I am Vinay Arya, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I completed my Ph.D. as a Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF) under the supervision of Dr. Chirodeep Bakli at the Tensore Lab.
My research lies at the intersection of nanoscale and microscale transport phenomena, fluid mechanics, interfacial science, and energy systems. I am particularly interested in microfluidics and nanofluidics, desalination technologies, wettability-modulated transport, thermal energy storage, and machine learning-assisted scientific modeling. My work combines molecular simulations, experiments, and data-driven approaches to understand and engineer transport processes across multiple length scales.
Through this platform, I share my research contributions, publications, ongoing projects, and academic activities. I invite you to explore my work and connect for potential collaborations in energy science, transport phenomena, and computational modeling.
Looking forward to collaborations!
The methodologies and tools I regularly employ include, but are not limited to:
• Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations
• Machine Learning and Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)
• Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
• EnergyPlus Building Energy Simulations
• Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling
• Multiscale Transport Phenomena Analysis
• Interfacial and Wetting Characterization
• Thermal Energy Storage System Design and Optimization
• Data Analytics and Scientific Computing (Python, MATLAB)
• Optimization and Surrogate Modeling Techniques
• Experimental Characterization of Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Systems
Title: Study of Nanoporous Membranes for Desalination Applications
We study nanoporous membranes for their water permeation and ion filtration abilities using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we study the effect of pore size and functionalisation of graphene oxide membranes on the orientation of water molecules and their transport. With this knowledge, we aim to design a desalination device that would use the electrostatic and hydrodynamic interactions in confined water near membranes to filter water using lesser energy than conventional filtration techniques.