Manjul Sharma

Manjul Sharma is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras. Post Ph.D. he worked briefly as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, before joining the Department of Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) as a research faculty.

He uses numerical simulations to study fluid flows. His research interests include turbulent flows, convective flows ranging from engineering to geophysical flows, and high-performance computing. He is interested in building computational frameworks for science and engineering problems.

• M.S. and Ph.D. – Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India-(Jul 2012 – Sep 2020)

• B.E. – Aeronautical Engineering, The Aeronautical Society of India, New Delhi, India-(Aug 2004 – June 2009)

Publications

• Shesh N. Dhurandhar, Vishnu Mohan, Manjul Sharma, and A. Sameen. Breakdown of continuum in lid-rotating rarefied cavity flow. Phys. Rev. E, American Physical Society, 111, 055108, 2025.
• Ananthu J. P., Manjul Sharma, A. Sameen, and Vinod Narayanan. Bifurcations in narrow-gap spherical Couette flow. J. Fluid Mech., Cambridge University Press, 1007:A64, 2025.

• Shesh N. Dhurandhar, Manjul Sharma, Vishnu Mohan, and A. Sameen. Vortex Breakdown in the small Mach number regimes. Phys. Scr., IOP Publishing, 99(6), 065007, 2024.
• C. Liu, Manjul Sharma, K. Julien, E. Knobloch. Fixed-flux Rayleigh–Bénard convection in doubly periodic domains: generation of large-scale shear. J. Fluid Mech., Cambridge University Press, 979:A19, 2024.

• Manjul Sharma et al.DNS of buoyancy-driven flows using EDAC formulation solved by high-order method. Comp. Fluids, 265:105997, 2023.
• Manjul Sharma et al.. Near-wall vortical structures in domains with and without curved surfaces. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, Royal Society Publishing, 381 (2246), 20220136, 2023 (Invited).

• R. Vishnu, Manjul Sharma, and A. Sameen. Effect of heating on topology of vortex breakdown in Vogel-Escudier flow. Phys. Fluids, AIP Publishing, 33(10), 107111, 2021 (Editor’s Pick).
• Manjul Sharma and A. Sameen. Synopsis of Vogel-Escudier flow. Phys. Fluids, AIP Publishing, 33(6), 064105, 2021.

• Manjul Sharma and A. Sameen. On the correlation between vortex breakdown bubble and planar helicity in Vogel-Escudier flow. J. Fluid Mech., Cambridge University Press, 888:A6, 2020.

• Manjul Sharma and A. Sameen. Axisymmetric vortex breakdown: a barrier to mixing. Phys. Scr., IOP Publishing, 94(5), 054005, 2019.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mahindra University (May 2025 – Present)
• Project Scientist I, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (Aug 2024 – Apr 2025)
• Research Faculty, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA (Aug 2021 – Jul 2024)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (Nov 2020 – Aug 2021)
• Project Officer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (Nov 2018 – Oct 2020)

Broad areas of research: Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Geophysical Flows, Multiphase flows

• Incompressible and Compressible turbulent flows in complex domains, rotating flows, vortex breakdown
• High-Performance Computing, High-order finite difference methods, Direct Numerical Simulation, GPU offloading, Reduced-order modeling
• Double-diffusive flows, Chaotic advection and mixing, Lagrangian Coherent mixing, Nonlinear dynamics
• Particle-laden flows

Awards/Fellowships/Memberships:

• National Science Fellowship (NSF), USA (Aug 2021 – Jul 2024)
• Graduate member – The Aeronautical Society of India (Lifetime)