Our Faculty

Qualification

• PhD 
  Year : 2014-2020
  Specialization : Fluid dynamics and Thermal sciences
  Thesis Title : Investigation of flow dynamics and heat transport in rotating convection with non-uniform thermal forcing.
• M.Tech
  Year :   2011-2013
  Specialization : Atmospheric-Oceanic Science & Technology
  Thesis title : Effect of cloud radiative forcing on surface temperature trend in India.

Post-Doctoral Experience

• Post Doctoral fellow (Nov. 2020 – Oct. 2021), School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Post Doctoral fellow (Nov. 2021 – Dec. 2021), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
• Post Doctoral associate (Nov. 2022 – Nov. 2023), Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Current Positions

• Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd), (May. 2025), School of Artificial Intelligence, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Past Positions

• Assistant Professor (Nov. 2024 – April. 2025), School of sciences, Woxsen University, Hyderbad, Telengana, India

• Technical Manager (Feb. 2024 – Aug. 2024 and May. 2022 – Nov. 2022), Tardid Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India

• Assistant Engineer, (Sept. 2009 – June. 2011), Foster Wheeler Bengal Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Conference Paper

• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, “Dynamics of Anisotropic Inertial Microswimmers Under Surface Gravity Waves”, 1st International Conference on Biomedical and Applied Clinical Sciences (BioMACS), Feb 25-28, 2025, Hyderabad, Tengana, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, “Convection in a Rotating Annulus with Bi-directional Thermal Forcings: A Combined Laboratory and Axisymmetric Numerical Investigation of a Novel System”, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure (ICRAM-2025), January 10-12, 2025, IITRAM, Ahmedabad, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Shivam Swarnakar, “Aspect ratio dependence in the Convection in Rotating Annulus In the Presence of Localized Heating: An Axisymmetric Study”, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure (ICRAM-2025), January 10-12, 2025, IITRAM, Ahmedabad, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Lei Fang, “Dynamics of Microswimmers under Surface Gravity Waves: Finite size effect”. 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19-21, 2023, Washington, DC, USA.
• Shivam Swarnakar, Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Sridhar Balasubramanian, “Numerical investigation of rotating convection in a new configuration with bi-directional thermal gradients”, 46th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 9-11 December, 2019, Coimbatore, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Amitabh Bhattacharya,  Sridhar Balasubramanian, “Study of convection in rotating flow in a new configuration with bi-directional temperature gradients”, 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18–20 November, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA .
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Sridhar Balasubramanian, “Study of rotating convection in a new configuration with simultaneous imposition of radial and vertical temperature gradients”, 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 19-21 November, 2017, Denver, CO, USA.
• Sridhar Balasubramanian, Harish Mirajkar, Ayan Kumar Banerjee, “Role of dispersed particles on the dynamics of the umbrella cloud of a buoyant plume”, 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 19-21 November, 2017, Denver, CO, USA.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Sridhar Balasubramanian, “Convective dynamics in rotating flows with non uniform thermal gradients”, 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 14-17 December, 2017, Kollam, Kerala, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Amitabh Bhattacharya, Sridhar Balasubramanian, “ “, National Climate Science Conference, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, 2-3 July, 2015, IISc. Bangalore, India.
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Sagnik Dey, S.K.Dash, 2013, “Impact of cloud radiative forcing on surface temperature trends in India”, Fourth National Research Conference on Climate Change, Chennai, 26-27 October, 2013.

Patent

• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Sridhar Balasubramanian, “An integrated compact and non-intrusive device for in situ flow measurements in rotating systems”, Indian Patent No.: 459735, Patent granting date: 17/10/2023.

Book Chapters

• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, “Convection in a Rotating Annulus with Bi-directional Thermal Forcings: A Combined Laboratory and Axisymmetric Numerical Investigation of a Novel System”, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2021, Springer, Singapore. [Impact factor: 0.554] (in press)
• Ayan Kumar Banerjee, Shivam Swarnakar, “Aspect ratio dependence in the Convection in Rotating Annulus In the Presence of Localized Heating: An Axisymmetric Study”, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2021, Springer, Singapore. [Impact factor: 0.554] (in press)

Research Interest

Geophysical & Environmental Fluid dynamics

• Rotating Convection – convective processes in planetary and stellar system
• Transport of microplastic in marine environment

Collective motion

• Transport dynamics of microswimmers in marine environment
• Self-organization behaviour of active particles

Biophysical and Biomedical flows

• Bacteria transport

Machine Learning in Fluid mechanics

Membership / Associations

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP)

International Journals 

• Physics of Fluids