Faculty at School of Engineering

Ashish Kumar Thokchom

Ashish Kumar Thokchom

Associate Professor

School of Engineering


Contact Information

  • Fluid dynamics, particle self-assembly, flow visualization, photolithography, photonic crystal structures, piezoelectric materials, flexible electronic devices, inkjet printing, micro- and bio-fluidics, and evaporating drops.

  • Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 2010
  • M.Tech., Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal 2006
  • B.Tech., Department of Chemical Engineering, TKMCE Kollam, Kerala

  • 05/18-06/19 

Microfluidic and Nanomechatronics Lab, Postdoctoral Research, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

  • 07/19-11/19 

Nano-Biofluid System Lab, Postdoctoral Research Professor, Korea University

  • 08/15-04/18 

NIT, Department of Chemical Engineering, Arunachal Pradesh

  • Ashish Kumar Thokchom*, B. J. Medhi, S. K. Majumder and A. Singh. Analysis of circulation reversal and particle transport in evaporating drops. Microgravity Science and Technology 2021, 33, 1-9.
  • A. Tiwari, S. J. Lee, S. Shin and Ashish Kumar Thokchom*. Understanding the formation of particle bands and fingering patterns during evaporation of a colloidal sessile droplet. (Under revision)
  • A. Tiwari, A. Singh and Ashish Kumar Thokchom*. Investigation on instability of Marangoni convection inside the evaporating droplet using Hele – Shaw method. (to be submitted very soon)

  • Ashish Kumar Thokchom and S. Shin. Coffee-ring effect associated with dynamical clustering and band formation of particles in a droplet. Annual European Rheology Conference 2022 (AERC 2022), Spain.
  • A. Tiwari, S. J. Lee, S. Shin and Ashish Kumar Thokchom. Banded µ-Marangoni Vortex inside the Sessile Evaporating Droplet. Droplet 2021, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
  • A. Tiwari, A. Singh and Ashish Kumar Thokchom*. Manipulation of Marangoni convection of a sessile droplet. Droplet 2021, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
  • A. Tiwari, S. Shin, S. J. Lee, Ashish Kumar Thokchom*, Beyond Coffee Ring Pattern. International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF) 2023, Kobe, Japan. (Accepted for Oral Presentation)
  • A. Tiwari, S. Shin, S. J. Lee, Ashish Kumar Thokchom*, Critical Analysis of Dynamics of Particle Clustering and Formation of Fingering Like Pattern. CompFlu 2022, December 19-21, 2022. IIT Kharagpur (Accepted for Oral Presentation)
  • A. Tiwari, A. Singh and Ashish Kumar Thokchom*. Fluid flow and particle transport inside an evaporating droplet: A critical analysis. CompFlu 2022, December 19-21, 2022. IIT Kharagpur (Poster Presentation)

  • Development of Fluidic Manifold. PI - Ashish Kumar Thokchom, HCL. 7.8 Lakhs (Four Months)