त्वरित संपर्क
संजय कुमार
PhD (GALCIT, Cal Tech)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
शोध करना दिलचस्पी
Flow control and bluff body wakes, Granular Flows (Shock waves), Multiphase Flows, Shock – accelerated flows, Fluid instabilities and turbulence
Office
A01 (Low Speed Aerodynamics Laboratory)
IIT Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
विशेषज्ञता
Aerodynamics
शिक्षा
PhD (Aerospace Engineering), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA (2003)
M.Tech (Aerospace Engineering), IIT Kanpur (1996)
B.Tech (Aerospace Engineering), IIT Kanpur (1994)
शिक्षण क्षेत्र
Fluid Mechanics
Incompressible & compressible flows, Boundary layer theory, Hydrodynamic instability, Turbulence, Sources of vorticity, Hypersonic aerodynamics, Aerodynamics, Viscous fluid flows, Unsteady gas dynamics.
Dynamics
चयनित प्रकाशन
Akhil Mathews, Aqib Khan, Bhanuday Sharma, Sanjay Kumar and Rakesh Kumar,“A numerical investigation of granular shock waves over a circular cylinder using discrete element method” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 936 A11 , (2022)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.62
Aqib Khan, Priyanka Hankare, Shivam Verma, Yash Jaiswal, Rakesh Kumar and Sanjay Kumar, “Detachment of strong shocks in confined granular flows” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 935 A13 , (2022)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.5
Puja Sunil, Sanjay Kumar and Kamal Poddar, “Flow past a rotationally oscillating cylinder with an attached flexible filament” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 930 A3 , (2022)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.894
Shreya Sharma, Praneeta B. Sachan, Navneet Kumar, Rahul Ranjan, Sanjay Kumar and Kamal Poddar, “Vortex breakdown control using near axis swirl” Physics of Fluids, vol. 33, 093606 (2021) (Editor’s Pick) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0061025
Aqib Khan, Shivam Verma, Priyanka Hankare, Rakesh Kumar and Sanjay Kumar, “Shock-Shock Interactions in Granular Flows” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 884, R4 (2020). (selected as Focus on Fluids article) https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.988
Dipan Deb, Pawan Shetty, Kamal Poddar and Sanjay Kumar, “Flow induced oscillation of two rigid rectangular plates in a side-by-side configuration” Journal of Fluids and Structures, vol. 99, 103133 (2020).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2020.103133
Akhilesh S. Tiwari and Sanjay Kumar “Effect of acoustic perturbation in the transition of vortex street in a flowing soap film” Physics of Fluids, vol. 35, 023612 (2023) (Featured article) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0137038
Navya Geethika Chikkam and Sanjay Kumar, “Flow past a rotating hydrophobic/non-hydrophobic circular cylinder in a flowing soap film” Physical Review Fluids 4, 114802 (2019).https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.114802
पुरस्कार एवं फैलोशिप
AIAA Flow Visualization Showcase Award (2020) – Quantitatively descriptive flow visualization (3443716) with Puja Sunil & Kamal Poddar
Paper on “Shock-Shock Interactions in Granular Flows” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 884, R4 (2020) selected as Focus on Fluids article by the journal.
Micro-Vec Best Image Award, Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference-2018, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai.
Olegario Vasquez Rana Faculty Fellow 2014-16, The University of Texas at Brownsville – USA.
5Exceptional Merit Award 2010, The University of Texas at Brownsville – USA.
Olegario Vasquez Rana Faculty Fellow 2008-10, The University of Texas at Brownsville – USA.
Charles D. Babcock award, 2002 (Cal Tech.).
कीवर्ड
Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Bluff body flows, Shock waves, Granular shocks, Shock accelerated flows
पेशेवर अनुभव
2019 – Present, Professor (IIT Kanpur)
2015 – 2019, Associate Professor (IIT Kanpur)
2011-2015, Associate Professor (Tenured) at UT-Brownsville (now UT-RGV, USA).
2006-2011, Assistant Professor at UT-Brownsville (now UT-RGV, USA).
2003 – 2006, Post-doctoral fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (USA).