Department of Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor

2080 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-3698
e-mail: shankariastate.edu

Links
Personal Page

Education
Cornell University, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1997
University of Notre Dame, M.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1990
Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), B. Tech., Aeronautical Engineering, 1988

Research Interests
Spray modeling
Modeling and simulation of gas-particle flows, granular flows
Combustion
Turbulent reactive flows
Mixing
Stochastic models, particle methods
Computational fluid dynamics
This research is funded by the DOE, Ames Laboratory and ISU. Please follow the link to Research Projects in my Personal Page for a comprehensive list of current projects.

To prospective students:
If you are interested in our group's research projects, and have a strong background in computational methods and mathematics, we strongly urge you to apply to our graduate program.

Recent Publications
Markutsya, S., Subramaniam, S., Vigil R. D., and Fox, R. O. "On Brownian dynamics simulation of nanoparticle aggregation", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 47(10), 3338-3345, (2008)

R. Garg, C. Narayanan, D. Lakehal and S. Subramaniam, “Accurate Numerical Estimation of Interphase Momentum Transfer in Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulations of Dispersed Two-Phase Flows”, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 33 (12), 1337-1364, (2007)

Y. Xu and S. Subramaniam, “Consistent Modeling of Interphase Turbulent Kinetic Energy Transfer in Particle-Laden Turbulent Flows”, Physics of Fluids, 19 (8), 085101, (2007)

G. M. Pai and S. Subramaniam, “Modeling Droplet Dispersion and Interphase Turbulent Kinetic Energy Transfer Using a New Dual-Timescale Langevin Model”, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 33(3): 252-281 (2007)

Sun, J., Battaglia, F. and Subramaniam, S. “Dynamics and Structures of Segregation in a Dense, Vibrating Granular Bed”, Physical Review E, 74(6):061307–13, (2006)