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.
Publications
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)
On the origin of the circular hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2018)
851,
R5
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2018.558)
On the origin of the circular hydraulic jump: A differential analysis
– Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2018
(2018)
819
Cleaning vessel walls by moving water jets: Simple models and supporting experiments
– Food and Bioproducts Processing
(2017)
102,
31
(doi: 10.1016/j.fbp.2016.11.011)
Flow in the thin film created by a coherent turbulent water jet impinging on a vertical wall
– Chemical Engineering Science
(2016)
152,
606
(doi: 10.1016/j.ces.2016.06.011)
Cleaning of complex soil layers on vertical walls by fixed and moving impinging liquid jets
– Journal of Food Engineering
(2016)
178,
95
Cross-linked, biodegradable, cytocompatible salicylic acid based polyesters for localized, sustained delivery of salicylic acid: an in vitro study.
– Biomacromolecules
(2014)
15,
863
(doi: 10.1021/bm401715z)
Photo and Thermal Degradation of a Cationic Superabsorbent Polymer
– Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering
(2013)
52,
58
(doi: 10.1080/03602559.2012.719171)
Thermal and sonochemical degradation kinetics of poly(n-butyl methacrylate-co-alkyl acrylates): Variation of chain strength and stability with copolymer composition
– Polymer Engineering and Science
(2012)
53,
1542
(doi: 10.1002/pen.23390)
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