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Tapan K. Sengupta
PhD (Georgia Tech)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest
All speed regimes and with heat transfer in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics including Theoretical, Experimental and Computational all aspects. Scientific Computing from first principle, high accuracy computing related to DNS/ LES.
Education
PhD (Aerospace Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA (1984),(4.0/ 4.0)
M.E. from (Aerospace Engineering),Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1981), Distinction.
B.Tech (Aeronautical Engineering), IIT Kharagpur (1979), 1st class
Selected Publications
Vortex - induced instability of incompressible wall - bounded shear layer - Sengupta T.K., De, S., and Sarkar, S.; J. Fluid Mech. vol. 493, pp 277-286 (2003)
Spatiotemporal growing wave-fronts in spatially stable boundary layers - Sengupta, T.K., KameswaraRao, A. &Venkatasubbaiah K.; Physical Review Letters vol. 96, pp 224504-1 to 4 (2006)
Error dynamics: Beyond von Neumann analysis, T.K. Sengupta, A. Dipankar, P. Sagaut, J. Comp. Physics vol. 226, pp 1211-1218 (2007)
Onset of turbulence from the receptivity stage of fluid flows, T. K. Sengupta and S. Bhaumik Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, 154501 (2011)
Direct Numerical Simulation of Transitional Mixed Convection Flows: Viscous and Inviscid Instability Mechanisms, Tapan K. Sengupta, SwagataBhaumik and Rikhi Bose. Physics of Fluids, Vol. 25, 094102 (2013)
Awards & Fellowships
Senior Visiting Fellow in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore. During 1999-2001 & 2003
Senior Associate (2005 –2011) of International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Regional Editor, Computers & Fluids, Elsevier, USA, Associate Editor – International J. Emerging Multidisciplinary Fluid Sciences, Multi-Science, U.K.
Visiting professor, Technical Univ., Munich, Germany (2001), EcolePolytechnique, Montreal, Canada (2012), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2013)
Organizing Chairman of IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Numerical Methods, Modeling and Control of Transitional and Turbulent Flows. To be held during 15-18 December (2014); Co-chair of International Conf. on Meta-Computing, Bhubaneswar (2012).