Bikash Mahato - Department of Mechanical Engineering

Bikash Mahato

Bikash Mahato
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

1300 West Park Street, Butte, MT 59701
Science & Engineering Building (S&E), Room 323A

Email: bmahato@mtech.edu
Phone: 406-496-4146
Website: https://b-mahato.github.io/

Biography

Bikash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Montana Technological University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India. Before joining Montana Tech, he worked as a research associate at IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Delhi and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida State University.

Bikash’s research focuses on fundamental problems in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and computational fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on complex particle-laden flows, particle transport, and computational aeroacoustics. His research combines computational modeling, numerical simulations, and fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and heat transfer to investigate transport phenomena in complex flow environments.

His work in computational aeroacoustics focuses on understanding the generation and propagation of sound associated with fluid flows. His research in particle-laden flow investigates heat and mass transport and fluid-thermal interactions of particles in advanced manufacturing and environmental fluid dynamics.

Through his research, Bikash is developing fundamental understanding of fluid flow, heat and mass transport, particle dynamics, and fluid-thermal interactions, while addressing engineering and environmental problems with practical significance.

His current research areas include:

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Heat transfer and thermal transport
  • Particle-laden and multiphase flows
  • Atmospheric boundary-layer flow dynamics
  • Wildfire smoke dispersion
  • Computational aeroacoustics
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)

Courses Taught

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (EMEC 436 and EMEC 536)
  • Fundamentals of Heat Transfer (EMEC 326)
  • Fluid Mechanics (EGEN 335)
  • Introduction to Modeling for Mechanical Engineers (EMEC 215)

Selected Publications

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft (2026). Improve Particle Deposition Efficiency in Low-Pressure Cold Spray Systems. In 155th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). San Diego, CA, March 2026.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, Isaac Nault, Peter Lucon (2025). Particle dynamics in low-pressure cold spray additive manufacturing–A numerical and experimental study. Additive Manufacturing, 104937.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, Isaac Nault, Peter Lucon (2025). Effect of turbulence on particle dynamics of cold spray systems. In 154th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Las Vegas, NV, March 2025.

Ritambhara Raj Dubey, Bikash Mahato, Neda Yaghoobian (2024). Effect of the atmospheric stability condition on buoyant plume dynamics. Physics of Fluids, 36 (12): 126615.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, Isaac Nault, and Peter Lucon (2024). Investigation of particle dynamics in a low-pressure cold spray additive manufacturing process. In 77th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Salt Lake City, UT, November 2024.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, Isaac Nault, and Peter Lucon (2024). Numerical and experimental investigation of particle dynamics in cold spray additive manufacturing process. In International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE). Portland, OR, November 2024.

Bikash Mahato, Saurabh Saxena, and Neda Yaghoobian (2024). Aerodynamic force modifications of a spherical particle with varying temperature: a study of an idealized firebrand. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 38(2):1–18.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Katelyn Rapp, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, Isaac Nault, and Peter Lucon (2024). Particle dynamics of a low-pressure cold spray system. In 14th Cold Spray Action Team Meeting. Worcester, MA, June 2024.

Ritambhara Dubey, Bikash Mahato, and Neda Yaghoobian (2023). Dynamics of buoyant plumes in stratified atmospheric boundary layer. In 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Washington, DC, November 2023.

Bikash Mahato, Jay Yoder, Gloyd Simmons, Nathan Huft, and Peter Lucon (2023). A DNS investigation of aeroacoustic noise generation in cold spray additive manufacturing. In 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Washington, DC, November 2023.

Vivek S Yadav, Naveen Ganta, Bikash Mahato, Manoj K Rajpoot, and Yogesh G Bhumkar (2022). New time-marching methods for compressible Navier-Stokes equations with applications to aeroacoustics problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 419:126863.

Bikash Mahato, Saurabh Saxena, and Neda Yaghoobian (2022). Vortex dynamics of a smoldering firebrand particle. In 75th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. Indianapolis, IN, November 2022.

Bikash Mahato, Saurabh Saxena, and Neda Yaghoobian (2022). Predicting the flight behavior of single smoldering firebrand particle: A detailed computational fluid dynamics study. In Fire & Climate Conference: Impacts, Issues and Futures. International Association of Wildland Fire, May 2022.

Praveen K. Maurya, Vivek S. Yadav, Bikash Mahato, Naveen Ganta, Manoj K. Rajpoot, and Yogesh G. Bhumkar (2021). New optimized implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods with applications to the hyperbolic conservation laws. Journal of Computational Physics, 446:110650.

Bikash Mahato, Naveen Ganta, and Yogesh G. Bhumkar (2021). Effective control of aeolian tone using a pair of splitter plates. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 494:115906.