Faculty at School of Engineering
Rheology of complex fluids, Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, Multiphase flows.
BE (Chemical Engineering) University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) ME (Chemical Engineering) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Visiting Professor , IIT Ropar 2018 Professor, IIT Kanpur 1991 Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur
• P. Suri, S. A. Patel, T. Mondal and R. P. Chhabra, Momentum and heat transfer from spherical sections in Bingham plastic fluids, Applications in Engineering Science, 26, 100308 (2026).
• P. Suri, S. A. Patel, T. Mondal and R. P. Chhabra, Laminar free convection from isothermal spherical segments in viscous Newtonian and Bingham plastic fluids, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, in press (2026).
• A. Maurya and R. P. Chhabra, ¬Flow and thermal characteristics of power-law fluids through a rectangular-shaped orifice: Effects of aspect ratio and orifice location, Int. Comm. Heat Mass Transfer, 152, 107303 (2024).
• A. Chauhan, C. Sasmal and R. P. Chhabra, Effect of fluid elasticity and shear thinning on heat transfer from a heated sphere at moderate Reynolds numbers, Num. Heat Transfer: Applications, Jan (2024) pp1-22.
• M. Trivedi, N. Nirmalkar, A. K. Gupta and R. P. Chhabra, Effect of non-Newtonian fluid behavior on forced convection from a cluster of four circular cylinders in a duct, Part I: Power-law fluids, Heat Transfer Engineering,43(1), 1-26 (2022).
• M. Trivedi, N. Nirmalkar, A. K. Gupta and R. P. Chhabra, Effect of non-Newtonian fluid behavior on forced convection from a cluster of four circular cylinders in a duct, Part II: Bingham plastic fluids, Heat Transfer Engineering, 43(1), 27-48 (2022).
• A. Maurya, N. Tiwari and R. P. Chhabra, Onset of flow reversal in a vertical T-channel: Bingham fluids, Chem. Eng. Technol., 45(3),425-431 (2022).
• G. Mishra and R. P. Chhabra, Effect of power-law index and shape on the onset of flow separation, J. Chem. Eng. Japan,55(3), 132-147 (2022).
• G. Mishra and R. P. Chhabra, Effects of flow fluctuations and buoyancy on heat transfer from a sphere in non-Newtonian nano fluids: Potential for intensification, Chem. Eng. Process. Proc. Intensification, 178, 109048 (2022).
• G. Mishra, P. Mishra and R. P. Chhabra, Effects of fluid shear-thinning and yield-stress on free convection in concentric and eccentric annuli, Int. J. Thermal Sci., 182, 107801 (2022).
• R. P. Chhabra and S. A. Patel, Bubbles, Drops and Particles in non-Newtonian Fluids, 3rd edition, Taylor and Francis, New York (2023) (ISBN:978 0367 20302 3), pp.676.
• R. P. Chhabra and S. A. Patel, Non-Newtonian Flow and Applied Rheology, 3rd edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, U. K. (2025) (ISBN: 978-0443192432).
• R. Darby and R. P. Chhabra, Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Fourth edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2026. (ISBN:9781032777061)
• P J Carreau, D DeKee and R P Chhabra, Rheology of Polymeric systems: Principles and Selected Applications, second edition, Hanser, 2021.