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Dr Patitapabana Mishra centre of Scientific & Industrial research established at ABIT

Posted by Abhiram Satapathy on 20 May 2011 | 1 Comments

Tags: research centre, open delight, plasma physics, ultrasonic velocity

ABIT has setup this research centre is to promote research activities among the faculties and students at ABIT.

The centre has been named as “Patitapaban Mishra Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research” in the honour of  Dr. Patitapaban Mishra, Senior Scientist and  Ex- Principal Khallikote College, Berhampur who has contributed a lot to the research activities in the field of Plasma Physics.

RECENTLY THIS CENTRE HAS TAKEN UP TWO PROJECTS.

A.    OPENDELIGHT - THE OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (from April 2011)

Earlier blog posts have covered details about this project.

B.  ULTRASONIC METHOD OF STUDY OF PROPERTIES OF LIQUID MIXTURES (from March 2011)

In the first phase Department of Physics has installed a multi-frequency ultrasonic interferometer as Ultrasonic method (determination of ultrasonic velocity) is a powerful probe for characterizing the physiochemical properties and existence of molecular interaction in liquid mixtures (binary and ternary). It also enables the determination of acoustical and thermodynamic parameters and excess parameters of all the above parameters which are more sensitive towards the intermolecular interaction.

Number of studies on thermodynamic and acoustics properties such as Intermolecular free length, Isoentropic compressibility, Acoustic impedance, Molar volume, coefficient of thermal expansion, Isothermal compressibility, Ratios of specific heat, Viscosity etc., of multi component liquid mixture has increased in recent years due to industrial application and the theoretical interest in studying the nature of molecular interaction and packing phenomena in ternary mixtures. This method (Ultrasonic) has also been extended to the study of human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Ultrasonic study of carbohydrates/saccharides has also become a subject of increasing interest because of their multidimensional, physical and biochemical applications. This has also been applied to Aerospace Engineering, Carbon Nano-tubes, and Nuclear Energy Industries.

            The following staff members are working on this Ultrasonic based project:

1. Dr. (Mrs.) P. R. Mishra, Director (Academic)
2. Dr. (Mrs.) S. Mishra, Faculty, Dept. of Physics
3. Mr. Abhiram Satapathy, Faculty and Head, Department of Physics
4. Mrs. Jayashree Mohanty, Faculty, Department of Physics  
5. Mr. Manoj Praharaj, Faculty, Department of Physics

We are hoping to incubate a number of academic and industrial projects across engineering disciplines at this research centre in the coming months. Students and Faculties at ABIT are requested to partcipate in the projects with enthusiasm and suggest research ideas from all branches. With all your support, we can aspire to establish a world class research centre.