Rate My Professor Sachindra Rout

Dr. Sachindra Rout is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at C.V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, India, where he joined in 2015 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to his current position in 2024. He serves as the Centre Incharge of the HVAC & R Centre of Excellence and founded the cryogenics laboratory at the university, which has achieved notable success in developing cryogenic technologies. Additionally, he is the President of the ISHRAE Bhubaneswar Chapter for the 2025-26 term, fostering professional growth in the HVAC&R sector. His research profile on Google Scholar is verified with an email at cgu-odisha.ac.in and has accumulated 562 citations. He actively supervises PhD scholars, including Shafiq Mohamad, Madhu Kalyan Reddy Pulagam, and others.

Dr. Rout's expertise lies in refrigeration engineering, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), cryogenics, heat transfer, fluid flow, and thermal systems. He leads efforts in designing closed-cycle regenerative cryorefrigerators, particularly low-speed GM and GM-type Pulse Tube cryocoolers. A key accomplishment is the design and fabrication of a single-stage GM refrigerator that reached 30 Kelvin, a landmark for indigenous cryogenic equipment in India. His laboratory has produced supporting technologies such as a retort-type vacuum furnace, membrane-type nitrogen generator, and Arduino-based nitrogen purity meter. Funding from agencies like the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences supports his projects. Select publications include 'Entropy generation analysis and cooling time estimation of a blast furnace in natural convection environment' (2022, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications), 'Numerical Investigation of Conjugate Natural Convection From a Vertical Cylindrical Open Cavity' (2023, ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer), 'Flow of viscous nanofluids across a non-linear stretching sheet' (2023, Journal of Thermal Engineering), 'Performance analysis of solar desalination system with thermal energy storage materials' (2023, Materials Today: Proceedings), and contributions to 'Advancing Sustainable Engineering Through Next-Generation Thermo-Fluid Systems' (2026). He has also guest-edited a special issue in the International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment (2024). His contributions advance sustainable engineering practices and cryogenic innovations.