Faculty
4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ravindra Samtaney
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Clean Combustion Research CenterPh.D. Rutgers University, 1994
B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1986
Research Interests
Alternative energy, plasma physics, fluid and magnetohydro-dynamics, numerical methods, high-performance computing.
Selected Publications
- R. Samtaney, "A method to compute linear stability of impulsively accelerated density interfaces in gas dynamics and MHD", Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 6773:6783, 2009.
- R. Samtaney, N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, D. Uzdensky, and S. C. Cowley, "Formation of plasmoid chains in magnetic reconnection", Physical Review Letters, 103, Article No. 105004, 2009.
- V. Wheatley, R. Samtaney and D. I. Pullin, "The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in MHD", Physics of Fluids, 21, 082102, 2009.
- D. R. Reynolds, R. Samtaney and C. S. Woodward, "Operator-based preconditioning of Stiff Hyperbolic Magnetohydrodynamics Systems", SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, volume 32, pp: 150-170, 2010.
- M. F. Adams, R. Samtaney, and A. Brandt, Toward textbook "Multigrid efficiency for fully implicit resistive magnetohydrodynamics", Journal of Computational Physics., vol 229, pp:6208-6219, 2010.