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
Associate 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
Associate 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
Associate Professor
- Drilling fluid design and analysis
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- Well stimulation techniques
Ranjan Pramanik
Associate 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