Mahesh M. BandiCNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate
MPA-10/CNLS Experimental Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Physics 
Office: TA-3, Bldg 1690, Room 132 and TA-3, Bldg SM-32, Room 110
Mail Stop: K764
Phone: (505) 667-4566
Fax: (505) 665-7652 mbandi@lanl.gov
home page |  | Educational Background/Employment: - B. E. Computer Science & Engineering, University of Madras, 1998.
- M. S. Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
- M. S. Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
- Ph D. Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.
- Professional Training:
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engg., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2000-2002.
- Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2002-2003.
- Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2003-2006.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, T-CNLS & MPA-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. 2006 - present
Research Interests: - Any ubiquitous phenomenon that captures my fancy, so far it includes some experimental problems in fluid turbulence, amorphous media, and interfacial dynamics of surfactants and/or particles at air-water interfaces.
Selected Recent Publications: - M. M. Bandi, Sergei Chumakov, and Colm Connaughton. Power fluctuations, large deviations, and turbulence. (submitted).
- Mahesh Bandi and Colm Connaughton. Lagrangian power fluctuations in two-dimensional turbulence. (Available at arXiv:0710.3368).
- Mahesh Bandi and Colm Connaughton. Craig's XY-distribution and the statistics of Lagrangian power in two-dimensional turbulence, Phys. Rev. E. 77, 036318 (2008) (Also available at arXiv:0710.1133).
- M. M. Bandi, J. R. Cressman and W. I. Goldburg. Test of the Fluctuation Relation in Lagrangian Turbulence on a free surface. J. Stat. Phys., 130, 27 (2008). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607037).
- M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg and J. R. Cressman. Measurement of Entropy Production Rate in Compressible Turbulence., Europhys. Lett. 76, 595 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607036).
- M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg, J. R. Cressman Jr., and H. Kellay. Where Surface Physics and Fluid Dynamics meet: Rupture of an Amphiphile layer by fluid flow., J. Chem. Phys., 124, 104701 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607045).
- M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg, J. R. Cressman Jr., and A. Pumir. Energy flux fluctuations in a finite volume of turbulent flow., Phys. Rev. E., 73, 026308 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607044).
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