Study of pattern formation in self-organizing systems; Quantitative phase-field models for different phenomena; Integration of different modelling techniques; Modelling and experimental study of solidification; Phase transformations.

Education

PhD, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2012
Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech)(2008), IIT Madras, 2008

Projects

Computational and experimental investigation of three-phase growth during directional solidification, Funding Agency : SERB, 59 lakhs 2017 – 2020
Multi-institutional Clean-Coal project, Funding Agency : DST-SERB, 10 crores 2018

Publications

Role of interfacial energy and liquid diffusivities on pattern formation during thin-film three-phase eutectic growth, Sumeet Khanna, Abhik Choudhury, Journal of Materials Science volume 56, pages 17646-17664 (2021)

Exotic three-phase microstructures in the ternary Ag-Cu-Sb eutectic system, Aramanda Shanmukha Kiran, Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Abhik Choudhury, Acta Materialia 221(1-2):117400 (2021)

Three-Phase Eutectic Microstructures: Influence of Interfacial Energy Anisotropy and Solute Diffusivities, Sumeet Khanna, Abhik Choudhury; Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A volume 52, pages 4246-4263 (2021)