SUTANU SARKAR

Professor of Fluid Mechanics

Point of Contact Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 E-Mail: ssarkar@UCSD.Edu Office: 578 EBUII Phone: (858) 534-8243 FAX: (858) 534-7599

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, August 1988
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Master of Science, August 1984
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Bachelor of Technology, October 1982
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

Research Areas

• Compressible turbulence with and without reaction.
• Stably stratified oceanic flows.
• Direct numerical simulation, large eddy simulation and Reynolds stress modeling of turbulent shear flows.
• Sound generated by turbulence.
• Numerical methods for unsteady, multidimensional flows: spectral methods; high-order, monotone finite difference methods; multigrid techniques; stable and accurate boundary conditions.

Recent Journal Publications

1. V. Armenio and S. Sarkar, "An Investigation of Stably-Stratified Channel Flow using Large Eddy Simulation," J. Fluid Mech., in press (2002).



2. C. Pantano and S. Sarkar, "A Study of Compressibility Effects in the High-Speed, Turbulent Shear Layer Using Direct Simulation," J. Fluid Mech., 451 329-371 (2002).



3. S. A. Stanley, S. Sarkar and J. P. Mellado, "A Study of the Flowfield Evolution and Mixing in a Planar Turbulent Jet Using Direct Numerical Simulation," J. Fluid Mech., 450 377-407 (2002).



4. S. Sarkar, "The Effect of Stable Stratification on Turbulence Anisotropy in Stably-Stratified Flow," Computers and Mathematics with Applications special review issue: Turbulence Modeling and Simulation, to appear (2002).



5. C. Pantano and S. Sarkar, "A Subgrid Function for Nonlinear Functions of a Scalar," Phys. Fluids 13 3803-3819 (2001).



6. C. Le Ribault, S. Sarkar and S. A. Stanley, "A study using large eddy simulation of the evolution of a passive scalar in a plane jet," AIAA J., 39 1509-1516 (2001).



7. S. A. Stanley and S. Sarkar, "Influence of Nozzle Conditions and Discrete Forcing on the Developing Region of Turbulent Planar Jets," AIAA J., 38 1615-1623 (2000).



8. F. G. Jacobitz and S. Sarkar, "Turbulent Mixing in a Vertically Stably Stratified Fluid with Uniform Horizontal Shear," Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 63 343-360 (2000).



9. J. Whitmire and S. Sarkar, "Validation of Acoustic Analogy Predictions of Sound Radiated by a Multipole-Type Source of Isotropic Turbulence," Phys. Fluids 12 381-391 (2000).



10. C. Le Ribault, S. Sarkar and S. Stanley, "Large eddy simulation of a plane jet," Phys. Fluids 11 3069-3083 (1999).



11. F. G. Jacobitz and S. Sarkar, "On the Shear Number Effect in Stratified Shear Flow," Theoret. Comput. Fluid Dyn., 13 171-188 (1999).



12. L. Shao, S. Sarkar and C. Pantano, "On the Relationship between the Mean Flow and Subgrid Stresses in LES of Turbulent Shear Flows," Phys. Fluids 11 No.5,1229-1248 (1999).