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Dr Suranita Kanjilal
- Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Basic Sciences
Dr Kanjilal is an interdisciplinary researcher. Her doctoral research was on the dynamics of magma flow through the porous interior of the earth; she developed a solution tool for steady state porous network propagation. This tool is useful in building technological innovations for enhanced oil exploration.
After completing her doctoral study, Dr Kanjilal worked in a biomedical engineering project at Heidelberg University to develop boundary conditions for an artificial heart valve to increase its patient-specific longevity.
Later, she worked in Johannes Kepler University, Linz, in a chemical engineering project as a senior scientist to provide a cost-effective digitalised manufacturing tool for transport process of granular materials. She also collaborated with industry partner RHI Magnesita on an industry project where she developed and executed an efficient solver to provide a simulation tool which reduced computational time up to 95% of the original computational time required by them.
Qualification
- PhD (Mathematical Geoscience)
- MSc (Mathematics)
- BSc (Mathematics Honours)
Experience
- Industry – 7 months
- Research – 2.5 years
- Teaching – 8 months
Courses taught
- Data Optimisation
- Data Visualisation
- Probability theory and random process
- Elementary Calculus, Geometry and Basics of probability theory
Research area(s)
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multiphase flow, porous flow, numerical simulation, data optimisation
Consulting Area
- Numerical methods or simulation
- Computational Fluid dynamics
- Data optimisation
Publications
Research papers
- S. Kanjilal and S. Schneiderbauer, ‘A revised coarse graining approach for simulation of highly poly disperse granular flow,’ Powder Technology, vol. 385, pp. 517- 527, June 2021 DOI: https://DOI.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.02.015
- G. Richard, S. Kanjilal and H. Schmeling: ‘Solitary-waves in geophysical two-phase viscous media: A semi-analytical solution, ‘ Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Elsevier, vol. 198-199, pp. 61-66, May 2012, DOI: https://DOI.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2012.03.001
Conference papers
- S. Kanjilal, ‘1D and 2D benchmark of two phases in geodynamics,’ in Annual conference of European Geophysical Union, 2011. Abstract: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/EGU2011-11584.pdf
- S. Kanjilal and S. Schneiderbauer, ‘Efficiency of revision method for simulation of poly disperse granular flow, ‘ in 3rd International Conference on Powder, Granule and Bulk Solids (PGBSIA): 2020.
Awards and recognition
- Scholarship from IIT Madras (2006)
- DFG research grant (2008)
- Member of European Geophysical Union (2011-2012)
- Bertelsmann Udacity Data Science scholarship (2018)
Professional activities and achievements
- Certificate of Completion of workshop on women (in STEM) entrepreneurship arranged by IIIT Delhi and endorsed by Department of Science and Technology , India (2021)
- Certificate of participation in Quantum Computing workshop as a part of faculty development programme organised by Electronics & ICT Academies and facilitated by IBM India (2021)
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