A347 Bourns Hall
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-2134
Fax: 951-827-2899

Shankar Mahalingam
Professor and Chair
Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

PhD Mechanical Engineering 1989

Stanford University

Awards

• Pi Tau Sigma award of "Outstanding ME Professor at CU", U. of Colorado at Boulder, Spring and Fall 1991
• U. of Colorado "Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor", 1991 - 1992
• NASA AMES/Stanford Center for Turbulence Research Summer Fellow, 1992 and 1994
• DOE-AWU Faculty Fellowship Award, 5/1993 - 7/1993
• DOE-AWU Faculty Fellowship Award, 6/1994
• Affiliate Member, Department of • Applied Mathematics, U. of Colorado at Boulder, 1995 - 2000
• Invited Professor, Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale, Paris, France, 6/1997 - 12/1997
• Associate Editor, AIAA Journal, 2002-2005
 

Research Area

Professor Mahalingam’s research interests include direct and large eddy simulations of turbulent combustion, forest fire modeling, flame spread experiments, computational fluid dynamics applied to turbulent combustion, acoustic-flow interactions, and cardiovascular fluid dynamics. He has received funding for his research as PI and co-PI from AFOSR, NSF, ACS-PRF, ONR, UCEI, USDAFS, and UCR-LANL.

Publications

For additional information, please see Professor Mahalingam's faculty webpage.

http://www.engr.ucr.edu/~shankar

Former Institution

University of Colorado at Boulder

Biography

Dr. Shankar Mahalingam is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). He received his B.Tech from IIT Madras in 1980, M.S. from SUNY Stony Brook in 1982, and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989, all in the field of Mechanical Engineering. From 1989 to 2000, he was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU). During this time he was also a member of CU’s Center for Combustion and Environmental Research. While on sabbatical leave in 1997, he served as Invited Professor at the Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris, France. Since 2000, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCR. Between 2002 and 2006, he served as Department Chair. In 2004, he chaired a special Task Force appointed by the Chancellor to examine the 2004 Lothian Fire incident on campus.