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1 Office Address: ABHISHEK SAHA 3520 Ravens Crest Drive Plainsboro, NJ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University Room: D334, E-Quad Olden Street, Princeton, NJ Phone: Present Employment: Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University July 2014 Present Past Employments: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University July 2012 June 2014 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Central Florida June 2009 June 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida Jan 2008 May 2009 Assistant Manager, Tata Motors Limited, Pune, India July 2006 Dec 2007 Academic Qualifications: PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of Central Florida MS (Mechanical Engineering), University of Central Florida BE (Mechanical Engineering), Jadavpur University, India Awards and Honors: Recipient of Outstanding Dissertation Award from University of Central Florida, April 2013 Recipient of Austin L. Grogan Memorial Scholarship from College of Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Central Florida, 2009 Research Interests: Sprays and Droplets: focused on breakup, coalescence and evaporation Combustion: focused on turbulent premixed combustion, flame-front instabilities Acoustically Levitated Droplets: focused on internal flow structure, preferential agglomeration of suspended nanoparticles, instability rising from interaction between acoustic wave and levitated droplet Spray Pyrolysis: focused on droplets with precursors solution and corresponding precipitation, chemical transformation and microstructure Optical Diagnostics: Particle Image Velocimetry, Laser Induced Fluorescence, Mie Scattering, Shadowgraph, Particle Tracking, Phase Doppler Anemometry, Infrared Imaging, High Speed Imaging

2 Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: 1. Morphology and self-acceleration of laminar expanding flames with flame-front cellular instabilities S Yang, A Saha, F Wu, CK Law Combustion and Flame (In Press) 2. Nonmonotonic Response of Drop Impacting on Liquid Surface: Mechanism and Scaling X Tang, A Saha, CK Law, C Sun Soft Matter, Volume 12, Issue 20, 2016, pages (The article was featured in the cover of the issue) 3. Dynamics of Bouncing-versus-Merging Responses in Jet Collision M Li, A Saha, DL Zhu, C Sun, CK Law Physical Review E, Volume 92, Issue 2, 2015, pages On Flame-Turbulence Interaction in Constant-Pressure Expanding Flames S Chaudhuri, A Saha, CK Law Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 35, Issue 2, 2015, pages Propagation Speeds of Expanding Turbulent Flames of C4 to C8 n-alkanes at Elevated Pressures: Experimental Determination, Fuel Similarity, and Stretch-Affected Local Extinction F Wu, A Saha, S Chaudhuri, CK Law Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Volume 35, Issue 2, 2015, pages Facilitated Ignition in Turbulence through Differential Diffusion F Wu, A Saha, S Chaudhuri, CK Law Physical Review Letters, Volume 113, Issue 2, July 2014, pages Flame Surface Statistics of Constant Pressure Turbulent Expanding Premixed Flames A Saha, S Chaudhuri, CK Law Physics of Fluids, Volume 26, Issue 4, April 2014, pages Criteria for Thermally Induced Atomization and Catastrophic Breakup of Acoustically Levitated Droplet S Basu, A Saha, R Kumar International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 59, April 2013, pages Breakup and Coalescence Characteristics of a Hollow Cone Swirling Spray A Saha, J Lee, S Basu, R Kumar Physics of Fluids, Volume 24, Issue 12, December 2012, pages Spreading and atomization of droplets on a vibrating surface in a standing pressure field P Deepu, S Basu, A Saha, R Kumar Applied Physics Letters, Volume 101, Issue 14, October 2012, pages Velocity and rotation measurements in acoustically levitated droplets Physics Letters A, Volume 376, Issue 45, October 2012, pages Scaling analysis: Equivalence of Convective and Radiative Heating of Levitated droplet, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 100, Issue 20, May 2012, Pages Effect of Acoustic Streaming Induced Flow on Vaporizing Nanofluid Droplet Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 692, February 2012, pages

3 14. Thermally Induced Secondary Atomization and Breakup of Droplet in an Acoustic Field S Basu, A Saha, R Kumar Applied Physics Letters, Volume 100, Issue 5, February 2012, pages Particle Image Velocimetry and Infrared Thermography in a Levitated Droplet with Nanosilica Suspensions Experiments in Fluids, Volume 52, Issue 3, 2012, pages Experimental Analysis of Thermo-Physical Processes in Acoustically Levitated Heated Droplets A Saha, S Basu, C Suryanarayana, R Kumar International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issues 25-26, December 2010, Pages Structural Morphology of Acoustically Levitated and Heated Nanosilica Droplet R Kumar, E Tijerino, A Saha, S Basu Applied Physics Letters, Volume 97, Issue 12, September 2010, Pages Infrared Thermography and Numerical Study of Vaporization Characteristics of Pure and Blended Bio-Fuel Droplets A Saha, R Kumar, S Basu International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 53, Issues 19-20, September 2010, Pages Precursor dependent microstructure evolution and non stoichiometry in nanostructured cerium oxide coatings using the solution precursor plasma spray technique V Singh, A Karakoti, A Kumar, A Saha, S Basu, S Seal Journal of American Ceramic Society, Volume 93, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages Non-Premixed Acoustically Perturbed Swirling Flame Dynamics U Idahosa, A Saha, C Xu, S Basu Combustion and Flame, Volume 157, Issue 9, September 2010, Pages Vaporization and Precipitation Characteristics of Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation A Saha, V Singh, S Seal, S Basu Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 203, Issue 15, 25 May 2009, Pages Thermo-physical Processes in Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Injected into High Temperature Plasma A Saha, S Seal, B Cetegen, E Jordan, A Ozturk, S Basu Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 203, Issue 15, 25 May 2009, Pages Articles under Review or in Preparation: 1. Highly enhanced flame propagation by turbulence through differential diffusion S Yang, A Saha, W Liang, F Wu, CK Law (to be submitted) Conference Articles and presentations: 1. Morphology and Propagation of Cellularly Unstable Flames A Saha, S Yang, F Wu, C K Law Paper#2B05, 2016 Spring Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Princeton, NJ, March 13-16, On Bouncing and Absorption of Drop Impacting Liquid Film X Tang, A Saha, C K Law, C Sun Paper# 1C04, 2016 Spring Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Princeton, NJ, March 13-16, 2016

4 3. Extreme Facilitation of Flame Propagation by Turbulence through Differential Diffusion S Yang, A Saha, W Liang, F Wu, C K Law Paper# 1B12, 2016 Spring Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Princeton, NJ, March 13-16, Nonmonotonic Response of Drop Impacting Liquid Film X Tang, A Saha, C Sun and C K Law 68 th APS-DFD Meeting, Boston, MA, November 22-24, Highly enhanced flame propagation by turbulence through differential diffusion S Yang, A Saha, F Wu and C K Law 68 th APS-DFD Meeting, Boston, MA, November 22-24, Dynamics of Bouncing-vs.-Merging Responses in Jet Collision M Li, A Saha, D L Zhu,C Sun and C K Law 68 th APS-DFD Meeting, Boston, MA, November 22-24, A further study on the role of turbulence in facilitating ignition A Saha, S Yang, F Wu and C K Law 9 th US National Combustion Meeting, Cincinnati, Oh, May 17-30, Bouncing and Merging of Liquid Jets A Saha, M Li and C K Law 67 th APS-DFD Meeting, San Francisco, Ca, November 23-25, Log-Normality and Multifractal Analysis of Flame Surface Statistics A Saha, S Chaudhuri and C K Law 66 th APS-DFD Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 24-26, Similarity and Scaling of Turbulent Flame Speeds for Expanding Premixed Flames of C 4 -C 8 n-alkanes CK Law, A Saha, S Chaudhuri and C K Law 66 th APS-DFD Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 24-26, Levitated Droplet Evaporation: Scaling Analysis for Equivalence between Radiative and Convective heating A Saha, S Basu and R Kumar 9th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, Rome, Italy, September 9-13, Thermally Induced Breakup of Levitated Droplet A Saha, S Basu and R Kumar 12th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2-6, Effects of Injection Pressure on Spray J Lee, A Saha, S Basu and R Kumar 12th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2-6, Shape Deformation and Atomization of Functional Droplets in Contact with a Vibrating Surface P Deepu, A Saha, S Basu and R Kumar 12th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2-6, Levitated Nano-silica droplet: leading to bowl formation 21st National and 10th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer conference, Chennai, India, December

5 16. Agglomeration and precipitation kinetics on acoustically levitated droplet containing solute particles 24th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Estoril, Portugal, September 17. Study of Single Levitated Fuel Droplet Vaporization Process under Monochromatic Irradiation using IR-Thermography and High speed imaging X Gu, A Saha, S Basu, W Deng, R Kumar Paper No 185, ILASS Americas, 23rd Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Ventura, CA, May 18. PIV Study on the Dimple Mid-plane of a Narrow Rectangular Channel with Dimples Applied to One Wall L Tran, M Valentino, A Saha, C Slabaugh, M Ricklick, J Kapat, S Basu Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo, Paper No GT-46132, Vancouver, Canada, June 6-11, 19. On scalar mixing in the field of closely interacting vortex pairs and couples S Chaudhuri, S Basu, A Saha, S Biswas, B M Cetegen Paper No 2D05, 7th U.S. Combustion Meeting, Georgia Tech Institute, Atlanta, GA, March 20-23, 20. Radiative heating of acoustically levitated nano-silica droplets: Internal flow pattern leading to ring or bowl shaped structure A Saha, E Tijerino, R Kumar, S Basu Abstract No. MJ.00008, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, November 21 23, Acoustically Levitated Nanofluid Droplet Vaporization E Tijerino, A Saha, R Kumar, S Basu 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada, August 1-5, IR-Thermography and High speed imaging of Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation A Saha, E Tijerino, R Kumar, S Basu Paper no: FEDSM-ICNMM , 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Montreal, Canada, August 1-5, IR-Thermography, Laser induced Fluorescence and High speed imaging of Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation A Saha, E Tijerino, R Kumar, S Basu Paper No: 1732, 15th International Symposium on Laser Techniques in Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal, July 5-8, Laser Diagnostics in Acoustically Perturbed Non-Premixed Burner to Visualize Effects of Equivalence Ratio and Swirl-Intensity U Idahosa, A Saha, S Basu Workshop on Application of Laser in Mechanical Industries (WALMI), Jadavpur University, India, Jan 7-9, Study of Vaporization and Precipitation Characteristics in Precursor Droplets Heated by Monochromatic Irradiation A Saha, R Kumar, S Seal, S Basu Workshop on Application of Laser in Mechanical Industries (WALMI), Jadavpur University, India, Jan 7-9, 2010

6 26. Frequency response characterization of swirl stabilized flame dynamics. U. Idahosa, A. Saha, C. Xu, S. Basu Proceedings of ASME POWER 2009, Paper No , Albuquerque, NM, July 21-23, Modeling and experimental study of pure and blended bio-fuel droplets injected into hot stream of air A Saha, R Clapp, R Kumar, S Basu Paper No. A10, Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Oct 18-21, On the fluid dynamics of acoustically perturbed swirling non-premixed flames. U Idahosa, A Saha, N Khatami, C Xu, S Basu Paper No. C15, Eastern States Section Meeting of the Combustion Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Oct 18-21, Frequency response characterization of swirl stabilized flame dynamics. U Idahosa, A Saha, C Xu, S Basu Paper No. 22D1, U.S. Combustion Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 17-20, Vaporization Characteristics of Pure and Blended Bio-Fuel Droplets Injected into Hot Stream of Air A Saha, B Dubas, R Kumar, S Basu. Paper No. 23I3, U.S. Combustion Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 17-20, Computational study of scalar mixing in the field of interacting laminar vortices S Chaudhuri, S Basu, D Lambe, B M Cetegen, A Saha Paper No. 13D2, U.S. Combustion Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 17-20, Thermo-physical Processes in Cerium Nitrate Precursor Droplets Injected into High Temperature Plasma A Saha, S Basu, V Singh, S Seal 33rd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC), The American Ceramic Society, Daytona, FL, Jan 18-23, Deposition mechanism of nanoceria coating by Solution precursor plasma spray V Singh, S Seal, A Saha, S Basu 33rd International Conference & Exposition on Advanced Ceramics & Composites (ICACC), The American Ceramic Society, Daytona, FL, Jan 18-23, Precipitation kinetics in cerium nitrate precursor droplets heated by monochromatic irradiation A Saha, S Basu, S Seal, V Singh NanoFlorida2008, Nano Science Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Sept 25-26, Precipitation in liquid precursor droplets heated by a CO2 laser A Saha, D Lambe, S Seal, B Cetegen, E Jordan and S Basu Paper No C9, 2nd International workshop on suspension and solution thermal spraying, France, June 5-7, Thermo-physical processes in liquid precursor droplets injected into high temperature plasmas A Saha, V Singh, S Seal, B Cetegen, E Jordan, and S Basu Paper No C4, 2 nd International workshop on suspension and solution thermal spraying, France, June 5-7, 2008 Invited Talks: Dynamics of Acoustically Levitated Droplets, Princeton University (Law Combustion Group), Princeton, USA, May 2012.

7 Synergistic Activity: Program Coordinator of 2016 Princeton-CEFRC-CI Summer School on Combustion Session Chair: 2016 Fall Eastern Section States Meeting Serving as Reviewer: Physics of Fluids, Proceedings of Combustion Institute, Chemical Engineering and Science, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Nature Communication, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Combustion Science and Technology Professional Members: American Society of Mechanical Engineering Combustion Institute American Physical Society