Poster Schedule

                                                                                  DAY1: 5th OCTOBER 2026

      Poster No - Presenter Name - Affiliation - Poster Title

• · P1 - Nithin Krishnan S - IIT KGP - Interaction of a Mach 1.5 Shock Wave with a Rising Water Droplet: A Numerical Investigation

• · P2 - Saurabh Sharma - COEP, Pune - Electrohydrodynamic Effects on the Deformation and Stability of Droplets in Leaky Dielectric Media

• · P3 - Sudhanshu Singh - IIT Guwahati - Dynamics of Active Droplets in Confined Microchannel Flows

• · P4 - Siddhant Jain - IISc - Vortex rings as hydrodynamic dispersants for mitigating underwater oil spills

• · P5 - Suman Mandal - Jadavpur University - Beyond the Taylor Cone: Crown Formation in Water Droplets under Strong Electric Field Gradients

• · P6 - Pallavi R. Katre - NIT Warangal - Elasto-viscous regime in coalescence of viscoelastic droplets

• · P7 - Rakshith Kamath - IIT Ropar - Surface Molecular Order Governs Microdroplet Collisions of n-Alcohols

• · P8 - Jyoti Prasad Rana - IIT M - Do Dissimilar Settling Drops Orbit?

• · P9 - Akarsh Choudhary - Mech Eng, IISc - Blast Wave Induced Breakup of Tandem Droplets

• · P10 - Srikanta Panigrahi - Mech Eng, IIT B - Whole-Field Optical Diagnostics of Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer Around an Evaporating Acetone Droplet

• · P11 - Shyam Sunder Yadav - Mech Eng, BITS Pilani - Direct Numerical Simulation of Droplet Solidification Using Ternary Phase Field Method

• · P12 - Tonmoy Sharma - Mech Eng, IIT Gandhinagar - Interfacial Frost Evolution and Heat Transfer on Wettability-Engineered Aluminium Heat Exchangers

• · P13 - Saurabh Patel - Mech Eng, IIT B - Droplet Impact Dynamics on Superhydrophobic Cylindrical Pillar

• · P14 - Aranyak Chakravarty - Jadavpur University - Effects of droplet impact and salinity on the dynamics of energy harvesting from droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerators

• · P15 - Shubham S. Ganar - Mech Eng, IISc - Sphere entry through the liquid interfaces

• · P16 - Shrirang Shivankar - Mech Eng, IIT Indore - Quantitative Stage Decomposition of Cavity Formation in Miscible and Immiscible Droplet-Pool Impact

• · P17 - Prateek R Kotegar - IIT Kgp - JET CONTROLLED ULTRAFAST DROPLET BOUNCING

• · P18 - Pradyumna Das - IIT K - Rebound-Mediated Retention of Micron-Scale Droplets on Superhydrophobic Fog meshes

• · P19 - Marie-Gabrielle Medici - Institut de Physique de Nice - Tears of condensation: A study of condensation on subcooled wettability engineered tubes under natural convection

• · P20 - Rajalingam A - IIT M - Bubble transport limits on a conical surface in different liquids

• · P21 - Riddhiman Ganguly - Manipal Inst Tech - Atmospheric Microbiome Collection by Condensation on Surface Modified Aluminium

• · P22 - Pooja Hirehal - MIAP - Wettability-Engineered Paper via Silicone-Oil Grafting for Localized Droplet Manipulation and Plasmonic Sensing

• · P23 - Vanishree Hulakund - Manipal Inst Tech - On the Surface Roughness-Wettability Coupling to the Imbibition Dynamics of a Newtonian Fluid in a Non-Uniform Capillary

• · P24 - Md Quamar Alam - Mech Eng, IIT Patna - On the origin of intermittently silent bubble departure from a wettability-modified nozzle

• · P25 - Bhavana gadad - Manipal Inst Tech - Radial Electroosmotic Flow-Assisted Species Transport and Surface Adsorption in a Sessile Droplet

• · P26 - Udita Uday Ghosh - Chem Eng, IIT BHU - How do electrolytes wet separators in Li-ion batteries?

• · P27 - Mahesh N. Malage - BARC - A Wetting Parameter Linking Droplet-Induced Wetting Dynamics with Peak HT during Spray Quenching of a Cylindrical Pipe Array

• · P28 - Nagaraju Perapu - BITS Goa - Surfactant-Assisted Interfacial Enhancement of Ethane Hydrate Nucleation for Hydrate-Based Desalination

• · P29 - Prateechee Padma Behera - IIT B - Pore-scale immiscible interfacial transport facilitates low-cost droplet generation

                                                                                 DAY2: 6th OCTOBER 2026 

      Poster No - Presenter Name - Affiliation - Poster Title

• · P30 - Saini Jatin Rao - IISc - Turbulence of Fragmenting Interfaces

• · P31 - Kshetramohan Sahoo - NIT Rourkela - Studies on Switchable Stability of Pickering Emulsion

• · P32 - Nilojendu Banerjee - University of Pavia, Italy - Interfacial Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Droplet Sprays with a Moving Nozzle

• · P33 - Samridh Patial - IIST - Internal-External visualisation of the starting transient in a transparent twin-fluid atomizer

• · P34 - SHUBHAMOY HALDER - IIT Guwahati - Single-step O/W/O double-emulsion generation in a flow-focusing device without surface treatments

• · P35 - Prasanna Kumar Billa - Mech Eng, IISc - Jet induced breakup of a submerged drop

• · P36 - Prajwal G M - Mobility Eng, Mech Eng, IISc - Ultrasonic liquid-jet breakup and droplet formation

• · P37 - Rumal Singh - Shiv Nadar IOE - Jamming of Magnetic Nanoparticles at the Liquid-Liquid Interface: Assembly, Rheology, and Structure under a magnetic field

• · P38 - Sourav Sarkar - Jadavpur University - One Network, Two Transitions: Complex Network-based Characterization from Bubble Column to Frost Formation

• · P39 - Sarang Jagdish - IIT Indore - Dynamical signatures of combusting organic gel fuel droplets

• · P40 - Nitish Singh - OIST Japan - Coupled self-charging and self-propulsion of evaporating sessile droplets

• · P41 - Bimalendu Mahapatra - Mech Eng, IISc - Universality in Droplet Impact on a Localized Perforation: Coupled Spreading and Penetration Dynamics

• · P42 - Devranjan Samanta - Mech Eng, IIT Ropar - Non-Newtonian drop impact dynamics on flexible superhydrophobic substrates

• · P43 - Joita Chakraborty - Mech Eng, IISc - Splash morphologies of microemulsion droplet impact on a solid substrate

• · P44 - Soumyadeep sarkar - IIT M - Heat Transfer to Drops Impacting a Heated, Moving Surface

• · P45 - Vamshi Krishna Poloju - IIT Gandhinagar - Drop Impact on Thin Lubricant Films

• · P46 - Swithin Hanosh - MIAP - Droplet Impact Dynamics on PDMS-brush Grafted and Liquid-Infused Surfaces: Role of Surface Mobility and Morphology

• · P47 - Vivek Muttath - MIAP - Oil-Grafted Track-Assisted Splitting of Water Droplets on a Wettability Contrast Surface

• · P48 - R Sandhya - MIAP - Effect of Chemical Surface Modification and Silicone-Oil Infusion on the Tribological Performance of Titanium

• · P49 - Md Fariduddin - IIT Madras - Micellar Structure-Dependent Spreading Dynamics

• · P50 - Siddhartha Mukherjee - IIT Guwahati - Modelling the wetting dynamics of shear-thinning droplets

• · P51 - Ajay Kumar - IIT Tirupati - Microstructure-Driven Droplet–Metal Interactions

• · P52 - Ayushi Sinha - IIT K - A Three-Dimensional Stacked Wearable Sweat-based Microfluidic Patch Inspired by Plant Vascular Transport

• · P53 - Ramajayam D - NIT Puducherry - A Unified Asymptotic Scaling for Droplet Height Across Capillary and Gravity Regimes

• · P54 - Swaranjali Shinde - Savitribai Phule PU - Development of fluorine-free superhydrophobic coating using a fumed silica nanoparticle

• · P55 - Charul gupta - IIT Hyderabad - Experimental evidence of slip: resolution of the moving contact line singularity

• · P56 - Rutvik Lathia - Max Planck Institute for Polymer - Electrification mechanisms in sliding liquid and frozen drops

• · P57 - Sangamesh S Kubihal - Manipal Inst Tech - Solute Dispersion in Microchannel Flow Driven by Ciliary Motion and Electroosmotic Effects

• · P58 - Sarath Chandra Varma - IIT Hyderabad - Deformation and Flow Structure of Compound Droplets with Viscous Interfaces in Nonlinear Extensional Flow

                                                                                  DAY3: 7th OCTOBER 2026

         Poster Number - Presenter Name - Affiliation - Poster Title

• · P59 - Vignesh T.G. - Mech Eng, IIT Tirupati - Retraction Dynamics of an Asymmetric Liquid Filament

• · P60 - Arindam Basak - Mech Eng, IISc - Analytical and Colour-Gradient LBM Modelling of Confined Active Droplets

• · P61 - V. Keshav - Mech Eng, IIT M - Flower-like Deformation of a Hyper-dense Drop While Entraining an Immiscible Deep Liquid Pool

• · P62 - Meenu Rani - Dept. of Physics, IIT Ropar - Laser-Induced Liquid microjets in Binary Mixtures

• · P63 - Akhil Aravind - Mech Eng, IISc - Interface Dynamics during Flame–Shock Interaction in Slender Confined Geometries

• · P64 - Aayanshu Kumar - IIT Madras - Drop dynamics in an acoustically actuated chamber

• · P65 - Rupali Sharma - Dept of Maths IIT KGP - Thermocapillary Steering of an Internally Resistive Droplet

• · P66 - Krishanth M - KCG College of Technology, - Effect of Bubble on Material Surface Integrity

• · P67 - Debasish Ghosh - IIT Madras - Confinement-induced wall-shear control of viscoelastic filament breakup in microfluidic co-flow

• · P68 - Debarshi Debnath - University of Edinburgh - Evaporation of Multiple Sessile Droplets: A Lubrication Theory and Direct Numerical Simulation Study of Pure and Binary Mix

• · P69 - B. Hemanth - IIT (BHU) Varanasi. - Spatio-temporal dynamics of liquid cap of the desiccating colloidal droplets on a partially wetting substrate

• · P70 - Sneha Prakash Naik - MAHE - Analysis of colistin-resistance genes transfer in hospital effluent treatment plants using droplet microfluidics

• · P71 - Parth Sharma - Thapar Institute of Eng & Tech, - Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Cross-Surface Generalization in Droplet Impact Prediction

• · P72 - Vishal - Mech Eng, IIT Mandi - Heat transfer during droplet impact on a grooved surface

• · P73 - Rajdeep Konar - Mech Eng, IIT Gandhinagar - Droplet Impingement Induced Cooling of Superhydrophobic Surfaces

• · P74 - Abhishek Kumar Jaiswal - Mech Eng, IIT Kgp - Rebounding Ferrofluid Leidenfrost Droplets in a Magnetic Field Environment

• · P75 - BVR SAI KRISHNA - VIT-AP, - Droplet impact dynamics over inclined superhydrophobic surfaces under high- pressure ambient conditions.

• · P76 - Ashok Kumar Raipilli - Mech Eng, IIT M - Drop Impact on a Superhydrophobic Flexible Cantilever Carrying a Pendant Droplet

• · P77 - Vishwanath B - Mech Eng, GEC Idukki, Kerala - A Rapid and Frugal Method for Fabricating Superhydrophobic Surfaces on Wax-Coated Glass Using Camphor Soot

• · P78 - N Neipedenuo Kenguruse - NIT Nagaland - A facile fabrication and Wetting Transition Analysis of Eco-Friendly ZnO/Sepiolite Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS)

• · P79 - Imlilemla Aier - NIT Nagaland - Structure-Property Relationships Governing Wetting and Droplet Interactions in a Hierarchical Nb2C MXene-Based Porous

• · P80 - V Venkitesh - IISc - Insights into evaporation of a Cassie droplet

• · P81 - Praveen Kavuru - IIT Kanpur - Multi-functional Lubricant-infused Nanofibrillar PVDF-HFP Fabricated via Nanoimprint Lithography

• · P82 - Shrushti Thakkar - IIT Gandhinagar - From Wettability to Architecture: Engineering Surfaces for Bacterial Adhesion

• · P83 - Apoorva Sneha Ravi - CENSE, IISc - A suspended oil-cloaked droplet: Vibration-induced re-capture and directional release in slippery meshes

• · P84 - Suyash Gairola - Chem Eng, IISc - Tactile friction under boundary lubrication: Effect of bulk concentration of surfactants on fingertip friction

• · P85 - Vignesh Dhinasekaran - IIT Tirupati - Viscous Effects on Aerodynamic Breakup and Atomization of Liquid Jets in an Air-Assisted Impinging Jet Atomization

• · P86 - Laxmi Baligar - Dept. of Math, Manipal Inst Tech - Influence of Dynamics of Tumour Growth on Peristaltic Fluid Transport

• · P87 - Narendra K. C. - IIT Kanpur - Salt Creeping and Crystal Lifting in Ternary Saline Droplets on Hydrophobic Substrates

• · P88 - Mahendra Vishwakarma - IISc - Experimental Investigation of Evaporation Plant-Inspired Connected Porous Media