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Education:
BTech in Chemical Engineering, VIT University Vellore (2011)
PhD in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2017)
Fulbright-Nehru fellow at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida (2015-2016)
Click here for my PhD thesis
Research Interests:
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Particles and Filaments in Turbulence:
transport, settling, collision-coalescence, role of flow structures -
Multiphase Micro-Flows:
instabilities in layered flows, mixing and transport, surfactants, elastic membranes -
Patterns and Flows in Biology:
Insect nest structures, active flows in the cell cortex, pulmonary mucus dynamics -
Fundamental Questions in Pattern Formation:
pattern selection, multi-scale interaction of instability modes, transient base states -
Reduced-order Modelling of Transport Phenomena:
center-manifold/Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, weighted-residual methods
Publications:
Click here for a full list of publications on Google Scholar
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Flow structures govern particle collisions in turbulence
Jason R. Picardo, L. Agasthya, R. Govindarajan and S. S. Ray,
Physical Review Fluids (Rapid), 4, 032601, 2019 -
Understanding droplet collisions through a model flow: Insights from a Burgers vortex
L. Agasthya, Jason R. Picardo, S. Ravichandran, R. Govindarajan and S. S. Ray,
Physical Review E, 99, 063107, 2019 -
Preferential sampling of elastic chains in turbulent flows
Jason R. Picardo, D. Vincenzi, N. Pal and S. S. Ray,
Physical Review Letters, 121, 244501, 2018 -
Sliding instability of draining fluid films
G. Dietze, Jason R. Picardo and R. Narayanan,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 111-141, 2018 -
Layered two-phase flows in microchannels with arbitrary interface-wall contact angles
R. Dandekar, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Chemical Engineering Science, 192, 1058-1070, 2018 -
Interfacial pattern selection in defiance of linear growth
Jason R. Picardo and R. Narayanan,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 829, 345-363, 2017 -
Numerical study of enhanced mixing in pressure-driven flows in microchannels using a spatially periodic electric field
T. Krishnaveni, T. Renganathan, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Physical Review E, 96(3), 033117, 2017 -
Solutal Marangoni instability in layered two-phase flows
Jason R. Picardo, Radhakrishna T.G. and S. Pushpavanam,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 793, 280-315, 2016 -
Centrifugal instability of stratified two-phase flow in a curved channel
Jason R. Picardo, P. Garg and S. Pushpavanam,
Physics of Fluids, 27, 054106, 2015 -
Low Dimensional Modeling of Transport and Reactions in Two-Phase Stratified Flow
Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 54 (42), 10481–10496, 2015 -
Laterally stratified flow in a curved microchannel
Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 75, 39–53, 2015 -
Understanding the Shape of Ant Craters: A Continuum Model
Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 77 (3) 470–487, 2015 -
Chaotic mixing in a planar, curved channel using periodic slip
P. Garg, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Physics of Fluids, 27, 032004, 2015 -
Modeling Extraction in Microchannels with Stratified Flow: Channel Geometry, Flow Configuration and Marangoni Stresses
Jason R. Picardo, Radhakrishna T.G., A. B. Vir, S. Ramji and S. Pushpavanam,
Indian Chemical Engineer, 57 (3-4), 322-358, 2015 -
Vertically stratified two-phase flow in a curved channel: Insights from a domain perturbation analysis
P. Garg, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Physics of Fluids, 26, 073604, 2014 -
Shifting and breakup instabilities of squeezed elliptic jets
D. S. Pillai, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 67, 189–199, 2014 -
Performance Comparison of Liquid-Liquid Extraction in Parallel Microflows
A. B. Vir, A. S. Fabiyan,, Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 53(19), 8171-8181, 2014 -
Holdup characteristics of two-phase parallel microflows
A. B. Vir, S. R. Kulkarni,, Jason R. Picardo, A. Sahu and S. Pushpavanam,
Microfludics and Nanofluidics, 16, 1057-1067, 2014 -
Core-annular two-phase flow in a gently curved circular channel
Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
AIChE Journal, 59, 12: 4871-4886, 2013 -
On the conditional superiority of counter-current over co-current extraction in microchannels
Jason R. Picardo and S. Pushpavanam,
Microfludics and Nanofluidics, 15, 5: 701-713, 2013 -
The Merkel equation revisited: A novel method to compute the packed height of a cooling tower
Jason R. Picardo and J. E. Variyar,
Energy Conversion and Management, 57: 167-172, 2012