Complex Flow Physics Lab

High-fidelity simulation of complex fluid systems

About the Lab

The Complex Flow Physics Lab (CFPL) focuses on high-fidelity numerical simulations of complex fluid systems, with emphasis on turbulence, multiphysics interactions, and high-performance computing.

Research

Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)

High-order, high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows using advanced numerical schemes.

Immersed Boundary Methods (IBM)

Accurate representation of complex geometries in incompressible flow solvers.

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Scalable multi-GPU and MPI-based simulation frameworks.

Multiphysics & Multiphase Flows

Coupled transport, heat transfer, and interfacial phenomena.

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Recent Publications

Compressibility effects on vortex breakdown in subsonic and supersonic regimes

Shesh N Dhurandhar, Manjul Sharma, Vishnu Mohan, A Sameen

Phys. Fluids, 2026

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Bifurcations in narrow-gap spherical Couette flow

JP Ananthu, Manjul Sharma, A Sameen, Vinod Narayanan

J. Fluid Mech., 2025

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Breakdown of continuum in lid-rotating rarefied cavity flow

Shesh N Dhurandhar, Vishnu Mohan, Manjul Sharma, A Sameen

Phys. Rev. E, 2025

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On the Applicability of the Edac Method to Non-Oberbeck--Boussinesq Regimes in Buoyancy-Driven Flows

Kasturi Srikanth, V Praveen Kumar, T. Jayachandran, A Sameen, Manjul Sharma

Comp. Fluids, 2025

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Preferential concentration of particles in a decaying isotropic turbulence in the dilute regime

Abishek Sarkar, Manjul Sharma, Vinod Narayanan

Phys. Fluids, 2025

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Fixed-flux Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in doubly periodic domains: generation of large-scale shear

Chang Liu, Manjul Sharma, Keith Julien, Edgar Knobloch

J. Fluid Mech., 2024

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Effect of rarefaction on axial vortex using direct simulation Monte Carlo

Shesh N Dhurandhar, Vishnu Mohan, Manjul Sharma, A Sameen

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2024

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Vortex breakdown in the small Mach number regimes

Shesh N Dhurandhar, Manjul Sharma, Vishnu Mohan, A Sameen

Phys. Scr., 2024

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Join the Lab

We are actively looking for motivated postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and research interns interested in computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, and high-performance computing.

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