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Sanjiva K. Lele Center for Turbulence Research Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Durand Building, Room 253 Mail Code 4035 Stanford, CA 94305 Phone:   650-723-7721 Fax: 650-725-3525 Email: lele@stanford.edu

Background

Professor Lele's research combines numerical simulations with analytical modeling to study fundamental unsteady flow phenomena, turbulence, flow instabilities, and flow-generated sound. Recent projects include simulation and modeling of high-speed jets and shock-cell noise, exploitation of flow instabilities for enhanced mixing and for reducing the vortex-wake hazard from an airplane, new approaches for active/passive noise control, and the development of high-fidelity prediction methods for engineering applications including transition and flow-generated noise. Professor 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.

Education

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1985
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1980

Academic Honors and Awards

• 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

Selected Journal Publications

• Interaction of a Taylor blast wave with isotropic turbulence. Bhagatwala, A. and Lele, S.K.. Physics of Fluids, 23:035103, 2011. (BIB)
• Sound generation due to unsteady motion of a cylinder. A. Sharma and S.K. Lele. Physics of Fluids, 23:046102, 2011. (BIB)
• Shock-turbulence interaction: What we know and what we can learn from peta-scale simulations. S.K. Lele and J. Larsson, 2009. (BIB)
• Direct numerical simulation of canonical shock/turbulence interaction. J. Larsson and S.K. Lele. Physics of fluids, 21:126101, 2009. (BIB)
• Compact Finite Difference Schemes with Spectral-like Resolution. S.K. Lele. Journal of Computational Physics, 103, 1992. (BIB)

Current Ph.D. Students

Ph.D. Graduates