Dipin S. Pillai

Assistant Professor

  • Email

    dipinsp[AT]iitk.ac.in

  • Office Phone No.

    +91-512-259-2109 (Office)
    +91-512-259-7988 (Lab)

  • Office & Lab

    Faculty Building 452 (Office)
    711, ESB-III (Lab)

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Research Interest

  • Stability theory
  • Reduced-Order Modelling
  • Non-Linear Dynamics
  • Hydrodynamic stability
  • Thin Films
  • Electrohydrodynamics
  • Multiphase Flows

Education

  • B.E.(Hons.), B.I.T.S Pilani, Goa Campus, 2010.
  • PhD, IIT Madras, 2010-2015.
  • Post-Doc Associate, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2016-19.

Research Overview

Our group works on leveraging interfacial science and instabilities to enhance transport in diverse technologically relevant areas. A prominent aspect of our research involves developing reduced-order models for physico-chemical transport processes to gain analytical or semi-analytical insights. Some of our recent efforts have been aimed at developing fundamental understanding of wetting alteration using electric fields, investigating the origin of self-assembled pattern formation in porous anodic oxides, non-linear dynamics of liquid jet breakup, as well as development of theoretical models for active swimming droplets.

Awards

  • Institute Research Award for excellence in research during Ph.D., IIT Madras, 2015.

Publications

  • Dipin S Pillai, Kirti Chandra Sahu, Universal scaling law for electrified sessile droplets on a lyophilic surface, Phys. Rev. E, 109, L013101 (2024).
  • Shreyank Goel, Dipin S Pillai, Reduced-Order Model for Surfactant-Laden Electrified Sessile Droplets, Langmuir, 39 (43), 15177-15188 (2023).
  • Shreyank Goel, Dipin S Pillai, Electrokinetic Thin-Film Model for Electrowetting: The Role of Bulk Charges, Langmuir, 39 (37), 13076-13089 (2023).
  • Prateek Dwivedi, Atishay Shrivastava, Dipin Pillai, Naveen Tiwari, Rahul Mangal, Deforming active droplets in viscoelastic solutions, Soft Matter, 19 (21),3783-3793 (2023).
  • Prateek Dwivedi, Atishay Shrivastava, Dipin Pillai, Rahul Mangal, Mode switching of active droplets in macromolecular solutions, Soft Matter, 19 (22), 4099-4108 (2023).
  • M. A. Kainikkara, D. S. Pillai, K. C. Sahu, Equivalence of sessile droplet dynamics under periodic and steady electric fields, npj Microgravity, 7, 1 (2021).
  • D. S. Pillai, K. C. Sahu, R. Narayanan, Electrowetting of a leaky dielectric droplet under a time-periodic electric field, Physical Review Fluids, 6, 073701 (2021).
  • D.S. Pillai, R. Narayanan, Electrostatic forcing of thin leaky dielectric films under periodic and steady fields, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 890, A20 (2020).
  • D. S. Pillai, R. Narayanan, Nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic Faraday instability in thin films, Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids, 855, R4, (2018).
  • D. S. Pillai, R. Narayanan, Interfacial dynamics of a confined liquid-vapour bilayer undergoing evaporation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 1 (2018).