Education

Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, 2011

B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2001


Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2018-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2014-18

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2011-13

Engineering Professional, Tata Consultancy Services, Kolkata, India, 2001-06


Recognition

Recipient of Prof. S. P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching of IIT Bombay in 2025

Recipient of Shri Hotchand M. Lala and Shrimati Jamuna H. Lala Excellence in Teaching Award of Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay in 2022

Recipient of Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay in 2020

Roy A. Koenigsknecht Distinguished University Fellowship, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, October 2006 to September 2007 and January 2010 to December 2010

Recipient of 7 merit medals awarded by the Mechanical Engineering department of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2001


Selected publications

  • A. Sinha, R. Kumar and J. Umakant, Reduced-order model for efficient generation of a subsonic missile's aerodynamic database, The Aeronautical Journal, 126:1546-1567, 2022 (download)
  • N. Sohoni and A. Sinha, Shooting method for linear inviscid bi-global stability analysis of non-axisymmetric jets, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, 20(3-4):361-389, 2021 (download)
  • A. Sinha, K. Gudmundsson, H. Xia and T. Colonius, Parabolized stability analysis of jets from serrated nozzles, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 789:36-63, 2016 (download)
  • A. Sinha, D. Rodríguez, G. A. Brès and T. Colonius, Wavepackets models in supersonic jet noise, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 742:71-95, 2014 (download)
  • A. Sinha, A. Serrani and M. Samimy, Reduced-order modeling of high-speed jets controlled by arc filament plasma actuators, Experiments in Fluids, 54:1428, 2013 (download)
  • A. Sinha, H. Alkandry, M. Kearney-Fischer, M. Samimy and T. Colonius, The impulse response of a high-speed jet forced with localized arc filament plasma actuators, Physics of Fluids, 24:125104, 2012 (download)