Abhinav Rajan

Employment

• University of Pretoria Postdoctoral Fellow
  2025 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Patna Research Associate
  2024 - 2025
• Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Patna Assistant Professor
  2015 - 2018

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras Ph.D.
  2019 - 2024
• Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Master's Degree
  2013 - 2015
• Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Bachelor's Degree
  2009 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Comparative thermal assessment of Al2O3/EG and ZnO/EG as heat transfer fluids in solar parabolic dish receiver
  Kolli Harish Kumar, Abhinav Rajan, Malay Kumar Karmakar

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  • Bittagopal Mondal
  • Phani Kumar Mallisetty
  • K.S. Reddy
  Renewable Energy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2025.123216
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• Integrated optical-thermal model to predict the performance of a solar parabolic dish collector for process heating applications
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Energy 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.135176
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• An experimental approach to heat transfer enhancement in heat exchanger tubes using hyperbolic-cut twisted tape inserts: IoT and biomedical insights
  Abhijit Rajan, B.N. Prasad, Ravi Ranjan Kumar

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  • Gaurav Kumar Dhuria
  • Awinash Kumar
  • Abhinav Rajan
  Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design 2025 DOI: 10.1007/S41939-025-00951-8
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• Integrated optical-thermal model and deep learning technique to estimate the performance of a conical cavity receiver coupled solar parabolic dish collector
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Energy Conversion and Management 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2023.118052
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• Optical and thermal investigation of hyperbolic cavity receiver with secondary reflector for solar parabolic dish collector
  Pradipta Mandal, Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Thermal Science and Engineering Progress 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.tsep.2023.102350
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• Performance assessment of phase change material-based thermal energy storage
  Abhinav Rajan, Yixiang Gan, K.S. Reddy
  Journal of Energy Storage 2024 DOI: 10.1016/J.EST.2024.111424
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• Thermo-Optical modeling of hyperbolic cavity receiver of 40 m2 parabolic dish collector
  Pradipta Mandal, Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Proceedings Ises Solar World Congress 2023 Swc 2023 2024 DOI: 10.18086/swc.2023.03.07
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• Convective heat loss prediction from conical cavity receiver of solar parabolic dish collector using numerical method and artificial neural network
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2022.2102338
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• Integrated optical and thermal model to investigate the performance of a solar parabolic dish collector coupled with a cavity receiver
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Renewable Energy 2023 DOI: 10.1016/J.RENENE.2023.119376
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• Optical modeling of corrugation cavity receiver for large-aperture solar parabolic dish collector
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects 2022 DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2022.2063458
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• Estimation of convective heat losses from conical cavity receiver of solar parabolic dish collector under wind conditions and receiver orientations
  Abhinav Rajan, K.S. Reddy
  E3S Web of Conferences 2021 DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202131311001
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