Education
Ph.D. : Mechanical Engineering (Fluid and Thermal) 2018-2023
NIT Silchar, Assam India.
Research Topic: Modelling of atomization of bulk liquid sheet of Newtonian and viscoelastic liquids sandwiched between two gas streams.
M.Tech: Mechanical Engineering (Fluid and Thermal) 2016-2018
NIT Meghalaya, Meghalaya, India
Project: Flow analysis over the shroud of small-scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine.
B.Tech: Mechanical Engineering 2010-2014
Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad, UP, India
Project: Performance and emission analysis of diesel engine using Bio-Diesel, Jatropha oil and preheated Jatropha oil.
Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
CNRS UMR 6614-CORIA Lab, France 15th Jan 2025 – 14th Nov 2025
1st Feb 2026 – 10th July 2026
Research Topic: Experimental Analysis of Multiphase EHD flows Systems
Postdoctoral Research Associate
IISc Bangalore, India 1st Jan 2024 – 1st Jan 2025
Research Areas: Interfacial flow dynamics, Vortex Ring interaction, motion of micro-particle and stress analysis.
International and National Journal
1. Saurabh Sharma, Sujit Nath, “Weakly nonlinear instability analysis of viscous liquid sheet co-flowing with gases in a confined environment under varicose mode of disturbance, and prediction of spray characteristic”, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, EJMFLU_204553. (2026, in Press).
2. Saurabh Sharma, Bertrand Lecordier, Mostafa S. Shadloo, “Electrohydrodynamic Deformation and Oscillatory Dynamics of Neutrally Buoyant Droplets”. Physics of Fluids, 38 (2026).
3. Siddhant Jain, Saini Jatin Rao, Saurabh Sharma, Saptarshi Basu “Characterizing near-wall downstream events during a vortex ring interacting with a perforated plate” Experiments in Fluids, 67 (2026).
4. Saurabh Sharma, Sujit Nath, “Spray characteristics of biodiesel: A nonlinear temporal instability analysis”, International Journal of Engine Research (2025).
5. Saurabh Sharma, S. Nath and D. Dasgupta, “Weakly nonlinear instability analysis of viscous planar liquid sheet under varicose mode of initial disturbance with co-flowing gas streams and prediction of resulting spray characteristics, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, 101, (2023).
6. Saurabh Sharma, S. Nath, D. Dasgupta, “Effect of confinement on weakly nonlinear temporal instability analysis of a viscous planar liquid sheet sandwiched between two co-flowing gas streams at equal velocities”. Physics of Fluids, 34(9), (2022).
7. Debayan Dasgupta, Saurabh Sharma, Sujit Nath, Dipankar Bhanja, “Effect of elasticity number and time constant ratio on breakup and droplet formation of viscoelastic planar liquid sheet co-flowing with gases of equal velocities” Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2021).
Book Chapters
1. Saurabh Sharma, Sujit Nath and Dipankar Bhanja “Linear instability analysis of viscous liquid sheet travelling in a confined space with two co-flowing gas streams of equal velocity considering initial varicose mode of disturbance” International Conference on Recent Advancement in Mechanical Engineering, 2023.
2. D. Dasgupta, Saurabh Sharma, S. Nath, D. Bhanja “Linear Stability Analysis of Viscoelastic Liquid Sheet in Presence of Moving Gas Medium” Advances in Manufacturing Processes, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7711-6_27
3. Saurabh Sharma, D Dasgupta, S Nath, D Bhanja “Prediction of Droplet Size Distribution for Viscoelastic Liquid Sheet’ Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2021.
4. Saurabh Sharma, Shalini Anand, Koushik Das, “Flow Analysis of Vortex Generators in the Shroud of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine”, Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2020.
International and National Conferences
1. Saurabh Sharma, Franck Lefebvre, Mostafa S. Shadloo, Bertrand Lecordier, ‘Influence Of Electrohydrodynamic On Droplet Stability In Leaky Dielectric Media”, 22nd International Symposium on Applications of Laser and Imaging Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, 29th June – 2 July 2026, Lisbon, Portugal.
2. Karp, Joël, Lecordier, Bertrand; Shadloo, Mostafa S.; Sharma, Saurabh, “Drop Electrohydrodynamics”, 12th International Conference on Multiphase Flows (ICMF 2025), May 12-16, 2025, Toulouse, France (Attended)
