Prof. Indranil Ghosh

Ph.D.(IIT Kharagpur)
Assistant Professor
I. Ghosh joined the Institute in 2004

Contacts:

C1-85, IIT Campus, Kharagpur 721302
-286719 (Office) / -286720 (Residence)
indranil @ hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
Name Course Contact Number E-mail Project
Indrasis Mitra M.Tech 9455495531 indrasis.mitra@yahoo.in
Tanmoy Maiti M.Tech 9734339460 tanmoymaiti001@gmail.com
Ms. Tisha Dixit Ph.D 8509598483 tisha8889@yahoo.com
Project Title Type PI/Consultant Co-PI/Co-Consultant Sponsor/Client
Radiation Heat Transfer in Open Cell Metal Foam - An Experimental Study Sponsored Project Dr. Indranil Ghosh Dr. Tapas Kumar Nandi CSIR, New Delhi (COMPLETED-2016)
Experimental Studies on High Porosity Open Cell Metallic Foam Heat Transfer Sponsored Project Dr. Indranil Ghosh Dr. Tapas Kumar Nandi CSIR, New Delhi (COMPLETED)
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Miniature Heat Exchangers and Heat Sinks Sponsored Project Dr. Indranil Ghosh Dr. Tapas Kumar Nandi , Dr. Suprakash Patra CSIR, New Delhi (COMPLETED)
Studies of Desorption Cooling from Activated Carbon Sponsored Project Dr. Indranil Ghosh IIT Kharagpur (COMPLETED)
The Heat Exchanger Design for Helium Liquefier (for 50 litre/hr Helium Plant Development at VECC Kolkata) Consultancy Project Dr. Indranil Ghosh Prof. Parthasarathi Ghosh, Prof. Kanchan Chowdhury VECC, Kolkata (On-going)

  • Heat transfer and solid sorption are the two major verticals in which research has spread over in the Transport Phenomena Laboratory.


  • Heat transfer research aims at miniaturisation of the heat transferring devices such as heat exchangers. Cryo-compatible miniaturised heat exchangers offer challenges in terms of high efficiency, low axial heat conduction, reduced heat ingress and pressure drop penalty. Nevertheless, everything should ideally be achieved at the low cost of price. The first prototype unit has been built and tested. The other wing of heat transfer research is associated with the use of metal foam as extended heat transfer surfaces or fins owing to their high heat transfer surface area density, open porosity, interconnectivity and ability of creating eddies. Our research aims at transforming the concept of metal foam based heat exchangers into reality. Metal foam has been found extremely effective as passive radiation coolers in space cryogenics (cooling accomplished by radiating heat to outer space). Both experimental and theoretical research is progressing simultaneously in this field.


  • Solid sorption research, the second vertical, is further growing in two directions. Cryosorption storage of gaseous hydrogen in carbonaceous materials is the area in which the research in the laboratory is currently limited to theoretical level. The other aspect of sorption research is related to cooling. Active research of both theoretical and experimental nature is being pursued for couple of years. Aiming at an effective utilisation of large heat of desorption, the present research is focussed on overcoming the limitations typically linked to solid sorption processes. Usually, intermittency in solid sorption cooling is avoided with the use of multiple adsorbent beds triggering operational complexities. Development of continuous solid sorption cooling in a single adsorbent tube, with the rapid pressurisation and depressurisation, can substantially reduce this problem. Indian patent has been applied for the process.



  • 1. Transport Phenomena Laboratory

    'The Transport Phenomena Lab' has the expertise to measure the following;


  • 2. Convective heat transfer and pressure drop measurement facility for open cell metal foam

    • Metal Foam Thermohydraulic Characterisation Setup

  • 3. Design, fabrication and testing of minichannel, miniature heat exchanger cell metal foam

    • Miniature Heat Exchanger

  • 4. Design of multistream plate fin heat exchangers

    • Multistream Plate Fin Heat Exchanger

  • 5. Radiation heat transfer characterisation of open cell metal foam

    • Metal Foam Radiation Test Set up

  • 6. Equilibrium adsorption capacity measurement of gases by volumetric method

    • Equilibrium Adsorption Capacity Measurement Facility

  • 7. Continuous solid sorption cooling production using carbonaceous materials

    • Continuous Solid Sorption Cooling in Single Adsorbent Tube

Subject Code Subject Name
CR60017 CRYOGENIC HEAT TRANSFER
CR69003 CRYOGENIC SYSTEMS LABORATORY
CR30008 CRYOGENIC ASPECTS OF HYDROGEN ENERGY

  1. I. Ghosh, S.K. Sarangi and P.K. Das, "An alternate algorithm for the analysis of multistream plate fin heat exchangers", Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 49, pp. 2889-2902, 2006.

  2. I. Ghosh, S.K. Sarangi, and P.K. Das, "Simulation Algorithm for Multistream Plate Fin Heat Exchangers Including Axial Heat Conduction, Heat Leakage and Variable Fluid Property", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 129, pp. 884-893, 2007.

  3. I. Ghosh, "Heat-Transfer Analysis of High Porosity Open-Cell Metal Foam", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 130, pp. 034501-1 to 6, 2008.

  4. I. Ghosh, "How Good is Open-Cell Metal Foam as Heat Transfer Surface?", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (Special Issue on Recent Advances in Porous Media Transport), vol. 131, pp. 101004-1-8, 2009.

  5. I. Ghosh, "Heat Transfer Correlation for High Porosity Open Cell Foam", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 52, pp. 1488-1494, 2009.

  6. Swain, S., I. Ghosh, "Conceptual Design Analysis of a Compressor Driven Sorption Cooling System", International Journal of Energy Research, vol. 34, no.. 11, pp. 1016-1026, 2010.

  7. I. Ghosh, S. Naskar, S. S. Bandyopadhyay, "Cryosorption Storage of Gaseous Hydrogen for Vehicular Application - A Conceptual Design", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, no.. 1, pp. 161-168, 2010.

  8. I. Ghosh, Sarangi, S.K., Das, P.K., "Synthesis of Multistream Heat Exchangers by Thermally Linked Two-Stream Modules", International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 53, pp. 1070-1078, 2010.

  9. Ghosh S., I. Ghosh, Pratihar D. K., Maiti, B., Das, P. K., "Optimum Stacking Pattern for Multi-Stream Plate-Fin Heat Exchanger through a Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Thermal Science, vol. 50, no.. 2, pp. 214-224, 2011.

  10. P. K. Das and I. Ghosh, "Thermal Design of Multistream Plate Fin Heat Exchangers - A State of the Art Review", Heat Transfer Engineering,, vol. 33, no.. 4, pp. 284-300, 2012.

  11. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Two-stream Cross Flow Heat Exchangers in Thermal Communication with the Surroundings - A Generalised Analysis", International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, vol. 66, pp. 01-Sep, 2013.

  12. S. Koley and I. Ghosh, "New Technique for Generating Continuous Sorption Cooling in a Single Adsorbent Column", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 55, pp. 33-42, 2013.

  13. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Crossflow Minichannel Heat Exchanger Subjected to External Heat Ingress", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 73, pp. 160-169, 2014.

  14. s. Koley and I. Ghosh, "Generating Continuous Solid Sorption Cooling in a Single Adsorbent Tube - Experiment and Generalised Transient Analysis", International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, vol. 72, pp. 470-478, 2014.

  15. S. Koley and I. Ghosh, "Activated Carbon-hydrogen based Continuous Sorption Cooling in Single Adsorbent Bed with LN2 Heat Sink", Physics Procedia, vol. 67, pp. 1199-1205, 2015.

  16. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Review of Micro- and Mini-channel Heat Sinks and Heat Exchangers for Single Phase Fluids", Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 41, pp. 1298-1311, 2015.

  17. I. Ghosh, "On Scope of Improving Solid Sorption Cooling - Generating it Continuously in a Regenerative Single Adsorbent Column", Science and Technology for the Built Environment, vol. 21, pp. 275-279, 2015.

  18. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "An Experimental Study on Open Cell Metal Foam as Extended Heat Transfer Surface", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 77 pp. 28-37, 2016.

  19. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Radiation Heat Transfer in High Porosity Open-cell Metal Foams for Cryogenic Applications", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 120, pp. 942-951, 2016.

  20. S. Koley and I. Ghosh, "Role of Desorption Route in a Novel Single-Column Continuous Solid Sorption Cooling Process", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 99, pp. 502-513, 2016.

  21. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Cooling capacity of high porosity open cell metal foams as passive cryogenic radiators", Cryogenics, vol. 84, pp. 81-88, 2017.

  22. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Geometric mean of fin efficiency and effectiveness: A parameter to determine optimum length of open-cell metal foam used as extended heat transfer surface", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 139, no.. 7, pp. 72003-1-11, 2017.

  23. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Simulation intricacies of open-cell metal foam fin subjected to convective flow", Applied Thermal Engineering, vol. 137, pp. 532-544, 2018.

  24. T. Dixit and I. Ghosh, "Experimental and numerical modeling of metal foam passive radiator at low temperatures", Experimental Heat Transfer, vol. 31, no.. 5, pp. 425-435, 2018.

  25. I. Mitra and I. Ghosh, "Mini-channel heat sink parameter sensitivity based on precise heat flux redistribution , Thermal Science and Engineering Progress", Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, vol. 20, pp. 100717-11, 2020.

  26. I. Mitra and I. Ghosh, "Thermohydraulic behavior of minichannel surface simulated with gaussian function and actual roughness data generated using three-dimensional optical surface profilometer", ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 142, no.. 10, pp. 10250-11, 2020.