Sutanu Sarkar
Professor Sutanu Sarkar received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Cornell University in 1988. After 4 years as a staff scientist at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, he joined UCSD where he is currently the Blasker Professor of Engineering.
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 Engineers (2010).
He has been with the MAE UCSD Faculty since 1993 and served as the Chair of the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from July 2009 to June 2014.
sarkar@ucsd.edu
Current Members
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Hieu Pham, Associate Project Scientist
Dr. Pham received B.S. in Bioengineering in 2003, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 and Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2010 at UCSD. His research centers on understanding and modeling dynamical processes in environmental systems with a focus in geophysical fluid dynamics. He is interested in identifying physical mechanisms and quantifying the associated energy pathways leading to turbulence and mixing in highly nonlinear systems where stratification and rotation influence the rate of mixing. His focus in recent years ranges from fundamental fluid mechanics such as shear instabilities and baroclinic instabilities to applied environmental flows such as turbulent mixing and heat transport in ocean surface mixed layer and at ocean fronts.
h8pham@ucsd.edu2006 present
Divyanshu Gola, Ph.D. Candidate
Divyanshu received his Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2019. He joined CFD Lab in Fall 2019. His current research involves studying internal wave patterns in stratified environments. He is also interested in DNS/LES of stratified turbulent flows along with numerical methods applied in incompressible and compressible fluid dynamics.
dgola@ucsd.edu2019 present
Jinyuan J. Liu, Ph.D. Student
Jinyuan Liu received his Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Themophysics from Tsinghua Univerisity, China, in 2020. After working as a post-baccalaureate researcher at the same institute for six months, he joined CFD Lab in Jan. 2021. His current research focus is turbulence and vortex dynamics in stratified environments. He has also been working on turbulent boundary layers at the University of Waterloo and turbulent channels at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
jinyuanliu@ucsd.edu2021 present
Adam Hall, Ph.D. Student
Adam received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in 2021. After working in the green energy sector for a year, he joined CFD Lab in Fall 2022. His research interests include stratified turbulent wakes, DNS/LES of stratified flows, and modeling dynamic processes in environmental systems.
ajhall@ucsd.edu2022 present
Sanidhya Jain, Ph.D. Student
Sanidhya received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Master's Degree in Thermal Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2021. He joined CFD Lab in Fall 2022. His research interests include microfluidics, stratified turbulent wakes and computational fluid mechanics.
saj004@ucsd.edu2022 present
H. M. Aravind, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Aravind received his Bachelor's and Master's in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2017, where he continued to work on secondary instabilities in stratified shear flows as a Project Scientist for another year. He then moved to Boston in 2018, and received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University for his work on Lagrangian analyses of geophysical flows. He joined the CFD lab in Fall 2023, where his focus is on numerical modelling of geophysical wakes to support recent observational efforts in the western Pacific Ocean.
Aravind@ucsd.edu2023 presentFormer members
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Vamsi Chalamalla, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010 2015
Narsimha Reddy Rapaka, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2009 2015
Eric Arobone, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Stanford University
2008 2014
Matt de Stadler, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2007 2013
Bishakhdatta Gayen, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at Australia National University
2007 2012
Kyle Brucker, Ph.D
Senior Computational Fluid Dynamics Engineer at Science Applications International Corporation
2003 2009
Research Scholar Alumni
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Dr. Holger Foysi RWTH Aachen University Dr. Federico Roman University of Trieste Dr. Shao Liang LMFA, Lyon Dr. Catherine Le Ribault LMFA, Lyon
