Prof. Dr. Meheboob Alam

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsFluid Mechanics,Mechanics,Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
KeywordsGranular flows, Microfluidics, Multiphase flows, Numerical methods, Rheology

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityBengaluru
InstitutionJawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
InstituteEngineering Mechanics Unit
Homepagehttp://www.jncasr.ac.in/meheboob

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Stefan LudingInstitut für Computeranwendungen, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Hans J. HerrmannInstitut für Computeranwendungen, Physik auf Höchstleistungsrechnern, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2001

Program(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Meheboob Alam, L. Trujilo, H. J. Herrmann: Hydrodynamic Theory for Reverse Brazil Nut Segregation and the Non-monotonic Ascension Dynamics. In: Journal of Statistical Physics, 2006, 587-623
2006J.M. Montanero, V. Garzo, Meheboob Alam, and S. Luding: Rheology of two- and three-dimensional granular mixtures under uniform shear flow: Enskog kinetic theory versus molecular dynamics simulations. In: Granular Matter, 2006, 103-115
2005Meheboob Alam and S. Luding: Energy nonequipartition, rheology, and microstructure in sheared bidisperse granular mixtures. In: Physics of Fluids, 2005, 063303-1-063303-18
2005Meheboob Alam, Vijay Arakeri, Prabhu Nott, Joe Goddard, Hans Herrmann: Instability-induced ordering, universal unfolding and the role of gravity in granular Couette flow.. In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2005, 277-306
2005Meheboob Alam and S. Luding: Non-Newtonian granular fluids: simulation and theory. In: R. Garcia-Rojo, H. Herrmann, S. McNamara, Powders and Grains. A. A. Balkema, 2005. 1141-1145
2005Meheboob Alam: Universal unfolding fo pitchfork bifurcations and shearband formation in rapid granular Couette flow.. In: Y. Wang, K. Hutter, Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics. Shaker Verlag, 2005. 11-20
2003Meheboob Alam, Stefan Luding: First normal stress difference and crystallization in a dense sheared granular fluid. In: Physics of Fluids, 2003, 2298-2312
2003Meheboob Alam, Stefan Luding: Rheology of bidisperse granular mixtures via event-driven simulations. In: J. Fluid Mech., 2003, 69-103
2003L. Trujillo, Meheboob Alam, Hans J. Herrmann: Segregation in a binary fluidized granular mixture: Competition between buoyanxy and geometric forces. In: Europhysics Letters, 2003, 190-196
2002Meheboob Alam, Stefan Luding: How good is the equipartition assumption for the transport properties of a granular mixture?. In: Granular Matter, 2002, 139-142
2002Meheboob Alam, Jeffrey T. Willits, Birgir Ö. Arnarson, Stefan Luding: Kinetic theory of a binary mixture of nearly elastic disks with size and mass disparity. In: Physics of Fluids, 2002, 4085-4087