Bio

Piyush Kumar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). Prior to his current role, he held a position as a Research Scientist-Associate at UTEP, where his primary focus was on developing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based heat transfer models for hypersonic flow phenomena. Before joining UTEP, Piyush completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, in 2022. During his doctoral studies, he conducted extensive research on the dynamics of droplet generation within microfluidic devices. His work significantly advances our understanding of fundamental fluid dynamics in microfluidics and its application potential, particularly in areas such as drug delivery systems and high-throughput biochemical analysis.

• Ph D in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (2022)
• M. Tech. in Mechanical Enineering (Thermal), National Institute of Technology (2015)
• BE in Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology (2012)

Publications

• Droplet formation dynamics under perpendicular and head-on dispersed phase configuration in a microfluidic T-junction Physics of Fluids 36 11 (2024), Piyush Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Manabendra Pathak.
• Deciphering the multifaceted impact of nanoparticle concentration on droplet generation dynamics within microfluidic systems Journal of Molecular Liquids (2024), Piyush Kumar, Anamitra Phukan, Ajit Kumar, Manabendra Pathak, Vinod Kumar.
• Empowering Abilities: Increasing Representation of Students with Disabilities in the STEM Field arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.12251 (2024), Esperanza Moreno, Piyush Kumar, Richard O. Adansi, Dorothy Moreno, Demy Rodriguez, Raul B. Ramirez, Audrey R. Kapsa, Arturo Rodriguez, Neelam Agarwal, Vinod Kumar, others.
• Spreading and migration characteristics of impacting droplets on hybrid-wettability surfaces Physics of Fluids 36 5 (2024), Ajit Kumar, Piyush Kumar, Manabendra Pathak.
• Microcomputed Tomography for the Microstructure Evaluation of 3D Bioprinted Scaffolds ACS Applied Bio Materials (2023), Salma P. Ramirez, Ivana Hernandez, Hannia V. Balcorta, Piyush Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Wilson Poon, Binata Joddar.

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