ANADI SANKAR GUPTA

(01 November 1932 – 14 June 2012)

Biog. Mem. Fell. INSA, New Delhi 43 (2020) 177-192

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ANADI SANKAR GUPTA

(1932 – 2012)
Elected Fellow 1980

A NADI SANKAR GUPTA passed away on June 14, 2012 in Kolkata leaving
behind his wife Mrs. Purabi Gupta, daughter Mrs. Debjani Banerjee, son-in-law
Mr. Banibrata Banerjee and grandson Mr. Rajkumar Banerjee. Professor Gupta was
living at Prembazaar, near to IIT Campus. He was born to Pramode Chandra and
Usharani Gupta at Goila of the Barisal District in the then British India (now in
Bangladesh) in the year 1932 (1st November). He was having eight brothers and four
sisters and he himself was fourth in the series. His father was a Mining Engineer
working at that time in Asansol, West Bengal, where young Anadi started his
schooling at Domohani Kelejora High School. A small incident occurred at that
school and it was narrated by his father (in mid ’70 while he visited his loving son
Anadi (Moni)) to the author who was a Ph.D. scholar working under Professor
Gupta at that time. His father said, while Moni was studying in class VII, a school
inspector (British sahib) visited that unknown school where mostly students from colliery
workers were studying. The Headmaster requested the inspector to recommend several things
for running the school. Hearing the request, the inspector replied “ok if anyone of your
students can answer one of my questions, then only, I will recommend everything to
the government. So, tell me, to whom shall I ask the question?” All the teachers
univocally said “if you have no choice about the class, then kindly ask the question to
Anadi who is the first boy in class VII. He secures full marks in all the subjects”. The
inspector asked the question and Moni answered it through a quotation from Shakespeare.
The inspector was an ardent lover of Shakespeare. He was very excited and instantly
embraced the young bright student and said “I never expected such an answer from a
young boy like you.” This was the initial journey of Anadi Sankar Gupta. However,
he studied in that school during 1941–45 and later was admitted in Ushagram Boys
High School in class IX. He passed Matriculation examination in 1st Division in the
year 1948 securing Third position in Calcutta University out of about 60,000
students. He received gold medal for securing highest marks in Bengali (vernacular)
in the Matriculation examination along with several medals for other subjects like
Mathematics, Sanskrit, History, etc. He also received free studentship to pursue
Higher Education in College. He studied Intermediate Science at Presidency College
in Calcutta during the year 1948-1950 and passed in First Division by securing
Fourth Position in the University of Calcutta with Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics,
Botany, English and Bengali as his subjects. With full scholarship he completed his
bachelor’s degree in 1952 from Presidency College with First Class Honors in
Mathematics along with subjects Physics and Chemistry and secured fourth position
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in Calcutta University. During this time he won McCann Medal for proficiency in
Mathematics and scholarship for further studies. He passed M.Sc. with first class 2nd
in rank in Applied Mathematics from University College of Science, Calcutta
University in the year 1954 and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur in the year 1958 based on the thesis entitled “On Compressible Flows
with Heat Transfer”. His Ph.D. supervisor was a renowned physicist Late Professor
G. Bandyopadhyay.
While pursuing his research work for Ph.D. degree he joined in the same
Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur as an Assistant Lecturer in the year 1957.
He married Purabi in the year 1959 and their only daughter Debjani was born in the
year 1961.
He visited the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, England during the year 1961-62 as a Colombo Plan
Scholar. There he was associated with Sir G.K. Batchelor, L.N. Howard etc. and
during this visit the remarkable contribution “Semi-circle theorem” came up. In
1966, he was awarded D.Sc. degree by IIT Kharagpur based on his seminal works
presented in the thesis “Stability and Heat Transfer in Fluid Flows”. In the year 1968,
he was promoted to the post of Professor in the Department of Mathematics of IIT
Kharagpur. He became Head of the department in the year 1976 and continued as
head till 1979 before joining as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering & Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, U.S.A. and
continued there till 1981. During his stay in USA, Professor Gupta acted as a
reviewer of the Reviewing Journals (I) Zentralblatt für Mathematike (Germany), and
(II) Mathematical Reviews (USA). This time he was associated with Professor C.S.
Yih.
Professor Gupta was the President of Annual Congress of the Indian Society of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1985, Annual Congress of the National Society
of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power in 1990 and Annual Congress of Indian
Mathematical Society in 1999. He wrote a book entitled Calculus of Variations with
Applications, published by Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi. He was in the editorial
board of several international journals and continued till the last date of his life.
Even after retirement in 1993, Dr. Gupta was actively involved in research and
rendered his services to IIT Kharagpur as Emeritus Professor and INSA Honorary
Scientist in the Department of Mathematics. IIT Kharagpur made a rare distinction
by conferring Professor Gupta as Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur. Till the last date of
his living in this eternal world, he served concurrently as Emeritus Professorship,
INSA Honorary Scientist and Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur.
His father Mr. Pramode Chandra Gupta had a great influence in shaping
Professor Gupta’s life in particular, value of time and determination in achieving the
goal. He was always focused on his objective along with positive thinking. His
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trustworthy hands were constantly extended to the needy persons. But Professor
Gupta was motivated in research greatly by the research work done by his brother-
in-law Dr. Mani Lal Sen Gupta who was a distinguished Chemist in Bengal
Immunity Research Institute, Calcutta. Dr. Sen Gupta did pioneering works on
radioactive element, but unfortunately, during that time hazards of radiation was
not known to the scientific community and as a result he left this world at an early
age.
Professor Gupta was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for
Mathematical Sciences in 1972 by the Government of India for his significant
contributions in the field of Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics, notably
on heat transfer in free convection flow in presence of magnetic field and FICCI
(Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) award in 1978. In the
year 1980, he was elected as a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy and later
on as a Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India in the year 1990. He was
the recipient of P.L. Bhatnagar Memorial Lecture award of Indian Mathematical
Society in 1995 and Professor Vishnu Vasudeva Narlikar Memorial Lecture award of
INSA in 2003. He was one of the distinguished researchers invited by world
renowned Fluid Dynamist Prof. G.K. Batchelor for presenting his valuable
contributions in Fluid Dynamics at the International conference in the spirit of Sir
G.I. Taylor (DAMTP, Cambridge, during December 1985).
His main area of research interests were: Boundary-layer Theory, Heat and
Mass Transfer in Fluid Flows, MHD, Hydrodynamic Stability and Stability of Flows.
He has published 163 (so far I could able to access) research papers in all leading
journals of interest. These published papers are excluding other research articles
published in different conference proceedings; scientific magazines; articles in books
etc. In these publications he has covered many important research topics and the
numerous findings by him and his collaborators help to enrich our knowledge on
understanding those topics. For example, his research on Magnetohydrodynamic
free convection has important bearing on alleviating rate of heat transfer from a
surface increased in an electrically conducting fluid permeated by a magnetic field.
The results obtained by Professor Gupta are important in cooling of nuclear reactors
with liquid metals as coolants. These theoretical results were also experimentally
verified by other experimentalist. In diffusion theory, his study reveals that in the
case of dispersion of a solute in viscous flow through a channel in the presence of an
irreversible first-order chemical reaction, the effective Taylor diffusion coefficient
decreases with increase in the reaction rate constant. This result was also verified
experimentally, it was again extended by Professor Gupta to non-Newtonian fluids,
giving rise to results of considerable importance in Chemical Engineering. The
results of his studies on the stability characteristics of viscoelastic fluids in shear flow
have important applications to polymer industry, throwing light on the
phenomenon of drag reduction in the fluid flow containing traces of high polymer.
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Using nonlinear stability analysis for a viscoelastic fluid flowing down an inclined
plane he showed there exists of a train of solitary waves propagating on the free
surface. Further it is shown that the number of solitary waves decreases with
increase of the viscoelastic parameter.
He had number of collaborators not only in India but also in different countries.
He could remember the name of young researchers with whom he acquainted once
and also able to remember their topics of research. Prof. Gupta had the great quality
of interacting freely with youngsters and other researchers for doing significant
research of lasting impact in Fluid Dynamics. Even at his ripe age he would often sit
and discuss with young researchers on exciting topics of great value. He never
spared, even his close friends, colleagues or students to correct and put them on
track whenever situation warranted.
Overall Professor Gupta was an excellent teacher. His teaching of a tough
subject matter makes very simple to understand by the students. In general, most of
the teachers assume that the students are having a minimum level of basic
understanding knowledge on the subject. Sometimes a tough subject matter needs
knowledge not only on the subject but on other subject's also, which most of the
teachers neglect as a result students cannot follow properly. In case of Professor
Gupta, he used to say at the beginning "these simple things you might know" by saying
this he would start explaining the extra knowledge of other subject matter that is
required to understand the tough subject that he wants to teach. He used to take 5-10
minutes in that extra subject matter and complete the lecture in allotted time. His
class was like a story telling class which mixes with mathematics and physics while
teaching fluid mechanics or heat transfer. He was very punctual in arriving to his
teaching class and complete the topic in due time. He covers entire syllabus in
specified time allotted to him. He never scolds any student for committing any silly
mistake, instead used to say, we learned the subject through committing mistakes and then
correcting it only. He always helped people around him in different ways.
At the end, I am tempted to report one incident which I myself had observed
during my thesis writing in 1976. In course of my research I have found the existence
of solitary waves in the form of Korteweg-de Vries equation while studying the flow
of a non-Newtonian liquid over an inclined plane. However, during that time KdV
equations were not well studied and also the objective of my thesis was not on
solitary waves. But I wanted to write a few lines and cite a research paper in which
KdV equation and the properties of the solitary waves were studied. I asked
Professor Gupta if he can give me one reference. He immediately closed his eyes and
started to rub his forehead and the reply was interesting. ...
By continuous rubbing the forehead he said,
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- I have come across a beautiful paper long back in Soviet Physics JEPT probably it is in 1967
may be in 1970. Anyhow, you can check all these years.
- I replied, Sir, if you can be a little specific, say, at least the name of the author.
JEPT is very voluminous.
Continuous rubbing his forehead he said ....
- Author?
(As if he is trying to read the name of the author)
---- O-n-e "R" is there, o-n-e "P", also- a "K" is there.
Then suddenly he said,
"Karpman", --now you can search the journal.
I searched all the existing bound volumes of Soviet Physics JEPT from 1966 to
1970, but there was no article by any Karpman on KdV equation. With sad mood
while I was about to leave the library, suddenly it struck in my mind "does all the
monthly issues are in bounded volumes"? I started fresh checking and found only
one issue is missing in the bounded volume of 1967. Enquiring in the library office it
was found, that particular issue of the journal is issued to a faculty member of
mathematics department in 1967 within a fortnight after arrival of that issue and that
faculty has not returned till that date. I chase the faculty and was surprised by
knowing that an issue of the journal which he has taken in 1967 from the library is
still in his name. Anyhow, after a couple of days when I received that issue I found
the desired article by Berezhin, Yu A & Karpman, VI “Nonlinear evolution of
disturbances in plasmas and other dispersive media” 1967 Soviet Phys. J.E.P.T. This is the
level of his memory. Once I had told him "You have razor sharp memory." Instantly he
replied "no, this is not razor sharp memory. But I have seen it in Sir GK Batchelor."
Professor Gupta was a dedicated researcher who spent most of his leisure time
reading books, journals or discussing research topics with students, collaborators or
working. I can remember, just after accepting the responsibility of headship he had
told,
- Now I have to work hard in devoting time in research. You can see many people avoid
research after accepting administrative responsibility but I will devote extra time in research.
- Yes, he spent much more time in active research in that period along with
administrative responsibility. In fact, he never deviated from his goal of research till
the last days. In the last year of his life he has communicated/published nine
research papers as evident from his list of publications.
Prof. Gupta was an inspiring model teacher, an ardent researcher and above all
a rare human being of supreme noble qualities. We have missed such a great
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personality but his legacy of highest qualities will linger with all the vigor on the
future generation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I express my sincere thanks to the INSA Publication Division for giving me this rare
opportunity to write a memoir on Professor AS Gupta. Deep regards to Professor
NM Bujurke for his help in supplying information which I had missed in my earlier
draft. I expressed my thanks to friends and followers of Professor Gupta for their
kind help by sharing their experiences with him.
Professor BS DANDAPAT, FNASc
Ex Head, Physics & Applied Mathematics Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata-700108
Email: [email protected]

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– Propagation of MHD thermoconvective waves. Indian J. Pure & Appl. Math. 28: 713.
– (With HAZRA SB and NIYOGI P) On the dispersion of a solute in oscillating flow of a non-
Newtonian fluid in a channel. Heat and Mass Trans. 32: 481.
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1998 (With MISRA JC and PAL B) Hydromagnetic flow of a second-grade fluid in a channel -
some applications to physiological systems. Mathematical Models and Methods in Appl. Sci. 8:
1323.
– (With BHATTACHARYYA S) MHD flow and heat transfer at a general three-dimensional
stagnation point. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 33: 125.
1999 (With DEKA R) Heat transfer in the flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet. Acta
Mechanica 138: 13.
– (With DEKA R) Flow past an accelerated horizontal plate in a rotating fluid. Acta Mechanica
138: 13.
– Soret effect on propagation of thermoconvective waves in a binary mixture. Heat and Mass
Trans. 35: 315.
– (With PAL B, MISRA JC and PAL A) Hydromagnetic flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a parallel
plate channel with stretching walls. Indian J. Math. 41: 231.
2000 Some new similarity solutions of the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations. Mech. Res. Commu.
27: 485.
2001 (With MISRA JC, PAL B and PAL A) Oscillatory entry flow in a channel with pulsating wall.
Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 36: 731.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR) Magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point flow towards a
stretching sheet. Acta Mechanica 152: 191.
2002 (With MAHAPATRA TR) Heat transfer in stagnation-point flow towards a stretching sheet.
Heat and Mass Trans. 38: 517.
2003 (With PAL A, PAL B and TAKHAR HS) Hall effects on MHD flow and heat transfer over a
stretching surface. Int. J. Appl. Mech. Engg. 8: 219.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR) Stagnation-point flow towards a stretching surface. Canadian J.
Chem. Engg. 81: 258.
– (With MIDYA C, LAYEK GC and MAHAPATRA TR) Magnetohydrodynamic viscous flow
separation in channel with constrictions. J. Fluids Engg. 12: 952.
– (With MISRA JC, REZA M and SOUNDALGEKAR VM) Flow in the Ekman layer on an
oscillating porous plate. Acta Mechanica 165: 1.
– (With MISRA JC and REZA M) Effects of suction or blowing on the velocity and
temperature distribution in the flow past a porous flat plate of a power-law fluid. Fluid
Dynamic Res. 32: 283.
2004 (With MAHAPATRA TR) Stagnation-point flow of a viscoelastic fluid towards a stretching
surface. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 39: 811.
– (With BHATTACHARYYA SN) Instability due to a discontinuity in magnetic diffusivity in
the presence of magnetic shear. J. Fluid Mech. 509: 125.
2005 (With CHAKRABORTY A, DAS BK and JANA RN) Hydromagnetic flow past a rotating
porous plate in a conductive fluid rotating about a non-coincident parallel axis. Acta
Mechanica 176: 107.
– (With MISRA JC and REZA M) Magnetohydrodynamic shear flow along a flat plate with
uniform suction or blowing. ZAMP 56: 1030.
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2005 (With BHATTACHARYYA S, MAHAPATRA S and MAITI DK) Flow separation and heat
transfer around a steep-edged surface roughness. Compu. Fluid Dyn. Journal 14(2): 180-190.
– (With REZA M) Steady two-dimensional oblique stagnation-point flow towards a stretching
surface. Fluid Dyn. Res. 37: 334.
2006 (With CHAWLA SS and SRIVASTAVA PK) Spin-down of Von Karman flow. Int. J. Nonlinear
Mech. 41: 426.
2007 (With DEKA RK and DAS SK) Stability of viscous flow driven by an azimuthal pressure
gradient between two porous concentric cylinders with radial flow and a radial
temperature gradient. Acta Mechanica 189: 73.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and DHOLEY S) Heat transfer in oblique stagnation point flow of
an incompressible viscous fluid towards a stretching surface. Heat and Mass Trans. 43: 767.
– (With REZA M) Shear flow over a rotating porous plate subjected to suction or blowing.
Phys. Fluids 19: 073601.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and DHOLEY S) Momentum and heat transfer in the
magnetohydrodynamic stagnation point flow of a viscoelastic fluid towards a stretching
surface. Meccanica 42: 263.
– (With DEKA RK) Stability of Taylor-Couette magnetoconvection with radial temperature
gradient and constant heat flux at the outer cylinder. J Fluids Engg., Trans ASME 129: 302.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and DHOLEY S) Oblique stagnation-point flow of a viscoelastic
fluid towards a stretching surface. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 42: 484.
2008 (With MAITI DK and BHATTACHARYYA S) Stable/unstable stratification in thermosolutal
convection in a square cavity. J. Heat Trans., Trans. ASME 130: 122001.
– (With REZA M) Momentum and heat transfer in the flow of a viscoelastic fluid past a
porous flat plate subject to suction or blowing. Int. J. Fluid Thermal Engg. 1(3): 140.
– (With LAYEK GC and MIDYA C) Influences of suction and blowing on vortex shedding
behind a square cylinder in a channel. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 43: 979.
2009 (With MAHAPATRA TR and NANDY SK) Magnetohydrodynamic stagnation-point flow of
a power-law fluid towards a stretching surface. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 44: 123.
– (With CHAWLA SS and SRIVASTAVA PK) Rotationally symmetric flow over a rotating
disk. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 44: 717.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and DHOLEY S) Analytical solution of magnetohydrodynamic
stagnation-point flow of a power-law fluid towards a stretching surface. Appl. Math. Compu.
215: 1696.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and DHOLEY S) Stability of hydromagnetic Dean flow between
two arbitrarily spaced concentric circular cylinders in the presence of a uniform axial
magnetic field. Phys. Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics 373: 4338.
2011 (With MAHAPATRA TR and NANDY SK) Momentum and heat transfer in MHD
stagnation-point flow over a shrinking sheet. J. Appl. Mech., Trans. ASME 78: 021015.
– (With GURIA M and JANA RN) Hall effects on the magnetohydrodynamic shear flow past
an infinite porous flat plate subjected to uniform suction or blowing. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech.
46: 1057.
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2012 (With MAHAPATRA TR and NANDY SK) Heat transfer in the magnetohydrodynamic flow
of a power-law fluid past a porous flat plate with suction or blowing. Int. J. Commu. Heat and
Mass Trans. 39: 17.
– (With GANGULY A and REZA M) Thin-film flow of a power-law fluid down an inclined
plane. J. Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME 134: 044502.
– (With REZA M) Magnetohydrodynamic thermal instability in a conducting fluid layer with
throughflow. Int. J. Nonlinear Mech. 47: 616.
– (With MAHAPATRA TR and NANDY SK) Oblique stagnation-point flow and heat transfer
towards a shrinking sheet with thermal radiation. Meccanica 47: 1325.
– (With REZA M) An adhesive problem for a power-law fluid. Chemical Engineering
Communications 199: 1225.
– (With REZA M) MHD stagnation-point flow of an electrically conducting fluid on the
surface of another quiescent fluid. Acta Mechanica 223: 2303.
2013 (With MAHAPATRA TR and NANDY SK) Effect of radial temperature gradient on the
stability of Taylor-Dean flow between two arbitrarily spaced concentric rotating cylinders.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 57: 662.
– (With LAYEK GC, KRYZHEVICH SG and REZA M) Steady magnetohydrodynamic flow in
a diverging channel with suction or blowing. ZAMP 64: 123.
– (With DHOLEY S) Unsteady separated stagnation-point flow of an incompressible viscous
fluid on the surface of a moving porous plate. Physics of Fluids 25: 023601.