Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering, December 2000
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, May 1997

○ Design and construction of a 10 m long, vertical, square, high performance (20 MPa) shock tube.
○ Design of a new experimental methodology to study (I) the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, and (ii) the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
○ Design of optical diagnostic techniques such as shadowgraphy, schlieren and Mie scattering.
○ Awarded first place, Graduate Students Exhibit, Engineering Expo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.

College of Engineering, University of Pune, India
B. E., Mechanical Engineering, July 1994

Experience

EMPLOYMENT

COEP Technological University, Pune
○ Professor of Practice: 1 July 2026 to Present

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
○ Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, August 2017-July 2020
○ Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, December 2016-January 2026
○ Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, June 2012-December 2016
○ Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, April 2004-June 2012

Professional Service

○ Reviewer for journals such as Physics of Fluids; Shock Waves; International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids; Computers and Fluids; Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Components,
Packaging and Manufacturing Technology.

○ Organizing Chairperson, 3rd National Symposium on Shock Waves, IIT Bombay,2014.
○ Advisory Committee Member, National Symposium on Shock Waves, conducted bi-annually under the umbrella of the Society for Shock Wave Research, India.
○ Member of Board of Studies/Academic Councils (for curriculum development) for several independent engineering institutions in the state of Maharashtra.
○ Educational outreach through conducting massively online courses for instructors of engineering institutions in India.

Awards

○ Professor S. P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2019.
○ Excellence in Teaching, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2016.
○ Professor A. Jaganmohan Award for Professional Development, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2009 and 2017.
○ Best Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2005

International Journals

International Journals

1. Gagan Garg, U. V. Bhandarkar, and B. P. Puranik, “A numerical assessment of the Berman-Olander long-bowl analytical solutions using direct simulation Monte
Carlo and compressible finite-volume solver”, Accepted for publication, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2026.
2. Potluri V. D., Puranik, B. P., and Bodi, K. V., “The effect of basis polynomial degree on the performance of compressible flow simulations employing a split
form DG method”, Computers and Fluids, 272, 106183, 2024.
3. Vachan D. Potluri, Bhalchandra P. Puranik, and Kowsik V. R. Bodi, “High order discontinuous Galerkin simulation of hypersonic shock-boundary layer interaction using subcell limiting approach”, Journal of Computational Physics, 485,
112117, 2023.
4. Ankit R. Singh, Bhalchandra Puranik, Onkar Gokhale, and Deb Mukhopadhyay, “Effects of elevated temperature steam oxidation and subsequent quenching on light water reactor clad,” Progress in Nuclear Energy, 155, 104510, 2023.
5. Ankit R. Singh, Bhalchandra Puranik, Onkar Gokhale, and Deb Mukhopadhyay, “Study on the integrity of prolonged steam oxidized clad column quenched at various reflood rates,” Nuclear Engineering and Design, 402, 112109, 2023.
6. S. A. Waghmare and B. P. Puranik, “Graphical Ray Tracing Formulation of New Center Oriented Spinning Elevation Tracking Technique for Heliostat”, Applied
Solar Energy, 58(2), pp. 279-290, 2022.
7. S. A. Waghmare and B. P. Puranik, “Center-oriented aiming strategy for heliostat with spinning-elevation tracking method”, ASME Journal of Solar Engineering,
144(2), pp. 0245503, 2022.
8. O. S. Gokhale, D. Mittal, B. P. Puranik, and D. Mukhopadhyay, “Experimental investigation on effect of flow blockages on quenching behaviour under low injection flow rates”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 379, 111190, 2021.
9. O. S. Gokhale and B. P. Puranik, “Development and Validation of a Numeric Tool for Partially Degraded Core Quenching under Low Injection Rates”, Nuclear
Engineering and Design, 361, 110574, 2020.
10. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Hypersonic flow over Stardust re-entry capsule using ab-initio based chemical reaction model”, Acta Astronautica 162, 243-255, 2019.
11. Pankaj Jagad, Bhalchandra Puranik and Anil Date, “A finite volume procedure for fluid flow, heat transfer and solid-body stress analysis”, International Journal for
Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics 19(3), 171-184,2018.
12. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Collision induced dissociation cross-section for high energy N2-O2 collisions”, Chemical Physics Letters 706, 1
6, 2018.
13. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Cross-sections for O2+N system using the QCT method”, Chemical Physics Letters 704, 21-26, 2018.
14. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Dissociation cross-section for high energy O2-O2 collisions”, Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 144305, 2018.
15. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Global Potential Energy Surface of Ground State Singlet Spin O4”, Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 074305, 2018.
16. O. S. Gokhale and B. P. Puranik, “Experimental investigation of partially ballooned fuel bundle under low injection flow rates”, Nuclear Engineering and
Design 332, 279-288, 2018.
17. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “An ab-initio chemical reaction model for the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo study of non-equilibrium Nitrogen
flows”, Journal of Chemical Physics 147, 084305, 2017.
18. P. I. Jagad, B. P. Puranik and A. W. Date, “A numerical analysis of a fluid structure interaction problem with a flow channel embedded in a structural material”, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 83(3), 655-667,
2017.
19. T. Mankodi, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Dissociation cross-section for N2 + N → 3N and O2 + O → 3O using the QCT method”, Journal of Chemical Physics 146, 204307, 2017.
20. D.K. Tripathi, G. Garg, U. Agrawal, V. Menezes, U.V. Bhandarkar, and B.P.Puranik, “Ignition delay study of aluminum oxide liquid nano-fuel in shock tube,
Current Science 112(7), 1561-64, 2017.
21. Nishant Kumar and B. P. Puranik, “Numerical study of convective heat transfer with nanofluids in turbulent flow using a Lagrangian-Eulerian approach”, Applied Thermal
Engineering 111, 1674-1681, 2017.
22. Arvind Deshpande and Bhalchandra Puranik, “A Numerical investigation of shock propagation in three-dimensional microducts”, Shock Waves 27(4), 565
582, 2017.
23. N. G. Kulkarni, U. V. Bhandarkar, B. P. Puranik and A. B. Rao, “Experimental determination of thermal properties of alluvial soil”, Heat and Mass Transfer
52(12), 2661-2669, 2016.
24. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Upendra Bhandarkar, Bhalchandra Puranik, “Modelling forced convection nanofluid heat transfer using an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach”, Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications 8(3),
031001, 2016.
25. Nishant Kumar and B. P. Puranik, “Assessment of single phase model of a nanofluid for numerical prediction of forced convection heat transfer”, Journal of Nanofluids 5(1), 1-7, 2016.
26. D. S. Watvisave, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “Modeling wall effects in a micro-scale shock tube using a hybrid MD-DSMC algorithm”, Shock Waves 26(4), 477-489, 2016.
27. Arvind Deshpande and Bhalchandra Puranik, “Effect of viscosity and wall heat conduction on shock attenuation in narrow channels”, Shock Waves 26(4), 465
475, 2016.
28. O. S. Gokhale, B. P. Puranik and A. K. Ghosh, “Investigation of effect of ballooned fuel pins on quenching behavior: design of experiment and preliminary
analysis”, Nuclear Technology 190, 53-64, 2015.
29. P. I. Jagad, B. P. Puranik and A. W. Date, “A novel concept of measuring mass flow rates using flow induced stresses”, Sadhana 40(5), 1555-1566, 2015.
30. D. S. Watvisave, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “A hybrid MD-DSMC coupling method to investigate flow characteristics of micro-devices”, Journal of
Computational Physics 302, 603-617, 2015.
31. Jasvipul S. Chawla, Shashikanth Suryanarayanan, Bhalchandra Puranik, John Sheridan and Brian G. Falzon “Efficiency improvement study for small wind
turbines through flow control”, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 7, 195-208, 2014.
32. D. S. Watvisave, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Effects of wall conduction and rarefaction on shock propagation in a micro-channel”, Shock Waves, 24, 295
306, 2014.
33. O. S. Gokhale and B. P. Puranik, “Performance of two fluid model based numeric tool with pressure and enthalpy as independent variables for simulation of two
phase flow in axial and radial direction”, Kerntechnik 79 (2), 123-127, 2014.
34. M. P. Ray, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “Development and assessment of several high-resolution schemes for compressible Euler equations”, International
Journal of Computational Methods 11(1), 1350049, 2014.
35. O. S. Gokhale, B. P. Puranik and A. K. Ghosh, “Analytical study on degraded core quenching”, Kerntechnik 78(3), 167-180, 2013.
36. D. S. Watvisave, U. V. Bhandarkar and B. P. Puranik, “Investigation of wall effects on flow characteristics of a high Knudsen number nozzle”, Nanoscale and
Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 17(2), 124-140, 2013.
37. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Upendra Bhandarkar, Bhalchandra Puranik and S. Sunil Kumar, “Assessment of aviation turbine fuel-TiO2 nanofluid for heat transfer augmentation in rocket engines”, International Journal of Micro-Nano Scale
Transport 3, 35-42, 2012.
38. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Upendra Bhandarkar, Bhalchandra Puranik and S. Sunil Kumar, “Convective heat transfer characterization of aviation turbine fuel-metal
oxide nanofluids”, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer 26(4), 619-628, 2012.
39. Mangesh Chaudhari, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Heat transfer characteristics of a heat sink in presence of a synthetic jet”, IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology 2(3), 457-463, 2012.
40. P. I. Jagad, B. P. Puranik and A. W. Date, “An iterative procedure for evaluation of conjugate condition in heat transfer problems”, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part
A 61, 353-380, 2012.
41. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Kaustubh Patankar, Ankit Fogla, Bhalchandra Puranik, Upendra Bhandarkar and S. Sunil Kumar, “An experimental investigation of
thermo-physical properties and heat transfer performance of Al2O3-aviation turbine fuel nanofluids”, Applied Thermal Engineering 31, 2841-2849, 2011.
42. Mangesh Chaudhari, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Multiple orifice synthetic jet for improvement in impingement heat transfer”, International Journal
of Heat and Mass Transfer 54, 2056-2065, 2011.
43. Manu Jain, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “A numerical investigation of effects of cavity and orifice parameters on the characteristics of a synthetic jet
flow”, Sensors and Actuators A 165, 351-366, 2011.
44. Mangesh Chaudhari, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Heat transfer analysis in a rectangular duct without and with cross-flow and an impinging synthetic jet”, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies,
33(2), 488-497, 2010.
45. Mangesh Chaudhari, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Effect of orifice shape in synthetic jet based impingement cooling”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 34, 246-256, 2010.
46. Mangesh Chaudhari, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Heat transfer characteristics of synthetic jet impingement cooling”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53, 1057-1069, 2010.
47. Himanshu Joshi, Arpit Agarwal, Bhalchandra Puranik, Chang Shu and Amit Agrawal, “A hybrid FVM-LBM method for single and multi-fluids compressible
flow problems”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 62(4), 403-427, 2010.
48. Praveen Nair, T. Jayachandran, Bhalchandra Puranik, Upendra V. Bhandarkar and Deepu M, “Numerical simulation of interaction of sonic jet with high speed flow over a blunt body using solution mapped higher order accurate AUSM+-up
scheme”, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics 3(1), 15-23, 2010.
49. Praveen Nair, T. Jayachandran, Bhalchandra
Puranik and Upendra V. Bhandarkar, “Simulation of thermo-fluid interactions in cryogenic turbine startup
system using AUSM+-up based higher order accurate flow solver”, Defence Science Journal 59(3), 215-229, 2009.
50. Praveen Nair, T. Jayachandran, Bhalchandra
Puranik and Upendra V. Bhandarkar, “Development of a higher order accurate reconstruction scheme with
reduced least square matrix for convective and diffusive flux evaluation”, International Journal of Computational Methods 6(3), 425-446, 2009.
51. S. G. Singh, R. R. Bhide, S. P. Duttagupta, B. P. Puranik and A. Agrawal, “Two phase flow pressure drop characteristics in trapezoidal silicon microchannels”,
IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies 32(4), 887-900, 2009.
52. Mangesh Chaudhari, Gunjan Verma, Bhalchandra Puranik and Amit Agrawal, “Frequency response of a synthetic jet cavity”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 33(3), 439-448, 2009.
53. S. G. Singh, A. Kulkarni, S. P. Duttagupta, B. P. Puranik and A.Agrawal, “Impact of aspect ratio on flow boiling of water in rectangular microchannels”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 33(1), 153-160, 2008.
54. Puranik, B.P., J.G. Oakley, M. Anderson and R. Bonazza, “Experimental study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability induced by a Mach 3 shock wave”, Shock Waves, 13(6), 413-429, 2004.
55. Anderson, M.H., B.P. Puranik, J.G. Oakley, P.W. Brooks and R. Bonazza, “Shock Tube Investigation of Hydrodynamic Issues Related to Inertial Confinement Fusion”, Shock Waves, 10(5), 377-387, 2000.

Conference

1. Potluri, V. D., Puranik, B. P., & Bodi, K. V. (2023). “A performance comparison of OpenFOAM, SU2 and FLUXO for simulation of shock boundary layer interaction”. In: 14th Asian Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference.
2. Potluri, V. D., Puranik, B. P., & Bodi, K. V. (2022). “Effect of polynomial degree on dis- continuous Galerkin simulation of Euler equations”. In: 24th International
Shock Interaction Symposium. Springer Nature.
3. K. C. Zende and B. P. Puranik, “Numerical investigation of effect of area ratio on shock attenuation in a micro-duct”, presented at the 32nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, 14-19 July 2019, Singapore.
4. A. V. Deshpande and B. P. Puranik, “Numerical investigation and analysis of post-shock flow in micro-ducts”, presented at the 32nd International Symposium
on Shock Waves, 14-19 July 2019, Singapore.
5. T. Mankodi, U. Bhandarkar and B. Puranik, “Comparison of DSMC chemistry models for shock tube simulations with nitrogen”, presented at the 31st
International Symposium on Shock Waves, 9-14 July 2017, Nagoya, Japan.
6. M. P. Ray, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “Numerical investigation of high temperature effects in a shock-bubble interaction”, presented at the 31st
International Symposium on Shock Waves, 9-14 July 2017, Nagoya, Japan.
7. Onkar S. Gokhale and Bhalchandra P. Puranik, “New water packing mitigation scheme for two fluid model based numeric tool for simulation of two phase flow”,
23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, India, December 2015.
8. Nishant Kumar and B. P. Puranik, “Numerical study of convective heat transfer with nanofluids in turbulent flow using a Lagrangian-Eulerian approach”, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer
Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, India, December 2015.
9. Sonawane S., Bhandarkar U. and Puranik B., “Investigation of turbulent heat transfer characteristics aviation turbine fuel based multi-wall carbon nanotube nanofluid”, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass
Transfer Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, India, December 2015.
10. Mankodi T.K., Bhandarkar U.V.and Puranik B.P., “Effect of LB Model parameters on the convective heat flux in DSMC”, 23rd National and 1st International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, India, December 2015.
11. A. Deshpande and B. Puranik, “A numerical investigation of shock propagation and attenuation in a three-dimensional micro-duct”, 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 2015.
12. Mankodi T.K., Bhandarkar U.V. and Puranik B.P., “Comparison of Chemical Reaction Models with various Experimental Re-entry capsules using DSMC”, 30th
International Symposium on Shock Waves, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 2015.
13. Ray M.P., Puranik B.P. and Bhandarkar U.V., “A numerical investigation of shockwave-cylindrical gas inhomogeneity interaction for convergent and divergent geometries”, 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 2015.
14. Mankodi T.K., Bhandarkar U.V. and Puranik B.P., “DSMC simulation of a Micro-turbine Blade Cascade Assembly”, 24th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2015.
15. Mankodi T.K., Bhandarkar U.V. and Puranik B.P., “Density Distribution based Interpolated Grid for DSMC”, 29th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Xian, China, July 2014.
16. M. P. Ray, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “Effect of flux evaluation schemes in numerical simulation of shockwave-gas cylinder interaction”, 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Madison, USA, July 2013.
17. D. S. Watvisave, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “A hybrid DSMC-MD algorithm to model wall effects in a micro-scale shock tube”, 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Madison, WI, USA, July 2013.
18. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Upendra Bhandarkar, Bhalchandra Puranik and S. Sunil Kumar, “Assessment of Aviation Turbine Fuel-TiO2 nanofluid for heat transfer augmentation in rocket engines”, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Chennai, India, December 2011.
19. P. I. Jagad, B. P. Puranik and A. W. Date, “Study of conjugate heat transfer problems using an iterative type of numerical procedure and unstructured meshes”, 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat Transfer Conference, Chennai, India, December 2011.
20. Sandipkumar Sonawane, Bhalchandra Puranik, Upendra Bhandarkar and S. Sunil Kumar, “Effect of particle size in Aviation Turbine Fuel-Al2O3 nanofluids for heat transfer applications”, International Conference on Fluid and Thermal
Engineering, Singapore, September 2011.
21. M. P. Ray, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “A comparison of higher-order extensions to approximate Riemann solvers”, 28th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Manchester, UK, July 2011.
22. D. S. Watvisave, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “A DSMC-MD investigation of wall effects in a shock tube operating at high Knudsen numbers”, 28th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Manchester, UK, July 2011.
23. D. S. Watvisave, B. P. Puranik and U. V. Bhandarkar, “An investigation of pressure boundary conditions for the simulation of a micro-nozzle using DSMC method”, 28th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Manchester, UK, July
2011.
24. P. I. Jagad, B. P. Puranik and A. W. Date, “A finite volume procedure on unstructured meshes for fluid-structure interaction problems”, ICCFD 2011:International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Paris, France, July 2011.
25. Deepak Watvisave, Bhalchandra Puranik and Upendra Bhandarkar, “Numerical investigation of shock tube flow under rarefied conditions”, 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, July 2010.
26. Mangesh Chaudhari, Gunjan Verma, Bhalchandra Puranik, Amit Agrawal, “Near field measurements and cavity design of synthetic jet”, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Seattle, paper no. 2008-4068, 2008.
27. S. G. Singh, S. P. Duttagupta, A. M. Kulkarni, B. P. Puranik and A. Agrawal, “Experimental study of flow boiling in microchannels”, Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels,
Puebla, Mexico, June 2007.
28. Priyadarshan Patankar, Bhalchandra Puranik, “Modification and extension of the annular flow model”, Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Limerick, Ireland, June 2006.
29. Eric R. Prather, Bhalchandra Puranik, “Three-dimensional transient simulation of thermoelectric devices with compact numerical models”, Presented at INTERPACK 03, International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition, Maui, Hawaii, July 2003.
30. Bhalchandra Puranik, Younes Shabany, “Optimum airflow management for multi-board rack-mount equipment”, Presented at INTERPACK 03, International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition, Maui, Hawaii, July
2003.