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Dr Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan

B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1981
M.S., University of Akron, Ohio, 1984
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1989

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email: ravi.jagadeeshan@eng.monash.edu.au
tel: (61 3) 9905 3274
fax:(61 3) 9905 5686
Room 213, Building 69 Engineering

Research Information Page

Molecular Rheology Group

Professional Appointments

  • 2006-Present: Reader, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University
  • 2001-2005: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University
  • 2000-2001: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  • 1995-2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  • 1993-1994: Research Associate, Theoretical Polymer Physics Group, ETH, Switzerland
  • 1991-1993: Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 1990-1991: Scientist C, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
  • 1990: Research Associate, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India

Professional Affiliations 

  • Member, The Society of Rheology, USA.
  • Council Member, Australian Society of Rheology.
  • Member, German Society of Rheology. 

Current Research and Professional Interests

  • Molecular Rheology of Polymeric Liquids
  • Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Flow-Microstructure Interactions
  • Bio-Polymer Dynamics in Rheometric Flows
  • Computational Modeling of Coating Flows of Viscoelastic fluids

Selected Publications

  • Prakash J. R., and K. K. Rao, Steady Compressible Flow of Granular Materials in a Wedge-Shaped Bunker, J. Fluid Mech. 225, 21 (1991).
  • Prakash J. R., and R. A. Mashelkar, The Diffusion Tensor for a Flowing Dilute Solution of Hookean Dumbbells: Anisotropy and Flow Rate Dependence, J.Chem.Phys. 95, 3743 (1991).
  • Prakash J. R., J. P. Bouchaud and S. F. Edwards, Long-Time Large-Scale Properties of the Noisy Driven-Diffusion Equation, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 446, 67 (1994).
  • Bouchaud J. P., M. E. Cates, J. R. Prakash and S. F. Edwards, A Model for the Dynamics of Sandpile Surfaces, J. Phys. I France 4, 1383 (1994).
  • Bouchaud J. P., M. E. Cates, J. R. Prakash and S. F. Edwards, Hysteresis and Metastability in a Continuum Sandpile Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1982 (1995).
  • Prakash J. R, and H. C. Öttinger, Universal Viscometric Functions for Dilute Polymer Solutions, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 71, 245 (1997).
  • Prakash J. R, The Kinetic Theory of Dilute Solutions of Flexible Polymers: Hydrodynamic Interaction, in Advances in the Flow and Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluids, D.A. Siginer, D.De Kee and R.P. Chabra, eds., Elsevier Science, (1999).
  • Chakraborty, S., P.R. Nott and J. R. Prakash, Analysis Of Radial Segregation Of Granular Mixtures In A Rotating Drum, Eur. Phys. J. E, 1, 265 (2000).
  • Prakash, J. R., Rouse Chains with Excluded Volume Interactions: Linear Viscoelasticity, Macromolecules, 34, 3396 (2001). 
  • J. R. Prakash, “Rouse chains with excluded volume interactions: Steady simple shear flow”, J. Rheol., 46, 1353 (2002).
  • Kumar, K. S., and J. R. Prakash, "Equilibrium swelling and universal ratios in dilute polymer solutions: Exact Brownian dynamics simulations for a delta function excluded volume potential," Macromolecules, 36, 7842 (2003).
  • Prabhakar R., and J.R. Prakash, "Multiplicative separation of the influences of excluded volume, hydrodynamic interactions and finite extensibility on the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions", J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., 116, 163 (2004).
  • Prabhakar, R., P. Sunthar, and J.R. Prakash, “Exploring the universal dynamics of dilute polymer solutions in extensional flows,” Physica A, 339, 34 (2004).
  • K. S. Kumar, and J. R. Prakash, "Universal consequences of the presence of excluded volume interactions in dilute polymer solutions undergoing shear flow," J. Chem. Phys., 121(8), 3886-3897 (2004).
  • Bajaj, M, J. R. Prakash, P. P. Bhat, and M. Pasquali, “Micro-macro simulation of viscoelastic coating flows,” Fourteenth International Congress on Rheology, Seoul, South Korea, 22 Aug. - 27 Aug., 2004.
  • R. Prabhakar, J. R. Prakash, and T. Sridhar, “A successive fine-graining scheme for predicting the rheological properties of dilute polymer solutions”, J. Rheol., 48, 1251-1278 (2004).
  • Sunthar, P. and J.R. Prakash, "Parameter Free Prediction of DNA Conformations in Elongational Flow by Successive Fine Graining", Macromolecules, 38, p. 617-640 (2005).