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Viswanathan Shankar
PhD (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Office
NL2-205
Department of Chemical
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Specialization
Stability of fluid flows; Flow past soft solid surfaces; Electrokinetics and Electrohydrodynamics; Viscoelastic flows.
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2000-2002
PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000
M.E., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1995
B.Tech, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, 1993
Selected Publications
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).
Awards & Fellowships
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).