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Faculty Information Sheet

Dr. Ram Balachandar
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Category of Study:Water Resources (Hydraulic Engineering)
Office:245 Ouellete Avenue, Suite 301
Phone Number:(519) 253-3000 Ext. (519) 256-3113, Ext. 24
Fax:(519) 256-8572
E-mail:rambala@uwindsor.ca
Personal Homepage:
Fields of Interest:
  • Flow past bluff bodies
  • Cavitation
  • Sprays
  • Local scour
  • Hydraulic structures
  • Mixing, Jets
  • Wall jets

    Qualifications: B.Eng. (Madras, India), Ph.D., (Concordia, Montreal), P.Eng.

    Recent Honours (2003 to date) & Major Research Funding(> $50 k):
    2007 - ERCA , $83,500 (shared)
    2006 - Research Excellence Award, University of Windsor

    Selected Publications:
    Roussinova, V., Biswas, N. and Balachandar, R., 2008, Revisiting turbulence in uniform open channel flow, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, Vol. 46, Extra Issue 1 (2008), pp. 36-48.

    Sarathi, P., Faruque, M.A.A. and Balachandar, R., 2008, Influence of tailwater depth, sediment size and densimetric Froude number on scour by submerged square wall jets at low densimetric Froude numbers, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR Vol. 46, No. 2 (2008), pp. 158-175.

    Shinneeb, A., Bugg, J. and Balachandar, R., 2008, Quantitative investigation of vortical structures in the near-exit region of an axisymmetric turbulent jet, Journal of Turbulence, Taylor and Francis.

    Singha, A., Shinneeb, A-M. and Balachandar, R., 2008, PIV-POD investigation of the wake of a sharp edged bluff body immersed in a shallow open channel flow, To appear in the Journal of Fluids Engineering, Trans. ASME.

    Bey, A., Faruque, M.A.A. and Balachandar, R., 2008, Effects of Varying Submergence and Channel Width on Local Scour by Plane Turbulent Wall Jets, Journal of Hydraulic Research, International Association of Hydraulic Research – in press.

    Sui, J., Faruque, M.A.A., Balachandar, R., 2008, Influence of channel width and tailwater depth on local scour caused by square jets, Journal of Hydro-Environment Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jher.2008.05.001.

    Sui, ., Wang, J., Balachandar, R., Zhaochu Sun & Desheng Wang, “Accumulation of frazil ice along a river bend”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.35, P.158-169, 2008.

    Jueyi Sui, Faruque, M.A.A., Balachandar. R., 2008, Local scour caused by submerged square jets under model ice cover, To appear in the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.

    Balachandar, R. and Patel, V.C., 2008, Flow over a rough dune, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, NRC, Accepted for publication, October 2007.

    Afzal, B., Faruque,M., Balachandar, R., 2008, Effect of Reynolds number, near-wall perturbation and turbulence on smooth open-channel flows, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, In-press.

    Balachandar, R., B.-S. Hyun, V. Patel. Effect of depth on flow over a fixed dune. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Volume 34, Number 12 (December 2007), pp. 1587-1599.

    Sankar, G., Balachandar, R. and Carriveau, E., 2008, Tailwater Effects on the Characteristics of Square Jets Near a Free Surface, Journal of Hydraulic Research, IAHR, Accepted for publication, September 2007.

    Shinneeb, A., Balachandar, R. and Bugg, J., 2008, Analysis of Coherent Structures in the Far Field Region of an Axi-symmetric Free Jet Identified Using PIV and POD, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Trans. ASME, Vol. 130, January issue.

    Bolisetti, T., Reitsma, S. and Balachandar, R., 2007, Analytical solution for flow of gelling solutions in porous media, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24401, doi:10.1029/2007GL031713.