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About Me: Prior to joining IIT Bombay in September 2012, I was a post-doctoral research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a United
States Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory, located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. From Jan 2009
to August 2012, I worked on Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the presence of rotational effects and
on shock-driven Richtmyer-Meshkov flow, as a member of the Extreme Fluids team in Physics Division at LANL. I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in
Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2008 and 2005, respectively. And
my B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanmugha College of Engineering (now,
SASTRA), Bharathidasan University, India in 2003.
About my Research: My current area of research involves the study of fluid, thermal instabilities and turbulent
mixing which is extremely important for understanding a variety of flows occurring in
nature. These can range from meso-scale flows (e.g., ocean-atmospheric coupling, large
scale convection, supernova), to micro-scale flows (e.g., flow in a micro-channel, nanotubes
and micro-aero vehicles). With the advent of super computers and parallel computing,
high-resolution-precision experimental measurements using state-of-the-art diagnostics is
indispensible for verification & validation purposes. My research group performs high resolution laser based experimental measurements
and computational simulations to study and understand various aspects of fluid dynamics and mixing. My group also studies geophysical flows relevant to ocean
and atmosphere dynamics. More details are given the the "Research tab".
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