Dipankar Kundu

I received my Master’s in applied mathematics from Jadavpur University, India. Later I
completed my Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India on the electrokinetic
transport of charged colloids in a nanopore filled with Newtonian/non-Newtonian electrolytes.
The study shows the behavior of mobility of ionic species and ionic current to characterize
separation of biomolecules and DNA sequencing.

Currently, I am working as postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Marco Ellero in the Basque
Center of Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain. We investigate the sedimentation of
monodisperse suspensions of non-Brownian particles of arbitrary shape in a viscous medium
which is an important model problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and interesting
physics, often occurs in common industrial process involving civil, chemical, and oil engineering.
We generate ensembles of random particulate systems and a numerical procedure (Rigid
Multiblob model) for computing interactions among particles to characterize steady-state settling
velocity of rigid particles in Stokes regime. The objective of our study is to investigate the
average sedimentation velocity, the particle velocity fluctuations, and particle-velocity
correlations during sedimentation. Our study shows the evolution of the positions of the particles
in a finite periodic box which can give some new insights into the study of fluctuations and
dispersion in sedimentation.