Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Degrees:

Ph.D (2003) from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CA), USA
M.Tech. (1996) from Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur, INDIA
B.Tech (1994) from Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur, INDIA

CV/Vitae:

Kumar.pdf

Classes Taught:

ENGR 2301 STATICS
ENGR 2302 DYNAMICS
ENGR 4406 FLUID MECHANICS
ENGR 3303 THERMODYNAMICS
ENGR 4242 Senior Design – I
ENGR 4243 Senior Design - II

Teaching Interest:

Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics, Hypersonic Flows, Turbulence, Statics and Dynamics.

Research Interest:

Experimental Fluid Mechanics: Gas Dynamics, Shock-accelerated flows, high enthalpy flows, flow instabilities, turbulence, shock waves, shock tubes, low speed flows.

Previous positions and where:

Post Doctoral Fellow (April 2003-September 2005), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA).
Research Assistant (June 2002-March2003), Cal Tech. (USA)
Teaching Assistant (September 1999-May 2002), Cal Tech.(USA)
Research Assistant (September 1998-August 1999), Cal Tech.(USA)
Project Engineer (September 1997-August 1998) at IIT-Kanpur (India).
Scientist (level B) (July 1996-August 1997) at Defence Research and Development Laboratory, DRDO (India).

Professional Associations:

American Physical Society (APS), Sigma Xi