Computational Modeling
Research Projects
AI and machine learning for process modelling
Combining data-driven and hybrid models with first-principles and CFD modelling for chemical processes, and teaching the methods through short courses and collaboration.
Bubble dynamics and tomography of bubbling beds
Simulations of single and interacting bubbles in liquids and thin columns, and electrical capacitance volume tomography (ECVT) to measure bubbles in fluidized beds.
Circular economy testbed and anaerobic digestion modelling
Scoping an anaerobic digestion testbed for organic waste at Curtin, supported by a MATLAB model that fits batch methane data and simulates batch and continuous digesters.
Droplet impact and evaporation on hot surfaces
Experiments and simulations of droplets hitting, spreading on and evaporating from hot surfaces and particles, including film boiling above the Leidenfrost temperature.
Modelling fluidized bed polymerization reactors
Reactor models linking polymerization kinetics, particle size distribution and condensed-mode operation in fluidized bed polypropylene reactors, plus jet fluidization experiments and CFD.
Multiscale modelling of gas-solid flow and drag
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of particle clusters, energy-minimisation multiscale (EMMS) drag models and closure studies that make CFD of risers and fluidized beds more predictive.
Phase-field modelling of dendrites in lithium-metal batteries
Open-source finite element phase-field models of lithium electrodeposition, from planar interfaces to three-dimensional dendrites at experimental scale.
LNG ambient air vaporizers: heat transfer, fog and frost
CFD models of how ambient air vaporizers warm cryogenic LNG, how they make fog and frost, and how LNG vapour disperses, to support safer design and siting.
A novel settling tank for produced water treatment
A settling tank with no moving parts that uses a swirling inlet flow to separate fine particles from produced water, developed with CFD and validated by PIV.
Solid oxide fuel cell modelling from cell to system
Multi-scale and dynamic tank-in-series models of solid oxide fuel cells, plus observer design to estimate internal states, built for process simulators.
Kafirin from sorghum: continuous purification and biomaterials
Purifying kafirin, the main sorghum seed protein, in a continuous fluidized-bed ion-exchange system, and characterising kafirin from grain and from distillers grain for food-grade biomaterials.
Gas-liquid and solid-liquid stirred tanks
CFD and optical-probe measurements of how stirred tanks suspend solids and disperse gas, from dilute to dense slurries, and from baffled tanks to unbaffled vortices.
SpiroPak: 3D-printed structured packing
A spiral structured packing designed for additive manufacturing, with CFD and experiments on how packing geometry sets pressure drop and liquid distribution.
Courses
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Governing equations, finite volume discretisation, turbulence modelling and mesh quality, with hands-on use of commercial CFD tools on chemical engineering flows.
Computational Transport Phenomena
Momentum, heat and mass transport from the balance equations, with analytical solutions and computational methods for laminar and turbulent flows.
From Data to Dynamics: Advanced Process Modelling
Five-day short course on data-driven modelling, latent variable methods, machine learning and computational fluid dynamics for chemical engineers.
Publications
- Wong J C Q , Sun B , Shah M , Utikar R P , Pareek VAIChE Journal , 71 (10) : e18925 , 2025
- Arguello M E , Labanda N A , Calo V M , Gumulya M , Utikar R , Derksen JJournal of Energy Storage , 62 : 106854 , 2023
- Arguello M E , Labanda N A , Calo V M , Gumulya M , Utikar R , Derksen JJournal of Energy Storage , 53 : 104892 , 2022
- Arguello M E , Gumulya M , Derksen J , Utikar R , Calo V MJournal of Energy Storage , 50 : 104627 , 2022
- Ranade V V , Utikar R PWiley-VCH GmbH Weinheim, Germany , 2022
- Gumulya M , Utikar R , Pareek V , Evans G , Joshi JChemical Engineering Journal , 405 : 126615 , 2021
- Sun B , Wadnerkar D , Kim H , Utikar R P , Pareek V KApplied Thermal Engineering , 193 : 117023 , 2021
- Sun B , Wong J , Wadnerkar D , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Guo KApplied Thermal Engineering , 166 : 114671 , 2020
- Sun B , Ghatage S , Evans G M , Bhatelia T , Utikar R P , Pareek V KInternational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer , 150 : 119372 , 2020
- Gumulya M , Joshi J , Utikar R , Evans G , Pareek VChemical Engineering Science , 193 : 38–52 , 2019
- Prakash B , Bhatelia T , Wadnerkar D , Shah M T , Pareek V K , Utikar R PThe Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering , 97 (6) : 1913–1920 , 2019
- Redondo B , Shah M T , Pareek V K , Utikar R P , Webley P A , Patel J , Lee W J , Bhatelia TChemical Engineering and Processing-Process Intensification , 143 : 107606 , 2019
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V KChemical Engineering Research and Design , 152 : 165–179 , 2019
- Shah M T , Parmar H B , Rhyne L D , Kalli C , Utikar R P , Pareek V KJournal of Petroleum Science and Engineering , 182 : 106352 , 2019
- Agrawal V , Shinde Y , Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Joshi J BAdvanced Powder Technology , 29 (11) : 2658–2669 , 2018
- Agrawal V , Shinde Y H , Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Joshi J BIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , 57 (24) : 8319–8333 , 2018
- Shah M T , Pareek V K , Evans G M , Utikar R PParticuology , 38 : 18–30 , 2018
- Sun B , Wadnerkar D , Utikar R P , Tade M , Kavanagh N , Faka S , Evans G M , Pareek V KIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , 57 (28) : 9281–9291 , 2018
- Wadnerkar D , Sun B , Utikar R P , Evans G , Tade M O , Kavanagh N , Faka S , Pareek V KChemical Engineering Science , 183 : 37–46 , 2018
- Gumulya M , Utikar R P , Evans G M , Joshi J B , Pareek VChemical Engineering Science , 166 : 1–10 , 2017
- Hosseini S , Vijay P , Ahmed K , Tadé M O , Pareek V , Utikar RInternational Journal of Energy Research , 41 (11) : 1563–1578 , 2017
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V KParticuology , 31 : 25–34 , 2017
- Utikar R P , Ranade V VACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering , 5 (7) : 6356–6356 , 2017
- Amiri A , Vijay P , Tadé M O , Ahmed K , Ingram G D , Pareek V , Utikar RInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy , 41 (4) : 2919–2930 , 2016
- Gumulya M , Joshi J B , Utikar R P , Evans G M , Pareek VChemical Engineering Science , 144 : 298–309 , 2016
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Evans G M , Joshi J Bchemical engineering research and design , 111 : 403–448 , 2016
- Wadnerkar D , Tade M O , Pareek V K , Utikar R PParticuology , 29 : 16–33 , 2016
- Amiri A , Vijay P , Tadé M O , Ahmed K , Ingram G D , Pareek V , Utikar RComputers & Chemical Engineering , 78 : 10–23 , 2015
- Gumulya M , Utikar R P , Pareek V , Mead-Hunter R , Mitra S , Evans G MChemical Engineering Journal , 278 : 309–319 , 2015
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Tade M O , Evans G MPowder Technology , 269 : 247–258 , 2015
- Wadnerkar D , Pareek V K , Utikar R PMetals , 5 (4) : 1997–2020 , 2015
- Gumulya M , Utikar R P , Pareek V , Tade M O , Mitra S , Evans G MChemical Engineering Science , 116 : 23–37 , 2014
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Pareek V K , Evans G MPowder technology , 257 : 30–39 , 2014
- Veluswamy G K , Upadhyay R K , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Evans G , Glenny M E , Roy S , Pareek V KIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , 52 (12) : 4660–4671 , 2013
- Lau P W , Utikar R , Pareek V , Johnson S , Kale S , Lali AChemical Engineering Research and Design , 91 (9) : 1660–1673 , 2013
- Mitra S , Sathe M J , Doroodchi E , Utikar R , Shah M K , Pareek V , Joshi J B , Evans G MChemical Engineering Science , 100 : 105–119 , 2013
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Evans G M , Pareek V KChemical Engineering Science , 102 : 365–372 , 2013
- Sun B , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Guo KJournal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries , 26 (1) : 117–128 , 2013
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Evans G M , Tade M O , Pareek V KIndustrial & engineering chemistry research , 51 (4) : 1721–1728 , 2012
- Veluswamy G K , Utikar R P , Pareek V K , Pack D J , Tade M OAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering , 7 (6) : 841–847 , 2012
- Wadnerkar D , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Pareek V KAdvanced Powder Technology , 23 (4) : 445–453 , 2012
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Pareek V K , Evans G MChemical engineering science , 66 (14) : 3291–3300 , 2011
- Shah M T , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Pareek V KChemical Engineering Journal , 168 (2) : 812–821 , 2011
- Shah M T , Mayne J , Utikar R P , Tade M O , Pareek V KChemical Engineering Journal , 159 (1–3) : 138–148 , 2010
- Utikar R , Darmawan N , Tade M , Li Q , Evans G , Glenny M , Pareek VIn Computational fluid dynamics , 241–266 InTech , 2010
- Utikar R P , Ranade V V"Single jet fluidized beds: experiments and CFD simulations with glass and polypropylene particles."Chemical Engineering Science , 62 (1-2) : 167–183 , 2007
- Harshe Y M , Utikar R P , Ranade V V , Pahwa DChemical Engineering & Technology , 28 (12) : 1473–1479 , 2005
- Harshe Y M , Utikar R P , Ranade V VChemical Engineering Science , 59 (22-23) : 5145–5156 , 2004
- Ranade V , Utikar RChemical engineering science , 54 (21) : 5237–5243 , 1999