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S M Rao joined the civil engineering department in July, 2003 as a post doctoral research associate. In 2006, he was appointed Research Assistant Professor. His research adviser is Prof. S.N. Prasad and his research work is primarily at the ARS/USDA National Sedimentation Laboratory. He is studying the sedimentation transport mechanisms in water-solid systems of open channel flow. The experimental study includes the optical probe measurements on grain velocity, solids concentration and the characterization of sediment transport flow patters. Some of the features he is interested are, the granular kinetics of saltating flow, development small scale structures, their maturity and growth into larger scale structures. Before coming to the University of Mississippi he was at the National University of Singapore (1998-2002) as a Research Fellow and subsequently with the Singapore-MIT Alliance as a SMA Research Fellow (2002-2003). He has multidisciplinary research background in the mechanical, chemical and bio-medical engineering fields. His prior research study includes flow boiling heat transfer augmentation, drug delivery to brain tumors and pneumatic conveying of solids.

Personal Webpage: http://www.geocities.com/smadhusudana/

Position
Research Assistant Professor
Degree
Ph.D. (IIT, Madras)
M.E. (Anna Univ., Madras)
B.Tech. (Nagarjuna Univ.)
Tel: (662)2322957
Fax: (662)2322915
Email:
msuryand@olemiss.edu