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Awards and Honors
- Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, 1991-96
- Frankiel Award from the American Physical Society, 1986
- Gallery of Fluid Motion Award, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, 1998
- Best Paper Presentation award from Society of Automotive Engineering/AIAA for presentation at World Aviation Congress at Anaheim, October 1998
- R. T. Knapp Award from American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fluids Engineering Division, July 1999
- Ohio Aerospace Institute Distinguished Lecture, 1998
- Mid-west Mechanics Seminar Speaker (2000-2001)
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001
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Research Interests
Flow instabilities, transition, turbulence, shock-turbulence interaction, aero-acoustics, jet-noise, vortex-wakes, and numerical methods.
Prof. Lele has a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics since 1994.
Recent Publications
Books
- H. Alfredsson, A. Johansson, D. Henningson and A. Hanifi, editors of Transition, Turbulence and Combustion Modeling, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1999. Within this collection, authored the following chapter:
· S. K. Lele, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Compressible Turbulent Flows: Fundamentals and Applications,” pp. 421-488.
- S. K. Lele, in 2001 Yearbook of Science and Technology, Mc Graw Hill. “Computational Aeroacoustics,” pp. 107-111.
- G. Raman, D. Mclaughlin, P. Morris, editors of High Speed Jet Flows, Taylor & Francis, 2002, co-authored the following chapter:
Freund, J. B. and S. K. Lele, “Computer Simulation and Prediction of Jet Noise,"
Journal Articles
- S. Nagarajan, S.K. Lele, and J.H. Ferziger, “A robust high-order compact method for large eddy simulation,” submitted to Journal of Computational Physics, 2002.
- G. Constantinescu and S.K. Lele, “A highly accurate technique for the treatment of flow equations at the polar axis in cylindrical coordinates using series expansions,” Journal of Computational Physics, 183(1), 165-186 (2002).
- T. Suzuki and S.K. Lele, “Green’s functions in a boundary layer: direct waves, channeled waves, & diffracted waves,” in press, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002.
- T. Suzuki and S.K. Lele, “Green’s functions in a mixing layer: direct waves, refracted arrival waves, & instability waves,” in press, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002.
- T. Suzuki and S.K. Lele, “Refracted arrival waves in a zone of silence from a finite thickness mixing layer,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 111(2), pp. 716-728, 2002.
- P. Orlandi, G.F. Carnevale, S.K. Lele, and K. Shariff, “Thermal perturbation of trailing vortices,” European Journal of Mechanics B-Fluids, Vol. 20(4), pp. 511-524, 2001.
Projects
- AFOSR "LES for Heat-transfer Prediction under free-stream turbulence"
- AFOSR "Simulation of Supersonic Jet Screech"
- NASA "LES of High Speed Jets"
- NASA "Acoustic Scattering from a Turbulent Shear Layer"
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