Journal Publications

2024

1. Pattern formation in evaporating polymer solution—interplay between dewetting and decomposition.

P Mahawar, P Mullapudi, S Bhuyan, DS Pillai and S Chandran

ACS Polymers Au (Accepted).

2. Universal scaling law for electrified sessile drops on a lyophilic surface.

DS Pillai, KC Sahu

Phys. Rev. E. (109), L013101.

2023

3. A reduced-order model for surfactant-laden electrified sessile droplets.

S Goel, DS Pillai

Langmuir 39(43), 15177-15188.

4. Electrokinetic thin film model for electrowetting: The role of bulk charges

S Goel, DS Pillai

Langmuir 39(37), 13076-13089.

5. Deforming active droplets in viscoelastic solutions

P Dwivedi, A Shrivastava, DS Pillai, N Tiwari, R Mangal

Soft Matter 19 (21), 3783-3793

6. Mode switching of active droplets in macromolecular solutions

P Dwivedi, A Shrivastava, DS Pillai, R Mangal

Soft Matter 19 (22), 4099-4108

2022

7. Self-Propelled Swimming Droplets

P Dwivedi, DS Pillai, R Mangal

Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 101614

8. Effect of low-frequency AC forcing on the morphological instability arising in electrodeposition

A Ganesh, DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Journal of Engineering Mathematics 132 (1), 16

2021

9. Equivalence of sessile droplet dynamics under periodic and steady electric fields

MA Kainikkara, DS Pillai, KC Sahu

npj Microgravity 7 (1), 47

10. Rheotaxis of active droplets

P Dwivedi, A Shrivastava, DS Pillai, R Mangal

Physics of Fluids 33 (8), 082108

11. Electrowetting of a leaky dielectric droplet under a time-periodic electric field

DS Pillai, KC Sahu, R Narayanan

Physical Review Fluids 6 (7), 073701

12. Solute induced jittery motion of self-propelled droplets

P Dwivedi, BR Si, DS Pillai, R Mangal

Physics of Fluids 33 (2), 022103

2020

13. Electrostatic forcing of thin leaky dielectric films under periodic and steady fields

DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 890, A20

2018

14. Interfacial dynamics of a confined liquid–vapour bilayer undergoing evaporation

DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 857, 1-37

15. Nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic Faraday instability in thin films

DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 855, R4

16. Linear and nonlinear aspects of Marangoni and evaporative instabilities

DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Fluid Dynamics Research 50 (5), 051411

17. Rayleigh–Taylor stability in an evaporating binary mixture

DS Pillai, R Narayanan

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 848, R1

2016

18. Experimental simulation of fragmentation and stratification of core debris on the core catcher of a fast breeder reactor

DS Pillai, R Vignesh, AJ Sudha, S Pushpavanam, T Sundararajan, BK Nashine, P Selvaraj 

Nuclear Engineering and Design 301, 39-48

19. A Viscous Potential Flow model for core-annular flow

DS Pillai, B Dinesh, T Sundararajan, S Pushpavanam

Applied Mathematical Modelling 40 (7-8), 5044-5062

20. Periodically-forced density wave oscillations in boiling flow at low forcing frequencies: Nonlinear dynamics and control issues

S Paruya, N Goswami, S Pushpavanam, DS Pillai, O Bidyarani

Chemical Engineering Science 140, 123-133

2014

21. Shifting and breakup instabilities of squeezed elliptic jets

DS Pillai, JR Picardo, S Pushpavanam

International Journal of Multiphase Flow 67, 189-199

2012

22. A nonlinear analysis of the effect of heat transfer on capillary jet instability

DS Pillai, P Narayanan, S Pushpavanam, T Sundararajan, A Jasmin Sudha, P Chellapandi 

Physics of Fluids 24 (12), 124106

23. Microencapsulation of Garcinia cowa fruit extract and effect of its use on pasta process and quality

DS Pillai, P Prabhasankar, BS Jena, C Anandharamakrishnan

International Journal of Food Properties 15 (3), 590-604