Prahallada J

Dr. Prahallada is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Mahindra University. He has obtained his Ph.D. along with M.Sc. (Engg.) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, under the guidance of Prof. Raghuraman N Govardhan. His Ph.D. work deals with flutter of turbomachine blades in a linear cascade at both subsonic as well as transonic speeds. He has designed and developed a transonic cascade wind tunnel as part of this. Immediately after his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center of Excellence in Hypersonics, IISc, for three years. During this tenure, he was involved in experimental investigation of several fluid mechanical problems in supersonic and hypersonic flows. Prior to joining Mahindra University, he was a Principal Project Scientist and earlier a National postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Applied Mechanics, IITM, where he worked on understanding mixing behavior and aerosol deposition in the alveolar ducts of the deep lung. His research interests are in the broad areas of high-speed flows, turbomachinery aerodynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and pulmonary fluid dynamics.

• Ph.D. along with MSc (Engg.): Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2018

• B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering): SASTRA University, Thanjavur, 2010

Publications

• Prabhash Kumar, Prahallada Jutur, Anubhab Roy, & Mahesh Panchagnula. Stirring with the phase angle phi: Unlocking chaos in slow sub-periodic viscous flows. Physical Review Fluids (In Press)
• Prahallada Jutur, Dipanjan Barman & Raghuraman N Govardhan (2022). Low Reynolds number Stall Flutter of a Linear Cascade with Large Amplitudes at Low Reduced Frequencies: Unsteady Loads and Flow Features. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 109 (2022), 103490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2021.103490

• Manoj Kumar K. Devaraj, Prahallada Jutur, Srisha M. V. Rao, Gopalan Jagadeesh, & Ganesh T. K. Anavardham (2021). Length scale for the estimation of buzz frequency in the limit of high mechanical blockage in mixed-compression intakes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 916, R3. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.230
• Manoj Kumar K. Devaraj, Prahallada Jutur, Srisha M. V. Rao, Gopalan Jagadeesh, & Ganesh T. K. Anavardham (2021). Investigation of local unstart in a hypersonic scramjet intake at a Mach number of 6. Aerospace Science and Technology, 115, 106789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2021.106789

• Manoj Kumar K. Devaraj, Prahallada Jutur, Srisha M. V. Rao, Gopalan Jagadeesh, & Ganesh T. K. Anavardham (2020). Experimental investigation of unstart dynamics driven by subsonic spillage in a hypersonic scramjet intake at mach 6. Physics of Fluids, 32(2), 026103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5135096

• Prahallada Jutur & Raghuraman N Govardhan (2019). Flutter in started and unstarted transonic linear cascades: Simultaneous measurements of unsteady loads and shock dynamics. Journal of Turbomachinery, 41(12). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045105

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Mahindra University (April 2025 – Current)
• Principal Project Scientist, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras (February 2023 – January 2025)
• SERB National Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras (January 2021 – January 2023)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center of Excellence in Hypersonics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore. (January 2018 – December 2020)

Research:

• High-speed flows
• Turbomachinery aerodynamics
• Fluid-structure interaction
• Pulmonary fluid dynamics

Awards:

• SERB National Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2021 -2023