Vivek V.Buwa 

• Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), IIT-Bombay/National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (2004)
• B. E. (Chemical Engineering), Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1994)

• Jan 2017 onwards: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
• April 2011-Dec 2016: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
• June 2006-March 2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
• April 2005- May 2006: Research fellow of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM), University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
• Feb 2004- March 2005: Research fellow of the Bavarian Science Foundation, Institute of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
• 1999-2003: CSIR Senior Research Fellow, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
• 1995-1998: Research Assistant, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

• Teaching Excellence Award, 2013 (Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi)
• Visiting Faculty Fellowship, The Erasmus Mundus programme (European Commission) "Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering" (COSSE) is a joint initiative of four European universities: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Technical University of Berlin, Germany; Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands; Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany (for July 2011)
• Visiting Research Fellowship, June-July 2009, Institute of System Simulation, Erlangen, Germany
• Young Engineer Award, 2008 (Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi)
• Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship, 2008-2013 (Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi)
• Research Fellowship, 2005 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
• Post Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2004 (Bavarian Science Foundation, Germany)
• Best Paper Award in Engineering Sciences, 2002 (NCL Research Foundation) l Keerti Sangoram Endowment Award for Best Research Scholar in Engineering Sciences, 2002 (NCL Research Foundation)  
• Mrs. Chinnamaul Memorial Best Paper Award, 1999 (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers)

• Computational fluid dynamics, multiphase reactor engineering, multiphase flows, process intensification, micro-reactors

• Abdul Quiyoom, S.K. Ajmani and Vivek V. Buwa, "Role of Free Surface on Gas-Induced Liquid Mixing in a Shallow Vessel" 2017, AIChE Journal, in press.     
• Abdul Quiyoom, Ravi Golani, Vikas Singh and Vivek V. Buwa, "Effect of Differential Flow Schemes on Gas-Liquid Flow and Liquid Phase Mixing in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)", 2017, Chemical Engineering Science, in press.
• Karthik G. M. and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, "Effect of Particle Shape on Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer for Methane Steam Reforming Reactions in a Packed Bed", AIChE Journal, 63(1), 366-377.
• Parul Tyagi and Vivek V. Buwa, "Experimental Characterization of Dense Gas-Liquid Flow in a Bubble Column using Voidage Probes", 2017, Chemical Engineering Journal, 308, 912-928.
• Brajesh Kumar Singh, Abdul Quiyoom and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, "Dynamics of Gas-Liquid Flow in a Cylindrical Bubble Column: Comparison of Electrical Resistance Tomography and Voidage Probe Measurements", Chemical Engineering Science, 158, 124-139.
• Saroj K. Panda, K. K. Singh, K. T. Shenoy and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, "Numerical Simulations of Liquid-Liquid Disengagement in a Continuous Gravity Settler using OpenFOAM and Experimental Verification", Chemical Engineering Journal, 310, 120-133.
• Arpit Jindal and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, "Effect of Bed Characteristics on Local Liquid Spreading in a Trickle Bed", AIChE Journal, 63(1), 347-357.
• Saroj K. Panda and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, “Optimization of Geometry and Internals of a Continuous Gravity Settler for Liquid-Liquid Separation”,Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56 (46), 13929–13944
• Parul Tyagi and Vivek V. Buwa, 2017, "Dense Gas-Liquid-Solid Flow in a Slurry Bubble Column: Measurements of Dynamic Characteristics, Gas Volume Fraction and Bubble Size Distribution, Chemical Engineering Science, 173, 346–362.

• Abdul Quiyoom, Ravi Golani, Vikas Singh and Vivek V. Buwa, "Effect of Differential Flow Schemes on Gas-Liquid Flow and Liquid Phase Mixing in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF)", accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
• Brajesh K. Singh, Ekta Jain and Vivek V. Buwa, "Measurements of Liquid Volume Fraction Distribution in a Packed Bed using Electrical Resistance Tomography and Voidage Probes", accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
• Ekta Jain, Madhusudan Sau and Vivek V. Buwa, "Gas-liquid Flow through Chimney and Bubble-cap Distributors”, accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
• David Immanuel Arthur Dhanraj and Vivek V. Buwa, "Local Liquid Distribution in Trickle Beds: ERT Measurements and CFD Simulations”, accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
• Brajesh K. Singh, Shantanu Roy and Vivek V. Buwa, "Characterization of Dynamics of Unary and Binary Gas-solid Flow in a Cylindrical Fluidized Bed using Electrical Capacitance Tomography", accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
• Karthik G. M., Hassam Mazhar and Vivek V. Buwa, "Experimental and CFD Analysis of Particle-Scale Flow and RTD in Packed Beds", accepted for presentation at Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reaction Engineering (GLS 13) Brussels (Belgium), 20-23 August 2017.
•  Abhijeet H. Thaker, Abdul Quiyoom and Vivek V. Buwa, "Dynamics of Gas-Liquid Flow and Mixing in a Ladle: PIV and LIF Measurements”, accepted for presentation at 12th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (ISPIV 2017), Busan (Korea), 19-21 June 2017. 
•  Hassam Mazhar and Vivek V. Buwa, "PIV and LIF Measurements of Particle-Scale Flow in Packed Beds”, accepted for presentation at 12th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (ISPIV 2017), Busan (Korea), 19-21 June 2017. 
• Sayantani Saha and Vivek V. Buwa, "Characterization of single phase and gas-liquid flows in milli-channels using µ-PIV and µ-LIF”, accepted for presentation at 12th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (ISPIV 2017), Busan (Korea), 19-21 June 2017.