• R. Neelamegam and V. Shankar, Experimental study of the instability of laminar flow in a tube with deformable walls, Physics of Fluids, 27, 024102 (2015).

• R. Neelamegam, D. Giribabu and V. Shankar, Instability of viscous flow over a deformable two-layered gel: Experiments and theory, Physical Review E, 90, 043004 (2014).

• R. Neelamegam, V. Shankar and Debopam Das, Suppression of purely-elastic instabilities in the torsional flow of viscoelastic fluid past a soft solid, Physics of Fluids, 25, 124102 (2013)

• Gaurav and V. Shankar, Manipulation of interfacial instabilities in core-annular flows using a deformable solid layer, Physics of Fluids, 25, 014104 (2013).

• INSA Medal for Young Scientist for the year 2004

• INAE Young Engineer Award for the year 2006

• Elected as Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, for the period 2004-07.

• Diamond Jubilee Young Achiever's Award of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, October 2007.

• Arakere Vasudeva Young Faculty Research Fellowship from IIT Kanpur for three years (2010-2013).

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