DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Shyama Prasad Das

Associate Professor

NAC-325, New Academic Complex, Fluid Systems Laboratory

PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

+91- 44 -2257- 4667

spdas[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Dr. Shyama Prasad Das received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2006. He worked as a fellow scientist at National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore for nearly three years from 2009 to 2012 before joining IIT Madras. He also worked as Post Doctoral Fellow at Laboratoire des Ecoulements Geophysiques et Industriels, Grenoble, France and at Centre de Thermique de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France for three years from 2006 to 2009.
  • His research interests include unsteady hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, heat and mass transfer, interfacial hydrodynamics and transport, turbomachines.

  • Unsteady Flows
  • Interfacial Hydrodynamics and Transport
  • Heat Transfer
  • Turbomachines

    Current Courses

  • ME1100 : Thermodynamics

    Previous Courses

  • ME3100 : Basic Thermal Engineering
  • ME 3310 : Turbomachines
  • ME 6040/ME5103 : Incompressible fluid flow
  • ME 5550/ME6120 : Flow and thermal instabilities
  • ME 3280: Mechanical Engineering Lab-II
  • ME 6690: Energy Engineering Lab
  • ME 6070: Thermal Engineering Lab
  • ME 3482: Mechanical Engineering Lab-II
  • ME 3484: Mechanical Engineering Lab-III

  1. Abhishek Kumar, Shaligram Tiwari, SP Das, Effect of size and spacing on the wake characteristics of two spheres placed in tandem, Physics of Fluids 35 (5), 2023
  2. D K Raja, SP Das, Effect of liquid depth on dynamics and collapse of large cavities generated by standing waves, Phys. Fluids, 33 (1), 012110, 2021
  3. A. Uppu, A. Chaudhuri, S.P. Das, 2019 Numerical modeling of particulate fouling and cake-enhanced concentration polarization in roto-dynamic reverse osmosis filtration systems, Desalination, 468, 114053.
  4. D. K. Raja, S. P. Das, and E. J. Hopfinger, 2019 On standing gravity wave-depression cavity collapse and jetting, J. Fluid Mech., 866, 112–131.
  5. S. P. Das, U. Srinivasan and J. H. Arakeri, 2016 Instabilities in unsteady boundary layers with reverse flow, Eur. Jl. Mech. B-Fluids, 55, pp. 49-62.
  6. S. P. Das, V. S. Nikolayev, F. Lefevre, B. Pottier, S. Khandekar, and J. Bonjour, Thermally induced two-phase oscillating flow inside a capillary tube, International journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 53, pp. 3905-3913, 2010.
  7. S. P. Das and E. J. Hopfinger, Mass transfer enhancement by gravity waves at a liquid-vapour interface, International journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, pp. 1400-1411, 2009.
  8. S. P. Das and E. J. Hopfinger, Parametrically forced gravity waves in a circular cylinder and finite time singularity, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 599, pp 205-228, 2008.

  1. Heat and Mass Transfer Across Liquid-vapor Interface in a Pressurized Cryogenic Tank with and without wave motion, Sponsoring Agency: ISRO. Status: Ongoing. Role: Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: Prof. Shaligram Tiwari. Budget: INR 44.4 lakh (Completed)
  2. Unsteady Flow Physics and Loss Mechanisms in small engine axial compressors, Sponsoring Agency: DRDO. Status: Ongoing. Role: Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: Prof. BVSSS Prasad. Budget: INR 28.392 lakh (Completed)
  3. Loss reduction in annular S-shaped ducts, Sponsoring Agency: DRDO. Status: Ongoing. Role: Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator: Prof. BVSSS Prasad. Budget: INR 78.7936 lakh (Completed)
  4. Micro/mini turbine for hydropower generation applications in India, Sponsoring Agency: Govt. Of India (UAY Scheme) and Eaton Technology. Status: Ongoing. Role: Co-Investigator, Principal Investigator: Prof. Dhiman Chatterjee. Budget: INR 187.72 lakh (Completed)
  5. An experimental study of unsteady boundary layer separation and its control in long separation bubble, Sponsoring Agency: IIT Madras (New Faculty Seed Grant). Status: Completed. Role: Principal Investigator. Budget: INR 28.9237 lakh (Completed)