Shankar Subramaniam

Email: shankar@iastate.edu

Phone: 515-294-3698

Title(s):

Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Office

305 Lab of Mechanics
2519 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 50011

Information

Dr. Shankar Subramaniam is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University and Founding Director of CoMFRE: Multiphase Flow Research and Education. He received his B. Tech. in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai) in 1988 and is a recipient of the President’s Silver Medal. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, subsequent to an MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. After his PhD he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Division’s Fluid Dynamics Group. Prior to joining the ISU faculty in 2002, Subramaniam was an assistant professor at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the US Department of Energy’s Early Career Principal Investigator award. His areas of expertise are in theory, modeling and simulation of multiphase flows (including sprays, particle-laden flows, colloids and granular mixtures), turbulence, mixing, and reacting flows. His current research concerns direct numerical simulation of granular and gas-solid flows, bubbly flows, and hierarchical coarse-graining approaches. He has served on the editorial board of the journal Atomization and Sprays and International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics.

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1997
MS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1990
BTech, Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institutes of Technology-Bombay, 1988

Interest Areas

Spray modeling
Modeling and simulation of gas-particle flows, granular flows
Combustion
Turbulent reactive flows
Mixing
Stochastic models, particle methods
Computational fluid dynamics

Publications

Eric Murphy and Shankar Subramaniam, “Binary collision outcomes for inelastic soft-sphere models with cohesion,” Powder Technology (2017), v. 305, pp. 462-476
Mohammad Mehrabadi, Sudheer Tenneti, and Shankar Subramaniam, “Importance of the fluid-particle drag model in predicting segregation in bidisperse gas-solid flow,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow (2016), v. 86, pp. 99–114
V. Vidyapati and S. Subramaniam, “A Constitutive Model for Dense Granular Flows Based on Microstructural Descriptors,” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (2016), v. 55, pp. 10178-10190
S. Tenneti, M. Mehrabadi, and S. Subramaniam, “Stochastic Lagrangian model for hydrodynamic acceleration of inertial particles in gas-solid suspensions,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2016), vol. 788, pp. 695–729
B. Sun, S. Tenneti, S. Subramaniam and D. L. Koch, “Pseudo-turbulent heat flux and average gas–phase conduction in gas–solid heat transfer: flow past random fixed particle assemblies,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2016), vol. 798, pp. 299–349
Mohammad Mehrabadi, Eric Murphy, and Shankar Subramaniam, “Development of a gas–solid drag law for clustered particles using particle-resolved direct numerical simulation,” Chemical Engineering Science (2016), v. 152, pp. 199–212
S. Tenneti and S. Subramaniam, “Particle-resolved direct numerical simulation for gas-solid flow model development,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 46, 199-230 (2014)
S. Subramaniam, “Lagrangian-Eulerian methods for multiphase flows,” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 39, 215-245 (2013)

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Primary Strategic Research Area

Energy Systems