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	==Career==		==Career==
	Govindarajan started her career as scientist in the Computational and Theoretical fluid dynamics division of [[National Aerospace Laboratories]], Bangalore, and worked there for a decade from 1988 to 1998. She became a faculty member at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research]] and worked in that position between 1998 and 2012. From 2012 to 2016, she was a professor at the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences. She has published a large number of technical papers in her field of specialization of fluid physics and has also published a few books.<ref name=Rama/> Her main research interests relate to instability and transition to turbulence of shear flows, [[physics]] of interfacial flows.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/noted-women-scientists-of-india/\|title=Noted Women Scientists of India – an attempt at enumeration\|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/117-120.pdf\|title= Lilavati's Daughters:Dream Your Dream\|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>		Govindarajan started her career as scientist in the Computational and Theoretical fluid dynamics division of [[National Aerospace Laboratories]], Bangalore, and worked there for a decade from 1988 to 1998. She became a faculty member at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research]] and worked in that position between 1998 and 2012. From 2012 to 2016, she was a professor at the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences. She has published a large number of technical papers in her field of specialization of fluid physics and has also published a few books.<ref name=Rama/> Her main research interests relate to instability and transition to turbulence of shear flows, [[physics]] of interfacial flows.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/noted-women-scientists-of-india/\|title=Noted Women Scientists of India – an attempt at enumeration\|date=25 October 2013\|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/117-120.pdf\|title= Lilavati's Daughters:Dream Your Dream\|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>

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'''Rama Govindarajan''' is an Indian scientist specialized in the field of [[fluid dynamics]]. She previously worked at the Engineering Mechanics Unit of the
[[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/rama/|title=- Home|website=www.jncasr.ac.in}}</ref> from 1998-2012 and as a professor at the [[TIFR Hyderabad]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120804070659/http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/tcis-faculty/rama-govindarajan.html]</ref> Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences from 2012-2016. As of 2019 she is working as a professor at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru. Professor Govindarajan is a recipient of the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award]] for the year 2007.

==Education==
Govindarajan did her undergraduate degree (B.Tech.) in [[chemical engineering]] from [[Indian Institutes of Technology|IIT]] [[Delhi]] in 1984. She got her master's degree (M.S.) in chemical engineering, from [[Drexel University]], [[Philadelphia]], United States in 1986. Her doctoral degree (Ph.D) [[thesis]] was on the subject of [[aerospace engineering]] from the [[Indian Institute of Science]] Bangalore in 1994. She worked in post-doctoral research in the Deptartment of Aeronautics at [[Caltech]] in 1994.<ref name=Rama>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tifrh.res.in/tcis/tcis-faculty/rama-govindarajan.html|title=Rama Govindarajan|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>

==Career==
Govindarajan started her career as scientist in the Computational and Theoretical fluid dynamics division of [[National Aerospace Laboratories]], Bangalore, and worked there for a decade from 1988 to 1998. She became a faculty member at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research]] and worked in that position between 1998 and 2012. From 2012 to 2016, she was a professor at the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences. She has published a large number of technical papers in her field of specialization of fluid physics and has also published a few books.<ref name=Rama/> Her main research interests relate to instability and transition to turbulence of shear flows, [[physics]] of interfacial flows.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scilogs.com/in_scientio_veritas/noted-women-scientists-of-india/|title=Noted Women Scientists of India – an attempt at enumeration|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/womeninscience/LD_essays/117-120.pdf|title= Lilavati's Daughters:Dream Your Dream|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>

==Awards==
Of the many awards that she has received so far, the most notable is the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for the year 2007 for her "original contributions to the understanding of instabilities in shear and non-parallel flows, flow entrainment, turbulent transition and small-scale hydraulic jumps".
She was also awarded with the Young Scientist award of 1987 and Outstanding Scientist award of 1996 given by the [[National Aerospace Laboratories]]. She received the CNR Rao Oration award of 2004 at [[JNCASR]] Bangalore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=45971|title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for the year 2007 & 2008|access-date=15 March 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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