Principal Investigator

Dr. Suhas S. Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his bachelor’s from NIT-Karnataka (India) in 2014, M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2018 and 2022, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2022-2023), a researcher at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany (2014-2015), and a project assistant at the Indian Institute of Science (2015-2016).

His research interests include computational modeling of fluid flows (multiphase flows; turbulent flows; compressible flows; and fluid-structure interaction) with a current focus on modeling atomization, sprays, and phase change for propulsion applications; ice accretion and aerodynamics for sustainable energy and aerospace design; and air-sea interaction modeling for understanding climate change; and modeling of fluid-solid and solid-solid systems for biomedical and high-speed applications. Through the integration of numerical modeling, high-performance computing, and data-driven approaches, Suhas and his group aim to address key challenges in these areas.

Contact: suhasjain@gatech.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2022 Advisor: Parviz Moin
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2018
  • B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology-Karnataka, India, 2014 Advisor: Ravikiran Kadoli

Prior Employments

Short-term employments
  • Summer intern, Bosch Research and Technology Center, Palo Alto, USA, Summer 2017
  • Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, Summer 2015
  • Summer intern, University of Paderborn, Germany, Summer 2013

Affiliations at Georgia Tech

Distinctions & Awards

International or National Awards
  • Forum for Early Career Scientists mini-award, American Physical Society, 2022.
  • CTR-Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 2022-2023.
  • National Overseas Scholarship, Minority Welfare Department, India, 2019-2021.
  • Gallery of Fluid Motion award, American Physical Society, 2018.
  • DAAD Summer Research Fellowship, Germany, 2013.
Institute or School Awards
  • Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2017-2022.
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf Research Scholarship, Germany, 2014-2015.
  • International Internship Travel Award, NIT-K, India, 2013.

Research Areas

  • Fluid dynamics
    • drops and bubbles
    • atomization and sprays
    • particle-laden flows
    • turbulent flows
    • compressible flows
    • Phase change
      • evaporation
      • boiling
      • solidification
  • Scientific computing
    • robust and conservative numerical methods
    • interface-capturing and shock-capturing methods
    • Eulerian methods for fluid-structure interaction
    • data-driven modeling
    • high-performance computing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Aerodynamics
    • ice accretion
    • flow over rough walls

Application Areas

  • Energy and propulsion
  • Aerospace design
  • Environmental engineering
  • Chemical engineering
  • Biomedical engineering