Education

Ph. D. – Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, Dharwad, India
M.E. – R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India
B.E. – S D M College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, India
H.S.C.- Basaveshwara Science College, Bagalkot, India
S.S.C. – Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hospet, India

Experience

COEP Technological University, Pune – Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering – From 1st July 2025 to Till date.

Research Associate at Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, 2024-2025

Design Engineer at ACO Technology Centre India Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, 2018-2020

International and National Journal

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, and Amar K Gaonkar, “Falling films over heated compliant substrates with broken time reversal symmetry”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 125, 104064, 2024.

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, and Amar K Gaonkar, “Shear imposed falling liquid films on a slippery substrate with Marangoni effects: Effect of odd viscosity”, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, 156, 104507, 2023.

Souradip Chattopadhyay, Akshay S Desai, Amar K Gaonkar, and Anandamoy Mukhopadhyay, “Role of odd viscosity on falling films over compliant substrates” Physical Review Fluids, 8, 064003, 2023.

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, Amar K Gaonkar, Amlan Barua, and Anandamoy Mukhopadhyay, “Suppression of wave instability in a liquid film flow down a non-uniformly heated slippery inclined plane using odd viscosity” Journal of Fluids Engineering, 145, 091401, 2023.

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, Amar K Gaonkar, and Anandamoy Mukhopadhyay, “Shear imposed falling films with odd viscosity effects”, International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, 153, 104422, 2023.

Souradip Chattopadhyay, Akshay S Desai, “Dynamics and stability of weakly viscoelastic film flowing down a uniformly heated slippery incline”, Physical Review Fluids, 7 (6), 064007, 2022.

Souradip Chattopadhyay, Akshay S Desai, Amar K Gaonkar, Amlan Barua and Anandamoy Mukhopadhyay, “Weakly viscoelastic film on a slippery slope”, Physics of fluids, 33, 112107, 2021.

International and National Conferences

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, and Amar K Gaonkar, “Modelling film flows down the inner surface of a nonuniformly heated rotating fibre”, in 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2023

Akshay S Desai, Arindam Thander, Souradip Chattopadhyay, and Amar K Gaonkar, “Stabilizing thin liquid films on heated slippery slope with variable density and broken time-reversal symmetry”, in Proceedings of the 10th international and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2023.

Akshay S Desai, Souradip Chattopadhyay, Amar K Gaonkar, and Anandamoy Mukhopadhyay, “Nonlinear stability of a thin viscoelastic film down a vertical wall: A nunmerical study”, in Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON), 2023.

Akshay S Desai, Aashrith Maisa, and Amar K Gaonkar, “Numerical investigation of the effect of odd viscosity on the stability of the flow of thin liquid film on an inclined plane in the presence of a normal electric field”, in 68th ISTAM Conference, 2022