Sanjiva K. Lele

Associate Professor

 

Phone: 650-723-7721 | Fax: 650-725-3377 | Email: lele@stanford.edu

Degrees

B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - Mechanical Engineering (1980)

Ph.D. Cornell University - Mechanical Engineering (1985)

Research Interests

Flow instabilities, transition, turbulence, shock-turbulence interaction, aero-acoustics, jet-noise, vortex-wakes, numerical methods.

He has a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation and received the F. N. Frankiel Award from the American Physical Society.

Awards/Honors

F.N. Frankiel Award from the American Physical Society Presidential Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation 91-96.

Recent Publications

T. Manning and S.K. Lele. "Numerical Simulations of Shock-Vortex Interactions in Supersonic Jet Screech", AIAA-Paper 98-0282, Reno (1998).

S.C. Rennich and S.K. Lele. "A Method for Accelerating the Destruction of Aircraft Wake Vortices", AIAA-Paper 98-0667, Reno (1998).

S. K. Lele. "Compressibility Effects on Turbulence," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 26, pp. 211-254 (1994).

S. K. Lele and P. Moin. "Direct Simulation of Shock-Turbulence Interaction," J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 251, pp. 533-562 (1993).

S. K. Lele. "Compact Finite-Difference Schemes With Spectral-Like Resolution," J. Computational Physics, Vol. 103, pp. 16-42 (1992).

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"

Students

Professor Lele's students past and present.

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