Rama Govindarajan
Articles written in Resonance – Journal of Science Education
Volume 4 Issue 11 November 1999 pp 54-62 General Article
Turbulence and Flying Machines
Volume 15 Issue 5 May 2010 pp 441-457 General Article
Transient Growth and Why we should Care about it
Volume 22 Issue 3 March 2017 pp 269-277 General Article
Rama Govindarajan S Ravichandran
We begin by outlining the life cycle of a tall cloud, and thenbriefly discuss cloud systems. We choose one aspect of thislife cycle, namely, the rapid growth of water droplets in ice freeclouds, to then discuss in greater detail. Taking a singlevortex to be a building block of turbulence, we demonstrateone mechanism by which we believe droplets grow rapidly.
Volume 26 Issue 10 October 2021 pp 1403-1415 General Article
Boundary Layer Stability and Transition to Turbulence: What's Special About It?
This article describes Roddam Narasimha's work on the instability of laminar flow and the subsequent transition to turbulence in boundary layers. I try to explain to the reader why this problem is important and what insights came out of this work. Small portions of this article, not directly about the science, are written in an anecdotal fashion.
Current Issue
Volume 28 | Issue 1
January 2023
© 2022-2023 Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.