Bio
Dr. Prashanta Kumar Mandal is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Visva-Bharati University, a central university located in Santiniketan, India. With a strong academic background including M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, his research interests span biofluid dynamics and mass transport. He has made significant contributions to the field, authoring numerous publications including works on drug transport from drug-eluting stents and the effects of interstrut distance on drug retention in arterial tissue. Dr. Mandal has an extensive publication record with 29 works, over 1,350 citations, an h-index of 17, and an i10-index of 20. He also serves as a journal reviewer and has supervised multiple research scholars and projects.
Educational Journey
M.Sc., Ph.D.
Experience
Professor
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Reviewer
GJSFR
2020 - PresentResearch
On the Role of Luminal Flow and Interstrut Distance in Modelling Drug Transport from Half-Embedded Drug-Eluting Stent
A model for investigating the transport of drug from a half-embedded drug-eluting stent (DES) is developed. Keeping the relevance of the physiological situation in view, the luminal drug transport is considered as an unsteady convection-diffusion process, while the drug transport within the arterial tissue is supposed to commence as a diffusion process. The Marker and Cell (MAC) method has been used to handle numerically the governing equations of motion for the luminal flow and the drug transport through the lumen and the tissue. The effects of quantities of significance such as Reynolds number (Re), Womersley number (α) and interstrut distance on the transport of drug through both the lumen and the tissue are quantitatively investigated. Our simulation predicts that the mean concentration of drug increases with the decreases of Reynolds number and with an increase in the Womersley number. The present results also predict a single peak profile of drug concentration when the pair of struts are placed one-half strut width and also as the interstrut distance increases, distinct peaks form over each strut.
