• Carbon capture technologies, focusing on Cryogenic Carbon Capture in particular.
• Advanced power cycles, such as Supercritical CO2 for waste heat recovery, Allam cycle.
• Thermal storage system integration with renewable and traditional power sources.
• Gas turbine heat transfer, focusing on the secondary flows (cooling, sealing, purging) systems.

• New Two-Fluid Model Near-Wall Averaging and Consistent Matching for Turbulent Bubbly Flows
  A. Vaidheeswaran, D. Prabhudharwadkar, P. Guilbert, J. R. Buchanan, M. L. de-Bertodano
  ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 139(1): 011302, 2017

• Assessment of the subcooled boiling wall boundary condition for CFD simulations
  D. M. Prabhudharwadkar, M. L. de-Bertodano, T. Hibiki, J. R. Buchanan
  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (79),602-617, 2014

• CFD Simulation of adiabatic two-phase flow in the cap bubble regime using the two-group Interfacial Area Transport Equations (IATE)
  D. M. Prabhudharwadkar, M. L. de-Bertodano, J. R. Jr. Buchanan, P. A. Guilbert
  Journal of Computational Multiphase Flow (4), 363-374, 2012

• Simulation of Hydrogen Mitigation in Catalytic Recombiner: Part-I: Comparison of Various Modeling Approaches
  D. Prabhudharwadkar, P. Aghalayam, K. Iyer
  Nuclear Engineering and Design (241), 4, 1746-1757, 2011

• Simulation of Hydrogen Mitigation in a Catalytic Recombiner: Part-II – Formulation of a CFD model
  D. Prabhudharwadkar, K. Iyer
  Nuclear Engineering and Design (241) 5,1758-1767, 2011

• Simulation of Hydrogen Distribution in an Indian Nuclear Reactor Containment
  D. Prabhudharwadkar, K. Iyer, M. Mohan, S. Bajaj, S. Markandeya
  Nuclear Engineering and Design (241), 3, 832-842, 2011
• Experimental study of liquid carryover in a separator drum
  D. Prabhudharwadkar, R. More, K. Iyer
  Nuclear Engineering and Design (240), 1, 76-83, 2010

Book Chapters:

• M. Lopez de Bertodano and D. Prabhudharwadkar, CFD Two Fluid Model for Adiabatic and Boiling Bubbly Flows in Ducts, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hyoung Woo Oh (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-7619-59-6, INTECH, 2010

Conference Proceedings:

• A. Rai, D. Prabhudharwadkar, S. Murthy, A. Giametta, D. Johns, D., Effect of Air-Curtains on Labyrinth Seal Performance, Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 5A: Heat Transfer. Seoul, South Korea. June 13–17, 2016
• K. Saha, and D. Prabhudharwadkar, Performance Evaluation of a Modified Cross Section Grooved Channel as Turbulence Promoter in Internal Cooling Channel of a Gas Turbine Blade, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Volume 8B: Heat Transfer and Thermal Engineering. Houston, Texas, USA. November 13–19, 2015

Patents (Granted):

• US10815874B2, Turbocharger system for a rotary machine and method of assembling the same. Jalal Hunain Zia, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Christopher Joseph Homison, Maruthi Manohar Jupudi. 2020.
• US10774670B2, Filled abradable seal component and associated methods thereof. Paul Mathew, Mohandas Nayak, Krishnendu Saha, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar. 2020.
• US10690251B2, Labyrinth seal system and an associated method thereof, Krishnendu Saha, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Ashok Gopinath. 2020

Patents (Pending):

• US20190353102A1, Variable evaporative cooling system, Maruthi Manohar Jupudi, Bradly Aaron Kippel, Ashok Kumar Balumuri, Majed Sammak, Jalal Hunain Zia, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar. Published 2019.
• US20190345433A1, Impeller including one or more turbulators, for a bioreactor system, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Ashok Gopinath. Published 2019.
• US20180372112A1, Heat exchange system for a turbomachine and an associated method thereof, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, David Richard Johns. Published 2018.

• PhD., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2008

• 2020-Present: Research Scientist, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
• 2017-2020: Senior Systems Engineer, GE Gas Power, Dubai, UAE
• 2011-2017: Research & Lead Engineer, GE Global Research, Bangalore, India
• 2008-2011: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA

• 2018: Winner of the GE Global Innovation Challenge - Future of Energy
• 2018: Impact award by GE Gas Power, Middle East
• 2015: Fastworks Award by GE Global Research, USA, for accelerated technology transfer into product
• 2013: Rookie of the Year Award by Aero-Thermal Systems, GE Global Research, USA
• 2012: "Clear Thinker" Award from GE Aviation, USA

• Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC)

• Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE)