 17 August 2015 in Short Term Course on “Computational Fluid Dynamics”, 17 – 21 August 2015, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Bhopal, India.

Delivered two lectures on “Solution of 3-D Navier-Stokes Equations for Arbitrary Geometry” during 10 – 11 February 2012 at Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), CSIR, Durgapur, India.

Delivered six lectures on “Finite Volume Methods for Solving Transport Equation” during 31 May – 4 June 2010 at Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), CSIR, Durgapur, India.

                                                   

Keynote / Invited Lectures in Conferences

 

1.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “Development of Hybrid Battery Thermal Management System for Li-ion Battery Pack” at International Conference on Fluid and Thermal Engineering (ICFTE 2026), 19-21 January 2026 at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan.

2.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “AnuPravaha: A General Purpose Indigenous CFD Solver for Multiphysics Applications” at 4th Biennial International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME - 2024), 31 July – 2 August, 2024 at Amity University, Noida, UP.

3.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “Heat Transfer Analysis of a Fin-tube Heat Exchanger using Shear- thinning Fluid and Winglet Type Vortex Generators” at 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal, and Energy Systems 2024 (ICFTES24), 6 – 8 June, 2024 at NIT Calicut.

4.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “Development of Novel Continuous Microbial Fuel Cells with Improved Performance” at Taiwan-India 2022 Exchange Workshop and Symposium on Intensifying the Connection of Sustainable Technology, September 04-06, 2022, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

5.     Delivered Keynote Lecture (in virtual mode June 9) on “Migration of Hydrogel Drug Carriers Through Narrow Passages” at International Conference in Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems – 2022 (ICFTE’22), June 9-11, 2022, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Calicut, India

6.     Delivered Invited Lecture on “Coalescence Dynamics of Unequal Sized Drops”, Minisymposium on Advances in Computational Multiphase Flows in International Conference on Advances in Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis (ADENA), October 12 -15, 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.

7.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “General Purpose CFD Solver on Unstructured Meshes for Multiphysics Applications: AnuPravaha” at the 25th National and 3rd International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 28-31, 2020, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India.

8.     Delivered Keynote Lecture on “Lessons from AnuPravaha: Towards a General Purpose Computational Framework on Hybrid Unstructured Meshes for Multiphysics Applications” at the 4th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, July 9-11, 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

9.     Delivered Invited Lecture on “AnuPravaha: A General Purpose Indigenous CFD Solver for Multiphysics Applications” at the 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2017), December 14-16, 2017, Amrita University, Kollam, India.

10.  Delivered Thematic Session Talk on “AnuPravaha: Development of a General Purpose CFD Solver” in The 7th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2016), December 15-17, 2016, MNIT Allahabad, India.

11.  Delivered Invited Talk on “Introduction to Turbulence Models” on October 26, 2016 in the National Conference on Computing, Electronic Devices Materials, Manufacturing and Thermal Engineering (NCCEDMMT 2016) at MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, India.

12.  Delivered Thematic Session Talk on “Development of a General Purpose CFD Solver” in The 42nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 14-16, 2015, NITK, Surathkal, India.

 

 

Invited Lectures in Academic Institutes

 

1.     Delivered an Invited Talk on “Development of Hybrid Battery Thermal Management System for Li-ion Battery Pack”, in NIT Srinagar on 30 July 2025.

2.     Delivered an Invited Talk on “Numerical Simulations of Two-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell” in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National ILan University, Taipei, Taiwan on March 8, 2019.

3.     Delivered an Invited Talk on “AnuPravaha: Development of a General Purpose CFD Solver” in NIT Meghalaya on December 19, 2018.

4.     Delivered an Invited Lecture on “Numerical Study of Droplet Hydrodynamics on Mixed Wettability Surface” on January 6, 2016 in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

5.     Delivered an invited talk on “Simulation of Droplet Motion on Mixed Wettability Surface” on March 04, 2015 in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, India.

6.     Delivered invited lecture on “Droplet and Blob Motion on Mixed-Wettability Surface” in Engineering Seminar on Engineering Innovation, Application and Business Framework at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, W.B., India on August 07, 2014.

7.     Delivered invited lecture on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics” in National Level Seminar on Bridging the Gap between Engineering Curriculum & Industry Practices at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, W.B., India on July 27, 2013.

8.     Delivered invited lecture on “Battery and Fuel Cell: The Pure Cell for the Future” in National Level Seminar on Technological Advancement and Present Engineering Practices at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, W.B., India on March 16, 2013.

             

 

Conference Papers Presented in Abroad

1.     Attended and presented Keynote lecture at Indo-French Workshop on Mechanobiology of circulating tumor cells and microfluidics: A new frontier for cancer research, 21-23 October 2025 at Ecole Normale Superieure, Parris-Saclay, France

2.     Attended and presented a paper at ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (SHTC 2025), 8-10 July, 2025, Westminster, Colorado, USA.   

3.     Attended and presented two papers in International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, September 4-8, 2023, Dusseldorf, Germany.

4.     Attended and presented a paper in 17th International Heat Transfer Conference, August 14-19, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa.

5.     Attended and presented a paper in International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology, 11-14 December, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.

6.     Attended and presented a paper in 16th International Heat Transfer Conference, August 10-15, 2018, Beijing, China.

7.     Attended and presented two papers in ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, May 28 – June 02, 2017, Napoli, Italy.

8.     Attended and presented two papers in The 69th Annual Meeting of The American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics (Fall), November 20-22, 2016, Portland, OR, USA.

9.     Attended and presented paper in The ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 11-17, 2016, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

10.  Attended and presented a paper in ASME 2016 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, 4 – 6 January, 2016, Biopolis, Singapore.

11.  Attended and presented two papers in ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, May 25-29, 2015, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA.

12.  Attended and presented papers in ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, USA; July 14-19, 2013.

 

 

Conference Papers Presented in India

1.     Attended 8th SAENIS TTTMS International Conference on Emerging Thermal Technologies, 6-8 November, 2025, IIT Guwahati, India.

2.     Attended 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2023), December 20-22, 2023, IIT Jodhpur, India.

3.     Attended and presented a paper in 7th International & 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2018), December 10-12, 2018, IIT Bombay, India.

4.     Attended and presented a paper in 4th International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, July 9-11, 2018, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

5.     Attended and presented a paper in 6th Asian Symposium on Computation Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, December 10-13, 2017, IIT Madras, India.

6.     Attended The 7th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2016), December 15-17, 2016, MNIT Allahabad, India.

7.     Attended and presented paper in 1st ISHMT-ASTFE and 23rd National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, ISRO, Trivandrum, India.; December 17-20, 2015.

8.     Attended The 42nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, December 14-16, 2015, NITK, Surathkal, India.

9.     Attended and presented paper in 17th ISME Conference, October 3-4, 2015, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India.

10.  Attended and presented paper in 5th International and 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP 2014), December 12-14, 2014, IIT Kanpur, India.  

11.  Attended 22nd National and 11th International ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, December 28-31, 2013, IIT Kharagpur, India.

12.  Invited participant in “National Symposium on Frontier of Engineering (NatFOE 2011)” on the theme of "Green Technology" organized by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) during September 2-3, 2011 at IIT Hyderabad.

 

 

Lectures Delivered in TEQIP / QIP / Short-Term Courses

1.     Delivered one invited talk on “Development of Hybrid Battery Thermal Management System for Li-ion Battery Pack” in three months certificate programme on Electric Vehicle Service Technician, 2 April 2026, IIT Guwahati.

2.     Delivered one invited talk on “Development of Hybrid Battery Thermal Management System for Li-ion Battery Pack” in UGC-sponsored two-week online refresher course on Cooling the Future: Innovation in Battery Thermal Management Systems for Electric Vehicles, 16 Feb – 03 Mar 2026, JNTU Hyderabad, Telangana.

3.     Delivered one invited talk on “Development of Hybrid Battery Thermal Management System for Li-ion Battery Pack” in a workshop on Advancement in Heat Transfer and Thermal Management in Engineering, 2-6 December at NIT Hamirpur, HP.

4.     Delivered one invited talk on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics”, 5-day training program for the officers of TATA STEEL Ltd., 27th September 2024 to 1st October 2024, IIT Guwahati.

5.     Delivered one invited talk (virtual mode) on “CFD Studies on Thermal Management of Batteries”, DST-SERB sponsored STTP on “Thermal Management Techniques” on 21st November, 2024 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, SVNIT Surat.

6.     Delivered two invited talks (virtual mode) on “The role of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in solving engineering problems” and “The fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) used by engineers, scientists and researcher”, SERB-Karyashala sponsored Short Term Training on Computational Fluid Dynamics with OpenFoam from 3rd to 9th July, 2023, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, Bhopal, India.

7.     Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Analysis of Heat Transfer in Fin-Tube Heat Exchangers Using Winglet-Type Vortex Generators”, ATAL-sponsored Two Week Faculty Development Program on "Thermal Characterization and Advanced Measurement Techniques" from 13th - 24th  March 2023 at NIT Srinagar.

8.     Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Migration of Hydrogel Drug Carriers Through Narrow Passages and Flow Dynamics of Cancer Cells Through Constricted Microchannels”, AICTE Sponsored Five-Day Online FDP on "Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research in the field of fluids" at National Institute of Technology Rourkela during 11-15 October, 2021.

9.     Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Development of A General Purpose CFD Solver on Unstructured Grid”, AICTE (QIP) Sponsored Five-Day Online Short Term Course on "Computational Fluid Dynamics and Its Application" at Indian Institute of Technology Indore during 26-31 March, 2021.

10.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Solutions of Navier-Stokes Equation in Complex Geometry”, AICTE Sponsored Five-Day Online FDP on "Fundamentals and Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Fluid-Thermal Systems" at National Institute of Technology Silchar during 13-17 March, 2021.

11.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Development of A General Purpose CFD Solver for Multiphysics Applications”, TEQIP-III Sponsored Online Workshop on “Recent Trends in Thermo-Fluids” (RTTF 21)at National Institute of Technology Sikkim during 22 -26 February 2021.

12.  Delivered two invited talks (virtual mode) on “Basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics”, and “Applications of CFD in Aerospace Technology”, TEQIP III Short Term Course on Aerospace Technology: Theory and Practice, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, February 17 – 21, 2021.

13.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “General CFD Finite Volume Method for convection-diffusion equation”, Self-sponsored online Short Term Training Programme on Modern Computational Fluid Dynamics with Industrial and Environmental Applications, National Institute of Technology Calicut, February 1, 2021 –February 5, 2021.

14.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Application of CFD in Melting and Solidification”, TEQIP sponsored five-day short-term course on Advanced Manufacturing Technology at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati during 21st to 25th December, 2020.

15.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Finite Difference Method”, Short Term Training Programme on Computational Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Madhurawada, Visakhapatnam, 9 – 14 November, 2020.

16.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “AnuPravaha: Development of General Purpose CFD Solver”, Two-Week Online International Faculty Development Programme on Frontiers of Research in Thermal Sciences held during 27th August 2020 to 9th September 2020.  

17.  Delivered invited talk (virtual mode) on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Faculty Development Programme on Basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications and Analysis Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering Mysore, 31 Aug – 4 Sep, 2020.

18.  Delivered invited talk on “Drop Impact on a Liquid Pool” on September 24, 2019 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology (GIMT), Guwahati, India.

19.  Delivered invited talk on “Drop Impact on a Liquid Pool” on August 10, 2019 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Manipur, India.

20.  Delivered seven lectures in a TEQIP sponsored short-term course on “Computational Fluid Dynamics for Incompressible Flows” during June 17 - 21, 2019 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India.

21.  Delivered a lecture on “Numerical Simulations of Two-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell” on June 11, 2019 in a TEQIP sponsored short-term course on “Clean Energy Technologies” in the Centre for Energy, IIT Guwahati, India.

22.  Delivered a lecture on “Numerical Simulations of Redox Flow Battery” on November 27, 2018 in a TEQIP sponsored short-term course on “Energy Efficient and Green Energy Technologies” in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, India.

23.  Delivered two expert talks on “Drop Impact on a Liquid Pool” and “Lessons from AnuPravaha: Towards a General Purpose Computational Framework on Hybrid Unstructured Meshes for Multi-Physics Applications” on May 25 and 26, 2018 in a TEQIP sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering” in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dibrugarh University, India.

24.  Delivered two expert talks on “Numerical Simulation of Droplet Hydrodynamics and Boiling” and “AnuPravaha: A General Purpose Indigenous CFD Solver for Multiphysics Applications” on March 09, 2018 in a TEQIP sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Trends in Thermo-Fluids Engineering (RTTFE 2018)” in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, India.

25.  Delivered an expert talk on “Finite Volume Method and Its Application to Complex Geometry” on November 09, 2016 in a five days TEQIP Workshop on “Advances in Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Nov 7-11, 2016, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Silchar, India.

26.  Delivered a lecture on “Application of CFD in Melting and Solidification” on December 25, 2014 in QIP Short Term Course on “Micromanufacturing”, December 22 – 26, 2014, IIT Guwahati, India.

27.  Delivered a lecture on “Introduction to CFD in Multiphase Flows” on December 16, 2014 in QIP Short Term Course on “Multiphase Flow Reactors Insights through Experimental and CFD Techniques”, December 16 – 20, 2014, IIT Guwahati, India.

28.  Delivered four lectures on “Finite Volume Method: A research Methodology” during April 12, 14, 17, 18, 2014 at Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology Berhampore, W.B., India.

29.  Delivered invited lecture on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics” at Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology Berhampore, W.B., on March 15, 2014.

30.  Delivered three lectures on “Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics”, "Finite Volume Methods" and "Grid Generation Techniques" in TEQIP Short Term Course on Computational Fluid Dynamics, December 24-28, 2012 at National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India.