Important Fundamental Research Contributions :

⤷ RESCONS research group has introduced the concept of raceway/cavity hysteresis in the packed, spouted, and fluidized bed and explained its formation experimentally and theoretically. It has helped in understanding the processes which are occurring in these systems.

⤷ Our research group has also introduced a new concept of discrete liquid flow in porous media when the liquid flow is low orthe packing is non-wetting, as continuum theory failed to simulate these flows, which are discrete in nature. Discrete liquid flow theory has been verified experimentally. Many researchers are using this theory in various disciplines.

⤷ Our research group, for the first time, has proposed a method to determine the void shape and size in a packed bed using a graph-based data structure, which was lacking in the literature.

Important Applied Research Contributions :

⤷ Recently, the RESCONS research group introduced procedures to measure the powder static and dynamic holdup in multiphase flow based on mass balance and elutriation velocity concepts. This has solved the major controversy of different researchers obtaining different results in multiphase flow packed bed systems.

⤷ Our research group has also introduced a new flow visualization technique to visualize the flow in porous media using X-ray radiography and a new method to accurately measure the temperature up to 3500° C in the resistance furnace.