ESP Biography



ANANTH GOVIND RAJAN, Fifth Year PhD Student in Chemical Engineering




Major: Chemical Engineering

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: G

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I finished my B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India in 2013. I am currently pursuing my PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, working on molecular simulations of nanomaterials. In my spare time, I engage in reading, web development, and music.



Past Classes

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S11983: How Do We Describe Fluid Flows? in Splash 2017 (Nov. 18 - 19, 2017)
Fluids are a miraculous phase of matter - water and blood are two of them without which we cannot imagine life on Earth. Common to all fluids is the propensity to flow. This course will teach you about how one can mathematically describe simple flows in nature. For example, have you ever wondered if one can estimate how fast water will flow down a cliff? Or that, how long water flowing through a pipe will take to fill a tank? What about something like toothpaste, which doesn't seem to want to flow at once?


S10216: Fluids – Streams, Droplets, and Bubbles in Splash 2015 (Nov. 21 - 22, 2015)
Liquids are a miraculous phase of matter - water and blood are two of them without which we cannot imagine life on Earth. This course will teach you about liquids and their unique properties. For example, have you ever wondered why water rises in a thin glass tube dipped into a glass full of water? Have you ever thought about why you should not stand beyond the yellow line on the T platform? Or why liquid droplets and soap bubbles are spherical and not cuboidal? If you want to know the answers to these questions and to learn more about fluids and their properties through demonstration, this is the course for you!