Dr. John Panickacheril John
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 221 Hardaway Hall
- phone (205) 348-5235
Research Areas
Education
- PhD. in Aerospace Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA 2020
- MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 2014
- B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India 2009
Dr. John joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics as an assistant professor on spring 2025. His research focuses on unraveling the complicated physics of turbulence in extreme multi-physics flow environments involving compressibility, shocks, multiphase flows etc. To accomplish this, he develops and implements state of the art CFD algorithms for turbulence simulations on current exascale computing platforms. He along with colleagues have run one of the largest compressible turbulence simulations and he is also the recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. His research has applications in high-speed flows, space exploration, energy systems, astrophysics.
Affiliated Areas
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Selected Publications
- John, J. P. and J”org Schumacher Compressible turbulent convection in highly stratified adiabatic background” J. Fluid. Mech R4 972 (Editor’s pick) (2023)
- John J. P., Donzis D. A., Sreenivasan. K. R., “Laws of turbulence decay from direct numerical simulations” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.38020210089 (2022)
- John J. P., Donzis D. A., Sreenivasan. K. R., “Does dissipative anomaly hold for compressible turbulence?” J. Fluid Mech. A20 920 (2021)
- Donzis, D.A. and John, J.P., “Universality and scaling in homogeneous compressible turbulence. ” Phy. Rev. Fluids. (5) 8 084609 (2020)
- John, J.P., Donzis, D.A. and Sreenivasan, K.R., 2019. “Solenoidal scaling laws for compressible mixing.” Phy. Rev. Lett. 123(22), 224501 (2019)
Awards and Honors
- Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship
- Texas A & M aerospace graduate excellence fellowship 2020