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20152026
most citedUniform electric field induced lateral migration of a sedimenting drop

77 citations · 356 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Rheotaxis of microswimmers in colloid-laden channel flow

Margam Ramprasad, Shubhadeep Mandal, Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Microswimmers are often found in heterogeneous and crowded environments within narrow conduits under external flow conditions, enabling them to perform interesting translational an…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Vortex Dynamics During Pinch-off of Micro-Droplets

Siddhant Jain, Saini Jatin Rao, Shubhadeep Mandal +2

Micro-droplets are extensively used in chemical, biological, and medical research, primarily for conducting various tests on samples, including living organisms, using a microfluid…

cond-mat.soft2024

Flow fields around active droplets squeezing through tight confinements

Subhasish Guchhait, Smita Sontakke, Shubhadeep Mandal +1

Biological microswimmers, like euglena, deform their body shape to swim through tight confinements having length scales comparable to the microswimmer length scale. Recently, it wa…

cond-mat.soft2019★ 33 cited

Multiparticle Collision Dynamics for Tensorial Nematodynamics

Shubhadeep Mandal, Marco G. Mazza

Liquid crystals establish a nearly unique combination of thermodynamic, hydrodynamic, and topological behavior. This poses a challenge to their theoretical understanding and modeli…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 15 cited

Electrorheology of a dilute emulsion of surfactant-covered drops

Antarip Poddar, Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay +1

The effects of surfactant coating on a deformable viscous drop under the combined action of a shear flow and a uniform electric field, are investigated by solving the coupled equat…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 27 cited

Electrohydrodynamic settling of drop in uniform electric field at low and moderate Reynolds numbers

Nalinikanta Behera, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

Dynamics of a liquid drop falling through a quiescent medium of another liquid is investigated in external uniform electric field. The electrohydrodynamics of a drop is governed by…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 24 cited

Electrohydrodynamic migration of a surfactant-coated deformable drop in Poiseuielle flow

Antarip Poddar, Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay +1

In this study we attempt to explore the consequences of surfactant coating on the electrohydrodynamic manipulation of a drop motion in a plane Poiseuielle flow. In addition we cons…

physics.flu-dyn2018

Electric field-induced droplet deflection in microconfined flow

Somnath Santra, Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay +1

The deflection of liquid droplet driven through a liquid medium under the combined action of transverse electric field and pressure driven flow has been studied in the present anal…

physics.flu-dyn2018

Effect of uniform electric field on the deformation of a 2D liquid droplet in confined simple shear flow

Somnath Santra, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

In the present study, we have studied the electro-hydrodynamic of a physical system where a Newtonian dielectric liquid column or droplet suspended in another Newtonian dielectric…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 32 cited

Sedimentation of a surfactant-laden drop under the influence of an electric field

Antarip Poddar, Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay +1

The sedimentation of a surfactant-laden deformable viscous drop acted upon by an electric field is considered theoretically. The convection of surfactants in conjunction with the t…

physics.flu-dyn2017

Complex Fluid-Fluid Interface may Non Trivially Dictate Droplet Deformation in an Incipient Flow

Sayan Das, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

The present study theoretically predicts the effect of interfacial viscosity on the deformation of a compound drop as well as on the bulk rheology. The system at hand comprises of…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 23 cited

Effect of Marangoni stress on the bulk rheology of a dilute emulsion of surfactant-laden deformable droplets in linear flows

Shubhadeep Mandal, Sayan Das, Suman Chakraborty

In the present study we analytically investigate the deformation and bulk rheology of a dilute emulsion of surfactant-laden droplets suspended in a linear flow. We use an asymptoti…

physics.flu-dyn2017

Cross-stream migration characteristics of a deformable droplet in a non-isothermal Poiseuille Flow through Microfluidic Channel

Sayan Das, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

The migration characteristics of a suspended deformable droplet in a parallel plate microchannel is studied, both analytically and numerically, under the combined influence of a co…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 27 cited

Cross-stream migration of a surfactant-laden deformable droplet in a Poiseuille flow

Sayan Das, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

The motion of a viscous deformable droplet suspended in an unbounded Poiseuille flow in the presence of bulk-insoluble surfactants is studied analytically. Assuming the convective…

physics.flu-dyn2017

Transient Electroosmosis of a Maxwell fluid in a Rotating Microchannel

P Kaushik, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

The transient electroosmotic flow of Maxwell fluid in a rotating microchannel is investigated both analytically and numerically. We bring out the complex dynamics of the flow durin…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 34 cited

Thermocapillary effect on the cross-stream migration of a surfactant-laden droplet in Poiseuille flow

Sayan Das, Shubhadeep Mandal, S. K. Som +1

The motion of a viscous droplet in unbounded Poiseuille flow under the combined influence of bulk-insoluble surfactant and linearly varying temperature field aligned in the directi…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 42 cited

Migration of a surfactant-laden droplet in non-isothermal Poiseuille flow

Sayan Das, Shubhadeep Mandal, S K Som +1

The motion of a surfactant-laden viscous droplet in the presence of background non-isothermal Poiseuille flow is studied analytically and numerically. Specifically, the effect of i…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 22 cited

Droplet migration characteristics in confined oscillatory microflows

Kaustav Chaudhury, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

We analyze the migration characteristics of a droplet in an oscillatory flow field in a parallel plate micro-confinement. Using phase filed formalism, we capture the dynamical evol…

physics.flu-dyn2015

Electrohydrodynamic migration of a spherical drop in a general quadratic flow

Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay, Suman Chakraborty

We investigate the motion of a spherical drop in a general quadratic flow acted upon by an arbitrarily oriented externally applied uniform electric field. The drop and media are co…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 77 cited

Uniform electric field induced lateral migration of a sedimenting drop

Aditya Bandopadhyay, Shubhadeep Mandal, Suman Chakraborty

We investigate the motion of a sedimenting spherical drop in the presence of an applied uniform electric field in an otherwise arbitrary direction in the limit of low surface charg…

physics.flu-dyn2015

The effect of interfacial slip on the motion and deformation of a droplet in an unbounded arbitrary Stokes flow

Shubhadeep Mandal, Aditya Bandopadhyay, Suman Chakraborty

The motion and deformation of a droplet suspended in an unbounded fluid with an arbitrary, but Stokesian, imposed flow is investigated when there is a slip at the interface between…