Ravi Samtaney

Applied Mathematics
Caltech

Ravi Samtaney started his scientific career as an experimentalist performing heat transfer experiments. After a Master's degree in Mech. Engineering, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the High Speed Electronics group involved in transistor device simulations. Then he went back to Rutgers University to get a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with Prof. Zabusky in CFD and analysis of Richtmyer-Meshkov flows. After Rutgers, he was a post-doc at Caltech in applied math. and GALCIT for two years working on the self-similar solutions of Euler equations and hypervelocity flows. He then spent several months performing experiments and simulating flow in MEMS devices at Sarnoff Research Center at Princeton before joining NASA Ames as a research scientist in the data analysis group doing mostly computer graphics and close-range photogrammety related work. Currently, he is a senior research associate working in the ASCI Center in the area of compressible turbulence and writing codes for the "Virtual test facility". He also collaborates with clinical researchers at UCLA Medical school in simulating parathyroid gland sectretory dynamics.

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