Meheboob Alam
Professor
Engineering Mechanics Unit
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
India
Biography
Meheboob Alam has completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineeering (1998, Indian Institute of Science).
Research Interest
Meheboob Alam is interested in the application of the basic principles of (classical and statistical) mechanics to understand the dynamics of complex fluids (e.g. granular matter, suspensions of passive and active particles, etc.). The bulk of my research work is theoretical and computational in nature, centered around (i) Kinetic Theory, (ii) Continuum Mechanics and (iii) Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation. I also have a laboratory where my students carry out table-top experiments on particulate and multiphase flows. The following broad topics are currently being investigated: Granular Matter as Paradigm for Three States of Matter: Gas --> Liquid --> Jamming --> Solid; Non-Newtonian and Non-Fourier Rheology of Granular Fluid: Kinetic Theory and MD Simulation; Nonlinear Instability and Patterns: Ginzburg-Landau Equation, Resonance and Synchronization; Granular Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Experiments and Theory; Density-Stratified Flows and Mixing: PIV and PLIF Experiments; Electrokinetic Instabilites in Microscale Flows.
Publications
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Saha, S. and Meheboob Alam, Revisiting ignited-quenched transition and the non-Newtonian rheology of a sheared dilute gas-solid suspension, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (2017).
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Ansari I H, Rivas N and Meheboob Alam, Phase-coexisting patterns with segregation and controlled convection in vibrated binary granular mixtures, (2017).
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Gupta, R. and Meheboob Alam, Knudsen paradox in rarefied gases and the roles of thermal and athermal walls, (2017).
