2026 Sankaran Sundaresan: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	70	1081	1021	365	325	281	14777

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Engineering and Technology

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14777

Engineering and Technology

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14777

World Ranking

1081

National Ranking

365

Overview

Sankaran Sundaresan is a researcher affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catalysis, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of main research topics, notably:

Granular flow and fluidized beds
Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
Plasma Applications and Diagnostics
Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics
Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Recent publications by Sankaran Sundaresan include:

Coarse graining Euler-Lagrange simulations of cohesive particle fluidization, 2020, Powder Technology
Development of data-driven filtered drag model for industrial-scale fluidized beds, 2020, Chemical Engineering Science
Minimizing the impacts of the ammonia economy on the nitrogen cycle and climate, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
In Situ Identification of NNH and N₂H₂ by Using Molecular-Beam Mass Spectrometry in Plasma-Assisted Catalysis for NH₃ Synthesis, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
Plasma-assisted catalysis for ammonia synthesis in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor: key surface reaction steps and potential causes of low energy yield, 2021, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics

The researcher frequently publishes in specific venues such as:

Powder Technology
arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Pharmaceutics
Chemical Engineering Science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborations have been a consistent part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

Ali Özel
Xiaoyu Liu
Zhe Chen
Bruce E. Koel
Jari Kolehmainen

Best Publications

The role of meso-scale structures in rapid gas–solid flows

Kapil Agrawal;Peter N. Loezos;Madhava Syamlal;Sankaran Sundaresan

907
Citations
Filtered two‐fluid models for fluidized gas‐particle suspensions

Yesim Igci;Arthur T. Andrews;Sankaran Sundaresan;Sreekanth Pannala

537
Citations
Analysis of a frictional-kinetic model for gas-particle flow

Anuj Srivastava;Sankaran Sundaresan

498
Citations
Multiscale modeling of gas-fluidized beds

van der Ma Martin Hoef;M Mao Ye;van M Martin Sint Annaland;AT Andrews

407
Citations
Bridging the rheology of granular flows in three regimes

Sebastian Chialvo;Jin Sun;Sankaran Sundaresan

334
Citations
Coarse-Grid Simulation of Gas-Particle Flows in Vertical Risers

Arthur T. Andrews;Peter N. Loezos;Sankaran Sundaresan

322
Citations
Modeling the hydrodynamics of multiphase flow reactors: Current status and challenges

Sankaran Sundaresan

286
Citations
Analysis of drag and virtual mass forces in bubbly suspensions using an implicit formulation of the lattice Boltzmann method

K. Sankaranarayanan;X. Shan;I. G. Kevrekidis;S. Sundaresan

254
Citations
Aerated vibrofluidization of silica nanoparticles

Caroline H. Nam;Robert Pfeffer;Rajesh N. Dave;Sankaran Sundaresan

253
Citations
Filtered two‐fluid models of fluidized gas‐particle flows: New constitutive relations

Christian C. Milioli;Fernando E. Milioli;William Holloway;Kapil Agrawal

238
Citations
Constitutive Models for Filtered Two-Fluid Models of Fluidized Gas–Particle Flows

Yesim Igci;Sankaran Sundaresan

224
Citations
INSTABILITIES IN FLUIDIZED BEDS

Sankaran Sundaresan

220
Citations
The effect of the phase composition of model VPO catalysts for partial oxidation of n-butane

V.V. Guliants;J.B. Benziger;S. Sundaresan;I.E. Wachs

218
Citations
A drag model for filtered Euler–Lagrange simulations of clustered gas–particle suspensions

Stefan Radl;Sankaran Sundaresan

218
Citations
A constitutive model with microstructure evolution for flow of rate-independent granular materials

Jin Sun;Sankaran Sundaresan

197
Citations
Onset of pulsing in two‐phase cocurrent downflow through a packed bed

K. Grosser;R. G. Carbonell;Sankaran Sundaresan

188
Citations
Turbulent gas‐particle flow in vertical risers

Sanjay Dasgupta;Roy Jackson;Sankaran Sundaresan

188
Citations
Toward Constitutive Models for Momentum, Species, and Energy Transport in Gas-Particle Flows.

Sankaran Sundaresan;Ali Ozel;Jari Kolehmainen

182
Citations
Instabilities and the formation of bubbles in fluidized beds

K Anderson;S. Sundaresan;R. Jackson

180
Citations
Gas‐solid flow in vertical tubes

Jorge A. Pita;Sankaran Sundaresan

175
Citations
Fundamental Studies of Butane Oxidation over Model-Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts: Molecular Structure-Reactivity Relationships☆

Israel E. Wachs;Jih Mirn Jehng;Goutam Deo;Bert M. Weckhuysen

171
Citations
Mullitization of Diphasic Aluminosilicate Gels

Sankaran Sundaresan;Ilhan A. Aksay

162
Citations