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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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 Mechanics903.
  • 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 science7(9), p.200680.
  • Bhagat, R.K. and Linden, P.F., 2020. The circular capillary jump. Journal of Fluid Mechanics896.
  • 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 Mechanics851.
  • 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 Science152, pp.606-623.

Publications

Impinging jet cleaning of tank walls: Effect of jet length, wall curvature and related phenomena
MWL Chee, TV Ahuja, RK Bhagat, N Taesopapong, SA Wan, RL Wigmore, DI Wilson
– Food and Bioproducts Processing
(2019)
113,
142
On the origin of the circular hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film
RK Bhagat, NK Jha, PF Linden, DI Wilson
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2018)
851,
R5
On the origin of the circular hydraulic jump: A differential analysis
RK Bhagat, PF Linden, NK Jha, DI Wilson
– Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2018
(2018)
819
Cleaning vessel walls by moving water jets: Simple models and supporting experiments
RK Bhagat, AM Perera, DI Wilson
– Food and Bioproducts Processing.
(2017)
102,
31
Flow in the thin film created by a coherent turbulent water jet impinging on a vertical wall
RK Bhagat, DI Wilson
– Chemical Engineering Science
(2016)
152,
606
Cleaning of complex soil layers on vertical walls by fixed and moving impinging liquid jets
HW Glover, T Brass, RK Bhagat, JF Davidson, L Pratt, DI Wilson
– 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
Y Chandorkar, RK Bhagat, G Madras, B Basu
– Biomacromolecules
(2014)
15,
863
Photo and Thermal Degradation of a Cationic Superabsorbent Polymer
NB Shukla, RK Bhagat, G Madras
– Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials
(2013)
52,
58
Thermal and Sonochemical Degradation Kinetics of Poly(n-butyl methacrylate-co-alkyl acrylates): Variation of Chain Strength and Stability with Copolymer Composition
R Bhagat, G Madras
– Polymer Engineering and Science
(2012)
53,
1542
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Research Group

Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics

Room

H1.03