Editing Suhas Patankar

{{Short description|Indian mechanical engineer}}
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{{BLP sources|date=June 2012}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Suhas V. Patankar
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|02|22}}
| birth_place = [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], India
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| nationality = [[India]]n
| fields =[[Mechanical Engineering|Mechanical]] and [[Computational Fluid Dynamics]]
| work_institution = [[University of Minnesota]]
| alma_mater = [[College of Engineering Pune]]<br />[[IIT Bombay]]<br />[[Imperial College London]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Brian Spalding]]
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| known_for  = [[SIMPLE algorithm]]
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| children = [[Suphala]]
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'''Suhas V. Patankar''' (born 22 February 1941) is an Indian [[mechanical engineer]].<ref>[http://www.me.umn.edu/people/patankar.shtml Suhas Patankar at University of Minnesota]</ref> He is a pioneer in the field of [[computational fluid dynamics]] (CFD) and [[Finite volume method]]. He is currently a Professor [[Emeritus]] at the [[University of Minnesota]]. He is also president of Innovative Research, Inc.<ref>[http://inresllc.com/about.html About Innovative Research, Inc.]</ref> Patankar was born in [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]].

== Early life and education ==
Patankar received his bachelor's degree in [[mechanical engineering]] in 1962 from the [[College of Engineering, Pune]], which is affiliated to the [[University of Pune]] and his Master of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]] in 1964. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the [[Imperial College]], [[University of London]].

== Career ==
Patankar's most important contribution to the field of CFD is the ''[[SIMPLE algorithm|SIMPLE]]'' algorithm<ref name ="BOOK">Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (1980), {{ISBN|0-89116-522-3}}</ref> that he developed along with his colleagues at [[Imperial College]]. Patankar is the author of a book in computational fluid dynamics titled Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow<ref name ="BOOK" /> which was first published in 1980. This book has since been considered one of the groundbreaking contributions to computational fluid dynamics due to its emphasis on physical understanding and insight into the fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena. He is also one of  the most cited authors in science and engineering.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~loui/goocites.html | title=Most cited works using advanced search of Scholar.Google, top 100 hits | date=21 July 2008 | publisher=cse.wustl.edu | accessdate=6 May 2018 }}</ref>

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