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Krishnan Mahesh is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds the Richard B. Couch Professorship in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and serves as the Director of the Center for Naval Research. Mahesh earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996, after completing his M.S. in the same field from Stanford in 1990, and a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1989. His research interests include high-fidelity simulation of complex multi-physics turbulent flows, with applications in marine propulsors, multiphase flows, cavitation, hydroacoustics, superhydrophobic surfaces, biofouling, fluid/structure interaction, flow stability, and moving-body flows. He has received numerous accolades for his research contributions, including the 2021 Laurence Bement Young Professional Paper Competition Award from the AIAA Hampton Roads Section and the Fulbright Scholar Award in 2018 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has been recognized with various awards from the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics and the University of Minnesota, where he also held multiple distinguished positions and fellowships.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science