Suhas Patankar

Suhas V. Patankar
Born (1941-02-22) 22 February 1941 (age 83)
NationalityIndian
Alma materCollege of Engineering Pune
IIT Bombay
Imperial College London
Known forSIMPLE algorithm
ChildrenSuphala
Scientific career
FieldsMechanical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota
Doctoral advisorBrian Spalding

Suhas V. Patankar (born 22 February 1941) is an Indian mechanical engineer.[1] 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.[2] Patankar was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India.