Vanka Gives Memorial Lecture in India

6/26/2012 By Kathryn L. Heine

Professor Pratap VankaProfessor Pratap Vanka gave the Bhatnagar Memorial Lecture at the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2008 Annual Conference, which was held at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. The lecture award is named after the distinguished physicist/mathematician, P. L. Bhatnagar, developer of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model widely used in Lattice Boltzmann Method.

Written by By Kathryn L. Heine

Professor Pratap Vanka

Professor Pratap Vanka gave the Bhatnagar Memorial Lecture at the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2008 Annual Conference, which was held at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. The lecture award is named after the distinguished physicist/mathematician, P. L. Bhatnagar, developer of the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model widely used in Lattice Boltzmann Method. The title of Professor Vanka's talk was "Beauty of Shear and Buoyancy Driven Flows in Complex Enclosures: Immersed Boundary Simulations". The meet was attended by approximately 250 Indian applied mathematicians.

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This story was published June 26, 2012.