{"id":2054,"date":"2026-06-03T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/UPDATE\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:13:55","slug":"dr-chinthaka-jacob-joins-uop-mechanical-engineering-to-drive-innovation-in-fluid-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/2026\/06\/03\/dr-chinthaka-jacob-joins-uop-mechanical-engineering-to-drive-innovation-in-fluid-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chinthaka Jacob Joins UoP Mechanical Engineering to Drive Innovation in Fluid Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/UPDATE\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-06-03-at-11.15.19-AM.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Peradeniya\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering is delighted to welcome Dr. Chinthaka Jacob to our academic community. A proven researcher with extensive global experience, Dr. Jacob specializes in the highly advanced fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Respiratory Flows, and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. His appointment represents a major step forward in strengthening the department&#8217;s research excellence and innovative capacity. We look forward to the incredible knowledge and international perspective he will share with our &#8220;Pera Mech&#8221; undergraduates and postgraduate researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Peradeniya\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering is delighted to welcome Dr. Chinthaka Jacob to our academic community. A proven researcher with extensive global experience, Dr. Jacob specializes in the highly advanced fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Respiratory Flows, and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. His appointment represents a major step forward in strengthening the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/2026\/06\/03\/dr-chinthaka-jacob-joins-uop-mechanical-engineering-to-drive-innovation-in-fluid-dynamics\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Chinthaka Jacob Joins UoP Mechanical Engineering to Drive Innovation in Fluid Dynamics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"center","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"[\"content\",\"tags\",\"comments\"]","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.pdn.ac.lk\/ME\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}