About the faculty
Dr. Sundari Ramji joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in November 2020. She earned her B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur (affiliated with Anna University, Chennai) in 2010, followed by an M.E. in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, during 2010–2012. She subsequently pursued her doctoral studies under the guidance of Prof. S. Pushpavanam at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, where her research focused on modeling hydrodynamics, mass transfer, and reactions in two-phase microchannel flows.
Upon completing her Ph.D., Dr. Ramji joined the Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering (IBSE) at the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (July 2019 – October 2020). During this period, she worked on an interdisciplinary project centered on the modeling of integrated multi-scale disease networks.
Research interests
Dr. Ramji's research interests span the areas of Computational Modelling, multiphase flows, associated transport phenomena and surfactant-driven Marangoni flows. She works on both fundamental and application-oriented research problems. Dr. Ramji specializes in developing in-house multiphase flow solvers based on the Level Set Method. Her work emphasizes semi-analytical mathematical modeling and computational fluid dynamics using interface-capturing methods. She also employs commercial software such as COMSOL Multiphysics and ANSYS Fluent to investigate multiscale problems such as the chill-down prediction in cryogenic feedlines, characterized by complex multiphase turbulent flows, conjugate heat transfer, and phase change phenomena.
