S. "Bala" Balachandar

Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Director of College of Engineering Institute for Computational Engineering · University of Florida · company speakers →

S. "Bala" Balachandar got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1983 and his MS and PhD in Applied Mathematics and Engineering at Brown University in 1985 and 1989. From 1990 to 2005 he was at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. From 2005 to 2011 he served as the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Currently he is a distinguished professor at the University of Florida. He is the Newton C. Ebaugh Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and the Director of College of Engineering Institute for Computational Engineering. Bala received the Francois Naftali Frenkiel Award from American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) in 1996 and the Arnold O. Beckman Award and the University Scholar Award from University of Illinois. He is Fellow of ASME and the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. He was the recipient of ASME Freeman Fellowship Award (2017), Gad Hetsroni Senior Researcher Award from ICMF (2019), Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2019), Outstanding Doctoral Mentoring Award from the University of Florida (2020), Thermal Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal Fluids Engineers (2022), and University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship (2023). He is currently the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and an associate editor of the Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.

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