Pratanu Roy

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  • Title
    Staff Scientist
  • Email
    roy23@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 423-5917
  • Organization
    Not Available

Research Interests

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), High Performance Computing in CFD, Multigrid Methods, Multiphase Flow Simulations, Turbulence Modeling, Wellbore Integrity during CO2 Storage

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, 2014

B.S., Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007

  1. Pratanu Roy, Stuart D. C. Walsh, Wyatt L. Du Frane, John J. Vericella, J. K. Stolaroff, Megan M. Smith, Eric. B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, William L Bourcier, Susan Carroll, Jeffery J. Roberts, Roger D. Ains. "Fabrication and Transport of Double Emulsion Microcapsules for Applications in Unconventional Resources." In 2015 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2015.
  2. Pratanu Roy, Wyatt L. Du Frane, Stuart D. C. Walsh. "Proppant Transport at the Fracture Scale: Simulation and Experiment." In 49th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California, USA, 2015.
  3. Pratanu Roy, N. K. Anand, and Diego Donzis. "A Parallel Multigrid Finite-Volume Solver on a Collocated Grid for Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations." Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals 67.5 (2015): 376-409.
  4. Bhanesh Akula, Pratanu Roy, Pooyan Razi, Steven Anderson, and Sharath Girimaji. "Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) Simulations of Lid-Driven Cavity Flow—Part 1: Comparison with URANS and LES." In Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling, pp. 359-369. Springer International Publishing, 2015.
  5. Pratanu Roy, N. K. Anand, and Debjyoti Banerjee. "Liquid slip and heat transfer in rotating rectangular microchannels." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 62 (2013): 184-199.
  6. Pratanu Roy, N. K. Anand, and Debjyoti Banerjee. "Numerical simulation of flow and heat transfer in radially rotating microchannels." Microfluidics and nanofluidics 15, no. 3 (2013): 397-413.
  1. ARMA Best Paper Award, 49th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, California (2015)
  2. Global Security 2015 Directorate Bronze Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California (2015)
  3. Physical and Life Sciences FY15 Spot Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California (2015)
  4. CCMS Summer Institute Scholarship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California (2011)
  5. 1st Prize, Labwide Student Poster Symposium, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California (2011)