Personal Information
Full Name: Prof. Krishnendu Sinha
Phone: 25767135
Email: krish[at]aero.iitb.ac.in
Website: http://www.hypersonic-cfd.com/

Specialization: Propulsion

Background

    Ph.D.  University of Minnesota, 2001.

    M.S. University of Minnesota, 1998.

    B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1995.

     

    Experience

    2015–Present    Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    2011–15 Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    2006–11 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    2005–06 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    2001–05 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota

Awards & Fellowships

    • Institute Silver Medal of IIT Kanpur for standing first in B.Tech. Aerospace Engineering, 1995.
    • Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998-2008.
    • Member, Americal Physical Society, 2000-2004.
    • Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009-present.
    • Organized an international workshop on "Advanced Instability Methods for Fluid Dynamics and Combustion" at IIT Bombay, 20-22 Jan 2012.
    • Organized an Industry-Academia workshop on "Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction" at IIT Bombay, 15 May 2012.
    • Elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, May 2013.
    • Joshi Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, Oct. 2013.
    • Lala Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2015.
R&D
Publications: 

Sinha, K., "Evolution of enstrophy in shock/homogeneous turbulence interaction", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 707, pp. 74-110. 2012.

Sinha, K. and S. J. Balasridhar, "Conservative Formulation of the kϵ Turbulence Model for Shock–Turbulence Interaction" AIAA Journal, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp.1872-1882, 2013.

Reddy, D.S.K., Saikia, B., and Sinha, K., "Effect of high-enthalpy air chemistry on stagnation point heat flux", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 356-359, 2014.

Vemula, J. B. and Sinha, K., "Reynolds Stress Models Applied to Shock-Turbulence Interaction" Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena TSFP-9, Melbourne, Australia, June 30-July 3, 2015.

Quadros, R., Sinha, K. and Larsson, J. "Turbulent energy flux generated by shock/homogeneousturbulence interaction", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 976, pp. 113-157, 2016.

Saikia, B., Ramachandran, A., Sinha, K., and Govindarajan, R., "Effects of viscosity and conductivity stratification on the linear stability and transient growth within compressible Couette flow," Physics of Fluids, accepted Jan 2017.

R&D Areas/Projects: 
Teaching
Courses Taught: 

            AE152 : Introduction to Aerospace Engineering (2012-14)

            AE223 : Thermodynamics and Propulsion (2014-16)

            AE309 : Aircraft Propulsion (2008)

            AE327 : Heat transfer (2007)

            AE329 : Propulsion (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013)

            AE622 : Computing of High-speed Flows (2007-2011, 2015-17)