Dr Prabhakar Ranganathan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Prabhakar works at the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University as a Lecturer.

Research & Supervision Interests

Rheology, microstructural constitutive models and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics of (a) polymer solutions and (b) active suspensions of motile particles

Mesoscopic simulations

Statistical thermodynamics of systems beyond equilibrium

 

 

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

MASTER OF SCIENCE BY RESEARCH - CHEMICAL ENG.

Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Year awarded: 1998

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY - CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Year awarded: 1993

Publications

Journal Articles

Amini Horri, B., Ranganathan, P., Selomulya, C., Wang, H., 2011, A new empirical viscosity model for ceramic suspensions, Chemical Engineering Sciences [P], vol 66, issue 12, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford UK, pp. 2798-2806.

Clark, S.A., Ranganathan, P., 2011, Effect of helicity on wrapping and bundling of semi-flexible filaments twirled in a viscous fluid, Soft Matter [P], vol 7, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge UK, pp. 5536-5539.

Bhattacharyya, P., McDonnell, A., Ranganathan, P., Yeo, L., Friend, J., 2011, Extensional flow of low-viscosity fluids in capillary bridges formed by pulsed surface acoustic wave jetting, New Journal of Physics [P], vol 13, IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 1-14.

Wang, G., Ranganathan, P., Gao, Y., Sevick, E., 2011, Micro-rheology near fluid interfaces, Journal of Optics [P], vol 13, issue 4, IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol UK, pp. 1-7.

Wang, G., Ranganathan, P., Sevick, E., 2009, Hydrodynamic mobility of an optically trapped colloidal particle near fluid-fluid interfaces, Physical Review Letters [P], vol 103, issue 24, American Physical Society, Maryland USA, pp. 1-4.

Sevick, E.M., Ranganathan, P., Williams, S.R., Searles, D.J., 2008, Fluctuation Theorems, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, vol 59, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, USA, pp. 603-633.

Ranganathan, P., Sevick, E.M., Williams, D.R., 2007, Coarse-graining intramolecular hydrodynamic interaction in dilute solutions of flexible polymers, Physical Review E, vol 76, issue 1, The American Physical Society, New York, USA, pp. 011809-1-011809-12.

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.

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.

Ranganathan, P., Sunthar, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2004, Exploring the universal dynamics of dilute polymer solutions in extensional flows, Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol 339, issue 1-2, Elsevier, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 34-39.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2004, Fast and accurate closure approximations for bead-spring models of dilute polymer solutions, ANZIAM Journal, vol 46, issue 5 ELECTRONIC SUPPL., Australian Mathematics Publishing Association Inc., Mathematics Department Australian National Univ., Canberra ACT Australia, pp. C379-C393.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2003, Multiplicative separation of the influences of excluded volume, hydrodynamic interactions and finite extensibility on the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol 116, issue 2-3, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 163-182.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2002, Viscometric functions for hookean dumbbells with excluded volume and hydrodynamic interactions, Journal of Rheology, vol 46, issue 5, American Institute of Physics, New York NY USA, pp. 1191-1220.

Conference Proceedings

Ranganathan, P., 2008, Coarse-Graining Hydrodynamic Interactions in Isolated Polymer Molecules in Solution, Proceedings of the XXII International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 25-29 August 2008, ICTAM 2008, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 1-2.

Ranganathan, P., 2008, Evaluation of the Gaussian Blob Model for Coarse-Graining Hydrodynamic Interactions in Isolated Polymer Molecules, Proceedings of the XVth Internatinal Congress on Rheology, AP Conference Proceedings, 3-8 August 2008, American Institute of Physics, New York, USA, pp. 309-311.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2004, Modelling the stress-conformational hysteresis in uniaxial extensional flows of dilute polymer solutions, Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Rheology, 22/08/2004 to 27/08/2004, The Korean Society of Rheology, Seoul South Korea, pp. MS18-1-MS18-3.

Sunthar, P., Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2004, Rescaling of excluded volume and hydrodynamic interaction parameters in bead spring chain models with finitely extensible springs, Proceddings of the XIVth International conference on Rheology, 22/08/2004 to 27/08/2004, The Korean Society of Rheology, Seoul South Korea, pp. PS08-1-PS08-3.

Ranganathan, P., Jagadeeshan, R.P., 2002, Rheological behaviour of FENE dumbbells with excluded volume interactions in simple shear and uniaxial extensional flows, Proceedings of the 9th APCChe Congress and CHEMECA 2002, 29.09.2002 to 03.10.2002, University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand, pp. 428-446.

Teaching Commitment

Thermofluids and Power Systems (TRC2200): 2008 - present

Fluid Mechanics II (MEC3451): 2012 - present

Computers in Fluids and Energy (MEC4447): 2008 - present

Computational Fluid Mechanics (MAE5406): 2008 - 2011

Grants

Title:

Designing polymer additives to control breakup of jets and impacting drops.

Investigators:

Ranganathan, P, Jagadeeshan, R, Boger, D, McKinley, G

Funding:

(2011 - 2015). Australian Research Council (ARC). $0.00

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC). $137,160.00

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC). $15,000.00

(2012 - 2016). Australian Research Council (ARC). $320,000.00

(2012 - 2016). Monash University. $13,500.00

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Biomembrane hydrodynamics .

Supervisors:

Ranganathan, P (Main), Jagadeeshan, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Designing polymer additives to control breakup of jets and impacting drops.

Supervisors:

Ranganathan, P (Main), Jagadeeshan, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Extensional rhelogy of suspensions of motile mircrobes.

Supervisors:

Ranganathan, P (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Modeling and simulation of stem cell spreading and migration.

Supervisors:

Ranganathan, P (Main).