Dr. Partho Mukherjee
Designation: Assistant Professor
Dr. Partho Mukherjee is a Mechanical Engineer with a strong research foundation built at IIT Bombay and JNCASR, Bengaluru. His research areas broadly include Instabilities, Turbulence, Mixing in Stratified-Shear Flows and Buoyancy Driven Flows, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. His work spans experimental (using cutting-edge PIV/PLIF diagnostics), theoretical, and computational investigations (MATLAB, Ansys Fluent), leading to publications in top-tier journals like Physical Review Fluids and Physics of Fluids. He has taught a wide range of courses, combining research depth with impactful teaching, contributed to curriculum design, mentored students, and supported various university initiatives across academics and governance.
- Ph.D. in Thermal & Fluid Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2016
- M.E. in Engineering Design (Mechanical Engineering), College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, 2014
- B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 2011
- Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Adani University (2022 – Present)
- Post Doc Researcher, Engineering Mechanics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru (Sep 2022 – Nov 2022)
- Institute Post Doc Fellow, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (May 2022 – July 2022))
- Instabilities
- Turbulence
- Mixing in Stratified-Shear Flows and Buoyancy Driven Flows
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- On the dynamics of buoyant jets in a linearly stratified ambient, Harish N. Mirajkar, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS 35 (1), 016609 (2023).
- Entrainment dynamics of a buoyant jet in a stably stratified ambient, Partho Mukherjee, Harish N. Mirajkar and Sridhar Balasubramanian, ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS (Special Issue: Turbulence and mixing in stratified flows) (2022).
- Assessment of RANS-based turbulence model for forced plume dynamics in a linearly stratified environment, Nitin Kumar, Partho Mukherjee, Vamsi Krishna Chalamalla, Anupam Dewan and Sridhar Balasubramanian, COMPUTERS AND FLUIDS (2022).
- Diapycnal mixing efficiency in lock-exchange gravity currents, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 6 (1), 013801 (2021).
- Energetics and mixing efficiency of lock-exchange gravity currents using simultaneous velocity and density fields, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 5 (6), 063802 (2020).
- PIV study on the dynamics of a forced plume in a stratified ambient, Harish N. Mirajkar, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, JOURNAL OF FLOW VISUALISATION AND IMAGE PROCESSING 27 (1), (2020).
National
- Mixing efficiency in gravity currents, 44th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 14th – 16th Dec, 2017, Kollam, India.
- Mixing Dynamics of Lock-Exchange Gravity Currents Using Simultaneous Velocity and Density Measurements, 7th International and 45th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 10th – 12th Dec, 2018, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
- PIV study on the dynamics of a forced plume in a stratified ambient, 46th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 9th – 11th Dec, 2019, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.
International
- Mixing Dynamics of Lock-Exchange Gravity Currents Using Simultaneous Velocity and Density Measurements, The 8th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEH), 4th – 7th Jun, 2018 University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
