- Department Head, Ocean Engineering
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Wofford Cain Chair II
- Chief Scientist, ASTRO Center
- Affiliated Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-1674
- Email: girimaji@tamu.edu
- Office: HEB 216H
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Cornell University - 1990
- M.S., Cornell University - 1986
- B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India - 1983
Awards & Honors
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2006, 2010
- Dow Chemical Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2007
- Brockett Professor, Texas A&M University – 2006
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Special Research Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2001
Selected Publications
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Linear stability of Poiseuille flow at extreme Mach numbers: Linear Analysis and Simulations," published in Physical Review E 89 (4), 043001 (2014)
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) of high-speed mixing environments. Journal of Fluids Engineering DOI. 10.1115/1.4026234. (2014).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Advanced Quasi-Steady State Approximation for chemical kinetics. Journal of Fluids Engineering 136 (3), 031201 (2014).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Velocity-gradient dynamics in compressible turbulence: Characterization of Pressure-Hessian Tensor. Physics of Fluids, 25 (12), 125103. (2013)
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Explicit algebraic Reynolds stress model (EARSM) for compressible shear flows. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. (2013).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Toward Pressure-strain correlation modeling of compressible shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 733, 325-369 (2013).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Computations of High-Lift Wing-Body configuration on Unstructured Grids using k – w models. Journal of Aircraft (2013).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Inter-component energy transfer in incompressible homogeneous turbulence: multi-point physics and amenability to one-point closures. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 731, September, pp 639 – 681 (2013).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. Closure modeling in bridging regions of variable-resolution (VR) turbulence computations. Journal of Turbulence, Volume 14, January Issue 1, pages 72-98 (2013).
- Girimaji, S.S., et al. WENO-enhanced Gas Kinetic Method for highly compressible transition and turbulence simulations. Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Computational Physics 234 (1), pp. 499-523 (2013).