Dr. Rajaram Lakkaraju
Dr. Rajaram Lakkaraju
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal-721302, India
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal-721302, India
Phone: +91-3222-282908
Phone: +91-3222-282908
Complex air-sea interactions and turbulence. Image credit to WHOI.
Dr Rajaram Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor at Department of mechanical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-India. He has obtained PhD for the work on boiling turbulent Rayliegh-Benard convection using HPC simulations from Physics of Fluids Group-University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2013 . Prior to that he has obtained MS in fluid dynamics for the work on Buoyancy induced shear flows from Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)-Bangalore, India in 2007.
Dr Rajaram Lakkaraju is an Assistant Professor at Department of mechanical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur-India. He has obtained PhD for the work on boiling turbulent Rayliegh-Benard convection using HPC simulations from Physics of Fluids Group-University of Twente, The Netherlands in 2013 . Prior to that he has obtained MS in fluid dynamics for the work on Buoyancy induced shear flows from Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)-Bangalore, India in 2007.
His research interests include
His research interests include
- Multi-phase flows
HPC simulations of turbulent multi-phase flows with applications relevant for nature inspired and industrial reactors. Mainly, simulations for Boiling, Cavitation, Drops and Particles using Eulerian, Lagrangian, Lattice-Boltzmann, SPH and Population balance techniques. - Transition and Turbulent flows
Fundamental understanding of laminar and turbulent flow transition and thermal convection using CPUs and GPUs - Modeling in geophysical flows
Upper ocean surface dynamics, gas exchange, oil spill dispersion, methane plume dispersion, pollutant transport in atmosphere, high-order computation of nonlinear ocean waves - Machine learning of complex systems