Dr. Atul Kumar Ray
@mitsgwalior.in
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computing, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS) Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh -474005, India
Dr. Atul Kumar Ray is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Engineering Mathematics and Computing, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science (MITS) Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. Dr. Ray has more than 7 years of teaching experience in different institutes and universities (which includes MNNIT Allahabad , GCE Keonjhar Odisha (NPIU Govt. of India, TEQIP-III), ITER, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandha Deemed to be University Bhubaneswar.) He has numerous publications in SCI/SCIE, ESCI/Web of Science and Scopus indexed Journals of highly repute. He is reviewer of many articles in international Journals (like Case study in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier), Heat and Mass Transfer (Springer), World Journal of Engineering (Emeralds Insight), Waves in Random and Complex Media (Taylor & Francis) etc. He is Topic Editor and Editorial member of Journal "Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics" and "Applied and Computational Mathematics" respectively.
EDUCATION
Dr. Atul Kumar Ray has completed his Ph. D. from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India in the field of Fluid Dynamics with his PhD. Thesis Titled “Homotopy Simulation of Convective Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids”. Apart from qualifying national exams like NET-JRF (Mathematical Science) and GATE (Mathematics), he was university topper in his Master degree from Mathematics and Allied Science from Jiwaji University Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Applied Mathematics, Multidisciplinary, Modeling and Simulation
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Priyabrata Sethy, Amit Kumar, Atul Kumar Ray, Abha Kumari, and Lalrinpuia Tlau
Elsevier BV
Atul Kumar Ray, B. Vasu, Amit Kumar, Dig Vijay Tanwar, Divya Chaturvedi, and Minakshi Poonia
CRC Press
Amit Kumar, Abhipsa P. Dash, Atul Kumar Ray, Priyabrata Sethy, and Idamakanti Kasireddy
Emerald
Purpose This study aims to examine the flow of unsteady mixed convective hybrid nanofluid over a rotating sphere with heat generation/absorption. The hybrid nanofluid contains different shapes of nanoparticles (copper [Cu] and aluminium oxide [Al2O3]) in the base fluid (water [H2O]). The influence of different shapes (sphere, brick, cylinder, platelets and blades) of nanoparticle in water-based hybrid nanofluid is also investigated. Design/methodology/approach To analyse the nanomaterial, the flow model is established, and in doing so, the Prandtl’s boundary layer theory is incorporated into the present model. The bvp4c approach, i.e. finite difference method, is used to find the numerical solution of differential equations that is controlling the fluid flow. The effect of relevant flow parameters on nanofluid temperature and velocity profile is demonstrated in detailed explanations using graphs and bar charts, whereas numerical results for Nusselt number and the skin’s coefficient for various form parameters are presented in tabular form. Findings The rate of heat transfer is least for spherical-shaped nanoparticle because of its smoothness, symmetricity and isotropic behaviour. The rate of heat transfer is highest for blade-shaped nanoparticles as compared to other shapes (brick, cylindrical and platelet) of nanoparticles because the blade-shaped nanoparticles causes comparatively more turbulence flow in the nanofluid than other shapes of nanoparticle. Heat generation affects the temperature distribution and, hence, the particle deposition rate. The absorption of heat extracts heat and reduce the temperature across the rotating sphere. The heat generation/absorption parameter plays an important role in establishing and maintaining the temperature around the rotating sphere. Research limitations/implications The numerical study is valid with the exception of the fluctuation in density that results in the buoyancy force and the functional axisymmetric nanofluid transport has constant thermophysical characteristics. In addition, this investigation is also constrained by the assumptions that there is no viscosity dissipation, no surface slippage and no chemically activated species. The hybrid nanofluid Al2O3–Cu/H2O is an incompressible and diluted suspension. The single-phase hybrid nanofluid model is considered in which the relative velocity of water (H2O) and hybrid nanoparticles (Al2O3–Cu) is the same and they are in a state of thermal equilibrium. Practical implications Study on convective flow across a revolving sphere has its applications found in electrolysis management, polymer deposition, medication transfer, cooling of spinning machinery segments, spin-stabilized missiles and other industrial and technical applications. Originality/value The originality of the study is to investigate the effect of shape factor on the flow of electrically conducting hybrid nanofluid past a rotating sphere with heat generation/absorption and magnetic field. The results are validated and provide extremely positive balance with the recognised articles. The results of the study provide many appealing applications that merit further study of the problem.
Amit Kumar, Atul K. Ray, Sandip Saha, Dig Vijay Tanwar, Bhubaneswar Kumar, and Mikhail A. Sheremet
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Amit Kumar, Priyabrata Sethy, Atul Kumar Ray, and Abha Kumari
Informa UK Limited
Atul Kumar Ray, B. Vasu, P. V. S. N. Murthy, O. Anwar Bég, R. S. R. Gorla, and B. Kumar
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Dig Vijay Tanwar, Atul Kumar Ray, and Anand Chauhan
Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems Springer Science and Business Media LLC
In this work, Lie symmetry method is employed to obtain invariant solutions of KP-BBM equation. It represents propagation of bidirectional small amplitude waves in nonlinear dispersive medium. The infinitesimal generators and their commutative relations are derived using invariance under one parameter transformation. These infinitesimal generators lead to reductions of KP-BBM equation into ODEs under two stages and thus exact solutions are constructed consisting several arbitrary constants. To analyze the physical phenomena, these solutions are expanded graphically with numerical simulation. Consequently, multisoliton, doubly soliton, compacton, soliton fusion, parabolic nature and annihilation profiles of solutions are demonstrated to validate these obtained results with physical phenomena and make the findings worthy.
B. Vasu and A. Ray
The study aims to investigate numerically a two dimensional, steady, heat transfer over a cylinder in porous medium with suspending nanoparticles. Buongiorno model is adopted for nanofluid transport on free convection flow taking the slip mechanism of Brownian motion and thermophoresis into account. Boussinesq approximation is considered to account for buoyancy. The boundary layer conservation equations are transformed into dimensionless, and then elucidated using robust Keller-box implicit code numerically. The numerical results are displayed graphically and deliberated quantitatively for various values of thermo-physical parameters. Our results shows that, increasing Forchheimer parameter, Λ, clearly swamps the nanofluid momentum development, decreasing the flow for some distance near the cylinder viscous region, later its reverse the trend and asymptotically reaches the far field flow velocity. Furthermore, as increases thermophoresis, heat transfer and nanoparticle volume concentration increased in the boundary layer. The present results are validated with the available results of similar study and is found to be in good coincident. The study finds applications in heat exchangers technology, materials processing and geothermal energy storage etc.
O. Anwar Bég, Atul Kumar Ray, Rama S.R. Gorla, Henry J. Leonard, Ali Kadir, T.A. Bég, and B. Vasu
Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers/HDKI
Non-Newtonian flow from a wedge constitutes a fundamental problem in chemical<br /> engineering systems and is relevant to processing of polymers, coating systems, etc. Motivated by such applications, the homotopy analysis method (HAM) was employed to<br /> obtain semi-analytical solutions for thermal convection boundary layer flow of incompressible micropolar fluid from a two-dimensional body (wedge). Viscous dissipation<br /> and heat sink effects were included. The non-dimensional boundary value problem<br /> emerges as a system of nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations, by virtue of<br /> suitable coordinate transformations. The so-called Falkner-Skan flow cases are elaborated. Validation of the HAM solutions was achieved with earlier simpler models, as well as with a Nakamura finite difference method for the general model. The micropolar model employed simulates certain polymeric solutions quite accurately, and features rotary motions of micro-elements. Primary and secondary shear stress, wall couple stress, Nusselt number, microrotation velocity, and temperature were computed for the effect of<br /> vortex viscosity parameter (micropolar rheological), Eckert number (viscous dissipation),<br /> Falkner-Skan (pressure gradient) parameter, micro-inertia density, and heat sink parameter. The special cases of Blasius and stagnation flow were also addressed. It was observed from the study that the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness are both suppressed with increasing wedge parameter and wall heat sink effect, which is beneficial to temperature regulation in polymer coating dynamics. Further, strong reverse spin was generated in the microrotation with increasing vortex viscosity, which resulted in<br /> increase in angular momentum boundary layer thickness. Also, both primary and secondary skin friction components were reduced with increasing wedge parameter. Nusselt number was also enhanced substantially with greater wedge parameter.
B Vasu, Atul Kumar Ray, and Rama SR Gorla
SAGE Publications
Free convection flow of Jeffrey nanofluid past a vertical plate with sinusoidal variations of surface temperature and species concentration is presented. The study of heat transfer and nanofluid transport has been done by employing Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model and Buongiorno model, respectively. Equations governing the flow are non-dimensionalized using appropriate transformations. Furthermore, the method of local similarity and local non-similarity is used to reduce the equations into non-linear coupled system of equations which are then solved by homotopy analysis method. The obtained results are validated by comparing with the existing results available in the literature. The numerical results are found to be in good agreement. The effects of varying the physical parameters such as Deborah Number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number, thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion parameter and buoyancy ratio parameter are obtained and presented graphically. The effect of sinusoidal variation of surface temperature and species concentration on the skin friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number is also shown. Velocity for Jeffrey nanofluid is more than the Newtonian nanofluid while temperature and nanoparticle concentration for Jeffrey nanofluid is less than the Newtonian nanofluid. Raising value of thermal relaxation times leads to an increase in the heat transfer coefficient. It is observed that temperature of Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model is less than that in classical Fourier’s model away from the vertical wall. These types of boundary layer flow problems are found in vertical film solar energy collector, grain storage, transportation and power generation, thermal insulation, gas production, petroleum resources, geothermal reservoirs.
Atul Kumar Ray, B. Vasu, P. V. S. N. Murthy, and Rama S. R. Gorla
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Atul Kumar Ray, Buddakkagari Vasu, O. Anwar Bég, Rama S.R. Gorla, and P.V.S.N. Murthy
MDPI AG
A semi-analytical solution for the convection of a power-law nanofluid external to three different geometries (i.e., cone, wedge and plate), subject to convective boundary condition is presented. A revised Buongiorno model is employed for the nanofluid transport over the various geometries with variable wall temperature and nanoparticle concentration conditions (non-isothermal and non-iso-solutal). Wall transpiration is included. The dimensional governing equations comprising the conservation of mass, momentum, energy and nanoparticle volume fraction are transformed to dimensionless form using appropriate transformations. The transformed equations are solved using a robust semi-analytical power series method known as the Homotopy analysis method (HAM). The convergence and validation of the series solutions is considered in detail. The variation of order of the approximation and computational time with respect to residual errors for temperature for the different geometries is also elaborated. The influence of thermophysical parameters such as wall temperature parameter, wall concentration parameter for nanofluid, Biot number, thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion parameter and suction/blowing parameter on the velocity, temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction is visualized graphically and tabulated. The impact of these parameters on the engineering design functions, e.g., coefficient of skin fraction factor, Nusselt number and Sherwood number is also shown in tabular form. The outcomes are compared with the existing results from the literature to validate the study. It is found that thermal and solute Grashof numbers both significantly enhance the flow velocity whereas they suppress the temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction for the three different configurations, i.e., cone, wedge and plate. Furthermore, the thermal and concentration boundary layers are more dramatically modified for the wedge case, as compared to the plate and cone. This study has substantial applications in polymer engineering coating processes, fiber technology and nanoscale materials processing systems.
Atul Kumar Ray and Vasu B.
Emerald
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence of radiative nanoparticles on incompressible electrically conducting upper convected Maxwell fluid (rate type fluid) flow over a convectively heated exponential stretching sheet with suction/injection in the presence of heat source taking chemical reaction into account. Also, a comparison of the flow behavior of Newtonian and Maxwell fluid containing nanoparticles under the effect of different thermophysical parameters is elaborated. Velocity, temperature and nanoparticle volume fractions are assumed to have exponential distribution at boundary. Buongiorno model is considered for nanofluid transport.Design/methodology/approachThe equations, which govern the flow, are reduced to ordinary differential equations using suitable transformation. The transformed equations are solved using a robust homotopy analysis method. The convergence of the homotopy series solution is explicitly discussed. The present results are compared with the results reported in the literature and are found to be in good agreement.FindingsIt is observed from the present study that larger relaxation time leads to slower recovery, which results in a decrease in velocity, whereas temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction is increased. Maxwell nanofluid has lower velocity with higher temperature and nanoparticle volume fraction when compared with Newtonian counterpart. Also, the presence of magnetic field leads to decrease the velocity of the nanofluid and enhances the skin coefficient friction. The existence of thermal radiation and heat source enhance the temperature. Further, the presence of chemical reaction leads to decrease in nanoparticle volume fraction. Higher value of Deborah number results in lower the rate of heat and mass transfer.Originality/valueThe novelty of present work lies in understanding the impact of fluid elasticity and radiative nanoparticles on the flow over convectively heated exponentially boundary surface in the presence of a magnetic field using homotopy analysis method. The current results may help in designing electronic and industrial applicants. The present outputs have not been considered elsewhere.
Atul Kumar Ray, Vasu B., O. Anwar Beg, R.S.R. Gorla, and P.V.S.N. Murthy
Emerald
PurposeThis paper aims to numerically investigate the two-dimensional unsteady laminar magnetohydrodynamic bioconvection flow and heat transfer of an electrically conducting non-Newtonian Casson thin film with uniform thickness over a horizontal elastic sheet emerging from a slit in the presence of viscous dissipation. The composite effects of variable heat, mass, nanoparticle volume fraction and gyrotactic micro-organism flux are considered as is hydrodynamic (wall) slip. The Buongiorno nanoscale model is deployed which features Brownian motion and thermophoresis effects. The model studies the manufacturing fluid dynamics of smart magnetic bio-nano-polymer coatings.Design/methodology/approachThe coupled non-linear partial differential boundary-layer equations governing the flow, heat and nano-particle and micro-organism mass transfer are reduced to a set of coupled non-dimensional equations using the appropriate transformations and then solved as an nonlinear boundary value problem with the semi-numerical Liao homotopy analysis method (HAM).Validation with a generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) numerical technique is included.FindingsAn increase in velocity slip results in a significant decrement in skin friction coefficient and Sherwood number, whereas it generates a substantial enhancement in Nusselt number and motile micro-organism number density. The computations reveal that the bioconvection Schmidt number decreases the micro-organism concentration and boundary-layer thickness which is attributable to a rise in viscous diffusion rate. Increasing bioconvection Péclet number substantially elevates the temperatures in the regime, thermal boundary layer thickness, nanoparticle concentration values and nano-particle species boundary layer thickness. The computations demonstrate the excellent versatility of HAM and GDQ in solving nonlinear multi-physical nano-bioconvection flows in thermal sciences and furthermore are relevant to application in the synthesis of smart biopolymers, microbial fuel cell coatings, etc.Research limitations/implicationsThe numerical study is valid for two-dimensional, unsteady, laminar Casson film flow with nanoparticles over an elastic sheet in presence of variable heat, mass and nanoparticle volume fraction flux. The film has uniform thickness and flow is transpiring from slit which is fixed at origin.Social implicationsThe study has significant applications in the manufacturing dynamics of nano-bio-polymers and the magnetic field control of materials processing systems. Furthermore, it is relevant to application in the synthesis of smart biopolymers, microbial fuel cell coatings, etc.Originality/valueThe originality of the study is to address the simultaneous effects of unsteady and variable surface fluxes on Casson nanofluid transport of gyrotactic bio-convection thin film over a stretching sheet in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Validation of HAM with a GDQ numerical technique is included. The present numerical approaches (HAM and GDQ) offer excellent promise in simulating such multi-physical problems of interest in thermal thin film rheological fluid dynamics.
A.K. Ray, B. Vasu, and R.S.R. Gorla
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Abstract An incompressible flow of a non-Newtonian Spriggs fluid over an unsteady oscillating plate is investigated using the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM). An analytic solution of sine and cosine oscillations of the plate has been obtained. The similarity transformation is introduced to reduce the governing partial differential equations into a single non-linear dimensionless partial differential equation. The effects of the power index of Spriggs fluid and convergence control parameter of HAM for the flow are studied extensively. The range of the convergence control parameter for convergence of series solution for different values of the power index of Spriggs fluid is obtained. The solution for a Spriggs fluid is noticeably different from the solution obtained for a Newtonian fluid. The influences of the shear thinning and shear thickening fluid on the velocity profile are shown graphically. The transient flow effect is higher for non-Newtonian Spriggs fluid than that of a Newtonian fluid. It is also observed that the interval to reach the steady state for the cosine case is less than the sine case. The applications of Stokes’ second problem have been widely found in the variety of fields of biomedical, medical, chemical, micro and nanotechnology.
Vasu B. and Atul Kumar Ray
Emerald
PurposeTo achieve material-invariant formulation for heat transfer of Carreau nanofluid, the effect of Cattaneo–Christov heat flux is studied on a natural convective flow of Carreau nanofluid past a vertical plate with the periodic variations of surface temperature and the concentration of species. Buongiorno model is considered for nanofluid transport, which includes the relative slip mechanisms, Brownian motion and thermophoresis.Design/methodology/approachThe governing equations are non-dimensionalized using suitable transformations, further reduced to non-similar form using stream function formulation and solved by local non-similarity method with homotopy analysis method. The numerical computations are validated and verified by comparing with earlier published results and are found to be in good agreement.FindingsThe effects of varying the physical parameters such as Prandtl number, Schmidt number, Weissenberg number, thermophoresis parameter, Brownian motion parameter and buoyancy ratio parameter on velocity, temperature and species concentration are discussed and presented through graphs. The results explored that the velocity of shear thinning fluid is raised by increasing the Weissenberg number, while contrary response is seen for the shear thickening fluid. It is also found that heat transfer in Cattaneo–Christov heat conduction model is less than that in Fourier’s heat conduction model. Furthermore, the temperature and thermal boundary layer thickness expand with the increase in thermophoresis and Brownian motion parameter, whereas nanoparticle volume fraction increases with increase in thermophoresis parameter, but reverse trend is observed with increase in Brownian motion parameter.Originality/valueThe present investigation is relatively original as very little research has been reported on Carreau nanofluids under the effect of Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model.
Atul Kumar Ray and B. Vasu
Springer Singapore