DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras
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Sugan Durai Murugan V

Assistant Professor

FSL - 205

Ph.D. (Institution/University): International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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sugan@iitm.ac.in

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  • Dr. Sugan recently joined as an Assistant Professor. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), and completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bengaluru. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Turbulence
  • Data assimilation in turbulence
  • Adjoint-methods and inverse problems
  • Closure models for turbulent flows
  • Sub-grid scale models using inviscid dynamics

  1. Honorable Mention in the Best Thesis Commendations, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2023

  1. Many-body Chaos in Thermalised Fluids, Sugan Durai Murugan, D. Kumar, S. Bhattacharjee, and S. S. Ray. Physical Review Letters 127, 124501(2021).
  2. Genesis of thermalization in the three-dimensional, incompressible, Galerkin-truncated Euler equation, Sugan Durai Murugan and S. S. Ray. Physical Review Fluids 8, 084605(2023).
  3. Suppressing thermalization and constructing weak solutions in truncated inviscid equations of hydrodynamics: Lessons from the Burgers equation, Sugan Durai Murugan, U. Frisch, S. Nazarenko, N. Besse, and S. S. Ray. Physical Review Research 2, 033202(2020).