Prof Tamarapu Sridhar - Researcher Profile

Tamarapu Sridhar

Address

Dean Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 53400

Email: Tam.Sridhar@monash.edu


Biography

A well-engineered career

Professor Tamarapu Sridhar is one of Monash University's longest-serving academics. His association with Monash began nearly 40 years ago in 1974 as a PhD fellow in Chemical Engineering, rising to fill his current role as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He also serves as Vice President of the University's Indian and Chinese Initiative.

Professor Sridhar has had a distinguished career as an academic engineer, and is an outstanding scholar with an international reputation in the area of polymers. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) and the Australian Academy of Science. He was made an Honorary Fellow and awarded the GP Kane Award by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

Professor Sridhar was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for service to Australian society and science and the ESSO Energy Award for outstanding contribution in the field of chemical engineering. In 2004, he was Chair of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (Australia) and during his career he has served as a member of the ARC Panel on Engineering.

Professor Sridhar has an outstanding record of research, with over 140 publications. He has been awarded individually, or as co-investigator, around 44 competitive research grants and has supervised more than 22 PhD candidates. 

Professor Sridhar's tertiary education began at the University of Madras in South India, where he completed a Bachelor of Engineering, followed by a Masters degree at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. As he considered his next step towards a PhD overseas, a colleague recommended Monash. He applied and was offered a PhD fellowship in 1973. 

Professor Sridhar first arrived at Monash in March 1974 to undertake his PhD in Chemical Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering. After completing his PhD, Professor Sridhar took up a senior teaching fellowship at Monash for two years, after which he joined the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, also in a teaching position. He returned to Monash as a Senior Lecturer to continue the work started during his PhD and was promoted to Reader five years later. 

In 1992, Professor Sridhar successfully applied for a professorial position within the Department of Chemical Engineering and became Head of the Department for the following eleven years. 

At the end of 2002, Professor Sridhar entered his current role as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

Professor Sridhar is the founding co-editor of the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal. He is also highly regarded as a consultant on chemical engineering matters, both nationally and internationally. Through years of distinguished service in research, teaching, community service and administration, he has helped to shape research excellence at the Faculty of Engineering, the University and the international research community.

Keywords

Chemical Engineering, Polymers

Qualifications

PhD
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 2005
Bachelor of Engineering
Institution: Indian Inst Of Science
Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Sridhar, T. (ed), 2000, Korea Australia Rheology Journal, Korea Society of Rheology, Seoul Korea.

Sridhar, T. (ed), 1999, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands.

Sridhar, T. (ed), 1999, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, Korean Socy of Rheology & Aust Soc of Rheology, Seoul Korea.

Sridhar, T. (ed), 1999, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, Korean Socy of Rheology & Aust Socy of Rheology, Seoul Korea.

Journal Articles

Wang, K., Zheng, Y., He, L., Yao, J., Suresh, A.K., Bellare, J., Sridhar, T., Wang, H., 2012, Evaluation of quaternary phosphonium-based polymer membranes for desalination application, Desalination [P], vol 292, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 119-123.

Shao, F.F., Ng, T.W., Liew, O., Fu, J., Sridhar, T., 2012, Evaporative preconcentration and cryopreservation of fluorescent analytes using superhydrophobic surfaces, Soft Matter [P], vol 8, issue 13, Royal Society Chemistry, Cambridge UK, pp. 3563-3569.

He, L., Li, D., Wang, K., Suresh, A., Bellare, J., Sridhar, T., Wang, H., 2011, Synthesis of silicalite-poly(furfuryl alcohol) composite membranes for oxygen enrichment from air, Nanoscale Research Letters [E], vol 6, issue 637, Springer, New York USA, pp. 1-9.

Sridhar, T., Nguyen, D.A., Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2007, Rheological observation of glassy dynamics of dilute polymer solutions near the coil-stretch transition in elongational flows, Physical Review Letters, vol 98, issue 16, American Physical Soc, USA, pp. 16-20.

Mahajan, S.S., Sharma, M.M., Sridhar, T., 2007, Uncatalyzed oxidation of 1,5,9-cyclododecatriene with molecular oxygen, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol 46, issue 10, Amer Chemical Soc., USA, pp. 3057-3062.

Prabhakar, R., Prakash, J.R., Sridhar, T., 2006, Effect of configuration-dependent intramolecular hydrodynamic interaction on elastocapillary thinning and breakup of filaments of dilute polymer solutions, Journal of Rheology, vol 50, issue 6, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 925-947.

Mahajan, S.S., Sharma, M., Sridhar, T., 2006, Hydration of 2-cyclohexen-1-one to 3-hydroxycyclohexanone using solid acid catalysts, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol 45, issue 15, American Chemical Society, Washington DC USA, pp. 5246-5250.

Ye, X., Sridhar, T., 2005, Effects of the polydispersity on rheological properties of entangled polystyrene solutions, Macromolecules [P], vol 38, American Chemical Society, Columbus Ohio USA, pp. 3442-3449.

Sunthar, P., Nguyen, D.A., Dubbelboer, R., Prakash, J.R., Sridhar, T., 2005, Measurement and prediction of the elongational stress growth in a dilute solution of DNA molecules, Macromolecules, vol 38, issue 24, American Chemical Society Publications, Washington DC USA, pp. 10200-10209.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., Sridhar, T., 2004, A successive fine-graining scheme for predicting the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions, Journal of Rheology, vol 48, issue 6, The Society of Rheology, New York NY USA, pp. 1251-1278.

Shaqfeh, E.S., McKinley, G.H., Woo, N., Nguyen, D.A., Sridhar, T., 2004, On polymer entropic force singularity and its relation to extensional stress relaxation and filament recoil, Journal of Rheology, vol 48, issue 1, Journal of Rheology American Institute of Physics, United States, pp. 209-221.

Ooi, Y.W., Sridhar, T., 2004, Resistance to uniaxial extensional flow of fibre suspensions, Rheologica Acta, vol 43, issue 3, Springer-Verlag GmbH, New York USA, pp. 223-231.

Larson, R.G., Sridhar, T., Leal, L.G., McKinley, G.H., Likhtman, A.E., McLeish, T.C.B., 2003, Definitions of entanglement spacing and time constants in the tube model, Journal of Rheology, vol 47, issue 3, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 809-818.

Ye, X., Larson, R.G., Pattamaprom, C.F., Sridhar, T., 2003, Extensional properties of monodisperse and bidisperse polystyrene solutions, Journal of Rheology, vol 47, issue 2, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 443-468.

Bhattacharjee, P.K., Nguyen, D.A., McKinley, G.H., Sridhar, T., 2003, Extensional stress growth and stress relaxation in entangled polymer solutions, Journal of Rheology, vol 47, issue 1, American Institute of Physics, Melville USA, pp. 269-290.

Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M., Sridhar, T., 2002, Direct hydration of propylene in liquid phase and under supercritical conditions in the presence of solid acid catalysts, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 57, issue 22-23, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 4877-4882.

Bhattacharjee, P.K., Oberhauser, J.P., McKinley, G.H., Leal, L.G., Sridhar, T., 2002, Extensional rheometry of entangled solutions, Macromolecules 2002, vol 35, issue 27, American Chemical Society, Washington DC USA, pp. 10131-10148.

Mckinley, G.H., Sridhar, T., 2002, Filament-stretching rheometry of complex fluids, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, vol 34, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto CA USA, pp. 375-415.

Zhang, H., Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M., Sridhar, T., 2002, Hydration of cyclohexane with solid acid catalysts, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 57, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 315-322.

Anna, S.L., McKinley, G.H., Nguyen, D.A., Sridhar, T., Muller, S.J., Huang, J., James, D.F., 2001, An interlaboratory comparison of measurements from filament-stretching rheometers using common test fluids, Journal of Rheology, vol 45, issue 1, Journal of Rheology American Institute of Physics, United States, pp. 83-114.

Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M., Sridhar, T., 2001, Extractive hydration of n-butene with solid acid catalysts in the liquid phase and under supercritical conditions, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 56, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 5625-5633.

Ye, X., Sridhar, T., 2001, Shear and extensional properties of three-arm polystyrene solutions, Macromolecules, vol 34, issue 23, American Chemical Society, Washington DC USA, pp. 8270-8277.

Sridhar, T., Nguyen, D., Fuller, G.G., 2000, Birefringence and Stress Growth in Uniaxial Extension of Polymer Solutions, Journal of the Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol 90, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 299-315.

Li, L., Larson, R.G., Sridhar, T., 2000, Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Dilute Polystyrene Solutions, Society of Rheology Journal, vol 44 issue 2, American Institute of Physics, Melville NY USA, pp. 291-322.

Shah, U., Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M.M., Sridhar, T., 2000, Effect of Supercritical Conditions on the Oxidation of Isobutane, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 55 issue 1, Elsevier Science, Kidlington England, pp. 25-35.

Suresh, A.K., Sharma, M.M., Sridhar, T., 2000, Engineering Aspects of Industrial Liquid-Phase Air Oxidation of Hydrocarbons, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol 39 issue 11, American Chemical Society, Washington USA, pp. 3958-3997.

Gupta, R., Nguyen, D., Sridhar, T., 2000, Extensional Viscosity of Dilute Polystyrene Solutions: Effect of concentration and molecular weight, Physics of Fluids, vol 12 issue 6, American Institute of Physics, Madison USA, pp. 1-23.

Sridhar, T., 2000, From Rheometry to Rheology, Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, vol 12 issue 1, Korean Soc of Rheol & Aust Soci of Rheol, Seoul Korea, pp. 39-53.

Orr, N., Sridhar, T., 1999, Probing the dynamics of polymer solutions in extensional flow using step strain rate experiments, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol 82, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 203-232.

Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M.M., Sridhar, T., 1999, Uncatalysed oxidation of cyclohexene, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 54, Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 3967-3976.

Remmelgas, J., Leal, L.G., Orr, N., Sridhar, T., 1998, Viscous and elastic stresses in extensional rheometry, J Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol 76, Elsevier Science Ltd, Ireland, pp. 111-135.

Wen, Y., Potter, O.E., Sridhar, T., 1997, Uncatalysed Oxidation of Cyclohexane in a Continuous Reactor, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 52, Pergamon, UK, pp. 4593-4605.

Conference Proceedings

Pan, S., Sunthar, P., Sridhar, T., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2012, Universal crossover of static and dynamic properties of dilute DNA solutions, Proceedings of Chemeca 2012, 23 September 2012 to 26 September 2012, Engineers Australia, Vic Australia, pp. 1-10.

Pan, S., Nguyen, D., Sunthar, P., Sridhar, T., Jagadeeshan, R., 2011, The shear rheology of semi-dilute DNA solutions, Proceedings of CHEMECA 2011 - Engineering a Better World, 18 September 2011 to 21 September 2011, Engineers Australia, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-9.

Sridhar, T., 2002, Extensional rheology: Intellectual curiosity & industrial relevance, Proceedings of 6th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 23/09/2001 to 27/09/2001, Institution of Chemical Engineers in Aust, Melbourne Vic Australia, p. cd.

Gupta, R., Nguyen, D., Sridhar, T., 2000, Elastic Instability in the Filament Stretching Rheometer, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Rheology, Cambridge UK, 20-25 August 2000, British Society of Rheology, Glasgow UK, pp. 205-207.

Bhattacharjee, P.K., Oberhauser, J., McKinley, G.H., Leal, L.G., Sridhar, T., 2000, Extensional Rheometry of Entangled Solutions, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Rheology, Cambridge UK, 20-25 August 2000, British Society of Rheology, Cambridge UK, pp. 396-398.

Larson, R.G., Li, L., Hu, H., Sridhar, T., 2000, Understanding Polymer Rheology, one Molecule at a time, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress on Rheology, Cambridge UK, 20-25 August 2000, British Society of Rheology, Cambridge UK, pp. 49-54.

Sridhar, T., 1999, From rheometry to rheology, Proc of The Korea Rheology Conference '99 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of The Korean Society of Rheology, Seoul, Korea, 9-10 Nov 1999, Kwhahak Publishing Co, Taejon Korea, pp. 136-162.

Sridhar, T., 1998, Extensional viscosity at high strain rates, IUTAM Symposium on Viscoelastic Fluid Mechanics: Effects of Molecular Modelling, Stanford Univ, USA; 21-25/6/98, IUTAM, Stanford Univ USA.

Gupta, R., Nguyen, D., Sridhar, T., 1998, Extensional viscosity of dilute polystyrene solutions, Eighth National Conference on Rheology, Adelaide, SA; 19-22/7/98, Aust Soc of Rheol & Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 117-120.

Sridhar, T., 1998, Issues in elongational rheometry, The Society of Rheology 70th Annual Meeting - Program and Abstracts, Monterey, USA, 4-8/10/98, American Socy of Rheology, University of Maine USA, p. 6.

Chang, I., Sridhar, T., 1998, Mass transfer studies of gas-liquid systems with hydrophobic microporous PTFE membranes, Chemeca 98 - Proceedings, Port Douglas, Qld; 28-30/9/98, IEAust, Barton ACT.

Orr, N.V., Sridhar, T., 1998, Nature of stresses in extensional flow, Proceedings - Eighth National Conference on Rheology, Adelaide, SA; 19-22/7/98, Aust Soc of Rheol & Univ of Adelaide, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 181-184.

Shah, U., Mahajani, S.M., Sridhar, T., Sharma, M.M., 1998, Oxidation of isobutane in liquid phase and under supercritical conditions, Chemeca 98 - Proceedings, Port Douglas, Qld; 28-30/9/98, IEAust, Barton ACT.

Mahajani, S.M., Sharma, M.M., Sridhar, T., 1998, Uncatalysed oxidation of cyclohexene, Chemeca 98 - Proceedings, Port Douglas, Qld; 28-30/9/98, IEAust, Barton ACT.

Gupta, R., Nguyen, D., Sridhar, T., 1997, Uniaxial Extension of Dilute Polystyrene Solution: The Effect of Concentration, 2nd Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology - Abstracts, Melbourne, 27-31/7/97, Depts Chem Eng, Univ Melb, Monash Univ, RMIT, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 87-88.

Orr, N., Sridhar, T., 1997, Viscous Stresses in Extensional Flow - The Effect of Molecular Weight, 2nd Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology - Abstracts, Melbourne, 27-31/7/97, Depts Chem Eng, Univ Melb, Monash Univ, RMIT, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 215-216.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Catalytic and reaction engineering studies on organic liquid phase oxidations.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Joint), Wang, H (Joint-co).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Exploring the surfactant-like properties of graphene/graphene-oxide for thermal engineering of emulsions.
Supervisors:
Majumder, M (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Flow based micro devices for DNA manipulation and analysis.
Supervisors:
Jagadeeshan, R (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Acharya, M.
Program of Study:
Extensional Rheometry of Entangled Polymeric Systems. (Masters) 2007.
Supervisors:
Jagadeeshan, R (Joint-Co), Sridhar, T (Joint).
Student:
Bhattacharjee, P.
Program of Study:
EXTENSIONAL RHEOMETRY OF ENTAGLED SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR FLEXIBLE POLYMERS. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).
Student:
Breuer, P.
Program of Study:
GOLD LEACHING IN THIOSULFATE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING COPPER(II) AND AMMONIA. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Jeffrey, M (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).
Student:
Chang I-Kwang, .
Program of Study:
MASS TRANSFER STUDY OF GAS-LIQUID AND VAPOUR-LIQUID SYSTEMS WITH MICROPOROUS MEMBRANE MODULES. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).
Student:
Dubbelboer, R.
Program of Study:
EXTENSIONAL RHEOLOGY OF TWO POLYELECTROLYTES IN DILUTE SOLUTION. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).
Student:
Mahajan, S.
Program of Study:
UNCATALYSED LIQUID PHASE OXIDATION OF CYCLIC OLEFINS WIHT MOLECULAR OXYGEN. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).
Student:
Quyn, D.
Program of Study:
TRANSFORMATIONS OF ALKALI AND ALKALINE EARTH METALLIC SPECIES DURING GASIFICATION OF VICTORIAN BROWN COAL. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Li, C (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).
Student:
Ranganathan, P.
Program of Study:
PREDICTING THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS USING BEAD-SPRING MODELS: BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS AND CLOSURE APPROXIMATIONS. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Jagadeeshan, R (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).
Student:
Wilson, S.
Program of Study:
THERMAL PROFILES IN OXYGEN VSA: MODELLING, OBSERVATIONS AND OPTIMISATION. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Webley, P (Main), Sridhar, T (Associate).
Student:
Ye, X.
Program of Study:
RHEOLOGY OF ENTANGLED POLYMER SOLUTIONS. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).
Student:
Zhang, H.
Program of Study:
DIRECT CATALYTIC HYDRATION OF LOWER OLEFINS TO CORRESPONDING ALCOHOLS UNDER SUPERFICIAL CONDITION. (Masters) 2000.
Supervisors:
Sridhar, T (Main).