• B.Tech., Aeronautical Engineering, IIT Madras, 1982
  
  Developed Euler equation solver on the surface of sphere to compute flow past a cone at an angle of attack in supersonic flow using shock fitting
  
  
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 1984
  
  Extended the numerical scheme, Direct Formal Integration, to solve incompressible boundary layer flows
  
  
• Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 1988
  
  Extended the numerical scheme, Direct Formal Integration, to solve compressible boundary layer flows
  
  

• Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (2004 onwards)
  
  
• Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (1996 - 2004)
  
  
• Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (1991 - 1996)
  
  
• Visiting Faculty, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (1990 - 1991)
  
  
• Visiting Faculty, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington (1988 - 1990)
  
  
• Teaching Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (1984 - 1985, 1986-1988)
  
  
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (1982-1984)

• Fluid Mechanics
  
  
• Numerical Methods and Computer Solutions
  
  

• Concepts in Engineering Design
  
  
• Introduction to Aerospace Engineering
  
  
• Introduction to Airplanes, Power plants and Systems
  
  
• Aerospace Engineering Drawing
  
  
• Fluid Mechanics
  
  
• Aerodynamics
  
  
• Gasdynamics
  
  
• Flight Dynamics-I
  
  
• Introduction to CFD
  
  
• Aircraft Design
  
  
• Aircraft Design Practice
  
  
• Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering - I
  
  
• Boundary Layer Theory
  
  
• Numerical Methods in Gasdynamics
  
  
• Computational Aerodynamics
  
  
• Grid Generation
  
  
• Object Oriented Programming for Scientist and Engineers

Courses taught at University of Texas at Arlington:
( AE-Aerospace Engineering Department, MA - Mathematics Department)

• Engineering Mechanics(Statics)(AE)
  
  
• Aerodynamics of Real Fluids(AE)
  
  
• Integral Methods in Science and Engineering(AE)
  
  
• College Algebra(MA)
  
  
• Analytical Geometry(MA)
  
  
• Calculus-I(MA)
  
  
• Calculus-II(MA)
  
  
• Calculus-III(MA)
  
  
• Introduction to Programming(UG)(AE)
  
  
• Introduction to Programming& Graphics(PG)(MA)

• Sabbatical in Texas A & M in 2001
  
  
• MS & PhD in University of Texas at Arlington
  
  

• John DeYoung Outstanding Research award, University of Texas at Arlington, 1984
  
  
• Sigma-Xi Graduate Research award Sigma-Xi , 1985
  
  
• John DeYoung Outstanding Research award, University of Texas at Arlington, 1987
  
  
• Best paper in CFD in 2004 from CFD Center, IIT Madras
  
  

• Manokaran K., Ramakrishna M. & Jayachandran T.. (2021) Perturbation of Wall Boundary Condition to Trigger Vortex Shedding Over a Circular Cylinder, International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 35:10, 872-892, DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2022.2052280
  
  
• V. Charumathi, M. Ramakrishna, Vinita Vasudevan. Fast and Accurate Proper Orthogonal Decomposition using Efficient Sampling and Iterative Techniques for Singular Value Decomposition, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, August 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3506691
  
  
• Kochi, S.R.S.P., Ramakrishna M.. A Compact Subcell WENO Limiting Strategy Using Immediate Neighbors for Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Unstructured Meshes. J Sci Comput 90, 48 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-021-01725-3
  
  
• Prabhu Ramachandran, Abhinav Muta, M. Ramakrishna. Dual-time smoothed particle hydrodynamics for incompressible fluid simulation, Computers & Fluids, vol. 227, 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2021.105031
  
  
• S. R. Siva Prasad Kochi, M. Ramakrishna. A compact subcell WENO limiting strategy using immediate neighbours for Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 98:3, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2020.1770234
  
  
• K. Manokaran, M. Ramakrishna, T. Jayachandran. Application of flux vector splitting methods with SST turbulence model to wall-bounded flows, Computers & Fluids, 208, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2020.104611
  
  
• Ramakrishna, P.A., Ramakrishna, M., Manimaran, R.. Experimental investigation of temperature separation in a counter-flow vortex tube. Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 136, No. 8, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4027248
  
  
• L. Tao, M. Ramakrishna. Multi-scale turbulence modeling and the maximum information principle. International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics. Vol. 3, pp. 37-43, 2011
  
  
• L. Tao, M. Ramakrishna, K. R. Rajagopal.. Turbulence modeling from a new perspective, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications
  
  

• CFD-Update (1992)
  
  
• 3rd International Workshop of The Engineering Sciences Group (Flumec-2000), in 2000
  
  
• 4th International Workshop of The Engineering Sciences Group ( Mechanics) in 2003
  
  
  

• Title of Project: Aerodynamic Load Estimation of a Helicopter Rotor in Hover and Climb and Development of a Computer Code
  Sponsor: IRDF
  Co-investigators: M. Balakrishnan (Department of Applied Mechanics) and S. C. Rajan (Department of Aerospace Engineering)
  
  
• Title of Project: Study of Flow Through Axi symmetric / 2-D Variable area C D Nozzles
  Sponsor: ADA
  Co-investigators: K. A. Damodaran (Department of Aerospace Engineering)
  
  
• Title of Project: A Distributed Problem Solver for Navier Stokes Equations
  Sponsor: IRDF
  Co-investigators: D. Janaki Ram (CSE)
  
  
• Title of Project: Computation of Complex Flows
  Sponsor: IRDF - YF
  
  
• Title of Project: Analysis of Flow Through Air Augmented Rockets
  Sponsor: ISRO
  
  
• Title of Project: Design of an airbreathing hypersonic flying test bed
  Sponsor: ISRO
  Co-investigators: Rest of the Department
  
  
• Title of Project: Modelling of impinging plasma jets
  Co-investigators: T. K. Bose
  
  
• Title of Project: Analysis of Flow over and Airbreathing Vehicle using Distributed Computing
  Sponsor: ISRO
  Co-investigators: D. Janaki Ram (CSE)
  
  
• Title of Project: Augmentation of Institute Network
  Sponsor: MHRD
  Co-investigators: 5 others
  
  
• Title of Project: Establisment of CFD Centre
  Sponsor: DST
  Co-investigators: 5 others
  
  
  

• Member Sigma-Xi
  
  
• Life Member - Aeronuatical Society of India(AeSI)
  
  
• Member - Society of Industrial and applied mathematics(SIAM)
  
  
• Member - Association of Computing Machinery(ACM)
  
  

•   None on Rolls
  
  

• Manokaran, Charumathi, Siva Prasad, Shivananda Rao, Mrunalini, and Mythreya
  
  

• S. Ashok, K. Siva Prasad, R. Manimaran, Abhishek Burman, Jithesh Gopal, L. Krishnan, J. Senthil Kumar, V. Meenaskhi Sundaram, V. A. S. K. Chakravarthi, S. Sriram, K. Kanaka Durga, P. Pushpa, and  M. Selvakumar