Kumar M. Bobba

Assistant Professor

Education:

• B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, 1998
• M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1999
• Ph.D., Aeronautics, (Minors: Control & Dynamical Systems, and Applied & Computational Mathematics), California Institute of Technology, 2004

Research Interests:

The primary research focus of Professor Bobba's group lie at the interface of complex fluid flow phenomena and robust automatic control systems. We do fundamental studies investigating the multi-scale mechanics, dynamics and statistics of turbulent flow phenomena on one hand; and design, analysis and testing of novel distributed control systems on the other hand, that can function in the presence of wide amount of structured uncertainty arising from various sources. The theory, experimental and computational techniques that we develop are primarily motivated by various technological and natural applications in energy systems, environmental flows and cellular medicine.

Selected Awards:

• William F. Ballahaus Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation, 2004
  California Institute of Technology
  
• Graduate Student Council Teaching Assistant Award, 2003
  California Institute of Technology
• Rajiv Gandhi Science Research Scholar, 1998
  Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research
  
• Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Medal for B.Tech. topper, 1998
  Indian Institute of Technology-Madras

Research Labs:

Complex Flow and Automatic Control Laboratory (CoFAC Lab)

Selected Publications:

• K. M. Bobba, J. C. Doyle and M. Gharib, Techniques for Simplifying Multiscale, Linear Fluid Dynamics Problems, Proceedings of SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, July 15-19, 2003, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
• K. M. Bobba, J. C. Doyle and M. Gharib, Stochastic Input-Output Measures for Transition to Turbulence, Paper No AIAA-2003-0786, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 6-9 Jan, 2003, Reno, Nevada, USA
• K. M. Bobba, J. C. Doyle and M. Gharib, A Reynolds number independent model for turbulence in Couette flow, Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium on Reynolds Number Scaling in Turbulent Flows, Sep 11-13, 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA
• K. M. Bobba, B. Bamieh and J. C. Doyle, Robustness and Navier-Stokes Equations, Proceedings of IEEE 2002 Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 10-13, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• K. M. Bobba, S. V. Raghurama Rao and S. M. Deshpande, Kinetic Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics - A Novel Gridless Method for Compressible Flows, Proceedings of 3rd Asian CFD Conference, pp 249-254, Dec 07-11, 1998, Banglore, India
• S. Ramanan, K. M. Bobba, S. V. Raghurama Rao and S. M. Deshpande, New Boltzmann Schemes for Viscous Flows, Proceedings of 3rd Asian CFD Conference, pp 255-260, Dec 07-11, 1998, Banglore, India
• B. Karthik, K. M. Bobba and R. I. Sujith, Exact solution to one-dimensional acoustic fields with temperature gradient and mean flow, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 108, (1), 38-43, 2000
• K. M. Bobba and R. I. Sujith, Exact solution for one-dimensional acoustic fields in ducts with a polynomial mean temperature profile, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 120, (4), 965-69, 1998
• K. M. Bobba and R. I. Sujith, Exact solution for longitudinal vibration of non uniform rods, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 207, (5), 721-29, 1997
• K. M. Bobba and R. I. Sujith, Exact solution for one-dimensional acoustic fields in ducts with a quadratic temperature profile, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 101, (6), 3798-99, 1997

 

Contact Information:

Office:

120E Marston Hall

Mail:

Kumar Bobba

MIE Department

220 ELAB

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003-2210

Phone:

(413) 545-3363

Fax:

(413) 545-1027

E-mail:

bobba'at'ecs.umass.edu
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