Ramesh Pankajakshan, Associate Research Professor

Date of Appointment

14 September 2002

Education

PhD, Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1997

MS, Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1993

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

Employment

Associate Research Professor, University of Tennessee, SimCenter at Chattanooga, Sep. 2002 - Present

Associate Research Professor, SimCenter, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Jul.2002 - Sep. 2002

Assistant Research Professor, SimCenter, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Jun.2001-Jun. 2002

Research Engineer I, CFD Lab, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Jan.1999-Jun. 2001

Research Engineer I(Part Time), CFD Lab, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Jul.1998-Jan. 1999

Research Engineer I, CFD Lab, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Jun.1998-Jul. 1998

Post-Doctoral Fellow, CFD Lab, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Sep.1997-Jun. 1998

Graduate Research Assistant, CFD Lab, MSU/NSF Engineering Research Center, Aug. 1991 – Aug. 1997

Undergraduate student worker, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, Aug. 1990 - Apr. 1991

University Service

Major Professor for 2 Masters Degree students

Academic Specialties

Unsteady Viscous Flow Applications

Parallel Algorithms

Scientific Computing

Computational Design

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Recent Publications and Presentations

Publications

     1.   Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “A Parallel Multiblock Multigrid Solver for Arbitrary Mach Number Applications,” 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January, 2003. ( In Preparation )

     2.   Pankajakshan, R., Remotigue, M.G., Taylor, L.K., Jiang, M. Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “Validation of Control-Surface Induced Submarine Maneuvering Simulations using UNCLE,” 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukuoka, Japan, July 8-13, 2002.

     3.   Newman III, J.C., Pankajakshan, R., Whitfield, D.L., and Taylor, L.K., “Computational Design Using RANS,” 24th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Fukuoka, Japan, July 8-13, 2002.

     4.   Remotigue, M.G., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “Dynamic Grid Generation for Simulation of Submarine Maneuvers: Part II,” 8th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002.

     5.   Remotigue, M.G., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M., Taylor, L.K.,  and Whitfield, D.L., “Validation of a RANS Solver on Capturing Blade-tip Vortices of a Marine Propeller,” Finite Volumes for Complex Applications III, Edited by R. Herbin and D. Kroner., Hermes Penton Science, 2002.

     6.   Computational Simulation and Design Center Staff, “Computational Engineering Research Supporting the Analysis and Design of Marine and Aerospace Vehicles,” MSU Report, MSSU-COE-ERC-02-09, May 2002.

     7.   Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Sheng, C., Jiang, M. J., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield., “Parallel Efficiency in Implicit Multiblock, Multigrid Simulations, with Application to Submarine Maneuvering,” AIAA Paper 2001-1093, 39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting Conference and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January, 2001. 

     8.   Beddhu, M., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M. Y., Taylor, L. K., Briley, W. R. and Whitfield, D. L.,  “Computation of Nonlinear Turbulent Free Surface Flows using the Parallel UNCLE code,” 23rd Symposium on Naval Ship Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 17-22, 2000.

     9.   Bourgoyne, D., Ceccio, S., Dowling, D., (University of Michigan, USA), Brewer, W., Jessup, S., Park, J., (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, USA).  Pankajakshan, R., (Mississippi State University, USA), “Hydrofoil Turbulent Boundary Layer Separation at High Reynolds Numbers,” 23rd Symposium on Naval Ship Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 17-22, 2000.

  10.   Jiang, M., Pankajakshan, R., Remotigue, M.G., and Taylor, L.K., “Dynamic Grid Generation for the Simulation of Submarine Maneuvers,” Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations,  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference held at Whistler, British Columbia, September, 2000.

  11.   Beddhu, M., Pankajakshan, R., Jiang, M. Y., Taylor, L. K., Remotigue, M. G., Briley, W. R. and Whitfield, D. L.,  “Computation and Evaluation of CFD Results for Practical Ship Hull  Forms,” Presented at Gothenburg 2000 : A Workshop on CFD in Ship Hydrodynamics held in Gothenburg, Sweden, Sept. 14-16, 2000.

  12.   Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L.K., Jiang, M., Remotigue, M.G., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., “Parallel Simulations for Control-Surface Induced Submarine Maneuvers,” Proc., 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, AIAA Paper No. 2000-0962,  Reno, NV, January 2000.

  13.   Pankajakshan, R., Taylor, L. K., Sheng, C., Briley, W. R., and D. L. Whitfield, “Scalable Parallel Implicit Multigrid Solution of Unsteady Incompressible Flows,” Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000, Edited by D. A. Caughey and M. M. Hafez, World Scientific Publishing Company PTE. LTD., Singapore, 2000.

Presentations

     1.   “Computation of RCM Maneuvers using the UNCLE code,” presented at the Naval Board meeting, Mississippi State University, June 5, 2001.

     2.   “Computation of Freesurface Flows using UNCLE,” presented at the short course for Naval users from the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock. Mississippi State University, December 11-13, 2000.

     3.   “Computation of RCM Maneuvers using the UNCLE code,” presented at the Naval Board meeting, Mississippi State University, November 13, 2000.

     4.   “UNCLE: Unsteady Computation of Field Equations,” presented at the Engineering Research Center Industrial Affiliates Meeting, October 10, 2000.