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 Rakesh Kumar
 PhD (Penn State)
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 Email: rkm[AT]iitk.ac.in 
Office Phone: 0512-259-6301 
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Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest 
Hypersonics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Microfluidics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Design 
 
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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
 
 
 
 
Website(s)
 
 
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AE-747 (Molecular Gas Dynamics) 
 
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AE-603 (Introduction to Scientific Computing) 
 
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AE-601 (Introduction to Aerospace Engineering) 
 
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AE-610 (Aerodynamics-1) 
 
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AE-612(Aerodynamics-II) 
 
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MSO203B (Partial Differential Equations, Tutor) 
 
 
	  
 
	
		
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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).) 
 
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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). 
 
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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). 
 
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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). 
 
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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). 
 
 
	  
 
	
		
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AIAA David Weaver Outstanding Thermophysics Paper Award, 2009. 
 
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College of Engineering Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008-09. 
 
 
	  
 
	
		
 Office 
Office Phone: 0512-259-6301 (O) / 0512-259-8219 (R) 
Email: rkm[AT]iitk.ac.in
	  
 
 
  
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