Faculty Bio
 

Shriram Pillapakkam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Teaching/Instructional
Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 215- 204-4306
Email: shriram.pillapakkam@temple.edu

   
  Degrees
  • Ph.D. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Mechanical Engineering, 2005
  • M.S. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Mechanical Engineering
  • B.S. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India, Mechanical Engineering, 1997

Research Interests

  • Implementation of Immersed Boundary technique into a finite-volume based code to facilitate numerical simulation of flow structure interaction in biomechanical sensors
  • Direct numerical simulation of multiphase viscoelastic flow
  • Viscoelastic instabilities in Bubbles and drops

Journal Publications

  • S. B. Pillapakkam, P. Singh and D. Blackmore, N. Aubry, Transient and steady state of rising bubble in a viscoelastic fluid, Journal of fluid mechanics, 589, 215-252, (2007).
  • A. Kadakasham, S.B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Permeability of periodic arrays of spheres, Mechanics Research Communications, Volume 32, Issue 6, 1 November 2005, Pages 659-665.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, A level-set method for computing solutions to viscoelastic two-phase flow, J. Comput. Phy. 174, Issue 2, 10 December 2001, Pages 552-578.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam, J. A. C. Humphrey, J. L. Rosales, Numerical calculation of the formation and persistence, or collapse, of vortex pairs in counter-current parallel channel flows, Submitted to Journal Of Fluid Engineering, (2007).

Conference Publications

  • S. B. Pillapakkam, J. A. C. Humphrey, J. L. Rosales, Numerical calculation of the formation and persistence, or collapse, of vortex pairs in counter-current parallel channel flows, Proceedings of ASME Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (2006).
  • C. Barbier, S. B. Pillapakkam, J. A. C. Humphrey, A. Ritter, W. Hanke, B. Otto, H. Bleckmann, Numerical and experimental investigation of fish lateral line canal, 5th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Munich, Germany (2007).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Negative wake and velocity of a bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid, Proceedings of ASME Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. (2003).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Direct numerical simulation of drops in three-dimensional simple shear flows, Proceedings of ASME Annual Meeting, New York, New York. (2001).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Advances in numerical simulation of dynamics of drops and bubbles in viscous and viscoelastic flows, Polymer Analysis Newsletter, Society of Plastic Engineers. (2000).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Drop deformation and break up in viscoelastic polymeric blends, Proceeding of ANTEC annual meeting, Dallas, Texas (2001).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Advances in numerical simulations of dynamics of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic flows, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New Orleans, LA (2000).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Dynamics of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic flows, Young Engineer Paper Contest, ASME Annual Meeting, Nashville Tennessee (1999).

Presentations

  • S. B. Pillapakkam, J. A. C. Humphrey and J. L. Rosales, Numerical calculation of the formation and collapse of a pair of vortices in a counter-current channel flow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chicago, Illinois (2006).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam, C. Barbier, and J. A. C. Humphrey Numerical Calculation of the Flow in the Fish Lateral Line: Applications to Predators Tracking Prey, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chicago, Illinois (2006).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic multiphase flows – deformation of drops in shear flows, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Chicago, Illinois (2006).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam, P. Singh, D. Blackmore and N. Aubry, Analysis of motion and deformation of a bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid ASME Joint U.S. - European Fluids Enigneering Summer Meeting
    July 17-20, 2006, Miami, FL.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam, P. Singh and D. Blackmore, Poster: Negative wake and velocity of bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid, Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, NJIT (2004).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh Negative wake and velocity of bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid, American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, East Rutherford, NJ (2004).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Negative wake and velocity of a bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2003, Washington, D.C.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Transient and steady state analysis for a Bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid, Society of Rheology, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Drop deformation and break up in viscoelastic polymeric blends, Proceeding of ANTEC annual meeting, Dallas, Texas (2001).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Numerical Simulations of drops and bubbles in three-dimensional viscoelastic flows, Society of Rheology, 2001, Washington, D.C.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Advances in numerical simulations of dynamics of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic flows, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2000, New Orleans, LA.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Numerical Simulations of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic shear and pressure driven flows, ANTEC Annual Meeting, Orlando Florida (2000).
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Dynamics of drops and bubbles in Newtonian and viscoelastic flows, American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Dynamics, New Orleans, LA (2000).
  • P. Singh, S.B. Pillapakkam and A. Narh, Direct numerical simulations of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic shear and pressure driven flows, Society of petroleum Engineers, 1999, Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
  • S. B. Pillapakkam and P. Singh, Dynamic of drops and bubbles in viscoelastic flows, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1999, Nashville, TN.

Present Teaching (Spring 2008)

  • MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY
  • ENERGY CONVERSION LAB
  • FLUID MECHANICS
  • COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS