Amit Agrawal is an Indian engineer and an institute chair professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
15 Facts About Amit Agrawal
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Amit Agrawal leads a group of scientists who are involved in the development of next-generation diagnostic microdevices.
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Amit Agrawal has published several articles, ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 198 of them.
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Amit Agrawal was born on 7 October 1974 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, to Prof.
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Amit Agrawal studied at St Joseph's College, Allahabad, before joining IIT Kanpur for a BTech in mechanical engineering.
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Amit Agrawal continued his higher studies after a brief stint at Tata Motors, Pune.
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Amit Agrawal completed PhD from the University of Delaware and a postdoc from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Amit Agrawal joined IIT Bombay as an assistant professor in July 2004 and was promoted to associate professor in 2009.
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Amit Agrawal has been a professor at the same institute since 2014 and has been an institute chair professor since October 2015.
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Amit Agrawal is married to Dr Meghna Rajvanshi, who works as a scientist at Reliance.
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Amit Agrawal has developed other innovative microdevices.
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Amit Agrawal employed the Onsager-principle consistent distribution function to solve the Boltzmann equation and derived entirely new sets of equations, termed as OBurnett and O13 equations which are a superset of the Navier-Stokes equations.
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Amit Agrawal has written a book entitled Microscale Flow and Heat Transfer: Mathematical Modeling and Flow Physics explaining these higher-order transport equations.
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Amit Agrawal has worked on several other scientifically challenging and industrially relevant problems, including the problem of interacting wakes, synthetic jets, gaseous slip flow, and boiling in microchannel.
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Amit Agrawal has won several awards and recognitions, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to engineering sciences in 2018.