Prof. Gautam Biswas

Dr. Gautam Biswas is presently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Earlier, he has been the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, and Director of the CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute at Durgapur. He was the G.D. and V.M. Mehta Endowed Chair Professor, and Dean of academic affairs at IIT Kanpur. The research group of Professor Biswas at IIT Kanpur identified the phenomenon of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability during the bubble formation in film boiling. This was a significant addition to the classical theory, based on Taylor Helmholtz instability. Another seminal contribution of his group is identification of zone of large bubble entrapment and underlying physics during the complete coalescence of a falling drop on a liquid surface. Professor Biswas is the author of more than 150 publications in the International Journals. He has completed guidance of 23 PhD theses.
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