Dr. Vinod Narayanan earned his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, and is currently Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He joined IIT Gandhinagar in 2009, where he supervised two Ph.D. students and twenty master’s students.
Dr. Narayanan’s research expertise is in theoretical and computational fluid dynamics. His research interests are hydrodynamic stability and transition to turbulence, fully developed turbulence, mixing and combustion in high-speed flows. His team has developed various computational models in hydrodynamic stability and flow control. He has authored more than 20 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 50 articles in conference proceedings.
During his Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship, Dr. Narayanan aims to develop numerical models and experimental techniques for suspensions in isotropic and wall-bounded turbulent flows. This project fundamentally investigates the fluid mechanics of suspension, its basic properties, and its effects on large-scale dynamics, using a combination of high-resolution numerical simulations and state-of-the-art laboratory experiments.