Department of Mechanical Engineering

Shankar Subramaniam

Associate Professor

3020 Black Engineering Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-3698
e-mail: shankar@iastate.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
S. Subramaniam, (2001). Statistical modeling of sprays using the droplet distribution function. Phys. Fluids, 13(3), 624-642

S. Subramaniam, (2000). Statistical representation of a spray as a point process. Phys. Fluids, 12(20), 2413-2431

S. Subramaniam, and D. C. Haworth, (2000). A probability density function method for turbulent mixing and combustion on three-dimensional unstructured deforming meshes. J. Engine Research, vol. 1, no. 2, 171-190

S. Subramaniam (1999), Minimum Error Fickian Diffusion Coefficients for Mass Diffusion in Multicomponent Gas Mixtures, J. Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, v. 24 (#1) pp. 1-39.

S. Subramaniam and S. B. Pope (1999), Comparison of Mixing Model Performance for Nonpremixed Turbulent Reactive Flow , Combustion and Flame, v. 117 (#4) pp. 732-754.

S. Subramaniam and S. B. Pope (1998), A Mixing Model for Turbulent Reactive Flows based on Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees, Combustion and Flame, v. 115 (#4) pp. 487-514.

A. R. Masri, S. Subramaniam, and S. B. Pope (1996), A Mixing Model to Improve the PDF Simulation of Turbulent Diffusion Flames, Twenty-sixth Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, v. 1, pp. 49-57