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  1. Effect of finite extensibility on the hoop-stress instability in viscoelastic Taylor-Couette flow

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, August 2026, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  2. Nature of continuous spectra in wall-bounded shearing flows of FENE-P fluids

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, May 2026, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  3. Hoop stress and polymer diffusive instabilities in viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, September 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor V Shankar

  4. Effect of anisotropic mobility on the diffusive instability in viscoelastic shear flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, May 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  5. Role of finite extensibility on the centre-mode instability in viscoelastic channel flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  6. Master curves for unidirectional flows of FENE-P fluids in rectilinear and curvilinear geometries

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, December 2024, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  7. Transient shear banding during startup flow: Insights from nonlinear simulations

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi, Professor V Shankar

  8. Elastic instability in a family of rectilinear viscoelastic channel flows devoid of centerline symmetry

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, January 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  9. A new elastic instability in gravity-driven viscoelastic film flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Ganesh Subramanian, Professor V Shankar

  10. Equilibrium shapes of liquid drops on pre-stretched nonlinear elastic membranes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  11. Viscoelasticity and rheological hysteresis

    Article • Journal of Rheology, January 2023, Society of Rheology

    Professor Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi, Professor V Shankar

  12. Instability and rupture of ultrathin freestanding viscoelastic solid films

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  13. Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, August 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  14. A linear route to elasto-inertial turbulence

    Article • Science Talks, August 2022, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  15. Dynamics and shear banding in stress-controlled start-up shear flow of a model aging soft materials: the role of inertia and thixotropy

    Article • Rheologica Acta, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor V Shankar

  16. Understanding viscoelastic flow instabilities: Oldroyd-B and beyond

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  17. Onset of transient shear banding in viscoelastic shear start-up flows: Implications from linearized dynamics

    Article • Journal of Rheology, November 2021, Society of Rheology

    Professor Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi, Professor V Shankar

  18. Continuous Pathway between the Elasto-Inertial and Elastic Turbulent States in Viscoelastic Channel Flow

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  19. Distinguishing thixotropy from viscoelasticity

    Article • Journal of Rheology, July 2021, Society of Rheology

    Professor Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi, Professor V Shankar

  20. The centre-mode instability of viscoelastic plane Poiseuille flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  21. Instability of ultrathin viscoelastic freestanding films

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  22. Electrohydrodynamic instability of confined viscoelastic liquid jets

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  23. Linear instability of viscoelastic pipe flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  24. Instability induced by wall deformability in sliding Couette flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  25. Stability of flow in a deformable channel with an unrestrained boundary

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  26. Stability of gravity-driven free-surface flow past a deformable solid: The role of depth-dependent modulus

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  27. Early transition, relaminarization and drag reduction in the flow of polymer solutions through microtubes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  28. Onset of transition in the flow of polymer solutions through deformable tubes

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  29. Elasto-inertial wall mode instabilities in viscoelastic plane Poiseuille flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  30. Instability driven by shear thinning and elasticity in the flow of concentrated polymer solutions through microtubes

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, August 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  31. Stability of plane Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid through a deformable neo-Hookean channel

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, August 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  32. Flow-induced resonant shear-wave instability between a viscoelastic fluid and an elastic solid

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  33. Stability of flow through deformable channels and tubes: implications of consistent formulation

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  34. Planar equilibria of sessile and pendant liquid drops on geometrically non-linear elastic membranes

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  35. Viscoelastic Pipe Flow is Linearly Unstable

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  36. Stability of plane Couette flow of Carreau fluids past a deformable solid at arbitrary Reynolds numbers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  37. Role of inertia and thixotropy in start-up flows of aging soft materials: Transient dynamics and shear banding in a rate-controlled flow field

    Article • Journal of Rheology, July 2018, Society of Rheology

    Professor V Shankar

  38. Transition in polymer solutions.

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  39. Absolute and convective instabilities in combined Couette-Poiseuille flow past a neo-Hookean solid

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  40. Consistent formulations for stability of fluid flow through deformable channels and tubes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  41. Stability of plane Couette flow of a power-law fluid past a neo-Hookean solid at arbitrary Reynolds number

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  42. Passive manipulation of free-surface instability by deformable solid bilayers

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  43. Consistent formulation of solid dissipative effects in stability analysis of flow past a deformable solid

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, July 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  44. CFD simulations to study the effects of wall protrusions on microfluidic mixing

    Article • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, July 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor V Shankar

  45. FOREWORD

    Article • Sadhana, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor V Shankar

  46. Manipulation of interfacial instabilities by using a soft, deformable solid layer

    Article • Sadhana, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor V Shankar

  47. Stability of fluid flow through deformable tubes and channels: An overview

    Article • Sadhana, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor V Shankar

  48. Experimental study of the instability of laminar flow in a tube with deformable walls

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  49. Numerical simulation of mixing at 1–1 and 1–2 microfluidic junctions

    Article • Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  50. Instability of viscous flow over a deformable two-layered gel: Experiments and theory

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  51. Suppression of purely elastic instabilities in the torsional flow of viscoelastic fluid past a soft solid

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  52. Manipulation of instabilities in core-annular flows using a deformable solid layer

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  53. Role of wall deformability on interfacial instabilities in gravity-driven two-layer flow with a free surface

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  54. Stability of pressure-driven flow in a deformable neo-Hookean channel

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  55. Electric-field– and contact-force–induced tunable patterns in slipping soft elastic films

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), February 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Professor V Shankar

  56. Stability of fluid flow through deformable neo-Hookean tubes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor V Shankar

  57. Elastohydrodynamic Suppression of Free-Surface Instabilities in Annular Liquid Film Flow Outside Wires and Inside Tubes

    Article • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, July 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor V Shankar

  58. Instabilities and pattern miniaturization in confined and free elastic-viscous bilayers

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Professor V Shankar

  59. Instability suppression in viscoelastic film flows down an inclined plane lined with a deformable solid layer

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  60. Electrohydrodynamic instability of a confined viscoelastic liquid film

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, May 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Professor V Shankar

  61. Stability of gravity-driven free-surface flow past a deformable solid at zero and finite Reynolds number

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  62. Suppression or enhancement of interfacial instability in two-layer plane Couette flow of FENE-P fluids past a deformable solid layer

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  63. Instability and dynamics of thin viscoelastic liquid films

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor V Shankar

  64. Suppression of instability in liquid flow down an inclined plane by a deformable solid layer

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor V Shankar

  65. Instability of high-frequency modes in viscoelastic plane Couette flow past a deformable wall at low and finite Reynolds number

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  66. Stability of two-layer viscoelastic plane Couette flow past a deformable solid layer: implications of fluid viscosity stratification

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  67. Stability of two-layer Newtonian plane Couette flow past a deformable solid layer

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar

  68. Instability of the interface between thin fluid films subjected to electric fields

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, June 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Professor V Shankar

  69. Stability of two-layer viscoelastic plane Couette flow past a deformable solid layer

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, February 2004, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  70. Instability of viscoelastic plane Couette flow past a deformable wall

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor V Shankar

  71. Theory of linear viscoelasticity of semiflexible rods in dilute solution

    Article • Journal of Rheology, September 2002, Society of Rheology

    Professor V Shankar

  72. Stability of wall modes in fluid flow past a flexible surface

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor V Shankar