Faculty
Mahalingam, Shankar
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor Shankar Mahalingam 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 Mechanical Engineering. From 1982 to
1984, he worked as a Systems Engineer for Link Simulations Systems
in Maryland. From 1989 to 2000, he was a member of the faculty in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. He has been at UCR since 2000. He has received funding
for his research as PI and co-PI from AFOSR, NSF, ACS-PRF, ONR,
UCEI, USDAFS, and UCR-LANL. He has won two teaching awards and an
outstanding advisor award while at the University of Colorado. He
served as a Member-at-Large of the Board of the Western States Section
of the Combustion Institute (1992-1998, and current). He is a member
of Sigma Xi, APS (Fluid Dynamics), The Combustion Institute, ASME,
an Associate Fellow of AIAA and Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal
(2002-2005).
Research Topics
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. His current focus is on developing suitable sub-models
for inclusion in fire spread applications.
Selected Publications
Mahalingam, S., J. H. Chen, and L. Vervisch, "Finite-rate
chemistry and transient effects in direct numerical simulations
of turbulent non-premixed flames," Combustion and Flame,
102 (3), pp. 285-297, 1995.
Swaminathan, N., S. Mahalingam, and R. W. Kerr,
"Structure of non-premixed reaction zones in numerical isotropic
turbulence," Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics,
8 (3) pp. 201-218, 1996.
Mahalingam S., D. Thevenin, S. Candel, and D.
Veynante, "Analysis and numerical simulation of a nonpremixed flame
in a corner," Combustion and Flame, 118, pp. 221-232, 1999.
Mahalingam, S., and P. D. Weidman, "Activation
energy asymptotic analysis and numerical modeling of a strained
corner flame," Combustion Theory and Modeling, 6 (1), pp.
155-172, 2002.
Khunatorn, Y., R. Shandas, C. DeGroff, and S. Mahalingam,
"Comparison of in vitro velocity field measurements in a scaled
total cavopulmonary connection with computational predictions,"
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 31(7), pp. 810-822, 2003.
Pakdee, W., and S. Mahalingam, "An Accurate Method
to Implement Boundary Conditions for Reacting Flows based on Characteristic
Wave Analysis," Combustion Theory and Modelling, 7(4), pp.
705-729, 2003.
Coen, J., S. Mahalingam, and J. W. Daily, "Infrared
imagery of crownfire dynamics during FROSTFIRE," Journal of Applied
Meteorology, 43(9), pp. 1241-1259, 2004.
Zhou, X., Pakdee, W., and S. Mahalingam, "Assessment
of a Flame Surface Density-Based Subgrid Turbulent Combustion Model
for Zhou, X., Weise, D., and S. Mahalingam", "Experimental measurements
and numerical modeling of marginal burning in live chaparral shrub
fuel beds," Proceedings of The Combustion Institute, 30,
pp. 2287-2294, 2005.
Weise, D. R., X. Zhou, L. Sun, and S. Mahalingam,
"Fire spread in chaparral - "go or no-go?" International Journal
of Wildland Fire, 14, in press, 2005.
Sun, L., Zhou, X., Mahalingam, S., and Weise,
D. R., "Experimental Investigation of the Velocity Field in Buoyant
Diffusion Flames Using PIV and TPIV Algorithm," accepted 8th
International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, September 2005.
Zhou, X., Mahalingam, S., and Weise, D., "Experimental
Modeling of the Effect of Terrain Slope on Marginal Burning," accepted
8th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, September
2005.
