Lead authored

Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Secondary atomization of droplets at extreme conditions. Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 58 (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-112823-115348

Saini Jatin Rao, Akhil Aravind, Saptarshi Basu

Blast wave induced unsteady flow at the shock tube opening. arXiv preprint (2025).

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.00247

Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Self-similar Features in Sub-secondary Breakup of a Droplet and Ligament Mediated Fragmentation under Extreme Conditions. arXiv preprint (2025).

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.05976

Saini Jatin Rao, Siddhant Jain, Saptarshi Basu

Dynamics of Soap Bubble Inflation. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 5 (2024). Editors' Suggestion

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.L051602

Saini Jatin Rao, Shubham Sharma, Saptarshi Basu, Cameron Tropea

Depth from Defocus Technique: A Simple Calibration-Free Approach for Dispersion Size Measurement. Exp Fluids 65, 55 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-024-03792-2

Co-authored

Siddhant Jain, Saini Jatin Rao, Shubhadeep Mandal, Cameron Tropea, Saptarshi Basu

Vortex Dynamics During Pinch-off of Micro-Droplets. arXiv preprint (2025).

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18528

Siddhant Jain, Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Interaction of vortex ring with perforated plate at different included angles. Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 3 (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.034703

Gautham Vadlamudi, Akhil Aravind, Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Insights into spatio-temporal dynamics during shock–droplet flame interaction. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 999, A22 (2024).

 https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.575

Shubham Sharma, Saini Jatin Rao, Navin Kumar Chandra, Aloke Kumar, Saptarshi Basu, Cameron Tropea

Depth from defocus technique applied to unsteady shock-drop secondary atomization. Exp Fluids 64, 65 (2023).

doi.org/10.1007/s00348-023-03588-w 

Saini Jatin Rao, Shubham Sharma, Cameron Tropea, Saptarshi Basu

A method and apparatus for measuring geometric characteristics of particles. 

Indian Patent No.: 518811 Application No.: 202341048656 (2023). Status: Granted

Siddhant Jain, Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Apparatus for segregating and mobilizing entities from substrate. 

Indian patent No.: 554134 Application No.: 202441001158 (2024). Status: Granted

Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Cascades and Corrugations: Self-similar mechanisms of droplet aerobreakup in extreme regimes

78th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Houston, Texas, USA

23-25 November 2025

Saptarshi Basu, Saini Jatin Rao

Secondary Atomization of Droplets under Extreme Conditions - Invited Talk

78th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Houston, Texas, USA

23-25 November 2025

Saini Jatin Rao, Siddhant Jain*, Saptarshi Basu

Vortex mediated droplet transport for oil spillage control - DFD Interact

78th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Houston, Texas, USA

23-25 November 2025

*Awarded travel grant by ANRF (formerly SERB) through the ITS scheme.

Saini Jatin Rao, Saptarshi Basu

Self-similar aspects of droplet aerobreakup

6th International Conference on Droplets, Liège, Belgium

1-3 July 2025

Saini Jatin Rao*, Siddhant Jain, Saptarshi Basu

On dynamics of inflating a soap bubble - DFD Interact

77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

24-26 November 2024

*Awarded travel grant by ANRF (formerly SERB) through the ITS scheme.

Saini Jatin Rao*, Akhil Aravind, Saptarshi Basu

Blast wave induced flow and coaxial liquid jet interaction at the open end of a shock tube

77th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

24-26 November 2024

*Awarded travel grant by ANRF (formerly SERB) through the ITS scheme.

Saini Jatin Rao, Siddhant Jain, Saptarshi Basu

On dynamics of inflating a soap bubble

3rd Indo-French Workshop on Hydrodynamics at Small Scales, IIT Madras, India 

25-27 October 2024

Saini Jatin Rao, Siddhant Jain, Saptarshi Basu

Flow dynamics of a soap bubble inflation

26th International Conference of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, South Korea

25-30 August 2024

Saini Jatin Rao, Shubham Sharma, Saptarshi Basu, Cameron Tropea

A Single Camera Calibration-Free Approach For Dispersion Size Measurement Using Depth From Defocus

21st International Symposium on Applications of Laser and Imaging Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, Lisbon, Portugal

08-11 July 2024

https://doi.org/10.55037/lxlaser.21st.142

Saini Jatin Rao, Shubham Sharma, Cameron Tropea, Saptarshi Basu

Dispersion size measurement in multiphase systems using Depth from Defocus technique

Workshop on Interfacial Engineering at Multiple Spatio-Temporal Scales, IISc Bangalore, India 

29-31 January 2024

Saini Jatin Rao, Shubham Sharma, Cameron Tropea, Saptarshi Basu

Dispersion size measurement in multiphase systems using Depth from Defocus technique

Compflu 2023, IIT Madras, India 

18-20 December 2023