Google Scholar Profile Flow Physics and Computational Science Lab

Education

  • Ph.D., ME, Stanford University, 2022
  • M.S., ME, Stanford University, 2018
  • B.Tech., ME, National Institute of Technology-Karnataka, India, 2014

Background

Suhas Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, starting in January 2024. 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, Jain aims to address key challenges in these areas. 
 

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.
     

Lab Affiliations

 

Representative Publications


Atomization and sprays
  • Jain, S, S, Tyagi, N, Prakash, R, S, Ravikrishna, R, V, Tomar, G, 'Secondary breakup of drops at moderate Weber numbers: Effect of density ratio and Reynolds number', International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 117, pp. 25-41, 2019.
  • Prakash, R, S*, Jain, S, S*, Ravikrishna, R, V, Raghunandhan, B, N, Tomar, G 'Detailed numerical simulations of atomization of a liquid jet in swirling-gas crossflow', Atomization and Sprays, 29, pp. 1-27, 2019. 

Two-phase flow modeling
  • Jain, S, S, 'Accurate conservative phase-field method for simulation of two-phase flows', Journal of Computational Physics, 469, 111529, 2022.
  • Jain, S, S, ‘A model for transport of interface-confined scalars and insoluble surfactants in two-phase flows’, Journal of Computational Physics, 515, 113277, 2024. 
  • Hwang, H; Jain, S, S, ‘A robust phase-field method for two-phase flows on unstructured grids’, Journal of Computational Physics, 507, 112972, 2024.
  • Jain, S, S, Moin, P 'A kinetic energy--and entropy-preserving scheme for compressible two-phase flows', Journal of Computational Physics, 464, 111307, 2022. 
  • Jain, S, S, Mani, A, Moin, P 'A conservative diffuse-interface method for compressible two-phase flows', Journal of Computational Physics, 418, 109606, 2020.

Bubbles and drops
  • Rosti, M, E, Ge, Z, Jain, S, S, Dodd, M, S, Brandt, L, 'Droplets in homogeneous shear turbulence', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 876, pp. 962-984, 2019. 
  • Chan, R, Mirjalili, S, Jain, S, S, Urzay, J, Mani, A, Moin, P 'Birth of microbubbles in turbulent breaking waves', Physical Review Fluids, 4, 100508, 2019. 

Fluid-solid and solid-solid systems
  • Jain, S, S; Adler, M; West, J; Mani, A; Moin, P; Lele, S 'Assessment of diffuse-interface methods for compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids', Journal of Computational Physics, 475, 111866, 2023. 
  • Jain, S, S, Kamrin, K, Mani, A, 'A conservative and non-dissipative Eulerian formulation for the simulation of soft solids in fluids', Journal of Computational Physics, 117, pp. 25-41, 2019.

Particle-laden flows
  • Keane, N; Apte, S; Jain, S, S; Khanwale, M 'Effect of interpolation kernels and grid refinement on two way–coupled point-particle simulations', International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 166, 104517, 2023.
  • West, J; Maurel-Oujia, T; Matsuda, K; Schneider, K; Jain, S, S; Maeda, K, ‘Clustering, rotation, and swirl of inertial particles in turbulent channel flow’, International Journal of Multiphase Flows, 174, 104764, 2024.
  • Maurel-Oujia, T; Jain, S, S; Matsuda, K; Schneider, K; West, J; Maeda, K, ‘Neural network models for preferential concentration of particles in two-dimensional turbulence’ Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2024.

Icing
  • Bornhoft, B; Jain, S, S; Goc, K; Bose, S, T; Moin, P, ‘Large-eddy simulations of the NACA23012 airfoil with laser-scanned ice shapes’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 146, 108957, 2024.
Compressible flows and shock capturing
  • Jain, S, S; Agrawal, R; Moin, P, ‘Stable, entropy-consistent, and a localized artificial-diffusivity method for capturing discontinuities’, Physical Review Fluids, 9, 024609, 2024.