D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Assistant Professor
  2022 - Present
• University of Gothenburg Postdoctoral fellow
  2021 - 2022
• Indian Institute of Science Postdoc
  2018 - 2021

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur PhD
  2014 - 2018
• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra Master of Engineering
  2012 - 2014
• Institute of Aeronautical Engineering Bachelor of Technology
  2008 - 2012

Projects & Funding

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Publications (20)

• Predicting and controlling laser-induced breakup and multidirectional propulsion of liquid droplets
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2526933123
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• Atomization of evaporating stable microemulsion droplets
  Physical Review Fluids 2026 DOI: 10.1103/prbb-cbyr
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• Controlling the atomization of burning emulsion droplets
  International Journal of Multiphase Flow 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2025.105418
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• Evaporation of stable microemulsion droplets
  Physics of Fluids 2024 DOI: 10.1063/5.0235032
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• Bubble dynamics and atomization in evaporating polymeric droplets
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.894
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• Controlling bubble generation by femtosecond laser-induced filamentation
  Scientific Reports 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20066-1
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• Modes of atomization in biofuel droplets induced by a focused laser pulse
  Fuel 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.123190
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• Laser-induced deformation and fragmentation of droplets in an array
  International Journal of Multiphase Flow 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2021.103925
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• Dissolution dynamics of a vertically confined sessile droplet
  Physical Review E 2021 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.013101
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• Phenomenology of disruptive breakup mechanism of a levitated evaporating emulsion droplet
  Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2020.110086
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