Faculty Research Area
We have a large faculty contingent with considerable expertise on many subjects. Together, their knowledge covers virtually all aspects of petroleum engineering research.
Deepak Amban Mishra
Assistant Professor
- Experimental Rock Mechanics
 - Engineering Properties of Rocks
 - Rock Failure Mechanism
 - Geothermal Resources
 
Geetanjali Chauhan
Assistant Professor
- Synthesis and study of Fracturing/EOR/Drilling fluids
 - Reservoir Simulation and Modelling
 - Digitization of Oil fields
 - Oil Spill Clean Up
 
Himangshu Kakati
Assistant Professor
- Gas hydrate
 - Enhance Oil Recovery (EOR)
 - Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Design
 - Drilling fluid for Unconventional Resources
 
Nilanjan Pal
Assistant Professor
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
 - Conformance Control
 - Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CSS)
 - Hydrogen storage
 - Structural and Residual gas Trapping models
 - Product synthesis and design
 - Reservoir simulation
 - Porous Media flow
 
Rajat Jain
Assistant Professor
- Drilling fluid design and analysis
 - Enhanced Oil Recovery
 - Well stimulation techniques
 
Ranjan Pramanik
Assistant Professor
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Computational Geomechanics
 - Reservoir Simulation
 - Fluid-rock-fracture interactions
 - Large deformation and failure modelling of Geomaterials
 - Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
 - Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM)
 - Peridynamics (PD)
 
Sivasankar P
Assistant Professor
- Numerical Reservoir Simulation & Modelling
 - Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
 - Machine Learning & Data analytics in EOR
 - Carbon dioxide sequestration in subsurface
 - Bio-remediation of subsurface oil spills
 
Vijaya Kumar Kopparapu
Professor
- Geochemistry of Earth’s material
 - Geochemical Exploration of Uranium deposits
 - Tectonics, Supercontinent cycles and Crustal Evolution