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{{Short description|Indian scientist (1933–2020)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Roddam Narasimha
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| image             = Rodham Narasimha.jpg
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1933|7|20|df=y}}
| birth_place       = 
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2020|12|14|1933|7|20|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Bangalore, Karnataka]], India
| field             = [[Fluid dynamics]]
| work_institutions = 
| alma_mater        = [[Mysore University]]<br />[[Indian Institute of Science]]<br />[[California Institute of Technology]]
| thesis_title      = Some Flow Problems in Rarefied Gas Dynamics<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Some flow problems in rarefied gas dynamics|url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11042003-095050|publisher=California Institute of Technology|date=1961|degree=phd|language=en|first=Roddam|last=Narasimha|access-date=15 December 2020|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215173011/https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/4400/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Caltech Thesis Library - Roddam Narasimha|url=https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/4400/1/Narasimha_r_1961.pdf|access-date=15 December 2020|website=Caltech Library|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215072942/https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/4400/1/Narasimha_r_1961.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
| thesis_year       = 1961
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Hans W. Liepmann]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=121035 |title=Roddam Narasimha – The Mathematics Genealogy Project |publisher=Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu |date=4 April 2017 |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-date=9 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809104316/https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=121035 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| doctoral_students = [[K. R. Sreenivasan]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=136929 | title=Katepalli R. Sreenivasan | publisher=Mathematics Genealogy Project | access-date=5 November 2018 | archive-date=6 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132159/https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=136929 | url-status=live }}</ref> <br /> [[Rama Govindarajan]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Desikan |first1=Shubashree |last2=Kulkarni |first2=Tanu |title=An intellect with a passion for learning, discussing and teaching |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/an-intellect-with-a-passion-for-learning-discussing-and-teaching/article33339048.ece |access-date=16 December 2020 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=16 December 2020 |archive-date=16 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216020144/https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/an-intellect-with-a-passion-for-learning-discussing-and-teaching/article33339048.ece |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
'''Roddam Narasimha''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sreenivasan |first=Katepalli R. |date=2025 |title=Roddam Narasimha. 20 July 1933–14 December 2020 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2024.0025 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society}}</ref> (20 July 1933{{spnd}}14 December 2020) was an Indian [[aerospace]] scientist and [[fluid dynamics|fluid dynamicist]]. He was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] (1962–1999), director of the [[National Aerospace Laboratories]] (1984–1993) and the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] (JNCASR, 2000–2014).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prof Roddam Narasimha, former Director of CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (from 1984 to 1993) is no more. – CSIR – NAL|url=https://www.nal.res.in/en/latestupdate?ar_id=209|access-date=15 December 2020|website=www.nal.res.in|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215173000/https://www.nal.res.in/en/latestupdate?ar_id=209|url-status=live}}</ref> He was the DST Year-of-Science Chair Professor at JNCASR and concurrently held the Pratt & Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the [[University of Hyderabad]]. Narasimha was awarded the [[Padma Vibhushan]], India's second-highest civilian award, in 2013 for his contributions to advance India's aerospace technology.<ref>{{cite web |date=29 January 2013 |title=Padma Awards |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=91838 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104034429/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=91838 |archive-date=4 November 2013 |access-date=29 January 2013 |publisher=pib}}</ref> 

== Early life ==
Narasimha was born on 20 July 1933. He was born in a Kannada family tracing its origins to [[Roddam, Anantapur district|Roddam]], a village in the [[Anantapur district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Aakaasha Raaya – Bhāvanā|url=https://bhavana.org.in/roddam-narasimha/|access-date=15 December 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215030327/http://bhavana.org.in/roddam-narasimha/|url-status=live}}</ref> His father, R.L. Narasimhaiah, was a professor of physics in Bangalore's [[Central College, Bangalore|Central College]], and was also a [[Kannada|Kannada language]] science writer with a focus on physics and astronomy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Roddam Narasimha: A keen scientific mind and scholar|url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/12/15/roddam-narasimha-a-keen-scientific-mind-and-scholar.html|access-date=15 December 2020|website=The Week|language=en|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215173025/https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/12/15/roddam-narasimha-a-keen-scientific-mind-and-scholar.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Narasimha completed his schooling at [[Acharya Pathasala Public School|Acharya Pathasala]] in the [[Gandhi Bazaar]] neighbourhood of Bangalore.<ref name=":1" /> He obtained his graduate degree in mechanical engineering from [[University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering]] in Bangalore, which was affiliated with [[Mysore University]]. During this time he visited the [[Tata Institute]] (now known as the Indian Institute of Science), where the [[Supermarine Spitfire|Spitfire aircraft]] displayed in the aeronautical department caught his interest. After his graduation in 1953, while he was encouraged by his family members to accept a job with the [[Indian Railways]] or with [[Burmah Shell]], but he went on to join the [[Indian Institute of Science]] in Bangalore for his master's degree in engineering, which he completed in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|title=Caltech Aerospace (GALCIT)|url=http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/about/history#1941|access-date=14 April 2018|publisher=Galcit.caltech.edu|archive-date=14 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114064710/http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/about/history#1941|url-status=live}}</ref> During this time he worked with [[Satish Dhawan]], who later chaired the [[Indian Space Research Organisation]]. He then went to the United States to complete his PhD in 1961 under [[Hans Liepmann]] at the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Flow Problems in Rarefied Gas Dynamics|url=http://desktop.jncasr.ac.in/uploaded/roddam/file/Narasimha_r_1961.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132410/http://desktop.jncasr.ac.in/uploaded/roddam/file/Narasimha_r_1961.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

==Career==
Narasimha started his research career at [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]], working on the problem of [[jet engine]] noise reduction. After the launch of the Russian [[Sputnik 1|''Sputnik'']] and the resulting interest in space programs, he shifted focus to [[rarefied]] gas and [[fluid dynamics]], working with [[Hans W. Liepmann]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Sandhya Ramesh|date=15 December 2020|title=Aerospace scientist Roddam Narasimha, 'an authority on fluid dynamics', dies at 87|url=https://theprint.in/science/aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-an-authority-on-fluid-dynamics-dies-at-87/567020/|access-date=16 December 2020|website=[[ThePrint]]|language=en-US|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215093439/https://theprint.in/science/aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-an-authority-on-fluid-dynamics-dies-at-87/567020/|url-status=live}}</ref> He continued this research at the [[NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]], where he went on to study aerodynamics and supersonic flows toward better understanding of the structure of shockwaves. During this time, he worked on one of the space agency's first computers.<ref name=":2" />

He returned to India in 1962, and joined the [[Indian Institute of Science]] as a professor in its aeronautical engineering department (1962–1999), where he continued his fluid dynamics research, studying [[Turbulent Flow|turbulent flow]] and relaminarisation, including the study of fluid flow from turbulent (chaotic) to [[Laminar flow|laminar]] (streamlined) forms.<ref name=":2" /> In 1970, he was a member of the investigation team under [[Satish Dhawan]] that studied the airworthiness of [[Indian Airlines]] [[Avro 748]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Above the Clouds – Bhāvanā|url=http://bhavana.org.in/roddam-narasimha-part2/|access-date=16 December 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215043815/http://bhavana.org.in/roddam-narasimha-part2/|url-status=live}}</ref>

He was the ISRO K. R. Ramanathan distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Science (1994–1999), Director of the [[National Aerospace Laboratories]] (1984–1993), Director of the [[National Institute of Advanced Studies]] (1997–2004) and the Chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] (JNCASR), [[Bangalore]] (2000–2014).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prof Roddam Narasimha, former Director of CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (from 1984 to 1993) is no more. - CSIR - NAL|url=https://www.nal.res.in/en/latestupdate?ar_id=209|access-date=15 December 2020|website=www.nal.res.in|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215173000/https://www.nal.res.in/en/latestupdate?ar_id=209|url-status=live}}</ref> He was the DST Year-of-Science Chair Professor at JNCASR and also held the Pratt & Whitney Chair in Science and Engineering at the [[University of Hyderabad]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name="JNCASR_bio">{{Cite web|title=Narasimha Roddam - Academic profile|url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=2&user_id=12&page_id=560|access-date=15 December 2020|website=www.jncasr.ac.in|archive-date=13 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513232525/http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=2&user_id=12&page_id=560|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also a visiting member of the faculty at international universities including the University of Brussels, Caltech, [[University of Cambridge]], [[Langley Research Center]], [[University of Strathclyde]] and [[University of Adelaide]].<ref name=":2" /> He served former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]'s scientific advisory council.<ref name=":2" />

During his time at the [[National Aerospace Laboratories]], Narasimha led the research initiative into [[parallel computing]] as a means to solve fluid dynamics problems.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Basu|first1=A. J.|last2=Sinha|first2=U. N.|last3=Narasimha|first3=R.|date=1992-06-01|title=Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence on the Flosolver MK3 Parallel Computer|url=https://nal-ir.nal.res.in/1696/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=nal-ir.nal.res.in|language=en|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128201823/https://nal-ir.nal.res.in/1696/|url-status=live}}</ref> His efforts lead to first parallel computer in India and development of a code for weather prediction of tropical regions. He was also a contributing member to the team that designed the [[light combat aircraft]].<ref name=":3"/>

Over the course of his six decade long academic career he has made significant contributions to fundamental and applied fluid dynamics. At the Indian Institute of Science, his research included the ‘bursting’ phenomenon in a turbulent boundary layer,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rao|first1=K. Narahari|last2=Narasimha|first2=R.|last3=Narayanan|first3=M. A. Badri|date=1971-07-28|title=The 'bursting' phenomenon in a turbulent boundary layer|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022112071001605|journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics|volume=48|issue=2|pages=339–352|doi=10.1017/s0022112071001605|bibcode=1971JFM....48..339R|s2cid=55167124 |issn=0022-1120|url-access=subscription}}</ref> non-linear vibration of an elastic string,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Narasimha|first=R.|date=July 1968|title=Non-Linear vibration of an elastic string|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-460x(68)90200-9|journal=Journal of Sound and Vibration|volume=8|issue=1|pages=134–146|doi=10.1016/0022-460x(68)90200-9|bibcode=1968JSV.....8..134N|issn=0022-460X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> equilibrium and relaxation in turbulent wakes,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Narasimha|first1=R.|last2=Prabhu|first2=A.|date=1972-07-11|title=Equilibrium and relaxation in turbulent wakes|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022112072000497|journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics|volume=54|issue=1|pages=1–17|doi=10.1017/s0022112072000497|bibcode=1972JFM....54....1N|s2cid=120606921 |issn=0022-1120|access-date=5 January 2021|archive-date=7 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207185840/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/abs/equilibrium-and-relaxation-in-turbulent-wakes/DCCF87613670103FD1FE7F3D713F2947|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> relaminarization,<ref>{{Citation|last1=Narasimha|first1=R.|title=Relaminarization of Fluid Flows|date=1979|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0065-2156(08)70311-9|work=Advances in Applied Mechanics|pages=221–309|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-002019-5|access-date=2021-01-05|last2=Sreenivasan|first2=K.R.|volume=19|doi=10.1016/s0065-2156(08)70311-9|bibcode=1979aam....19..221N|url-access=subscription}}</ref> hydrodynamic instability,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Govindarajan|first1=Rama|last2=Narasimha|first2=R.|date=1997-12-08|title=A low-order theory for stability of non-parallel boundary layer flows|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspa.1997.0135|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences|volume=453|issue=1967|pages=2537–2549|doi=10.1098/rspa.1997.0135|bibcode=1997RSPSA.453.2537G|s2cid=123579986|url-access=subscription}}</ref> wall jets<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Narayan|first1=K Yegna|last2=Narasimha|first2=R|date=August 1973|title=Parametric Analysis of Turbulent Wall Jets|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001925900006600|journal=Aeronautical Quarterly|volume=24|issue=3|pages=207–218|doi=10.1017/s0001925900006600|issn=0001-9259|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and the study of clouds<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bhat|first1=G. S.|last2=Narasimha|first2=R.|date=1996-10-25|title=A volumetrically heated jet: large-eddy structure and entrainment characteristics|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022112096008130|journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics|volume=325|pages=303–330|doi=10.1017/s0022112096008130|bibcode=1996JFM...325..303B|s2cid=121860624 |issn=0022-1120|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=BASU|first1=A. J.|last2=NARASIMHA|first2=R.|date=1999-04-25|title=Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows with cloud-like off-source heating|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099004280|journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics|volume=385|issue=1|pages=199–228|doi=10.1017/s0022112099004280|bibcode=1999JFM...385..199B|s2cid=122879395 |issn=0022-1120|url-access=subscription}}</ref> as volumetrically heated jets. At the Engineering Mechanics Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research,  Narasimha continued his research on fluid dynamics of clouds via laboratory experiments<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Narasimha|first1=R.|last2=Diwan|first2=S. S.|last3=Duvvuri|first3=S.|last4=Sreenivas|first4=K. R.|last5=Bhat|first5=G. S.|date=2011-09-14|title=Laboratory simulations show diabatic heating drives cumulus-cloud evolution and entrainment|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=108|issue=39|pages=16164–16169|doi=10.1073/pnas.1112281108|pmid=21918112|pmc=3182732|issn=0027-8424|doi-access=free}}</ref> as well as numerical simulations.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Rao|first1=Samrat|title=A DNS Study of Bulk Flow Characteristics of a Transient Diabatic Plume that Simulates Cloud Flow|date=2020|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1189-9_31|work=Recent Advances in Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics|pages=387–396|place=Singapore|publisher=Springer Singapore|isbn=978-981-15-1188-2|access-date=2021-01-05|last2=Vybhav|first2=G. R.|last3=Prasanth|first3=P.|last4=Deshpande|first4=S. M.|last5=Narasimha|first5=R.|series=Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering |doi=10.1007/978-981-15-1189-9_31|s2cid=216430546 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>  He also studied gas turbine blades,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ranjan|first1=Rajesh|last2=Deshpande|first2=S.M.|last3=Narasimha|first3=Roddam|date=August 2017|title=New insights from high-resolution compressible DNS studies on an LPT blade boundary layer|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.05.004|journal=Computers & Fluids|volume=153|pages=49–60|doi=10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.05.004|issn=0045-7930|url-access=subscription}}</ref> turbulent free shear layers<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Suryanarayanan|first1=Saikishan|last2=Narasimha|first2=Roddam|last3=Dass|first3=N. D. Hari|date=2014-01-14|title=Free turbulent shear layer in a point vortex gas as a problem in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreve.89.013009|journal=Physical Review E|volume=89|issue=1|page=013009|doi=10.1103/physreve.89.013009|pmid=24580322|bibcode=2014PhRvE..89a3009S|issn=1539-3755|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and proposed a novel wing design for turboprop aircraft.<ref>{{Cite patent|title=Optimal wing planforms for reducing the induced or total drag of the wing of an aircraft driven by wing-mounted tractor propellers/rotors|gdate=2010-07-05|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US8915467B2/en}}</ref>

He was the longest-serving member of the Indian Space Commission, a policy-making body for space exploration in India.<ref name=":2" /> He resigned from this position in February 2012, in protest at the blacklisting of three former ISRO technocrats including [[G. Madhavan Nair]], former ISRO chairman, for their perceived role in a controversial agreement between ISRO's commercial entity [[Antrix Corporation|Antrix]] and Devas Multimedia in 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=Roddam Narasimha quits Space Commission|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article2928179.ece|publisher=TheHindu.com|access-date=30 May 2012|agency=Associated Press|date=24 February 2012|archive-date=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429094306/http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article2928179.ece|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Eminent Indian space scientist quits in protest|url=http://tdnpost.com/news/eminent-indian-space-scientist-quits-in-protest-14540.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229211802/http://tdnpost.com/news/eminent-indian-space-scientist-quits-in-protest-14540.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 February 2012|publisher=TDNPost.com|access-date=30 May 2012|date=24 February 2012}}</ref>

==Honours==
[[File:The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Vibhushan Award to Prof. Roddam Narasimha, at an Investiture Ceremony-II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 20, 2013.jpg|thumb|The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Vibhushan Award to Prof. Roddam Narasimha, at an Investiture Ceremony-II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 20 April 2013]]
Narasimha was an honorary member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] of London, and also of the [[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]]. He was a distinguished alumnus of Caltech and the IISc.<ref>{{cite web|date=31 October 2009|title=Caltech Aerospace (GALCIT) &#124; Distinguished Alumni|url=http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/people/distinguished|access-date=14 April 2018|publisher=Galcit.caltech.edu|archive-date=10 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410002859/http://galcit.caltech.edu/people/distinguished|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Distinguished Alumni List|publisher=[[Indian Institute of Science]]|url=http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/dalumni_list.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315002420/http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/dalumni_list.php|archive-date=15 March 2013|access-date=11 July 2012}}</ref> He was also a foreign associate of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] and the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|date=2 May 2000|title=2000 NAS New Member Elections|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05022000|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013172400/http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=05022000|archive-date=13 October 2017|access-date=14 April 2018|publisher=.nationalacademies.org}}</ref>

Some of his honours and awards include:

* 1975{{Spaced en dash}}[[SS Bhatnagar Prize]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=INSA :: Indian Fellow Detail|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/detail/N79-0510|access-date=16 December 2020|website=www.insaindia.res.in|archive-date=27 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227094235/http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N79-0510|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":3" />
* 1987{{Spaced en dash}}[[Padma Bhushan]], India's third highest civilian award.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|author=Staff Writer|date=15 December 2020|title='Pained by his demise': PM Modi condoles death of Professor Roddam Narasimha|url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/-pained-by-his-demise-pm-modi-condoles-death-of-aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-11608014788602.html|access-date=16 December 2020|website=mint|language=en|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215170532/https://www.livemint.com/news/india/-pained-by-his-demise-pm-modi-condoles-death-of-aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-11608014788602.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1990{{Spaced en dash}}[[Gujarmal Modi]] Award<ref name=":0" />
* 1998{{Spaced en dash}}[[S. Ramanujan]] Medal, Indian Science Congress<ref name=":0" />
* 2000{{Spaced en dash}}[[Fluid dynamics]] Award, [[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]]<ref name=":0" />
* 2008{{Spaced en dash}}Trieste Science Prize, [[The World Academy of Sciences]], [[Trieste]], Italy <ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Nature - Prize Winners of the Year (2008)|url=https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081217/pdf/456860a.pdf|access-date=15 December 2020|website=Nature|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305153710/http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081217/pdf/456860a.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2009{{Spaced en dash}}Lifetime Achievement Award, Science and Technology Congress, Gulbarga University<ref>{{cite news|date=22 September 2009|title=Honour for scientist Roddam Narasimha|publisher=The Hindu.com|agency=Associated Press|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article23619.ece|access-date=30 May 2012|archive-date=5 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505063345/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article23619.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2013{{Spaced en dash}}[[Padma Vibhushan]], India's second highest civilian award<ref>{{Cite web|title=Padma Vibhushan Awardee Aerospace Scientist Roddam Narasimha Dies At 87|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-padma-vibhushan-awardee-aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-dies-at-87/367269|access-date=16 December 2020|website=Outlook India|date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=16 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216024523/https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-padma-vibhushan-awardee-aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-dies-at-87/367269|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|date=2015|title=Padma Awards|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf|archive-date=15 October 2015|access-date=21 July 2015|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India}}</ref>
*2019{{Spaced en dash}}Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] Magazine<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dance|first=Amber|date=6 February 2020|title=What the best mentors do|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00351-7|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00351-7|pmid=33542485|s2cid=214423534|access-date=16 December 2020|archive-date=16 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116084721/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00351-7|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=16 December 2020|title=Roddam Narasimha (1933-2020): 'Almost perfect guru, steeped in Indian tradition'|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/roddam-narasimha-1933-2020-almost-perfect-guru-steeped-in-indian-tradition-7106467/|access-date=16 December 2020|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=16 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216022739/https://indianexpress.com/article/india/roddam-narasimha-1933-2020-almost-perfect-guru-steeped-in-indian-tradition-7106467/|url-status=live}}</ref>

He was the author of more than 200 [[Publication|research publications]] and fifteen books.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=42&user_id=12&page_id=824 |title=Narasimha Roddam - Publications |publisher=Jncasr.ac.in |date=24 January 2012 |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-date=5 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305025531/http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=42&user_id=12&page_id=824 |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Narasimha died on 14 December 2020, from [[brain haemorrhage]] at the [[MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore|MS Ramaiah Memorial Hospital]] in Bangalore. He was 87 and was survived by his wife and daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|date=15 December 2020|title=Padma Vibhushan awardee and eminent aerospace scientist Roddam Narasimha dies|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/padma-vibhushan-awardee-and-eminent-aerospace-scientist-roddam-narasimha-dies/story-OjKQNQfgRGBgGU7mBzjMwM.html|access-date=15 December 2020|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215173004/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/over-rs-100-lakh-cr-worth-infrastructure-projects-underway-by-2024-25-gadkari/story-Q1kb0cEQHy2oUE83Vbz5VO.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Books ==
* {{Cite book|last=Narasimha|first=Roddam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbwKyAEACAAJ|title=Orifice Flow at High Knudsen Numbers|date=1961|publisher=Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory|language=en}}
* {{Cite book|last=Narasimha|first=Roddam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2_6xwEACAAJ|title=Collisionless Expansion of Gases Into Vacuum|date=1962|publisher=Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory|language=en}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Narasimha|first1=Roddam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlyNAQAACAAJ|title=Effect of Longitudinal Surface Curvature on Boundary Layers|last2=Ojha|first2=S. K.|date=1967|language=en}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Narasimha|first1=Roddam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpFxcweodqQC|title=The Dynamics of Technology: Creation and Diffusion of Skills and Knowledge|last2=Srinivasan|first2=J.|last3=Biswas|first3=S. K.|date=2003|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-7619-9670-5|language=en}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Kalam|first1=APJ Abdul|last2=Narasimha|first2=Roddam|last3=Dhawan|first3=Satish|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWPlGwAACAAJ|title=Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Space Technology: Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics|date=1988|language=en}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam Homepage at JNCASR]
*[http://www.jncasr.ac.in/roddam/index.php?menu_id=2&user_id=12&page_id=560 Academic profile at JNCASR]
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