
Prof. Janani Srree Murallidharan is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. She has completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Prior to this, she has done her B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, followed by an M.E. in Aerospace Engineering.
She was a researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial College London until December 2015. Both at IIT Madras and at Imperial College London, she has been part of several Multiphase Heat Transfer research projects.
At IIT Bombay, Prof. Murallidharan specializes in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow and heat transfer, bio-fluid dynamics, and phase change phenomena. Her current research interests are in the areas of boiling and bubble contact line dynamics, blood flow modelling, and CFD-based ventilation studies.
EDUCATION:
IIT – Madras: Ph.D. in CFD and Mechanistic Modeling of Wall Boiling Heat Transfer, Mechanical Engineering
Iowa State University, Ames: M.E. in Aerospace Engineering
Anna University, Hindustan College of Engineering, Chennai: B.E. in Mechanical Engineering.
Publications and Patents:
35 Journal Publications
2 Book Chapters
1 Patent (applied) + 1 Patent (under process within IITB for filing)
23 Conference Papers
15 Conference Presentations
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Research Articles
Research Areas
Multiphase Heat Transfer; Blood Flow Modelling; Computational Fluid Dynamics Interface Tracking; Direct Numerical Simulation; Eulerian Multiphase Rod Bundle Heat Transfer; DNB prediction; Natural Convection
A Computational Fluid flexible-Structure Acoustic Interaction Study
Sumant Morab, Janani Srree Murallidharan, Atul Sharma , Phonoangiographic Diagnosis of Stenosed Arteries: A Computational Fluid flexible-Structure Acoustic Interaction Study. Nternational Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.2025. Accepted
Numerical Studies on Magnetic Driven Targeted Drug Delivery in Human Vasculature
Nikhil Kumar Tamboli., Janani Srree Murallidharan, Numerical Studies on Magnetic Driven Targeted Drug Delivery in Human Vasculature. J Indian Inst Sci 104, 111–145 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41745-024-00428-6
Low Mach number approximated linearized perturbed Euler equations
Sumant Morab, Janani Srree Murallidharan, Atul Sharma, Low Mach number approximated linearized perturbed Euler equations-based unified computational flow-induced acoustic model for 2D planar/axisymmetric complex geometry, 2024, Journal of Computational Physics 514, 113242
Computational hemodynamics and hemoacoustic study on carotid bifurcation
Sumant Morab, Janani Srree Murallidharan, Atul Sharma , Computational hemodynamics and hemoacoustic study on carotid bifurcation: Effect of stenosis and branch angle, 2024, Physics of Fluids 36 (4)
Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD
S SB, S Joshi, JS Murallidharan, A Singh, G Kumaraswamy, K Sinha, Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD: Part 3: Ventilation of High Occupancy Rooms of IIT Bombay,2024,Resonance 29 (3), 383-401.
Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD
NS Kothare, NK Tamboli, JS Murallidharan, A Singh, G Kumaraswamy, K Sinha, Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD: Part 2: Ventilation of Low Occupancy Rooms of IIT Bombay, 2024,Resonance 29 (2), 247-264
Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD
MS Yadav, N Kothare, NK Tamboli, JS Murallidharan, G Kumaraswamy, K Sinha, Enhancing Ventilation of Enclosed Spaces Using CFD: Part 1: Lead Article., 2024,Resonance: Journal of Science Education 29 (1)
Fully Finite Volume Method on a Curvilinear Grid-based Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Approach for Computational Fluid flexible-Structure Interaction
Sumant Morab, Janani Srree Murallidharan, Atul Sharma. Fully Finite Volume Method on a Curvilinear Grid-based Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Approach for Computational Fluid flexible-Structure Interaction. Computer Physics Communications. 2024, 296, 109054 (Q1)
Is well-mixed model of an indoor space with ceiling fans valid for studying pathogen transmission?
Archita Mullick, Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Sarika Mehra, Janani Murallidharan, Vivek Kumar, Krishnendu Sinha; Is well-mixed model of an indoor space with ceiling fans valid for studying pathogen transmission?. Physics of Fluids , 2023; 35 (10): 107131. (Q1)