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Rakesh Kumar
PhD (Penn State)
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest
Hypersonics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Microfluidics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Design
Education
PhD, Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011
M.Tech, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2003
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, 2001
Teaching Area
AE-747 (Molecular Gas Dynamics)
AE-603 (Introduction to Scientific Computing)
AE-601 (Introduction to Aerospace Engineering)
AE-610 (Aerodynamics-1)
AE-612(Aerodynamics-II)
MSO203B (Partial Differential Equations, Tutor)
Selected Publications
Kumar, R., Li, Z., Levin, D., "Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Condensation in the High Pressure Flows using the Statistical BGK Approach," Physics of Fluids, 23, 052001 (2011).)
Kumar, R., Li, Z., vanDuin A., and Levin, D., "Molecular Dynamics Studies to Understand the Mechanism of Heat Accommodation in Homogeneous Condensing Flow of Carbon Dioxide," The Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 064503 (2011).
Kumar, R., Saurav, S., Titov, E., Levin, D., Long, R., Neely, W., and Setlow, P., "Thermo-structural Studies of Spores Subjected to High Temperature Gas Environments," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 54, 755 (2011).
Kumar, R., and Levin, D., "Simulation of Homogeneous Condensation of Small Polyatomic Systems in High Pressure Supersonic Nozzle Flows using BGK Model" The Journal of Chemical Physics, 134, 124519 (2011).
Kumar, R., Titov, E., and Levin, D., "Development of a Particle-Particle Hybrid Scheme to Simulate Multi-scale Transitional Flows," AIAA Journal, 51, 200 (2010).
Awards & Fellowships
AIAA David Weaver Outstanding Thermophysics Paper Award, 2009.
College of Engineering Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008-09.