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Mr. Pritam Bhat
Assistant Professor
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School/College
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
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Department
Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Mr. Pritam Bhat joined the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, RUAS in 2017 and has gathered around 5+ years of experience in teaching mechanical engineering, in particular, thermal science. He loves to teach subjects like Engineering Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbo Machines. Mr. Bhat completed his Master’s in Thermal Sciences & Engineering from UVCE, Bangalore. He worked as a senior FEA analyst before entering the academic profession. He has 5 years of industrial experience in finite element analysis (linear / nonlinear and structural) in the turbo machinery domain. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Battery Thermal Management of Electric Vehicles at RUAS. His research work is mainly concerning heat transfer and fluid flow, battery thermal management, renewable energy systems.
Qualifications
- Pursuing Ph.D. in Battery Thermal Management
Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Registered in 2018
- M.E. in Thermal Science & Engineering
University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, 2014
- B.E. in Mechanical Engineering
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, VTU, 2010
Experience
Total Years of Experience12+ Years
Academic Experience
RNS Institute of Technology - 2 Years Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences - August 2017 till date
Industry Experience
QueST Global Engineering Pvt. Ltd. - 5 Years
- Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Battery Thermal Management
- Renewable Energy Systems
- Bhat, P. and Varpe, M.K., 2022. A Simplified Thermal Model to Predict Temperature Profile and Heat Generation of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Cells. In Recent Advances in Hybrid and Electric Automotive Technologies: Select Proceedings of HEAT 2021 (pp. 11-23). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
- Ranked 9th in B.E (Mechanical Engineering) for the Visvesvaraya Technological University in the year 2010.
- Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) in the year 2012 with GATE score of 384
International Conference Papers
- Prajwal, K.T. and Bhat, P., 2021, February. Thermal analysis of a Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) using FEM technique. In IOP conference series: materials science and engineering (Vol. 1045, No. 1, p. 012018). IOP Publishing
National Journal Papers
- Iyengar, A.S., Bhat, P., Reddy, P.K., Dayananda, B.S. and Abhilash, N., 2022. Effect of climatic conditions on performance of ORC using environment-friendly working fluids - special reference to India. Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, pp.153-157.
International Journal Papers
- Pritam, Bhat., IYENGAR, A.S., Abhilash, N. and REDDY, P.K., 2021. Experimental investigation and validation of solar PV cooling for enhanced energy conversion efficiency for Indian climatic conditions. Journal of Thermal Engineering, 8(6), pp.711-718.
- Associate Member - Institute of Engineers