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Dr. Meheboob Alam
Current Position:
Associate Professor 
Head of Max -Planck Partner Group (2007-2009)
Mailing Address:
Engineering Mechanics Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
Jakkur P.O.
Bangalore 560064, Karnataka
INDIA
Voice: (+91)-80-2208-2801
Fax: (+91)-80-2208-2766/2767
Email: meheboob(AT)jncasr.ac.in
Education
- Educated in India
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineeering (1998, Indian Institute of Science)
Awards
Experience
- Faculty Fellow (2003-2007, JNCASR)
- AvH Research Fellow (2001-2002, Department of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Research Associate (1999-2000, Department of Chemical Engg, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
- Research Associate (1998-1999, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engg, University of California, San Diego, USA)
Research Interests
I am interested in the application of the basic principles of mechanics to understand the dynamics of complex fluids (e.g. dry granular matter, suspensions, bubbly flows, etc.). The bulk of my work is computational and theoretical in nature, with a focus to come out with better mathematical models. Starting from plausible microscopic description of the particulate matter, we follow a `hierarchial-route' of modelling to arrive at the continuum-level description for the same. Here is a movie on crystallization in a sheared inelastic hard-disk fluid; the packing fraction is a little above the square-packing limit. In the near future I plan to carry out table-top experiments on particulate flows. The research-topics that I am currently working on are as follows:
- Non-Newtonian Rheology of `Dry' Granular Media: Kinetic Theory, Continuum Modelling and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Instabilities and Patterns in Complex Fluids: Granular Flow, Inertial Suspension and Bubbly Flow
- Hydrodynamic Theory for Segregation in Granular Mixtures
- Granulence: Analogy between Rapid Granular Flows and Compressible Flows
- Granular Rayleigh-Benard Convection
- Geophysical Convective Flows and Porous Media
- Microscale Flows: Mixing and Control; Analogy with Granular Flows
- Saturn's Ring
Teaching
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