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  1. A Flash of Light Can Steer a Droplet — Scientists Now Know Exactly How

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    saptarshi basu

  2. Evaporation and pathogenesis of levitated bacteria-laden surrogate respiratory fluid droplets: At different relative humidity and evaporation stages

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2025, American Institute of Physics

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  3. Evaporation of stable microemulsion droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2024, American Institute of Physics

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  4. Pathogenesis of bacteria-laden evaporating droplets: levitated vs sessile

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Amey Nitin Agharkar, saptarshi basu

  5. Insight into the flow dynamics of a high shear injector equipped with center-body: Suppression of precessing vortex core oscillations

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2022, American Institute of Physics

    saptarshi basu

  6. On the thermofluidics of a steady laminar jet impacting on a rotating hot plate: An ab initio scaling perspective

    Article • AIP Advances, August 2022, American Institute of Physics

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  7. Droplet impact on immiscible liquid pool: Multi-scale dynamics of entrapped air cushion at short timescales

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2022, American Institute of Physics

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  8. Penetration and aerosolization of cough droplet spray through face masks: A unique pathway of transmission of infection

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2022, American Institute of Physics

    saptarshi basu

  9. Insights into the dynamics of wake flame in a freely falling droplet

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2021, American Institute of Physics

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  10. Two-dimensional mathematical framework for evaporation dynamics of respiratory droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2021, American Institute of Physics

    saptarshi basu

  11. Efficacy of homemade face masks against human coughs: Insights on penetration, atomization, and aerosolization of cough droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2021, American Institute of Physics

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  12. Fluid dynamics of droplet generation from corneal tear film during non-contact tonometry in the context of pathogen transmission

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2021, American Institute of Physics

    saptarshi basu

  13. Insights into the dynamics of supercritical water flow using a two-phase approach

    Article • Physics of Fluids, April 2021, American Institute of Physics

    saptarshi basu

  14. Universal spatio-topological control of crystallization in sessile droplets using non-intrusive vapor mediation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2021, American Institute of Physics

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  15. Insights on drying and precipitation dynamics of respiratory droplets from the perspective of COVID-19

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2020, American Institute of Physics

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  16. Review of transport processes and particle self-assembly in acoustically levitated nanofluid droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2019, American Institute of Physics

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  17. Vapor mediated control of microscale flow in sessile droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Omkar Hegde, saptarshi basu

  18. Beyond coffee ring: Anomalous self-assembly in evaporating nanofluid droplet on a sticky biomimetic substrate

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Lalit Bansal, saptarshi basu

  19. How boiling happens in nanofuel droplets

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2018, American Institute of Physics

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  20. Insights into the dynamics of conical breakdown modes in coaxial swirling flow field

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2018, Cambridge University Press

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