Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Sutanu Sarkar

Sutanu Sarkar received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Cornell University in 1988. He spent the following years until 1992 as a staff scientist in the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) at NASA Langley Rsearch Center. He has been with the MAE Faculty since 1993. His honors include a NASA group achievement award (1994), Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize (2001) from the Humboldt Foundation, Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006), Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2010) and Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engeers (2010). e-mail: sarkar@ucsd.edu webpage: http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/sarkar/

Postdoc

Hieu Pham

Hieu received B.S. in Bioengineering in 2003, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2010 all at UCSD. His current work involves the dynamics of internal waves and stratified turbulence in the Equatorial Undercurrents. His research interest includes environmental fluid mechanics and computational methods. e-mail: h8pham@ucsd.edu webpage: http://iod.ucsd.edu/~hpham/

PhD students

Matt de Stadler

Matt de Stadler got his B.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia in 2007. While at UVA, Matt wrote his senior thesis on research he performed with Professor Hossein Haj-Hariri on optimization of the geometry of a heat sink. While working towards his bachelor's degree, he interned for two summers at the Naval Research Laboratory in the astrodynamics and navigation section. In between leaving UVA and coming to UCSD, Matt interned at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he developed a numerical simulation for fluid flow in a gas centrifuge. Matt's research interests include simulation of turbulent flow, computational fluid dynamics, high performance scientific computing, and environmental fluid dynamics. e-mail: mdestadl@ucsd.edu webpage: http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mdestadl/

Eric Arobone

Eric Arobone got a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in General Mathematics from Penn State University in 2008. Over the summer of 2007, Eric interned at the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel cultivating his interest in computational fluid dynamics. Eric's interests include multiscale numerical methods, spectral and higher order methods, geophysical fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, computational scientific databases, data compression, high performance scientific computing, and environmental fluid dynamics. e-mail: earobone@ucsd.edu webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/ericarobone/home

Narsimha Reddy Rapaka

Narsimha's research interests include internal waves in the ocean, geophysical fluid dynamics, immersed boundary method, and turbulent flows. Prior to joining UCSD in Jan 2009, he worked at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur from June 2007 on implementation of eddy viscosity turbulence models in a general purpose CFD solver using finite volume method. He received his M.Tech degree with specialization in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences from I.I.T. Kanpur in 2006 and B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2004. He worked on automobile engine research at TATA Motors Ltd, Pune, India from Aug 2006 to May 2007. e-mail: nrapaka@ucsd.edu webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/narsimhaiitk/

Vamsi Chalamalla

Vamsi Chalamalla got his B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2008. Before coming to UCSD, he worked at Dassault Systemes (Bangalore) for two years. He joined UCSD in fall 2010, currently his research is on understanding internal wave reflection on near critical slopes. e-mail: vchalama@ucsd.edu webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/vamsichalama/

Anikesh Pal

Anikesh Pal got his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2010. During his stay at IIT Kanpur he worked on the "Enhancement of heat transfer using delta winglets type vortex generators in common flow up configuration in fin-tube heat exchangers." He joined UCSD in the summer of 2011 and his current area of research is spatially evolving stratified grid turbulence. e-mail: anpal@ucsd.edu webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/anikeshpal/

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