Career:
- 2022 -- The Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
- 2021 -- 2022 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 2021 -- Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College, University of 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.
Publications
The circular hydraulic jump; The influence of downstream flow on the jump radius
– Physics of Fluids
(2022)
34,
072111
(doi: 10.1063/5.0090549)
The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for COVID-19: a focus on wintertime.
– Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(2021)
477,
20200855
(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0855)
Displacement ventilation: a viable ventilation strategy for makeshift hospitals and public buildings to contain COVID-19 and other airborne diseases
– R Soc Open Sci
(2020)
7,
200680
(doi: 10.1098/rsos.200680)
Effects of ventilation on the indoor spread of COVID-19
– J Fluid Mech
(2020)
903,
f1
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2020.720)
The circular capillary jump
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2020)
896,
a25
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2020.303)
Displacement ventilation: a viable ventilation strategy for makeshift hospitals and public buildings to contain Covid-19 and other airborne diseases
– medRxiv
(2020)
2020.04.22.20075648
(doi: 10.1101/2020.04.22.20075648)
Cleaning of toothpaste from vessel walls by impinging liquid jets and their falling films: Quantitative modelling of soaking effects
– Chemical Engineering Science
(2019)
208,
115148
(doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2019.08.006)
Quantitative modelling of the erosive removal of a thin soil deposit by impinging liquid jets
– Wear
(2019)
422-423,
27
(doi: 10.1016/j.wear.2018.12.056)
Impinging jet cleaning of tank walls: Effect of jet length, wall curvature and related phenomena
– Food and Bioproducts Processing.
(2019)
113,
142
(doi: 10.1016/j.fbp.2018.10.005)
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