Guest Lecture on ‘Science and Engineering of Collective Phenomena’

A Guest Lecture on “Science and Engineering of Collective Phenomena” was organized by Department of Chemical Engineering, MVJCE on 13.11.2021 from11.00AM to12.30 PM in the seminar hall 4, and MVJCE. The Guest Speaker for the event was Dr.DannyRaj.M, Inspire faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore. The lecture was attended by 90 participants from inside (faculty and students) of MVJCE

About the Speaker

Dr.Danny Raj.M is currently working as Inspire faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore. He was working as a visiting scholar at the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, USA (Sep 2014- Jan 2015).

He secured his B.Tech from A C Tech campus, Anna University, Chennai (May 2011), M.tech and PhD from IIT Madras (April 2017). His research interests lies, broadly, in design of Collective phenomena; droplet microfluidic systems; human traffic; collective social behavior in living agents; agent-based models, heat, mass and momentum transport in engineering systems. Dr.Danny has published over 15 Scopus indexed papers and was awarded with the DST fellowship in the year of April 2018.

A Brief Account of the Lecture

The session started with the welcome address by Dr. Mahabaleswarappa, Principal, MVJCE for the students and the guest speaker. He emphasized the necessity of the Guest lecture with significance on design of collective phenomena in Chemical Engineering.

Webinar has started with a discussion on the day to day activities relatable to Science and Engineering and its applications. A major shortcoming of adopting traditional strategies is the fact that solving Chemical Engineering problems is often impossible and very difficult, due to the highly nonlinear behavior of chemical processes. Today, the simulations which make the flow to be in a linear way are becoming useful due to their simple implementation, easy designing, generality, robustness and flexibility. The Science and Engineering under collective phenomena have various applications in the Chemical Engineering field, including modelling, process control, classification, fault detection and diagnosis.

A Guest Lecture on “Science and Engineering of collective Phenomena” organized by Dept. of Chemical Engineering, MVJCE on 13-11-21. Guest speaker Dr. Danny Raj, Inspired faculty, IISc Bangalore, introducing the concepts of collective phenomena and its application in Chemical Engineering

The Speaker stressed on the importance of developing advanced technology for enhancing performance in the normal life under collective phenomena. He has discussed interesting topics such as the linear fluid flow under tiny channels of diameter less than 100 Micrometers, which emphasized the curiosity among the participants to learn more flow properties under fluid dynamics. He discussed about the difference between the complex and complicated systems and the robustness of the typical complex systems. The ability to set up the assembly line is also been discussed among the students. Finally, the speaker concluded the presentation by elaborating the present research scenario of using the collective phenomena

After the presentation, Q&A session was conducted where the Speaker addressed the queries of attendees are clarified during the webinar session

The lecture concluded with vote of thanks to the MVJ management, Principal, COE and Vice principal of MVJCE for providing this opportunity to gain knowledge on collective phenomena in Chemical Engineering. The event organizers are grateful to Guest Speaker Dr.Danny Raj M for delivering informative and impressive aspects of fluid flow and its dynamics in Chemical Engineering applications and motivating the interested young generations to switch to this new domain. A special mention to ITHELPDESK and team for their technical support during the session.

Outcome of the Event

The lecture enabled the attendees to strengthen their knowledge about the role of collective phenomena in Chemical Engineering. The flow of fluids through a tiny channel, which shows the linear and non-linear flow dynamics of the fluid. The attendees strengthened their knowledge in the difference between complex and complicated systems. The attendees were gifted with information and knowledge about industry needs, latest technical appraisals and research areas related to this field.