R. Shankar Subramanian

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. - Clarkson University, 1972

Research Interests

Transport and Interfacial Phenomena -- For details Click Here

Book

R. S. Subramanian and R. Balasubramaniam, "The Motion of Bubbles and Drops in Reduced Gravity," Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2001).

Recent Publications

V. Pratap, N. Moumen, and R.S. Subramanian, "Thermocapillary Motion of a Liquid Drops on a Horizontal Solid Surface," Langmuir 24, 5185-5193 (2008).

N. Moumen, R.S. Subramanian, and J.B. McLaughllin, "Experiments on the Motion of Drops on a Horizontal Solid Surface Due to a Wettability Gradient," Langmuir 22, 2682-2690 (2006).

J.B. McLaughllin, S.S. Saravanan, N. Moumen, and R.S. Subramanian, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Drop Motion on Uniform and Non-Uniform Solid Surfaces," in IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches to Multiphase Flow (Eds. S. Balachandar and A. Prosperetti), Springer 2006, pp. 109-118.

R.S. Subramanian, N. Moumen, and J.B. McLaughllin, "Motion of a Drop on a Solid Surface Due to a Wettability Gradient," Langmuir 21, 11844-11849 (2005).

R.S. Subramanian, R. J. Larsen, and H.A. Stone "Stability of a Flat Gas-Liquid Interface Containing Non-identical Spheres to Gas Transport: Toward an Explanation of Particle-Stabilization of Gas Bubbles," Langmuir 21, 4526-4531 (2005).

R. Balasubramaniam and R.S. Subramanian, "Thermocapillary Convection due to a Stationary Bubble," Physics of Fluids 16, No. 8, 3131-3137 (2004).

R. Balasubramaniam and R.S. Subramanian, "Thermocapillary Migration of a Drop: An Exact Solution with Newtonian Interfacial Rheology and Stretching/Shrinkage of Interfacial Area for Small Marangoni Numbers," in Transport Phenomena in Microgravity (Ed. S.S. Sadhal), Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1027, 303-310 (2004).

L. Guo and R. S. Subramanian, Mechanical Removal in CMP of Copper Using Alumina Abrasives," J. Electrochem. Soc. 151, No. 2, G104-G108 (2004).

Awards and Honors

1968: Dr. Alagappa Chettiar Medal (No. 1 in Senior Class), Dr. M.A. Gonvida Rao Memorial Prize, Mrs. Kanakammal Krishnaswamy Memorial Prize and G. Srinivasan Memorial Prize ; 1978: John Graham, Jr. Faculty Award (Research Prize, Clarkson); 1980: Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award (ASEE); 1981: Distinguished Teaching Award (Clarkson), 1982: Certificate of Recognition (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory); 1984-1986: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science; 1996: Outstanding Adviser Award (Clarkson); 2008: Omega Chi Epsilon Teacher of the Year Award (Clarkson), 1989: Fellow AAAS; 2005: Fellow AIChE

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Graduate

Separation Processes

Advanced Transport Phenomena

Fluid Mechanics

Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Heat Transfer

Chemical Engineering Analysis

Mass Transfer

Advanced Chemical Engineering Analysis

Advanced Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Special Topics in Mass Transfer

Computer Programming

Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics

Air Pollution Control

Special Topics in Heat Transfer

Transport Phenomena

Transport Phenomena in Low Reynolds Number Flows

Updated August 2008