- Position / title
- Assistant Professor
- Contact (office, phone)
- Chemical Engineering Department, Block-II 376, , +91-11-26591038
- vvikrant@chemical.iitd.ac.in
- Research areas
- Fluidization, Fluid-Particle Mechanics, Multiscale Modelling of Multiphase Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Discrete Element Model (DEM), Gasification and Combustion, Carbon Capture using Solid Sorbent.
- Personal web page
- vvikrant.wordpress.com
Education
• Ph.D., Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2014)
• Dual degree (B. Tech. + M.Tech.), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2010)
Experience
• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (July 2022 – present)
• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (July 2020 – Aug 2022)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Associate, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2017 - 2020)
• Postdoctoral and Research Scientist, National Energy Technology Laboratory, NETL, U.S.A (2014 - 2016)
Research Interests
• Fluidization and Fluidized beds, gas-solids flows
• Multiscale modelling of multiphase flows
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Discrete Element Model (DEM), CFD-DEM, TFM, Coarse-graining DEM
• Carbon Capture using solid sorbent
• Particulate flows, Rheology of fluid-granular flows
• Bulk solid flow handling, mixing, segregation
Selected Recent Publications
• Vikrant Verma, Johan T. Padding (2020). A Novel Approach to MP-PIC: Continuum Particle Model for Gas-Particle Flows in Fluidized beds. Chemical Eng. Sci. X 6 100053.
• Vikrant Verma, Anis Topalovic, Guido Monechni, Ali Alsudani, Krishna, D. P. Nigam, Johan, T. Padding (2020). Mixing of a viscoelastic fluid flow in a coiled flow inverter.Ind.Eng. Chem. Res. 59, 9, 3854-3864.
• Barry Fitzgerald, Ahad Zarghami, Ivan Mema, Vinay Mahajan, Sathish Sanjeevi, Vikrant Verma, Yoused Hasadi, Johan Padding (2019). Multiscale Simulations of Elongated Particles in Fluidised Beds Reactors. Chemical Eng. Sci. X 2 100019.
• Vikrant Verma, Tingwen Li, Juray De Wilde (2017). Coarse-grained discrete particle simulations of particle segregation in rotating fluidized beds in vortex chambers. Powder Tech., 318, 282-292.
• Vikrant Verma, Tingwen Li, Jean-François Dietiker, William A. Rogers (2017). Sub-grid drag model for immersed vertical cylinders in fluidized beds. Powder Tech., 316, 225-232.
• Tingwen Li, Swapna Rabha, Vikrant Verma, Jean-François Dietiker, Yupeng Xu, Liqiang Lu, William Rogers, Balaji Gopalan, Greggory Breault, Jonathan Tucker, Rupen Panday (2017). Experimental study and discrete element method simulation of Geldart Group A particles in a small-scale fluidized bed. Adv. Powder Tech. 28, 2961-2973.
• Vikrant Verma, Tingwen Li, Jean-François Dietiker, William A. Rogers (2016). Hydrodynamics of gas-solids flow in a bubbling fluidized bed with immersed vertical U-tube banks. Chemical Eng. J., 287, 727-743.
• Vikrant Verma, Johan T. Padding, Niels G. Deen, J.A.M. Kuipers (2015). Effect of bed size on hydrodynamics in 3-D gas-solid fluidized beds. AIChE J., 61:1492-1506.
• Vikrant Verma, Johan T. Padding, Niels G. Deen, J.A.M. Kuipers, Martina Bieberle, Frank Barthel, Michael Wagner, Uwe Hampel (2014). Bubble dynamics in a 3-D gas-solid fluidized bed using ultrafast electron beam X-ray tomography and two-fluid model. AIChE J., 60: 1632–1644.