Kidambi Sreenivas, Associate Research Professor

Date of Appointment

26 September 2002

Education

Ph.D., General Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1996

M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1993

B. Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1991

Employment

Associate Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2002 to Present

Associate Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 2002 to 2002

Assistant Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 1999 to 2002

Visiting Researcher, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Mississippi State University, 1998 to 1999

Post Doctoral Fellow, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Mississippi State University, 1997 to 1998

Graduate Research Assistant, Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Mississippi State University, 1993 to 1996

Graduate Research Assistant, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, 1991 to 1993

Undergraduate Student Worker, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1990 to 1991

University Service

Major Professor for 2 Masters Degree students

Committee Member for 3 Masters Degree students and 1 Doctoral candidate

Mentor for 4 undergraduate students and 1 graduate student

Academic Specialties

Unstructured Grid Technology

Unsteady Viscous Flow Applications

Scientific Computing

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Member

Honors

Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society)

Recent Publications

  1. S. Nichols, D. Hyams, K. Sreenivas, B. Mitchell, L. Taylor, D. Whitfield, "An Unstructured Incompressible Multi-Phase Solution Algorithm", AIAA-2006-1290, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006.
  2. K. Sreenivas, R. Pankajakshan, S. Nichols B. Mitchell, L. Taylor, D. Whitfield, "Aerodynamic Simulation of Heavy Trucks with Rotating Wheels", AIAA-2006-1394, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006.
  3. McCallen, R., Salari, K., Ortega, J., Castellucci, P., Paschkewitz, J., Eastwood, C., Dechant, L., Hassan, B., Pointer, W. D., Browand, F., Leonard A., Rubel, M., Ross, J., Heineck, J.T., Walker, S., Storms, B., Roy, C., Whitfield, D.L., Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L., Sreenivas, K., Englar, R., "DOE’s Effort to Reduce Truck Aerodynamic Drag through Joint Experiments and Computations Leading to Intelligent Design," SAE International, 2005.
  4. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., Nichols, D. S., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R., and Whitfield, D. L., "Development of an Unstructured Parallel Flow Solver for Arbitrary Mach Numbers," AIAA Paper No. 2005-0325, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2005.
  5. Sreenivas, K., Cash, A.N., Hyams, D.G., and Taylor, L.K., “Computational Study of Propulsor-Hull Interactions,” AIAA Paper No. 2003-1262, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2003.
  6. Blades, E., Sreenivas, K., and Hyams, D.G., “Arbitrary Overlapping Interfaces for Unsteady Unstructured Parallel Flow Simulations,” AIAA Paper No. 2003-0276, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2003.
  7. Burg, C.O.E., Sreenivas, K., and Hyams, D.G., “Unstructured Nonlinear Free Surface Simulations for the Fully-Appended DTMB Model 5415 Series Hull Including Rotating Propulsors,” 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukaoka, Japan, July 2002.
  8. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D.G., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L.K., Marcum, D.L., and Whitfield, D.L., “Computation of Vortex-Intensive Incompressible Flow Fields,”, AIAA Paper 2002-3306, 32nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, St. Louis, MO, June 2002.
  9. Burg, C.O.E., Sreenivas, K., and Hyams, D.G., “Unstructured Nonlinear Free Surface Flow Solutions:  Validation and Verification”, AIAA Paper 2002-2977, 32nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, St. Louis, MO, June 2002.
  10. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., Burg, C.O.E., Mitchell, B.J., Sheng, C., Jayaraman, B., Pankajakshan, R., Brewer, W.H., Nichols, D.S., Taylor, L.K., Remotigue, M.G., Wang, X., Jiang, M.Y., Gaither, K.P., Gaither, A., Beeland, H.L., Newman III, J.C., Marcum, D.L., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “Computational Engineering Research Supporting the Analysis and Design of Marine and Aerospace Vehicles,” MSSU-COE-ERC-02-09, Mississippi State University, May 2002.
  11. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D. G., Sheng, C., Jayaraman, B., Wang, X., Mitchell, B., Jiang, M.Y., Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Gaither, K. P., Gaither, A., Beeland, H., Marcum, D. L., Briley, W. R., and Whitfield, D. L., “Physics-Based Maneuvering Simulations for Tiltrotor Aircraft,” MSSU-COE-ERC-02-06, Mississippi State University, April 2002.
  12. Donatello, D., Sreenivas, K., and Taylor, L.K., “Computations of Unsteady Forces and Moments for SUBOFF Undergoing Prescribed Maneuvers Using U2NCLE,” MSSU-COE-ERC-01-12, Mississippi State University. October 2001.
  13. Lorenzo, L., Sreenivas, K., Mitchell, B., and Taylor, L.K., “Computation of Forces and Moments for the Airship AKRON and SUBOFF Using U2NCLE,” MSSU-COE-ERC-01-11, Mississippi State University, October 2001.
  14.  Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., Taylor, L.K., and Whitfield, D.L., “Incompressible Unstructured RANS Simulations for a Low Speed Centrifugal  Compressor using U2NCLE,” MSSU-COE-ERC-01-10, Mississippi State University, October 2001.
  15.   Marcum, D.L., Mitchell, B., Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D.G., “Unstructured Grid Generation for Large-Scale CFD Applications,” ECCOMASS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference 2001, University of Wales, Swensea, Wales, UK, September 2001.
  16.  Marcum, D.L., Mitchell, B., Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D.G., “Unstructured Grid Generation for Large-Scale CFD Applications,” 1st MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Massachusets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 2001.
  17. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D.G., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “Physics Based Simulations of Reynolds Number Effects in Vortex Intensive Incompressible Flows,” Symposium of Advanced Flow Management, Applied Vehicle Technology Panel Meeting, Norway, May 2001.
  18. Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Nichols, S., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “An Unstructured Multielement Solution Algorithm for Complex Geometry Hydrodynamic Simulations,” 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Falde Reuil, France, September 2000.
  19. Gaither, K., Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., and McDonald, H., “Large-Scale Visualization and Animation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations,” Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Edinburgh, August 2000, pp 96-1:96-9.
  20.  Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Briley, W.R., Marcum, D.L., and Whitfield, D.L., “An Investigation of Parallel Implicit Solution Algorithms for Incompressible Flows on Multielement Unstructured Topologies,” Proc., 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, AIAA Paper No. 2000-0271,  Reno, NV, January 2000.
  21. Sheng, C., Hyams, D., Sreenivas, K., Gaither, J.A., Marcum, D. L., Whitfield, D.L. and Anderson, W.K., “Three-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Flow Computations About Complete Configurations Using a Multi-Block Unstructured Grid Approach,” AIAA-99-0778, 37th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 1999.