Education:

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, June 2009 - Present

Senior Research Engineer, National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Hampton, Virginia January 2007- June 2009

Research Scientist University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD May 2004-January 2007

Research Scientist, Applied Scientific Research Inc, Santa Ana, CA, August 2003 - May 2004

Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD August 1998 - August 2003

Research Interests

We are interested in development and application of parallel and scalable overset grid based CFD methods to interesting physical problems with moving bodies and aeroelasticity. In the context of CFD methods, we explore various concepts such as, methods for grid generation/deformation, algorithms for overset domain connectivity, dynamic solution based mesh adaptation and higher order schemes. The major application areas of our methodologies are in the study of rotorcraft aeromechanics, wind turbine aeromechanics and flexible flapping wings.

Selected Publications:

Sitaraman, J., Floros, M., Wissink, A., Potsdam, M., "Parallel Unsteady Overset Grid Methodology for a Multi-solver Paradigm with Adaptive Cartesian Grids," AIAA 2008-7177, Under review in Journal of Computational Physics.

Sitaraman, J. and Roget, B., "Prediction of Helicopter Maneuver Loads using a Coupled CFD/CSD Analysis," ICAS 2008, Anchorage, AK, Accepted for publication in the Journal of Aircraft

Roget, B. and Sitaraman, J. and Hubbard, J. "Computational Study of Flexible Wing Flapping Flight,", AIAA 2008-6397, Under review for the Journal of Aircraft

Sitaraman, J. and Baeder, J., "Field Velocity Approach and Geometric Conservation Law For Unsteady Flow Simulations,'" AIAA journal, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 2084-2094

Datta, A., Sitaraman, J., Baeder, J. and Chopra, I., "CFD/CSD Coupling For the Prediction of Rotor Vibratory Loads in High-Speed flight," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 43, No.6, pp. 1698-1709

Sitaraman, J. and Baeder, J., "Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Enhanced Indicial Aerodynamic Models," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 4, May 2004

Datta, A., Roget, B., Sitaraman, J., Griffiths, D., Pugliese, G., Bao, J., Liu, L., and Gamard, O., "Design of a Martian Autonomous Rotary-wing Vehicle", Journal of Aircraft, 40, no. 3, pp. 461- 472.