Mahesh Panchagnula, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office: Brown Hall 122
Phone: (931) 372-6143
Fax: (931) 372-6340
E-mail: mpanchagnula@tntech.edu
Research Website: iweb.tntech.edu/mpanchagnula

Degrees:
B.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1992
M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1994
Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1998

Professional Expertise: Thermo Fluid Sciences, Wetting and Surface tension, Liquid Fuel Atomization and Combustion

Recent Works/Projects Accomplished:

1. “Stability in Vertical Co-axial Flows”, 2008, B. Vempati, M.V. Panchagnula, A. Oztekin and S. Neti, under review with Acta Mechanica.
2. “Phase field modeling of hysteresis in sessile drops”, Vedantam, S., and Panchagnula, M.V., 2007, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
3. “Effect of three-phase contact line topology on dynamic contact angles on heterogeneous surfaces”, Anantharaju, N., Panchagnula, M.V., Vedantam, S., Neti, S., and Tatic-Lucic, S., 2007, accepted for publication in Langmuir.
4. “Phase field description of sessile drops on surfaces”, Vedantam, S., and Panchagnula, M.V., 2007, under review with Langmuir.
5. “Numerical investigation of coaxial liquid-liquid flows”, Vempati, B., Panchagnula, M.V., Oztekin, A., Neti, S., Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2007, 129, pp713-719
6. “On the instability of developing vertical liquid-liquid flows,” Kettering , C.D., Panchagnula, M.V., Oztekin, A and Neti, S., in preparation for Experiments in Fluids.