Research

Refer to MultiPhase Flows Laborotary Website here.

Bio-inspiration and Biomimicry, Experimental thermal-fluid sciences and Multiphase flows applications: Cost-effective strategies for Water-lifting in India; Small scale hydropower: Silt and Cavitation erosion in hydroturbines; Hydrokinetic turbines, Gas-liquid mass transfer for environmental applications such as wastewater treatment, aeration and water desalination; Flow Measurement and Visualization; Drop Impacts; Innovative Pedagogy in Engineering Education, Active Learning in Engineering (Refer to www.drkarnteaching.com); Early Science, Technology, Engineering, Education & Mathematics of India.

Prior Research Areas

Doctoral research, Masters research and Undergraduate research.

External Research Funding:

IKS Wiki Articles in Mathematics, Astronomy and Physical Sciences. Research Internship Grant, 2024. (As Project Investigator). IKS Division, Ministry of Education, Government of India (2023)
Creation of IKS-based Hands-On Activities/Indian Toys for High School Science Education (grades 9, 10, 11 and 12) and NCERT-based Translated Materials in Odia for High School Phase II (grades 11 and 12) Science Education (Physics, Chemistry and Biology), co-PI ,(PI: Dr. Nachieketa Sharma, SoA university, Bhubaneshwar).IKS Division, Ministry of Education, Government of India (2022)
PI of a research proposal funded by AICTE under IKS division to carry out research into mathematics, astronomy, sustainable agriculture and food preservation systems of India.Science and Engineering Research Board, DST India (2018)
Early Career Research Award, 2018 for the project titled "Ventilation Augmented Supercavitating Turbines (VAST) Technology for Next Generation Hydropower", Funding Amount: Rs. 44.58 Lakhs.National Innovation Foundation, DST India (2020)
COVID Innovation Challenge, 2020. Design, Fabrication and Pilot Study of a COmfortably Vented Indigenously Designed (COVID) Fabric Helmet to Curb Infection Spread in Community Settings such as Education and Healthcare.

Internal Research Funding:

Aluminum Air Battery for Commercial Electric Vehicles with refrigerated logistics transportation, UPES SEED Grant, 2022 (with Dr. Roushan Kumar as co-PI).
Experimental Investigation of ventilated supercavitation at high cavitator temperature, UPES SEED Grant, 2021 (with Mr. Kumar Gaurav as PI)
Novel technology of water lifting technique and efficiency enhancement of hydro turbines in remote hilly areas, UPES SEED Grant, 2021 (with Dr. Ramesh Donga as PI)
Novel strategies to induce bubble coalescence for industrial and naval applications, UPES SEED Grant, 2018 (With Dr. Abhay Kumar as Co-PI)
In-situ monitoring of industrial bubbly flows and Bubble size control by continuous feedback system, UPES SEED Grant, 2018
Conversion of waste sewage sludge to wealth via hydrolysis/methanogenesis and pyrolysis, UPES SEED Grant, 2018 (Co-PI with Dr. V Chintala)
Development of a test facility for the efficiency measurement of novel hydrokinetic turbine designs: Experiments on a model 1kW cross-flow turbine for battery charging. (SODH Scheme)
Performance Enhancement of Savonius Hydrokinetic turbines employing momentum redirection. (SODH Scheme)