Group Alumni, PhD
| Name | Thesis topic | PhD | Present affiliation |
| S Ganga Prasath | Mechanics of filaments and spherical particles: role of elasticity and hydrodynamic interaction. Co-advisor: Narayanan Menon | 2019 | Harvard University (soon to join), Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Ravichandran Sivaramakrishnan | The Interplay of Buoyancy, Particle Inertia, and Phase Change in Vortical Flows—Implications for Cloud-flows **This thesis won Honourable Mention | 2017 | Nordita, Stockholm, Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Sharath Jose | Stratification and rotation effects on plane shear flow stability and transition | 2016 | IIT Madras, Institute Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Mamta Raju Jotkar | Effects of wall-geometry on the stability of channel flow, and of variable properties on film flow | 2016 | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| Manoj Tripathi | Multiphase flows with evaporation. Co-advisor: Kirti Sahu, registered at IIT Hyderabad. | 2013 | IISER Bhopal, Faculty member. |
| Divya Venkataraman | Drag reduction by surface-coating of cilia on airfoils. Co-advisor: Alessandro Bottaro, registered in the University of Genova. | 2013 | ICT Mumbai, Junior faculty member. |
| Sumesh P Thampi | Statics and Dynamics of Drops on Solid Surfaces: Theory and Simulations. **This thesis won the Best Thesis Award | 2012 | IIT Madras Chennai, Faculty member. |
| Anubhab Roy | Singular Eigenfunctions in Hydrodynamic Stability : The Roles of Rotation, Stratification and Elasticity. Co-advisor: Ganesh Subramanian | 2012 | IIT Madras Chennai, Faculty member. |
| Ratul Dasgupta | A computational and semi-analytical study of laminar, standing hydraulic jumps | 2011 | IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Faculty member |
| Harish N Dixit | Some studies on vortices with density stratification | 2011 | IIT Hyderabad, Faculty member |
| Gayathri Swaminathan | Global stability studies of some spatially developing flows | 2011 | AIRBUS Industrie, Scientist. |
| Vinod Narayanan | Stability and transition in boundary layers: effect of transverse curvature and pressure gradient | 2006 | IIT Gandhinagar, Faculty member |
| Kirti Chandra Sahu | Novel stability problems in pipe flows | 2006 | IIT Hyderabad, Faculty member |
| A. Sameen | Stability of plane channel flow with viscosity stratification. Co-advisor: ON Ramesh, registered at IISc. | 2005 | IIT Madras, Chennai, Faculty member |
Present PhD students:
| Name | Thesis area | Starting Year |
| Rashmi Ramadugu (main advisor: Prasad Perlekar) | Bubbles and interfaces in turbulence | 2013 |
| Sumit Birwa (co-advisor: Narayanan Menon) | Impact of solids in viscous media | 2013 |
| Ritabrata Thakur | Mixing in the Bay of Bengal | 2015 |
| Mukesh Singh Raghav (co-advisor: Amit Apte) | Atmosphere fluid mechanics | 2015 |
| Rahul Chajwa (co-advisors Narayanan Menon and Sriram Ramaswamy) | Interaction of solid bodies in viscous media | 2015 |
PhD students elsewhere I have co-advised:
- Juan Angel Tendero Ventanas, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid.
- Bijaylakshmi Saikia, IIT Bombay.
- Erich Essmann, University of Edinburgh.
- Davide Masiello, University of Edinburgh.
Post-doctoral mentees
Present
- Sunil Bharadwaj
- Priyanka Maity
- Jason Picardo (soon to join IIT Bombay, Mumbai as a faculty member)
Past (with present affiliation as faculty members):
- Adway Mitra (IIT Kharagpur, soon to join)
- P Deepu (IIT Patna)
- Gaurav Sharma (IIT Roorkee)
- Amol Marathe (BITS Pilani)
- Vishwanath Sastry (NITK Surathkal)
- Tapan Naskar (SN Bose Institute)
- Rajeswari Seshadri (Pondicherry Central University)
- Ashwin Vaidya (Montclair State University)
- Soumyajit Mukherjee (IIT Bombay)
- Gaurav Tomar (IISc Bangalore, informal postdoc).
MS Theses supervised
| Name | Thesis topic | MS |
| Anirban Sinha | Baroclinic instabilities in shear flows (Co-advisor: Jai Sukhatme) | 2013 |
| Rohith Swaminathan | Merger of multiple vortices | 2012 |
| Srikanth Toppaladoddi | Vortex shedding patterns, their competition, and chaos in flow past inline oscillating rectangular cylinders | 2011 |
| Rahul Bale | Transient growth in stratified channel flow | 2009 |
| Kaushik Srinivasan | Direct numerical simulation of transition in unstably stratified Poiseuille flow | 2007 |
| Pinaki Bhattacharyya | A linear stability analysis of the spatially-developing incompressible plane laminar mixing layer using minimal composite theory (co-advisor: R. Narasimha) | 2007 |
| Antina Ghosh | Simulation of nano-scale flows by molecular dynamics methods (co-advisor: Srikanth Sastry) | 2007 |
| Kirti Chandra Sahu | Numerical computation of spatially developing flows by full multigrid technique | 2003 |
Short term students (one year/ summer/ visitors)
Over 100