Shankar Subramaniam

Shankar Subramaniam is Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his B. Tech. in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, subsequent to an MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. 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. His areas of expertise are in theory, modeling and computation of turbulent, multiphase reactive flows (including sprays and gas-solid/particle-laden flows); modeling granular rheology; simulation of aggregation and clustering using molecular and Langevin/Brownian dynamics, and general statistical mechanical coarse-graining approaches. He is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Principal Investigator award. He received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2010 International Conference on Multiphase Flow.