Dr. Partho Mukherjee

Designation: Assistant Professor

Academic Area: Mechanical Engineering

Brief Profile:

Dr. Partho Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and his research interests are instabilities, turbulence, mixing, entrainment dynamics and parameterizations in stratified-shear flows. Prior to this, he was working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore and as an Institute Post-Doc Fellow at IIT Bombay.

He earned his Master’s degree in Engineering Design from CEG, Anna University (2016) and Ph.D. in Thermal and Fluid Engineering from IIT Bombay (2022).


  • Ph.D. in Thermal and Fluid Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), IIT Bombay (2022)
  • M.E. in Engineering Design (Mechanical Engineering), CEG, Anna University (2016)
  • B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore (2011)

  • Institute Post-Doc Fellow May 2022 – July 2022, IIT Bombay
  • Post Doctoral Researcher Sep 2022 – Nov 2022, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore

  • Ph.D. Annual Progress Seminar award (2019-20) by the department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay, for excellent progress in thesis work
  • Secured an AIR of 1028 (99.1 percentile) in GATE 2012 (Mechanical Engineering)

Instabilities, turbulence, mixing, entrainment dynamics and parameterizations in stratified-shear flows, buoyancy driven flows.

Turbulence characterization of buoyant jets in linearly stratified ambient

  • PIV study on the dynamics of a forced plume in a stratified ambient, Harish N. Mirajkar, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, JOURNAL OF FLOW VISUALISATION AND IMAGE PROCESSING 27 (1), (2020)
  • Energetics and mixing efficiency of lock-exchange gravity currents using simultaneous velocity and density fields, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 5 (6), 063802 (2020)
  • Diapycnal mixing efficiency in lock-exchange gravity currents, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS 6 (1), 013801 (2021)
  • Assessment of RANS-based turbulence model for forced plume dynamics in a linearly stratified environment, Nitin Kumar, Partho Mukherjee, Vamsi Krishna Chalamalla, Anupam Dewan and Sridhar Balasubramanian, in COMPUTERS AND FLUIDS (2022)
  • Entrainment dynamics of a buoyant jet in a stably stratified ambient, Partho Mukherjee, Harish Mirajkar and Sridhar Balasubramanian, in ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS (Special Issue: Turbulence and mixing in stratified flows) (2022)
  • On the dynamics of buoyant jets in a linearly stratified ambient. Harish N. Mirajkar, Partho Mukherjee and Sridhar Balasubramanian, PHYSICS OF FLUIDS (2023)