LABORATORY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL & PROCESS FLUID MECHANICS

MULTIPHASE FLOW LABORATORY

Harshit Bhatia

Contact Information Address: Dip. Politecnico di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università di Udine, Via delle scienze 208, 33100 Udine Telephone: +39 0432 558031 Fax: +39 0432 558027 E-mail: bhatia.harshit@spes.uniud.it Harshit on Academia.edu

Education

2018 PhD student in Environmental and Energy Eng. Science, University of Udine, Italy.(Awarded: March 2019) Supervisors: Prof. Cristian Marchioli, Prof. Alfredo Soldati.

2017 Visiting researcher, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

2015 Masters Degree in Computational Fluid Dynamics, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, India. Advisor: Prof. Eric Climent, Prof. Ugur Guven, Thesis: "Numerical Study of Particle Behaviour in Von Karman Flow ". Download Thesis (PDF)

2015 Masters Stage, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Toulouse, France.

2011 Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, India, 2007-2011. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ugur Guven

Research Interests:

Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent flow, open and close channel

Lagrangian Particle Tracking, Particles, Micro Swimmers, Gyrotaxi

Phase Field Method, Diffuse interface method, Oil Water Interface in channel flow

External Aerodynamics, CFD aided designing of external bodies.

Talks and Prensentation:

Next upcoming talks
• 2019 September 3-6, ETC17 - European Turbulence Conference, Turin, Italy.
• 2019 September 8-12, 4th Polish Congress of Mechanics, Krakow, Poland.

Talks in Past
• 2019 May 21 10th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Rio, Brazil.
• 2018 November 18-21, 71st APS-DFD Annual Meeting, Atlanta (GA, USA).
• 2018 Sept 17-19, Dispersed 2-phase flows (DTPF 2018), Toulouse, France
• 2018 July 2-6, Active transport in the ocean: Turbulence chemistry and biology, Wimereux, France

Conferences:

• 2018 September 9-13, 12th European Fluid Mechanics Conference (EFMC 12),Vienna, Austria.
• 2017 April 06-07, ERCOFTAC ADA Pilot Centre Spring Festival, Vienna, Austria.
• 2016 May 22-27, 9th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 2016), Firenze, Italy.

Curriculum vitae:

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Publications:

2019: H. Bhatia, C. Marchioli, A. Soldati, G.Sardina, L.Brandt, “Large-scale advection and small-scale effects on surfacing and clustering of gyrotactic swimmers” (PRF Submitted)

2019: H. Bhatia, C. Marchioli, A. Soldati, “Effect of elongation on Surfacing phenomenon of gyrotactic swimmers in free-surface turbulence” (In Preparation)

2018: C. Marchioli, D. Dotto, H. Bhatia, “Sources of bias in particle preferential concentration in turbulent flows.” (Accepted: Notes on Numerical and Multidisciplinary Design, Springer)

2014: H. Bhatia Et al., “Comparative Study of varying Mach No. over Symmetric Airfoil with Flow through various Channel Designs." (Conference Paper: CFD Symposium 2014, Bangalore)