Mechanical Engineering

Name : Dr. Pandaba Patro
Designation : Reader/Assistant Professor
Phone No. : 9776152525
Email Id : ppatro_me@vssut.ac.in
Date of Birth : 15-04-1977
Date of Joining : 04-02-2016
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PhD from IIT Kharagpur (2010-2013)

Thermal and Fluid Science

Teaching Experience: Around 12 years (Worked in KIIT University, Bhubaneswar; NIST, Berhampur; DIT, Dehradun) Industry Experience: 06 Months (Worked in Schlumberger, Pune and Texas, USA)

Graduate Level : Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid dynamics and hydraulic machines, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer
Post Graduate Level : Conduction and radiation heat transfer, Convective heat and mass transfer

Conjugate heat transfer, Compact heat exchangers, Multi-phase flows, Jet Impingement cooling, Nanofluid flow

Ph. D. Candidates : 01 (Completed from IIT Dhanbad), 04 (Continuing at VSSUT Burla)
M. Tech. Candidates : 16 (Completed), 01 (Continuing)
  1. N K Iyengar Memorial Award by The Institution of Engineers (India) for the year 2019.
  2. National Rural Talent Scholarship (1992-94)
  3. National Scholarship (1995-96)
  4. Qualified GATE – 2006 with All India rank 554.
  5. MHRD Scholarship during MTech programme at IIT Guwahati (2006-08).
  6. MHRD Scholarship during PhD programme at IIT Khargpur (2010-13).
  7. MTech (Thermal and Fluid science) Topper in IIT Guwahati, 2006-2008 batch.
  8. Got selected in Schlumberger in campus placement (First day First Company) with highest package among all MTech students in IIT Guwahati (December 2007)
  9. IIT Bombay-Monash University Australia Research Fellowship in 2009.
Life Member of Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer (Membership No. 1421)
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International Publications

  1. Barik, S. Rout and P. Patro, Evolution of designs for constructal cooling of a square plate using water, ionic liquid (ILs) and nano-enhanced ionic liquids (NEILs), ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 12, 021020 1-10 (2020). (Q1 Journal)
  2. P. Patro, A. K. Barik, and B. Patro, Computational study of a turbulent gas-solid confined jet flow, Powder Technology, 297 (2016), 229-238. (Q1 Journal)
  3. P. Patro, Computation of wall to suspension heat transfer in vertical pipes, Drying Technology, 34 (6) (2016), 703-712. (Q1 Journal)
  4. A. K. Barik, A. Mukherjee and P. Patro, Heat transfer enhancement from a mini rectangular channel with different surface protrusions by a turbulent cross flow jet, International Journal of Thermal Science, 98 (2015), 32-41. (Q1 Journal)
  5. A. K. Barik, S. Dash, P. Patro and S. Mohapatra, Experimental and numerical investigation of air entrainment into a louvered funnel, Applied Ocean Research, 48 (2014), 176-185. (Q1 Journal)
  6. P. Patro, B. Patro and S. Murugan, Prediction of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Dilute Gas-Solid Flows: A Numerical Investigation, Drying Technology, 32 (10) (2014), 1167-1178. (Q1 Journal)
  7. P. Patro and S. Dash, Two-fluid modeling of particulate two-phase flows in vertical pipes, Powder Technology, 264 (2014), 320–331. (Q1 Journal)
  8. P. Patro and S. Dash, Prediction of acceleration length in turbulent gas-solid flows, Advanced Powder Technology, 25 (2014), 1643-1652. (Q1 Journal)
  9. P. Patro and S. Dash, Computations of particle-laden turbulent jet flows based on Eulerian model, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 136 (2014), 011301 1-16. (Q1 Journal)
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  1. P. Patro, CFD Modeling of a Compact Pin Fin Heat Exchanger: Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2013), (ISBN: 978-3-659-32814-5)
  2. P. Patro, S. Dash, Computation of dilute phase Pneumatic conveying in pipes and jets, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany (2017) (ISBN: 978-620-2-05672-4)
  3. Book Chapters: Dewan, L. dayanand, P Patro, Mathematical modeling and computation of three dimensional, turbulent, convective heat transfer in a heat exchanger with circular pin fins, Applied mathematical modeling. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., USA (2008), 273-296. (ISBN: 978-1-60021-975-7).
  4. P. Patro and D. Mishra, Pressure Drop in Vertical Pneumatic Conveying: Comparison between Numerical Predictions with Existing Correlations Advances in Applied Mechanical Engineering: Select Proceedings of ICAMER 2019 (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering), Springer; 1st ed. (2020). (ISBN-10: 9811512000, ISBN-13: 978-9811512001).
Organized a one week AICTE QIP sponsored short term course on Numerical modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow using OpenFOAM, 26th -31st March 2018 at VSSUT, Burla
PIC (Horticulture) DAC member, Department of ME Warden, Marichi Hall of Residence Advisor to Mechanical Engineering Society Co-ordinator (MTech in Heat Power Engineering Specialization) PIC (Heat Transfer Lab) SMCC Coordinator (Mechanical Engineering)

My motto of life “Live happily and let others live happily”. I do not have an iota of respect for corrupts and frauds because they are anti-nationals. 

Present Address : 
Department of Mechanical Engineering, VSSUT Burla, Odisha-768018
  Permanent Address : 
Village: Chadhiapalli, Po: Mangalpur, Dist: Ganjam, Odisha-761115