Ramana graduated with a PhD in March 2024. His research specializes in the study of stratified shear flows, with a particular focus on the resonant interactions of internal wave modes and wind-generated water waves. He also investigated the flow field and drift volume of a rigid sphere settling in a low-Reynolds number, viscous, stratified medium.
Thesis title: Waves, instabilities, and particle transport in stratified flows (Submitted in November 2023)
Present affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA.
Pijush graduated with a PhD in December 2023. His research focuses on cloud microphysics, with a specific emphasis on investigating the growth of micron-sized drops in warm cumulus clouds caused by collision-coalescence.
Thesis title: The role of particle-flow interactions in cloud microphysics (Submitted in October 2023)
Awards : Institute Research Award for PhD (2023-2024)
Present affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden.
Darish graduated with a PhD in December 2022. His primary interest lies in understanding the modulation of fluid flows by the presence of particles. During his PhD, he studied instabilities in particle-laden flows in the context of particle-laden falling films and vortices. He also studied the interfacial instability in an ice-water system. Apart from his pursuits in research, he is also an avid reader, a decent cook and an ardent foodie.
Thesis title: Waves and instabilities in particle-laden flows (Submitted in August 2022)
Present affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Udine, Italy.
Easwar graduated with a MS in October 2022. His MS work involved predicting the effective properties of composites using multi-scale methods. He also studied the effect of inter particle interactions for particle based composites at near packing fractions. Apart from research, he is a football enthusiast.
Thesis title: Prediction of Effective Properties using Asymptotic Homogenization Method
(Submitted in October 2022)
Main supervisor : A Arockiarajan (AM IITM)
Present affiliation: SDE at SankhyaSutra Labs
Jamal earned his MS degree in July 2022, having focused on utilizing the lattice Boltzmann method to develop an algorithm for solving electromagnetic wave propagation in a medium. The objective was to estimate rainfall rates by calculating reflectivity from raindrops. Besides his research work, Jamal finds pleasure in traveling.
Thesis title: Rainfall estimation from electromagnetic wave scattering by
raindrops (Submitted in 2022)
Co-supervisor : Sumesh Thampi (CH IITM)
Present affiliation: Engineer at Detect Technologies
Nishanth graduated with an MS degree in 2021. For his thesis, he worked on characterizing the hydrodynamic instabilities found in confined active suspensions. He is currently a PhD student at Cornell University, working on the rheology of dense non-Brownian suspensions. Nishanth greatly enjoys playing football and badminton in his free time.
Thesis title: Confined living fluids - The effects of active stresses, autochemotaxis and
convective transport (Submitted in 2021)
Present affiliation: PhD at Cornell
In 2020, Himanshu completed his MS degree from the Applied Mechanics department at IIT Madras. His current focus is on various fields including particle-laden flows, air-sea interaction, and geophysical flows. During his thesis, he researched the impact of wall slip on hydrodynamic stability in two-layered inclined channel flows. Additionally, Himanshu is deeply interested in the study of cosmology and astronomy. Currently, he is a PMRF scholar at the same department, exploring the broad field of particle-laden flows and turbulence.
Thesis title: Multiple hold up solutions and linear stability analysis in a two-layered channel
with a slippery walls (Submitted in August 2020)
Main supervisor : Vengadesan S (AM IITM)
Present affiliation: PhD at IIT Madras
Thesis title: Particle dynamics in natural convection boundary layer over
horizontal plate. (Submitted in 2020)
Main supervisor : A P Baburaj (AM IITM)
Present affiliation: PhD at IIT Madras
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Present affiliation: Indian Railways
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Yashodhan Kadam (year): Title of thesis.
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Praneet Shaw (2018): Electrokinetics in non-Newtonian fluids.
Present affiliation: Analyst at Bank of America
Remil Mushthaq (2017): Stability of stratified two-layer flows down an
incline: Role of wall slip.
Present affiliation: PhD student at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University
of New Hampshire, USA.