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Sankaran Sundaresan

Sankaran Sundaresan

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
70
Citations
14777
World Ranking
1082
National Ranking
366

Sankaran Sundaresan publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sankaran Sundaresan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 281 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Sankaran Sundaresan D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sankaran Sundaresan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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

  • Filtered two‐fluid models for fluidized gas‐particle suspensions

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

  • Analysis of a frictional-kinetic model for gas-particle flow

    Anuj Srivastava;Sankaran Sundaresan

  • Multiscale modeling of gas-fluidized beds

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

  • Bridging the rheology of granular flows in three regimes

    Sebastian Chialvo;Jin Sun;Sankaran Sundaresan

  • Coarse-Grid Simulation of Gas-Particle Flows in Vertical Risers

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

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

    Sankaran Sundaresan

  • 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

  • Aerated vibrofluidization of silica nanoparticles

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

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

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

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

    Yesim Igci;Sankaran Sundaresan

  • INSTABILITIES IN FLUIDIZED BEDS

    Sankaran Sundaresan

  • 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

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

    Stefan Radl;Sankaran Sundaresan

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

    Jin Sun;Sankaran Sundaresan

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

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

  • Turbulent gas‐particle flow in vertical risers

    Sanjay Dasgupta;Roy Jackson;Sankaran Sundaresan

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

    Sankaran Sundaresan;Ali Ozel;Jari Kolehmainen

  • Instabilities and the formation of bubbles in fluidized beds

    K Anderson;S. Sundaresan;R. Jackson

  • Gas‐solid flow in vertical tubes

    Jorge A. Pita;Sankaran Sundaresan

  • 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

  • Mullitization of Diphasic Aluminosilicate Gels

    Sankaran Sundaresan;Ilhan A. Aksay

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Burton Benziger
Jay Burton Benziger Princeton University
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis Johns Hopkins University
H.E.A. van den Akker
H.E.A. van den Akker Delft University of Technology
Israel E. Wachs
Israel E. Wachs Lehigh University
Yves J. Chabal
Yves J. Chabal The University of Texas at Dallas
Chi-Hwa Wang
Chi-Hwa Wang National University of Singapore
Rajesh N. Dave
Rajesh N. Dave New Jersey Institute of Technology
Benjamin J. Glasser
Benjamin J. Glasser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jos Derksen
Jos Derksen University of Aberdeen
Ilhan A. Aksay
Ilhan A. Aksay Princeton University

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