Dr. Sukalyan Bhattacharya
Contact Information
Dr. Sukalyan Bhattacharya
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-1021
Tel: (806) 742-3563 ext. 249
Fax: (806) 742-3540
Email : s.bhattacharya@ttu.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, 2005
- M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut (Storrs), 2000
- B. M. E. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 1997
Experience
- Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 2005-present
- Engineering Trainee, Development Consultant Limited, Kolkata, India, 1997-1998
Research Interests
- Low Reynold’s number hydrodynamics
- Turbulence and turbulent scalar transport
- Statistical mechanics
Teaching Areas
- Fluid mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Heat transfer
Honors and Awards
- Diagnostic Mathematical Aptitude Test Scholarship, 1990
- National Talent Search Scholarship, 1991-1997
- Graduate Fellowship Award at Uconn, 1999
- Gagenbin Fellowship Award at Yale, 2000-2001
Service
- Reviewer for Physical Review E
- Chair at AIChE session.
Professional Societies
- Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2004 - present
- Member of the American Physical Society (APS), 2005 - present
Publications
Journal Publications
"History force on an asymmetrically rotating body in Poiseuille flow inducing particle-migration across a slit-pore" S. Bhattacharya; Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, (submitted), 2007.
"Exact Analytical Solutions for Steady Three Dimensional Vortical Flow," S. Bhattacharya; Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, (submitted), 2007.
"Hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in Poiseuille flow between two parallel walls," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz, E. Wajnryb; Physics of Fluids, American Institute of Physics, Vol.18, 2006.
"Far-field approximation for hydrodynamic interactions in parallel-wall geometry," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz and E. Wajnryb; Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 212, Issue 2, pp. 718-738, 2006.
"Hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in suspensions confined between two planar walls," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz, E. Wajnryb; Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 541, pp. 263-292, 2005.
"Unsteady hydrodynamic effect of rotation on steady rigid body motion," S. Bhattacharya; Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 538, pp. 291-308, 2005.
"Many-particle hydrodynamic interaction in parallel-wall geometry: Cartesian-representation method," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz, E. Wajnryb; Physica A, Elsevier Science Publishers, Vol. 356, pp. 294-340, 2005.
"Comment on drift without flux: Brownian walker with a space-dependent diffusion coefficient," J. Blawzdziewicz, S. Bhattacharya; Europhysics Letter, European Physical Society, Vol. 63, pp. 789-90, 2003.
"Image system for Stokes-flow singularity between two parallel planar walls," S Bhattacharya, J Blawzdziewicz; Journal of Mathematical Physics, American Institute of Physics, Vol. 43, Number 11, pp. 5720-5731, 2002.
Conference Presentations
"Near wall dynamics of a large particle in a highly bidisperse colloidal solution." S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz, E.Wajnryb, 58th Annual APS Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, Illinois, EK00007, November 20-22, 2005.
"Multiparticle hydrodynamic interactions in parabolic creeping flow between two parallel planar walls." J. Blawzdziewicz, S. Bhattacharya, E.Wajnryb, 58th Annual APS Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, Illinois, EC00011, November 20-22, 2005
"Many-particle hydrodynamic interactions in parallel wall geometry: the role of the far-field flow," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz, E.Wajnryb; AIChE 2005 Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, 171d, October 30-November 4, 2005
"Hydrodynamic interactions of spherical particles in suspensions between two planar walls," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz4; AIChE 2004 Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 218p, November 7-12, 2004.
"Near-contact motion of large particles in highly-asymmetric colloidal mixture," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz; 78th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, 197, June 20-23,2004.
"Dynamics in highly-asymmetric colloidal mixtures," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz; AIChE 2003 Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 292b, November 16-21, 2003.
"Motion of a rigid sphere between two parallel walls," S. Bhattacharya, J. Blawzdziewicz; AIChE 2002 Annual Conference, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolisc, IN, 94d, November 3-8, 2002.
"Lagrangian simulation of scalar transport in vortex flows using transport element method," M. Soteriou, S. Bhattacharya; 53rd Annual APS Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC, PG.012, November 19-21, 2000.