Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics and Director of Discipline Email Prashant.Valluri@ed.ac.uk Telephone +44(0)131 6505691 Location 2.2414 James Clerk Maxwell Building Engineering Discipline Chemical Engineering Research Institutes Multiscale Thermofluids Research Publications Biography My work centres around the development of understanding and mathematical models for complex multiphase flow patterns to tackle various industrial problems like cleaning, oil-gas transport, slurry transport, distillation, absorption, thermal management of microdevices and biological problems such as cerebral temperature regulation and lung function. Academic Qualifications PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2004 Thesis Title: Multiphase Fluid Dynamics in Structured Packing Professional Qualifications and Memberships Member of American Association for Advancement of Science Member of American Physical Society Member of Indian Society for Surface Science Technologists Associate Member of IChemE Teaching Fluid Mechanics 4 (Chemical) CHEE10004 Chemical Engineering Industrial Project 5 CHEE11014 Chemical Engineering Research Project 5 CHEE11017 Chemical Engineering Study Project 4 CHEE10009 Chemical Engineering Design Projects 4 CHEE10002 Chemical Engineering 1 Laboratory CHEE08001 Chemical Engineering in Practise 3 CHEE09006 Specialities Transport phenomena (e.g. phase change, reaction-diffusion transport) Multiphase (& single phase) fluid dynamics: Development of numerical (CFD/DNS) and analytical (stability theory) tools (e.g. oil-gas-solid pipeline flows, industrial cleaning and fouling) Biological fluid dynamics (e.g. brain temperature mapping, arterial flows, enzymatic kinetics) Further Information Head of Graduate School (2018 - present) Deputy Head of Graduate School (2016 - present) Acting Deputy Head of Graduate School (2015 - 2016) </div>
