BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Bukke Kiran Naik is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at NIT Rourkela since 2020. He received his Ph.D. (2019) and M.Tech (2014) from IIT Guwahati and his B.Tech (2012) from JNTU Anantapur in Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a Queen Elizabeth Postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada, during 2019–2020 and served as a Project Engineer at IIT Guwahati in 2019. He is the recipient of the Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR) from Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC), the Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Fellowship from Universities Canada, the CCSTDS Travel fellowship from INSA/CSIR/DAE-BRNS-CCSTDS, SERB-SIRE fellowship and the SERB-ITS travel grants for the year 2017 & 2023 from DST, Government of India. Furthermore, he was selected as a Young Indian Scientist for the 6th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) conclave in 2021, in the thematic area of Energy Solutions. He also received an INAE fellowship for working as a visiting researcher at IIT Kanpur. He holds three patents to date and has secured four funded research projects from ISRO, SERB, ISHRAE and NIT Rourkela. He has also received funding from several agencies (SERB, ATAL, and ISHRAE) to organize outreach programs. He served as the ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Sub-Chapter President for the year 2022–2023. He is currently supervising Eight Ph.D. students, four Master's students, and five Undergraduate students. He has guided over thirteen M.Tech students and nine B.Tech students. He has published more than 50 research articles in reputable international journals and conference proceedings. Moreover, Dr. Naik has been invited by various renowned institutions, universities, and societies to deliver talks on his research work carried out in the energy-building-water nexus or sustainable energy and buildings.
EXPERTISE INFORMATION
Research Group
- Cryogenics: [Thermal Engineering Division], Thermo-Fluid Flow: [Thermal Engineering Division]
Areas of Interest
- Energy and Buildings
- Energy-Water Nexus
- Thermo-chemical energy conversion and storage
- Coupled heat and mass transfer system’s modeling
- AI/ML techniques for system design and performance analyses
Bukke Kiran Naik Assistant Professor Grade-II & Asst. Warden (M.S.Swaminathan Hall of Residence)
Mechanical Engineering
naikkb@nitrkl.ac.in
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PUBLICATIONS5
SPONSORED PROJECTS8
DOCTORAL STUDENTS8
CONTINUING EDUCATIONPERSONAL INFORMATION
Bukke Kiran Naik
Assistant Professor Grade-II
Mechanical Engineering
Room Number: ME-213
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008
2019
Ph.D.
Energy and BuildingsIIT Guwahati, Assam
2014
M.Tech
Fluid & ThermalIIT Guwahati, Assam
2012
B.Tech
Mechanical EngineeringJNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh
Teaching Experience
- Thermal Engineering, NIT Rourkela, 03 Apr 2020 - Present
Post Doctoral Research Experience
- Waste heat/Water recovery from flue gas, Visiting Researcher through SERB-SIRE fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, 25 Nov 2023 - 31 Mar 2024
- Safety aspects of thermal energy storage for buildings, Visiting Scientist through PECFAR-IGSTC, PTB Braunschweig, Germany, 27 May 2023 - 16 Jul 2023
- Drop-on-Drop impact dynamics, Visiting Researcher through INAE Fellowship, IIT Kanpur, 03 Nov 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
- Thermochemical energy storage, Queen Elizabeth Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 16 Sep 2019 - 13 Mar 2020
- Solar driven desalination, Project Engineer, IIT Guwahati, 27 Feb 2019 - 27 May 2019
Laboratory Development
- Sustainable Energy Park, Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Rourkela, Tech-park for sustainable energy technologies
- Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems Laboratory (STESL), Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Rourkela, Research laboratory for innovations in sustainable/nature-inspired thermal energy systems, buildings, and technologies
Development and validation of an Artificial Intelligence based portable screening device for potentially malignant and malignant oral disorders by integrating narrow band imaging with autofluorescence and white light Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- Co-Investigator
- 36
- Running Sponsored
Design of Micro cryogenic coolers for phased array receiver. ISRO
- Co-Investigator
- 36
- Running Sponsored
Design and development of Magneto Resistive Heat Switch. ISRO
- Principal Investigator
- 24
- Running Sponsored
Development of Nocturnal Radioactive Cooling Device. FOUNDATION FOR ISHRAE,RESEARCH,SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY (FIRST)
- Co-Investigator
- 24
- Completed Sponsored
Development of Novel Multipurpose Liquid Desiccant Drying/Desalination System Using Hydrophobic Membrane as an Energy Exchanger. SERB
- Principal Investigator
- 36
- Completed Sponsored
Total Publications: 61
A. Dasore, R. Konijeti, B. K. Naik, and S. R. Annam,"Performance Evaluation of Adsorption Refrigeration System Using Different Working Pairs", Innovations in Sustainable Energy and Technology, ch.23, pp.295-306, Springer, May 2021, 10.1007/978-981-16-1119-3_26 Inbook
B. K. Naik, M. Joshi, P. Muthukumar, M. Sultan, T. Miyazaki, E. R. Shamshiri, and H. Ashraf,"Investigating Solid and Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification Options for Room Air-Conditioning and Drying Applications", Sustainability, vol.12, no.24, pp.10582, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020, 10.3390/su122410582 Article
D. Abhishek, K. Ramakrishna, and B. K. Naik,"EVALUATION OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS AT BEETROOT-AIR INTERFACE DURING CONVECTIVE DRYING", Interfacial Phenomena and Heat Transfer, vol.8, no.4, pp.303-319, Begell House 2020, 10.1615/InterfacPhenomHeatTransfer.2020036455 Article
B. K. Naik and P. Muthukumar,"Parametric and Performance Investigations on Novel Multipurpose Liquid Desiccant Drying/Desalination System", Heat Transfer Engineering, Taylor and Francis, June 2020, 10.1080/01457632.2020.1777007 Article
B. K. Naik and P. Muthukumar,"Energy, entransy and exergy analyses of a liquid desiccant regenerator", International Journal of Refrigeration, Elsevier 2019, 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2018.08.016 Article
A five days short-term course on "Emerging Trends of Multidisciplinary Research in Fluid Mechanics" Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Coordinator
- 25 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2023
- Brochure
Recent Advancements in Membrane-based Wastewater Treatment (RAMWT)-2023 Mechanical Engineering (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 17 Jul 2023 - 21 Jul 2023
- Brochure
High-Performance Computing and AI Predictive Tools in Fluids and Thermal Work Shop (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 25 Jul 2022 - 29 Jul 2022
- Brochure
Research Methodology in Engineering: A Practical Insight for Researchers Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Coordinator
- 23 Jul 2022 - 27 Jul 2022
- Brochure
Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Coordinator
- 27 Jun 2022 - 01 Jul 2022
- Brochure
Cutting-edge multidisciplinary research in the field of fluids Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Coordinator
- 11 Oct 2021 - 15 Oct 2021
- Brochure
A Five Day Online AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academic FDP Programme On Fuel Cell Technology [FCT-2021] Mechanical Engineering (Short-term Course)
- Coordinator
- 21 Jun 2021 - 25 Jun 2021
- Brochure
A High-End Workshop on Thermal Energy Storage for Building Applications (Virtual Mode) Mechanical Engineering (Workshop)
- Coordinator
- 25 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2021
- Brochure
- ME3302 : Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines {Theory}
- ME6341 : Refrigeration and Cryogenic Systems {Theory}
- ME6343 : Air-Conditioning and Ventilating Systems {Theory}
- ME3071 : Basic Mechanical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
- ME3072 : Advanced Mechanical Engineering Laboratory {Practical}
- ME4372 : Thermal Engineering Design Project {Practical}
Ph.D. Students [6]
Energy and Buildings
Gaurav PriyadarshiEnrolled: Jul 2019ContinuingSupervisor
Design and Development of Membrane-based Liquid Desiccant Drying/Desalination system
Pedisetti Kumar Sai TejesEnrolled: Mar 2021ContinuingSupervisor
Magentoresistive heat switch for space applications
Gautam RanjanEnrolled: Jul 2022ContinuingSupervisor
Biofluid Mechanics and Multiphase flow
Sameer Kumar VermaEnrolled: Aug 2022ContinuingCo-Supervisor
Desalination System
Manish SonkarEnrolled: Jul 2022ContinuingSupervisor
Cryogenics
Soumya Ranjan MohantyEnrolled: Jan 2024ContinuingCo-Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [2]
Waste Heat Recovery and Water Extraction from Cooling Tower
Ashis KumarEnrolled: Sep 2023ContinuingSupervisor
Heat Transfer
Vinod Singh RajputEnrolled: Sep 2023ContinuingCo-Supervisor
Awards And Honours
- Received ISHRAE Presidential Award for Chapter Excellence as ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Sub-Chapter President, 2023
- Received SERB-SIRE fellowship to visit Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, 2023
- Nominated as President for ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Sub-Chapter during April 2022 – March 2023, 2022
- Selected for Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR) from INDO GERMAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE (IGSTC), 2022
- Nominated as Program chair & CWC Member for ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Sub-Chapter, 2021
- Mentoring of Engineering Teachers by INAE fellows fellowship from INAE, 2021
- Selected as Young Indian Scientist to 6th BRICS conclave in thematic area of Energy Solutions from NIAS-DST, 2021
- Received Accelerate Vignan - Karyashala grant on the topic, "Thermal energy storage for building applications" from SERB-DST, India, 2020
- Research paper titled Parametric and Performance Investigations on Novel Multipurpose Liquid Desiccant Drying/Desalination System was among the 15 high-class papers shortlisted from the extended abstratcts of the ICP 2019 conference held at Kyushu University, Tokyo, Japan for a special issue in the prestigious journal “Heat Transfer Engineering”, 2019
- Queen Elizabeth Scholars (QES) Fellowship from Universities Canada for pursuing Postdoctoral studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, Canada for one year (September 2019 – September 2020), 2019
- CCSTDS (2019) travel fellowship award for Young Scientist/Research Scholar from INSA/CSIR/DAE-BRNS-CCSTDS for attending international conference (ICP 2019) held at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 2019
- Research paper titled Energy, Exergy and Entransy Analyses of Liquid Desiccant Regenerator was among the 20 high-class papers shortlisted from the extended abstratcts of the ISHPC 2017 conference held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan for a special issue in the prestigious journal “International Journal of Refrigeration (IJR)”, 2017
- Nominated as Student’s activity chair & CWC Member for ISHRAE Guwahati sub – chapter during April 2017 – March 2018, 2017
- SERB – ITS Travel Grant (2017) for Young Scientist/Research Scholar from DST for attending international conference (ISHPC 2017) held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2017
- Received honorarium for working in a consultancy project, “Assessment of various energy saving techniques in HVAC systems employed in CPL” from Cadila pharmaceuticals Pvt. Limited (CPL)-IIT Guwahati, 2017
- Nominated as K – 12 chair & CWC Member for ISHRAE Guwahati sub – chapter during April 2016 – March 2017, 2016
- Nominated as PG Senator at IIT Guwahati during` April 2015 – March 2016., 2015
- Received Merit Recognition Award for good performance in the 7th NIIT National I.T Aptitude test, 2011
- Received Merit Award for good performance in XII (HSC) from Visakhapatnam steel plant thrift & credit society limited, 2008
Memberships / Fellowships
- Life Member of Space Society of Mechanical Engineers (SSME) (Membership Id: LM-0393), 2022
- Associate member of Indian Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning engineers (ISHRAE) (Membership Id: 22265)., 2016