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International Conference on Flow Visualisation and Imaging Techniques

IIT Madras, Chennai, India | 13-15 February 2026

Pre-Conference Workshop | 10–12 February 2026

SCHEDULE

DAY 1 – 13.02.2026 (Friday)

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Registration

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Inauguration

Session 1

Chair: Prof. K. Muralidhar (IIT Kanpur)

Invited Talks

9:30 - 10:10 AM

Drop-impact ejecta splashing studied via high-speed color interferometry

Prof. Sigurdur Thoroddsen

KAUST

Contributed Talks

10:10 - 10:25 AM

Dual-wavelength interferometric measurements of temperature and concentration fields of a volatile droplet impacting a solid surface

Mohammad Shahdhaar (IIT Bombay)

10:25 - 10:40 AM

Drop shape and velocity field in drop splash

Raghavendra S (IIT Kanpur)

10:40 - 11:00 AM

Tea Break

Session 2

Chair: Prof. Cameron Tropea (TU Darmstadt)

Invited Talks

11:00 - 11:40 AM

Imaging a Deforming Gas-liquid Interface for building contact angle models

Prof. K. Muralidhar

IIT Kanpur

11:40 - 12:20 PM

Generating, observing and characterizing internal gravity waves in stratified media

Prof. Philippe Odier

ENS Lyon

Contributed Talks

12:20 - 12:35 PM

Experimental Study of Falling Films over Horizontal Tubes Using Digital Holographic Interferometry

Jawahar Prakash (IIT Madras)

12:35 - 12:50 PM

Spiky contacts during the impact of an emulsion drop on a solid surface

Krishna Raja Dharmarajan (KAUST)

12:50 - 1:05 PM

Adhesion force measurement on superhydrophobic and patterned surfaces using cantilever deflection

Abhilash M. S. (IIT Madras)

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Prof. Sigurdur Thoroddsen (KAUST)

Invited Talks

2:00 - 2:40 PM

The heat transfer in the liquid drop contact line

Dr. Vyacheslav Cheverda

Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Russia (Online)

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2:40 - 3:20 PM

10 Years of the Ring of Fire: Quantitative Flow Visualization for Transiting Objects

Prof. Andrea Sciacchitano

TU Delft

Contributed Talks

3:20 - 3:35 PM

Estimation of Inertial Fog Droplet Capture on Cylindrical Fibers using Digital Inline Holography

Sohom Goswami (IIT Kanpur)

3:35 - 3:50 PM

Mixed-Convection Free-Shear Flow Through Porous Screens

Shashikant Pawar (Plaksha University)

3:50 - 4:10 PM

Tea Break

Session 4

Chair: Prof. Atul Srivastava (IIT Bombay)

Contributed Talks

4:10 - 4:25 PM

Stabilizing Microfluidic Droplet Imaging Using a CD-Drive-Based Microstepping Linear Actuator

Antony Xavier (IIT Madras)

4:25 - 4:40 PM

Investigation of Dense Particulate Suspensions in Stirred Tanks by Real-Time X-ray Radiography Technique

Asif Bhat (IGCAR)

4:40 - 4:55 PM

Development of Tomographic Background-Oriented Schlieren for 3D density measurement in buoyant plumes

Javed Mohd. (IIT Kanpur)

4:55 - 5:10 PM

Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Jet

Vivek Mugundhan (KAUST)

5:10 - 5:25 PM

Liquid-in-liquid encapsulation during immiscible drop-pool impact

Keshav V (IIT Madras)

DAY 2 – 14.02.2026 (Saturday)

Session 1

Chair: Prof. Andrea Sciacchitano (TU Delft)

Invited Talks

9:00 - 9:40 AM

Depth from Defocus Measurement Technique: Quo Vadis?

Prof. Cameron Tropea

TU Darmstadt

Contributed Talks

10:05 - 10:20 AM

Reconfigurable Microfluidics Using Multiple Magnetic Microrobots

Dineshkumar Loganathan (NCKU Taiwan)

10:20 - 10:35 AM

Comparative Experimental Investigation of Spray Characteristics of Boron-Loaded Slurry and Gel Fuels

Prabhu Deva P (Alliance University)

Flash Talks

9:40 - 9:45 AM

Droplet dynamics of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids on inclined superhydrophobic surfaces

Balantrapu Venkata Rama Sai Krishna

VIT-AP University

9:45 - 9:50 AM

Drop Impact Studies on Banana Leaves

Krishnadas Nampoothiri

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chennai

9:50 - 9:55 AM

Flow Visualization of Fluidically-Vectoring Jets

Saiphaneendra Karuchola

IIT Kanpur

9:55 - 10:00 AM

Optimizing formation of spheroids inside droplets for microfluidics-based high throughput screening

Sachin Thomas

IIT Madras

10:00 - 10:05 AM

Numerical Simulation of Bingham fluid flowing over a superhydrophobic wall modelled by liquid-air interface slippage

Geetanjali Chattopadhyay

MNIT Jaipur

10:35 - 11:10 AM

Tea + Poster

Session 2

Chair: Prof. Neetu Tiwari (IIT Hyderabad)

Invited Talks

11:10 - 11:50 AM

Advanced diagnostics for simultaneous mapping of transport phenomena and interfacial dynamics during droplet impact

Prof. Atul Srivastava

IIT Bombay

11:50 - 12:30 PM

A multi-directional imaging technique for liquid jet core visualization in airblast injectors

Prof. Srikrishna Sahu

IIT Madras

Contributed Talks

12:30 - 12:45 PM

Chaos in Stokes Flows enhances stirring

Prabhash Kumar (IIT Madras)

Flash Talks

12:45 - 12:50 PM

Electrothermal flow of non-Newtonian fluid through wavy channel

Bijoy Dutta

Banaras Hindu University

12:50 - 12:55 PM

Optimization of 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Organ-on-Chip Applications

Devashree Sakharkar

IIT Madras

12:55 - 1:00 PM

On the Investigation of Near Wake Structures of Heaving and Pitching Elliptical Cross-sectional Wing in Quiescent Fluid

Gangadhar Venkata Ramana Pinapatruni

IIT Kanpur

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Prof. Srikrishna Sahu (IIT Madras)

Invited Talks

2:00 - 2:40 PM

Data assimilation in flow visualization

Prof. Neetu Tiwari

IIT Hyderabad

2:40 - 3:20 PM

Fluid thermometry using inorganic phosphor tracer particles

Dr. Benoit Fond

ONERA (Online)

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Flash Talks

3:20 - 3:25 PM

Influence of elliptical bodies on electro-thermo-hydrodynamics (ETHD) traits and ML prediction of heat transfer

Rajeswari Chokkapu

GMR Institute of Technology

3:25 - 3:30 PM

Numerical Study of Fluidic Thrust Vectoring Accompanied by a Guide Plate and Counterflow Configuration

Bhimu Daddimani

NIT Karnataka

3:30 - 3:35 PM

Visualizing spermatozoa on a tricky trail: A mimic of the female reproductive system

Faaiza Ibrahim

IIT Madras

3:35 - 3:40 PM

Unsteady Electroosmotic Transport of Viscoelastic Fluids Under Pulsed Electric Fields

Bhanu Pratap Singh

Banaras Hindu University

3:40 - 3:45 PM

Background Oriented Schlieren imaging applied to post impact droplet evaporation

Partha Dutta

IIT Madras

3:45 - 4:15 PM

Tea + Poster

Session 4

Chair: Prof. Atul Srivastava (IIT Bombay)

Contributed Talks

4:15 - 4:30 PM

Visualizing Viscous Dissipation in Vertical Planetary Mixer

Kuralamuthan Veerapandiyan (IIT Madras)

4:30 - 4:45 PM

Shock-Dominated Flow Features in Supersonic Rectangular Impinging Jets

Revathy RK (IIT Kanpur)

4:45 - 5:00 PM

Flow-field and Acoustic Characterization of an Actively Controlled Mach 0.5 Jet

Ambica Singh (IIT Kanpur)

5:00 - 5:15 PM

Dynamics of Elongated Taylor Bubbles in non-Newtonian Fluids

Manikandan Padmanaban (IIT Madras)

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Conference Dinner

DAY 3 – 15.02.2026 (Sunday)

Session 1

Chair: Prof. Saptarishi Basu (IISc Bangalore)

Invited Talks

9:00 - 9:40 AM

The yoga of droplets: coalescence in complex fluids

Prof. Aloke Kumar

IISc Bangalore

Contributed Talks

9:40 - 9:55 AM

Taylor bubble rise through shear-thinning liquids in closed top inclined tubes

Priyanka (IIT Kharagpur)

9:55 - 10:10 AM

Pore-Scale Visualization of Multiphase Flow in Enhanced Oil Recovery Using a PDMS Microchannel

Nagur Shaik (IIPE)

10:10 - 10:25 PM

Evaluation of agglomerate particle size distribution in aluminized RDX based AP/HTPB composite propellant flames through image analysis

Krish Raibole (IIT Hyderabad)

10:25 - 10:40 PM

Data-Driven Prediction of Fuel Spray Dynamics using a Novel Hybrid Machine Learning Technique

Vedharaj Sivasankaralingam (NIT Trichy)

10:40 - 11:00 AM

Tea + Group Photo

Session 2

Chair: Prof. Aloke Kumar (IISc Bangalore)

Invited Talks

11:00 - 11:40 AM

Adventures of a Droplet: A Multiscale Journey to Extreme Flow Conditions

Prof. Saptarishi Basu

IISc Bangalore

11:40 - 12:20 PM

Coherent and intermittent structures in transitional boundary layer flows

Dr. Sumit Tambe (IIT Madras)

12:20 - 12:50 PM

Panel Discussion

12:50 - 1:20 PM

Closing Ceremony & Prize Distribution

1:30 - 2:30 PM

Lunch