Srinivas Mettu

Present: Pursuing PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, expected date of graduation Sept 2011.

Specialization:

     Chemical Engineering (Surface Science, Liquid Solid Interaction, Liquid Drop Dynamics on Surfaces, Contact Angle Hysteresis)

Education:

·         M. Tech., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2005.

·         B. Tech., Chemical Engineering, Osmania University, 2003.

 

Work Experience:

 

        ·        Worked as Software Engineer in IBM India in Mainframe Competency from July 2005-Aug 2006. Listen to W3 interview

 

Research Interests:

                Transport Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Interfacial Science

 

Journal Publications:

                

1.  Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury, “Motion of Liquid Drops on Surfaces Induced by Asymmetric Vibration: Roles of Contact Angle Hysteresis”,

                                                                   Langmuir, Published online, 2011. View

 

                  2.   Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury, “Stochastic Relaxation of the Contact Line of a Water Drop on a Solid Substrate Subjected to

                               White Noise Vibration: Roles of Hysteresis”, Langmuir, 26 (11), 8131–8140, 2010. View

 

                 3.    P. S. Goohpattader, Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury, “Experimental Investigation of the Drift and Diffusion of Small Objects on a Surface

                                 Subjected to a Bias and an External White Noise: Roles of Coulombic Friction and Hysteresis”, Langmuir, 25 (17), 9969–9979, 2009. View

 

                4.    Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury, “Motion of drops on a surface induced by thermal gradient and vibration”,

                                                                                    Langmuir, 24 (12), 10833–10837, 2008. View

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                5.   M. K. Chaudhury, Srinivas Mettu, “Brownian Motion of a drop with hysteresis dissipation”, Langmuir, 24 (12), 6128–6132, 2008. View

 

                6.        Srinivas Mettu, N. Verma, and R. P. Chhabra, "Momentum and heat transfer from an asymmetrically confined circular cylinder in a plane channel",

 

                     Heat and Mass Transfer, 42, 1037-1048 (2006) download

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

1.      Srinivas Mettu , R. P Chhabra, Nishith Verma, “ Computational Fluid Dynamics study of unsteady flow past a circular cylinder confined in a plane channel” AICHE/IICHE-2004 (Indo-US) International Conference, Mumbai, 28-30th Dec 2004.

 

2.      Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury “Stochastic Relaxation of the Contact Line of a Water Drop on a Solid Substrate Subjected to White Noise Vibration: Roles of Hysteresis”, SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CONTACT ANGLE, WETTABILITY AND ADHESION; June 23-25, 2010, Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

1.      P. S. Goohpattader, Srinivas Mettu, M. K. Chaudhury, “Drift and Diffusion of Small Objects on a Surface Subjected to a Bias and an External White Noise”, Gordon Research Conference on Science of Adhesion, July 2009.

 

Research work carried out:

      ·        M. Tech Thesis : “ CFD study of Momentum and Heat Transfer from an asymmetrically confined circular cylinder

           in a plane channel”, under the guidance of Dr. Nishith Verma and Prof. R. P. Chhabra.

 

Details of Research work carried out during M. Tech: 

     ·        CFD study of the transition of flow past a circular cylinder from steady to unsteady  in unbounded domain using 2-D

     ·        Study of the transition of flow past a circular cylinder from 2-D unsteady regime to 3-D unsteady regime using 3-D

           unsteady numerical simulations.

    ·        Study of the transition of flow past an asymmetrically confined circular cylinder in a plane channel from 2-D unsteady

           to 2-D unsteady flow.

   ·        Study of the effect of asymmetry and the blockage on Drag coefficient, Heat transfer coefficient and the frequency  

          of vortex shedding from the cylinder in a plane channel.

 

B. Tech Project:

·        “ Production of Bisphenol-A from Benzene and Acetone in fixed bed reactor using ion-exchange resin”  under the

            guidance of Prof. N. C. L. N Charyulu.

 

Academic achievements:

·        Secured 97.97% percentile in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) with an All India Rank of 128 in ChE.

 

Software Skills:

·        Programming Languages: C, FORTRAN and PASCAL.

·        Packages:  MATLAB, Mathematica, COMSOL, ASPENPLUS (Process Modelling Software), FLUENT (Flow Modelling Software), GAMBIT.

 

References:

 

·        Prof. Nishith Verma

                Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208 016, India.

                Phone: 91-512-2597704, Fax: 91-0512-2590104.

                Email: nishith@iitk.ac.in.

      

·        Prof. R. P Chhabra

                Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,

                Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur-208 016, India.

                Phone: 91-512-2597393, 2597607, Fax: 91-0512-2590104.

                Email: chhabra@iitk.ac.in.

 

·        Prof. N. C. L. N Charyulu

Head, Department of Chemical Engineering,

Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, Hyderabad-500075, India,

To contact me, send electronic mail to srm206@lehigh.edu.

URL: http://www.lehigh.edu/~srm206/srm206.html

Last Modified: Mon Oct 16 11:59:14 EDT 2006.