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Pankaj Arvind Apte
PhD (Ohio State University)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Office
FB-454
Department of Chemical
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Statistical Mechanics, Atomistic simulations
Education
PhD, Ohio State University, 2005
M.Tech, IIT, Kanpur, 2000
B.Tech, LIT, Nagpur, 1998
Selected Publications
J. Wang, P. A. Apte, J. R. Morris, X. C. Zeng, "Freezing Point and Solid-Liquid Interfacial Free Energy of Stockmayer Dipolar Fluids: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study" Journal of Chemical Physics 139 (2013), 114705.
P. A. Apte and A. K. Gautam, "Nonmonotonic dependence of the absolute entropy on temperature in supercooled Stillinger-Weber silicon" , Journal of Statistical Physics, 149 (2012), 551-567.
P. A. Apte, "Efficient computation of free energy of crystal phases due to external potentials by error-biased Bennett acceptance ratio method", Journal of Chemical Physics, 132 (2010), 084101.
P. A. Apte and I. Kusaka, "Evaluation of translational free energy in a melting temperature calculation by simulation",Physical Review E, 73 (2006), 016704.
P. A. Apte and I. Kusaka, "Direct calculation of solid-liquid coexistence points of a binary mixture by thermodynamic integration",Journal of Chemical Physics, 123 (2005), 194503
Awards & Fellowships
Our published work (listed above) on supercooled silicon has been highlighted by : (i)News article: http://www.verticalnews.com/premium_newsletters/Physics-Week/2012- 12-11/70342PH.html, and (ii) In the book "Issues in Applied Physics 2013 Edition", published by ScholarlyEditions, Atlanta, Georgia USA . ISBN 1490105948, 9781490105949
Gold Medal, B. Tech., Nagpur University (1998)
Outstanding graduate student award for academic achievement, OSU Department of Chemical Engineering (2005)