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Hello, welcome to the website of Professor Sandip Mazumder. Here you will find slightly more detailed information about his teaching and research activities.

E-mail: mazumder.2 [ at ] osu.edu

Phone: (614)-247-8099

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Courses I Generally Teach

• Undergraduate Heat Transfer (ME510, all quarters)
• Graduate Heat Transfer (ME710, Autumn)
• Numerical Methods (ME707, Winter)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (ME811, Spring of odd years)
• Radiation Heat Transfer (ME809, Autumn of even years)
• Convection Heat Transfer (ME808, Winter of odd years)

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Current Research Areas

• Computational Reacting Flows with applications in Fuel Cells, Catalytic Conversion, and Combustion
• Development of advanced algorithms for large-scale computation of reacting flows with complex chemistry
• Thermal Radiation
• Nanoscale Thermal Transport in Semiconductors

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Current Students

• Sai Kamarajugadda (PhD)
• Arpit Mittal (PhD)
• Robert Yentsch (PhD)
• Doug Dietz (MS)
• Derek Endres (BS/MS)
• Alex Wohlgemuth (BS)

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Recent Publications (since joining OSU)

[If you are interested in the pre-prints of any of the papers listed below, please E-mail me.]

1. “Toward Simulation of Full-Scale Monolithic Catalytic Converters with Complex Heterogeneous Chemistry,” (2009), A. Kumar, and S. Mazumder, Computers and Chemical Engineering, accepted May 2009, available online, DOI information: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.05.018
2. “Finite-Volume Formulation and Solution of the P3 Equations of Radiative Transfer on Unstructured Meshes,” (2009), M. Ravishankar, S. Mazumder, and A. Kumar, Journal of Heat Transfer, accepted March 2009
3. “Coupled Solution of the Species Conservation Equations Using Unstructured Finite-Volume Method,” (2009), A. Kumar and S. Mazumder, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, accepted July 2009
4. “Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Cathode Catalyst Layer Structure and Composition on Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Performance,” (2008), S. Kamarajugadda and S. Mazumder, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 183, pp. 629-642
5.  “On the implementation of membrane models in computational fluid dynamics calculations of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells,” (2007), S. Kamarajugadda and S. Mazumder, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 32(7), pp. 1650-1660
6. “Assessment of Various Diffusion Models for the Prediction of Heterogeneous Combustion in Monolith Tubes,” (2008), A. Kumar and S. Mazumder, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 32(7), pp. 1482-1493
7. “Numerical Investigation of Wall Heat Conduction Effects on Catalytic Combustion in Split and Continuous Monolith Tubes,” (2008), M. Grimm and S. Mazumder, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 32 (3), pp. 552-560
8. “Modeling Full-Scale Monolithic Catalytic Converters: Challenges and Possible Solutions,” (2007), S. Mazumder, Journal of Heat Transfer (in special issue in honor of Prof. S.V. Patankar), Vol. 129(4), pp. 526-535
9. “Assessment of the Dilute Approximation for the Prediction of Combined Heat and Mass Transfer Rates in Multi-Component Systems,” (2007), A. Kumar and S. Mazumder, Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 43, pp. 1329-1337
10. “On the Use of the Fully Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations for the Steady State Solution of Natural Convection Problems in Closed Cavities,” S. Mazumder, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 129(3), pp. 387-340, 2007
11. “Methods to Accelerate Ray Tracing in the Monte Carlo Method for Surface-to-Surface Radiation Transport,” S. Mazumder, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 128(9), pp. 945-952, 2006
12. “On the Convergence of Higher Order Upwind Differencing Schemes for Tridiagonal Iterative Solution of the Advection-Diffusion Equation,” S. Mazumder, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 128(2), pp. 406-409, 2006
13. “Critical Assessment of the Stability and Convergence of the Equations of Multi-Component Diffusion,” S. Mazumder, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 212(2), pp. 383-392, 2006
14. “Adaptation of the In Situ Adaptive Tabulation (ISAT) Procedure for Efficient Computation of Surface Reactions,” S. Mazumder, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 30(1), pp. 115-124, 2005
15. “A New Numerical Procedure for Coupling Radiation in Participating Media with Other Modes of Heat Transfer,” S. Mazumder, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127(9), pp. 1037-1045, 2005
16. “A Generalized Phenomenological Model and Database for the Transport of Water and Current in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes,” S. Mazumder, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol. 152(8), pp. A1633-A1644, 2005
17. “Combined Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry and Computational Fluid Dynamics Calculations for Prediction of Gallium Nitride Growth,” D. Sengupta, S. Mazumder, W. Kuykendall, and S. Lowry, Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 279, pp. 369-382, 2005