Jogender worked on the locomotion of an inertial squirmer within the small but non-zero Reynolds number regime. He obtained his Ph.D. in fluid dynamics from IIST Thiruvananthapuram, India, and a master's degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, India in 2015. Jogender's research interests are primarily focused on the dynamics and rheology of suspended particles in low Reynolds number fluids, as well as technologies that leverage the sensitive dependence on particle shapes. His expertise includes microfluidics, complex fluids, soft matter physics, and non-Newtonian fluids.
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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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.