Career:

• 2023       College lecturer and Fellow, Queen's College, Cambridge 
• 2022 --   The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
• 2021 -- 2022 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, DAMTP, Cambridge
• 2021 -- 2022  Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge
• 2019-2021  Research Associate, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2018-2019 Research associate, CEB, University of Cambridge
• 2014-2018 PhD, CEB, University of Cambridge
• 2012-2014 Scientist, Corporate research Lab, 3M
• 2010-2012 Masters of Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 

Research: 

Rajesh is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He works at the G. K. Batchelor Laboratory and he is a member of the Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics group. His current research interests are in interfacial flows, airborne disease transmission, and building ventilation flows. 

Openings: 

I am accepting PhD applications; if you are interested in joining the team, write to me at rkb29@cam.ac.uk; please include your CV. 

Selected Publications: 

• Bhagat, R.K., Wilson, D.I. and Linden, P.F., 2020. Experimental evidence for surface tension origin of the circular hydraulic jump. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04107.
• Bhagat, R.K., Wykes, M.D., Dalziel, S.B. and Linden, P.F., 2020. Effects of ventilation on the indoor spread of COVID-19. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903.
• Bhagat, R.K. and Linden, P.F., 2020. Displacement ventilation: a viable ventilation strategy for makeshift hospitals and public buildings to contain COVID-19 and other airborne diseases. Royal Society open science, 7(9), p.200680.
• Bhagat, R.K. and Linden, P.F., 2020. The circular capillary jump. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 896.
• Bhagat, R.K., Jha, N.K., Linden, P.F. and Wilson, D.I., 2018. On the origin of the circular hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 851.
• Bhagat, R.K. and Wilson, D.I., 2016. Flow in the thin film created by a coherent turbulent water jet impinging on a vertical wall. Chemical Engineering Science, 152, pp.606-623.