M N Faruqui Innovations Centre

Chirag Deepak Kalelkar Ph.D. (IISc., Bangalore) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering C D Kalelkar joined the Institute in 2013

Contact Addresses

Residence	BF-4/5, IIT Campus, Kharagpur 721302
Phone (office)	+91 - 3222 - 282942
Phone (residence)	+91 - 3222 - 282943 (IIT Phone)
email	kalelkar @ mech.iitkgp.ernet.in
Personal web page	https://sites.google.com/site/kalelkar

Research Areas

• Fluid Dynamics

Current Sponsored Projects

• Project Title : Extensional Rheometer for Microscale Samples
  Principal Investigator : Chirag Kalelkar
  Co-Principal-Investigators : Amreesh Chandra
  Sponsor : SERB
• Project Title : M N Faruqui Innovation Centre Projects
  Principal Investigator : C. S. Kumar
  Co-Principal-Investigators : Chirag Kalelkar, Soumyajit Dey, Dhrubajyoti Sen
  Sponsor : Arjun Malhotra endowment

Publications: 2013 - 2014

• Rheology and microstructural studies of regenerated silk fibroin solutions by A. Nisal, C. Kalelkar and A. Lele Rheol. Acta, 52, 833 (2013)
• Optical fiber-based force transducer with feedback control for microscale samples by S. Rao, C. Kalelkar and P. Pullarkat Rev. Sci. Instrum., 84, 105107 (2013)

Publications: 2010 - 2011

• Strain-rate frequency superposition in large-amplitude oscillatory shear. by C. Kalelkar, A. Lele and S. Kamble Phys. Rev. E, 81, 031401 (2010)

Publications: 2006 - 2007

• Statistics of pressure fluctuations in decaying, isotropic turbulence. by C. Kalelkar Phys. Rev. E, 73, 046301 (2006)

Publications: 2005 - 2006

• Drag reduction by polymer additives in decaying turbulence. by C. Kalelkar, R. Govindarajan and R. Pandit Phys. Rev. E, 72, 017301 (2005)
• Structural studies of decaying fluid turbulence: Effect of initial conditions by C. Kalelkar Phys. Rev. E, 72, 056307 (2005)

Publications: 2004 - 2005

• The decay of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence from power-law initial conditions. by C. Kalelkar and R. Pandit Phys. Rev. E, 69, 046304 (2004)