Dr. Ram Balachandar

Distinguished University Professor
519-253-3000 ext. 2550
rambala@uwindsor.ca
Office: 3060 CEI

• BEng (Mechanical Engineering)
• PhD (Civil Engineering)

• Fluid-structure interaction, sprays
• local scour, hydraulic structures
• mixing, jets, wall jets
• fluid flow with heat transfer

• International Association of Hydraulic Research
• Canadian Society of Civil Engineering
• CFD Society of Canada

• Roussinova, V., Balachandar, R. (2025). Aspect ratio effects on flow past a bed-mounted emergent cylinder. Physics of Fluids. 37(8): 085212.
• Shinneeb, A.M., Nasif, G., Balachandar, R. (2025). Computational study of the wake of a plane bluff bodywith a gap flow – mean velocity characteristics. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 52(5): 958-979.
• Bista*, S., Fredrick-Smiles*, C.E., Nasif, G., Balachandar, R. (2025). Approach flow effects on the wake of a circular cylinder near a bed. Physics of Fluids. 37(6): 065126. Published
• Thakurta, A*., Balachandar, R. (2025). On the wake dynamics of wall-mounted helical straked cylinders. Physics of Fluids. 37(1): 015235.
• Pradhan*, T.K., Bista,* S. and Balachandar, R. (2025). On the horseshoe vortex characteristics of bed mounted inclined cylinders. Physics of Fluids. 37: 105123.  Published
• Boamah*, J., Shinneeb, A.M., Balachandar, R. (2025). Effect of incidence angle on the wake of a wall mounted slotted cylinder in an open channel flow. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 136: 104325.
• Martins Edegbe, Gus Nasif, and Ram Balachandar. (2025). Spatio-Temporal Behavior of Long Submerged Bluff Bodies Located Near A Wall. Physics of Fluids.
• Nejati, A*., Taj, Z*., Etemadi, M., Iyer, K.L.V., Balachandar, R., and Barron, R. (2025). Heat transfer and fluid dynamics of offset unsubmerged axial and tangential jets impinging on a confined heated rotating disk. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 215: 109984.
• Taj, Z*., Bista, S*., and Balachandar, R. (2025). Passive flow control in the wake of bed-mounted cylinders: A review and new experimental insights. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. 11: 1595832.  Published
• Fredrick-Smiles, C.E*., Nasif, G., Balachandar, R. (2025). Numerical study of bed proximity effects on the wake characteristics of a circular cylinder. Physics of Fluids. 37(9): 095134.
• Bista, S*., Nasif, G., Balachandar, R. (2025). Interference effects on the wake dynamics of a horizontal circular cylinder close to a wall. Physics of Fluids.
• Taj, Z*., Fukuda, K., Etemadi, M., Iyer, K.L.V, Balachandar, R., Barron, R. (2025). Flow and thermal performance in two-pass channels with interconnecting straight and converging slots for electronics cooling applications. Computational Thermal Science, https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2025058219. 
• Klinkhamer, C*., Adjetey, J.*, Balachandar, R., Iyer, K.L.V. (2025). Submerged Jet Impinging Asymmetrically onto a Rotating Surface. Physics of Fluids. 37(3): 035182.
• Klinkhamer, C., Balachandar, R., Iyer, K.L.V. (2025). Heat transfer characteristics of a submerged jet impinging axisymmetrically onto a rotating disk. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 215: 109961.