Somasekhara Goud Sontti

About

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dh). My research interest includes the broad area of Fluid mechanics, Multiphase flows, Microfluidics, Complex Fluids, Fluidization/Gasification, Transport in porous media, Pyrometallurgy Process, and PEM fuel cells using advanced computational techniques.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad Assistant Professor
  2023 - Present
• University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellow
  2021 - 2023
• Polytechnique Montréal Postdoctoral Fellow
  2019 - 2020
• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Research Associate
  2019 - 2019

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur PhD
  2014 - 2019
• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati M.Tech
  2011 - 2013
• Acharya Nagarjuna University B.Tech
  2007 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (54)

• Numerical investigation on water flushing pipeline for oil sand slurry hydrotransport
  Chemical Engineering Science 2027 DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2026.124588
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• Water flushing in the oil sand slurry hydrotransport pipeline: parametric insights from integrated in-situ measurement and CFD modelling
  Chemical Engineering Science 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2025.123285
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• Impacts of flow velocity and microbubbles on water flushing in a horizontal pipeline
  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2025.127748
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• Regulation of droplet size and flow regime by geometrical confinement in a microfluidic flow-focusing device
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.06893
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• Understanding the influence of rheological properties of shear-thinning liquids on segmented flow in microchannel using CLSVOF based CFD model
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.08651
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• Numerical investigation on solids settling in a non-newtonian slurry inside a horizontal flume
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.11657
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• Numerical insights on controlled droplet formation in a microfluidic flow-focusing device
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.21868
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• Numerical analysis of controlled droplet formation surrounded by shear-thinning fluid in a co-flow microfluidic device
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.11917
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• Impacts of flow velocity and microbubbles on water flushing in a horizontal pipeline
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.11444
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• High-throughput controlled droplets generation through a flow-focusing microchannel in shear-thinning fluids
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.12048
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