About me

Professor Atul Sharma is currently the Rahul Bajaj Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay. 

Prof. Sharma’s academic background includes receiving his B.E from the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, 1994, followed by his M.E. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1998, and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2004. He started his academic career at Raipur Institute of Technology and later worked at NIT Hamirpur before joining IIT Bombay in 2004.

Prof. Sharma’s research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, and Computational Multi-Phase Dynamics (CMPD) involving (a) Computational Multi-Fluid Dynamics (CMFD) and (b) Computational Fluid-Structure Interactions (CFSI). 

Dr. Sharma has also made several contributions to the development of a range of novel and efficient computational tools, their applications to time-consuming simulations, and analysis of the resulting big data for various problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). For Computational Multi-Fluid Dynamics and Computational Fluid-Structure Interactions, he has demonstrated numerous innovative applications and provided a scientific understanding of various types of problems like fish-like swimming, energy harvesting from flow-induced vibrations, sustaining nucleate boiling at zero gravity, and self-cleaning surfaces. He also demonstrated simulations for industrial problems on circuit breakers, power transformers, and printed circuit heat exchangers. In his extremely well-received textbook, ‘Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics,’ he proposed a physical, insightful, and comprehensive approach to CFD, with an overall personal vision to make CFD software in India. 

Over the years, Prof. Sharma has received multiple awards and accolades. He won IIT Bombay’s “Research Dissemination Award 2020” in recognition of his “outstanding efforts to disseminate” research through his textbook ‘Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics’ and a review article on ‘Level Set Method for Computational Multi-Fluid Dynamics,’ 2020. He also won IIT Bombay’s “Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching 2019” in recognition of his significant teaching contributions to the institute. 

Prof. Sharma’s other accomplishments include being a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). His wide-ranging research encompasses 102 articles published in 40 globally recognized and prestigious journals. He has contributed to 82 conference proceedings, 14 chapters in 5 edited books, and appeared on the cover of renowned journals such as JFM, POF, and Langmuir. He has also been a CFD consultant at Global R&D, Crompton Greaves Limited, Mumbai; served as Secretary, National Society of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power; and is, presently, an associate editor of Sādhanā (Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences) as well as Theoritical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and editorial board member of Interfacial Phenomenon and Heat Transfer.