Personal Information

    NSF NIGMS Postdoctal research assitant
    Department of Mathematics
    155 S 1400 E
    University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, UT 84112
    Phone: (801)581-6851
    Fax: (801)581-4148
    Email: sircar1981@gmail.com
              sksircar10@yahoo.com
    Curriculum Vita

 

Mount Washington, Pitsburgh, September, 2005

Education

Ph.D, Applied Mathematics, University of South Carolina, 2009

MS, Applied Mathematics, Florida State University, 2005

MSc (Integ.), Mathematics & Scientific Computing, IIT Kanpur, India, 2004

 

 

Research Interests

     

  • Physiology and dynamics of gels
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  • Computational Material Science; flow, dynamics and rheology of complex fluids
  • New biaxial flow phases found: Animations

    10.   S. Sircar and Qi Wang ``Polar nematic phase transitions in Bent-core liquid crystal polymers'', in preparation

    9.   S. Sircar and Qi Wang ``Rheological response in the biaxial regime of inhomogeneous liquid crystals in small amplitude oscillatory shear'', submitted, J. Non-newtonian Fluid Mech., 2009

    8.   S. Sircar, Jun Li and Qi Wang ``Biaxial Phases of Bent-core Liquid Crystal Polymers in Shear Flows'', accepted, Comm. Math. Sci., 2009

    7.   S. Sircar and Qi Wang``Dynamics and rheology of ellipsoidal suspensions in homogenous shear flow'', accepted, J. Rheology, 2009

    6.   Jun Li, S.Sircar and Qi Wang ``A Note on Kinematics of rigid molecules in Linear Flow Fields and Kinetic Theory for BLCPs'', accepted, Int. J. Emerging Multidisciplinary Fluid Sciences, 2009

    5.   S. Sircar and Qi Wang ``Shear induced mesostructures in biaxial lcps'', PRE,78, 061702 (2008) (pdf.gz)

    4.   M. Gregory Forest, S. Sircar, Qi Wang and Ruhai Zhou``Monodomain Dynamics for rigid rod and platelet suspensions in strongly coupled coplanar linear flow and magnetic field. II. Kinetic theory'', Physics of Fluids 18 ,103102 (2006) (pdf.gz)

    3.  Q. Wang, S. Sircar, and H. Zhou, "Steady solutions of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic polymers under imposed fields,"Comm. Math. Sci., 3(4),605-620 (2005) (pdf.gz)

     

         

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics; jets, acoustics and instabilities; Compact schemes: DNS and LES
  • 2.   T.K. Sengupta, S. Sircar and A. Dipankar, ``High Accuracy schemes for DNS and Acoustics'', J. Scientific Computing 26(2),151-193 (2006) (pdf.gz)

    1.   S. Sircar and T.K. Sengupta, ``Receptivity of a low Reynolds number Bickley jet to harmonic vortical excitation'', proceedings of the 3rd MIT conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, June 2005(pdf.gz)

     

     

    Presentations and Seminars

    11.  "Biaxial liquid crystals in small amplitude oscillatory shear", IMACS Int. Conference, UGA-Athens, March 2009.

    10.  "V-shaped polymers: equilibrium and dynamics", SIAM Annual Meeting, Miami, March 2009.

    9.  "Biaxial liquid crystals: Industry and beyond", Super Computing-08, Austin Convention Center, Nov 2008.

    8.  "Orientational dynamics of biaxial Liquid crystals", Cha-Cha Days, UNC Chapel Hill, Oct 2008.

    7.  "New Phases of biaxial LCPs", SIAM Annual Meeting, San-Diego, July 2008.

    6.  "Kinetic model for flows of biaxial LCPs", Rheology meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2007.

    5.  "Phase of biaxial LCP's and particle suspensions in simple flows, preliminary report", AMS Meeting, New-Orleans, Jan 2007

    4.  "Birefringence DATA analysis",Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Mineapolis, August 2006

    3.  "Dynamics of magnetic dispersions in simple flows modelled by kinetic theories",SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston Park Plaza, Boston, July 2006

    2.  "Solutions of the Smoluchowski equation for nematic polymers under imposed fields",Frontiers of Applied Analysis, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pitsburgh, September 2005

    1.  "Receptivity of a Low Reynolds number Bickley Jet to Harmonic Vortical Excitation",3rd MIT Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, June 2005

     

     

    Workshops

    1.  Workshop I: Membrane Protein Science and Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, March 2006

    2.  Mathematical Modeling in Industry X - A Workshop for Graduate Students, IMA, Minneapolis, August 2006 (report)

     

     

    Honors and Awards

    1.  MIT Young Researcher Fellowship (2005)

    2.  Best Thesis Award, IIT Kanpur, India (2004)

     

     

    Academic Affiliations

    1.   SIAM

    2.   AMS