P. N. Shankar

Pattamadai Narasimhan Shankar was an Indian scientist who worked in the field of fluid dynamics. He was married to Priti Shankar.

P. N. Shankar
Born(1944-08-13)13 August 1944
Bombay, India
Died15 April 2019(2019-04-15) (aged 74)
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materImperial College
California Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsFluid Mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland
National Aerospace Laboratories
ThesisI. The effect of droplet solidification upon two-phase flow in a rocket nozzle. II. A kinetic theory investigation of some condensation-evaporation phenomena by a moment method[1] (1968)
Doctoral advisorFrank E. Marble[2]

Education

He did his schooling in India and Switzerland, while obtaining his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1940 and master's degree in Applied Mathematics in 1964 from Imperial College London. He completed his PhD degree in engineering science from California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Frank E. Marble in 1968.[3]

Career and research

He worked at General Electric for two years before becoming an assistant professor at University of Maryland for the period 1970-72. In 1972, he moved to National Aerospace Laboratories and stayed there until his retirement in 2004.

Publications

Shankar is the author of several journal articles, mostly appeared in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Proceedings of the Royal Society. He is the author of the book:

  • P. N. Shankar (2007). Slow Viscous Flows: Qualitative Features and Quantitative Analysis Using Complex Eigenfunction Expansions. Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1860947810.
  • P. N. Shankar. How to make a telescope?.[4]

Honors

He was the 1971 recipient of Robert T. Knapp Award given by ASME.[5] He was elected as fellow in Indian Academy of Sciences in 1992.

References
  1. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/9341/
  2. "P. N. Shankar - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  3. "Obit" (PDF). www.currentscience.ac.in. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  4. "HOW TO BUILD A TELESCOPE? - ENGLISH - P. N. SHANKAR" – via Internet Archive.
  5. "Awards list". www.asme.org. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
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