Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) Department of Mechanical Engineering
somenath.gorai@jaipur.manipal.edu
141-3999100 (Ext. 973)
Ph.D IIT Ropar 2024
M.Tech NIT Jamshedpur 2013
B.Tech B.P.U.T 2009
Thermal Engineering
MHRD scholarship from 2018-23 during Ph.D.
MHRD scholarship from 2011-13 during M.Tech.
Qualified GATE in 2011-2016 with best percentile of 97.74 and AIR of 2542 in 2012.
First Year Course Coordinator
Departmental Newsletter Coordinator
Indian Society of Heating
Refrigerating & Air Conditioning
Engineers (ISHRAE)
Gorai, S., Samanta, D., & Das, S. K. (2025). Examining heat transfer in the developing laminar-turbulent mixed convection flow regime with buoyancy effects. International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 210, 109671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2024.109671
Gorai, S., Samanta, D., and Das, S. K. (June 17, 2024). Experimental Investigations of Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Transitional Regime of Mixed Convection Flows in a Vertical Tube. ASME. J. Heat Mass Transfer. October 2024; 146(10): 102601. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4065609
Gorai, S., Samanta, D., & Das, S. K. (2023). Heat Transfer in Simultaneously Developing Turbulent Mixed Convection Flows in Vertical Tubes, Heat Transfer Engineering,45(22), Taylor and Francis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01457632.2023.2289226
Gorai, S., Das, S.K. & Samanta, D. (2022) Numerical investigations on the difference between aiding and opposing flows in the developing regime of laminar mixed convection in vertical tubes, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 82(5), 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2022.2105600
Gorai, S., Das, S.K. (2020). Studies on Mixed Convection and Its Transition to Turbulence-A Review. In: Runchal, A. (eds) 50 Years of CFD in Engineering Sciences. Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2670-1_10