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Dr. Takshak Shende founded PoreSoft Lab in 2022. PoreSoft Lab studies the fundamental principles governing the application of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids, deformable soft matter, ultrasonic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, and adsorption in environmental science, energy, and biotechnology. Polymeric solutions, colloidal suspensions, and bio-fluids such as biofilms and blood are all of interest. PoreSoft Lab employs experimental and numerical methodologies to solve industry challenges, focusing on geological carbon and hydrogen storage, subsurface remediation, contaminant hydrogeology, microfluidics, porescale modelling, water and wastewater treatment, and environmental impact assessement.

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Impact of drop of water and viscoelastic fluid
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Nov 2022 - Present

Research Fellow in Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics

Dept of Mechanical Engineering
University College London, UK

Experimental and computational modelling investigation to uncover the critical air and biofluid mechanics associated with the aerosolization of biofluid layers and their dispersion in real complex spaces.

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March 2022 - Present

Research Associate
Dept of Chemical Engineering
University of Manchester, UK

Developed OpenFOAM C++ library based multiphase multispecies reactive transport model for shale rocks.

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October  2020 - February 2021

Teaching Assistant
Dept of Chemical Engineering
University of Manchester, UK

Taught 'Fundamental of Numerical Methods and Simulation' to Undergraduate students.

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Aug 2015 - Aug 2018

Research/Teaching Assistant
Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Temple University, USA

  • Ultrasonic degradation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) at the cavity water interface.

  • Sulfate radical based degradation of perfluoroalkyl substance by activating persulfate using heat, UV, ultrasound, Iron.

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November 2010 - August 2015

Scientific Officer
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, India

Educational History

Learning and Living

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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

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Swami Ramanand Tirth Marathawada University, Nanded, India

July 2003 - June 2007

Project: Design & analysis of retaining wall with relief shelves using C language. 

Adviser: Prof P B Ullagaddi

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Research

PoreSoft Lab investigates the fundamental principles governing the use of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids and soft matter in environmental science, energy, and biotechnology. The materials of interest are polymeric solutions, colloidal suspensions, and bio-fluids such as biofilms and blood. Many of these materials and fluids have the potential to solve engineering problems such as subsurface remediation, enhancing oil recovery, water and wastewater treatment, and carbon sequestration. However, the complex nature of these complex fluids/materials makes their understanding complicated, specifically in complex and deformable pore-spaces such as porous media and biological tissues. We intend to use and integrate microfluidics, microscopy, mass spectroscopy, tomography, image processing, rheology, and computational modelling to understand how soft matters behave in a complex and deformable environment. In addition, Poresoft Lab intends to conduct collaborative and multi-disciplinary studies on soft matters based on polymer physics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and statistical mechanics for net-zero and sustainable systems.

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Shende, Takshak, Deepak Mangal, Jacinta C. Conrad, Vahid Niasar, and Masoud Babaei. "Nanoparticle transport within non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media." Physical Review E 106, no. 1 (2022): 015103.

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Shende, Takshak, Vahid Niasar, and Masoud Babaei. "Upscaling non-Newtonian rheological fluid properties from pore-scale to Darcy’s scale." Chemical Engineering Science 239 (2021): 116638.

Shende, Takshak, Vahid Niasar, and Masoud Babaei. "Pore-scale simulation of viscous instability for non-Newtonian two-phase flow in porous media." Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 296 (2021): 104628.

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Shende, Takshak, Vahid J. Niasar, and Masoud Babaei. "An empirical equation for shear viscosity of shear thickening fluids." Journal of Molecular Liquids 325 (2021): 115220.

Shende, Takshak, Vahid J. Niasar, and Masoud Babaei. "Effective viscosity and Reynolds number of non-Newtonian fluids using Meter model." Rheologica Acta 60, no. 1 (2021): 11-21.

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Shende, Takshak, Gangadhar Andaluri, and Rominder PS Suri. "Kinetic model for sonolytic degradation of non-volatile surfactants: Perfluoroalkyl substances." Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 51 (2019): 359-368.

Shende, Takshak, Gangadhar Andaluri, and Rominder Suri. "Frequency-dependent sonochemical degradation of perfluoroalkyl substances and numerical analysis of cavity dynamics." Separation and Purification Technology 261 (2021): 118250.

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Shende, Takshak, Gangadhar Andaluri, and Rominder Suri. "Power density modulated ultrasonic degradation of perfluoroalkyl substances with and without sparging Argon." Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 76 (2021): 105639.

An, Senyou, Muhammad Sahimi, Takshak Shende, Masoud Babaei, and Vahid Niasar. "Enhanced thermal fingering in a shear-thinning fluid flow through porous media: Dynamic pore network modeling." Physics of Fluids 34, no. 2 (2022): 023105.

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UCL Mechanical Engineering,

University College London (UCL), London 

United Kingdom

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