भा.प्रौ.सं. गाँधीनगर: उत्कृषटता के 15 वर्षसमाचार
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Sumit Tambe

  1. Faculty
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Sumit Tambe

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  • BTech: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, 2013
  • MSc: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), 2017
  • PhD: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), 2022

Email: sumit.tambe -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://sites.google.com/view/aerosumit/home

Office: AB 11/301B


  • Selected Publications

    1. Tambe S., Kato K., and Hussain Z. Görtler-number based scaling of the boundary-layer transition on a rotating cone in axial inflow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (accepted, April 2024). arxiv version: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.12877
    2. Tambe S., Schrijer F., Gangoli Rao A. & Veldhuis L. Instability of Rotating-Cone Boundary Layer in Axial Inflow: Effect of Cone Angle, AIAA Journal, (2023) https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J062737.
    3. Tambe S., Schrijer F., Veldhuis L. & Gangoli Rao A. Spiral instability modes on rotating cones in high-Reynolds number axial flow, Physics of Fluids, 34, 3 (2022)), doi:10.1063/5.0083564.
    4. Tambe S., Schrijer F. & van Oudheusden B., Relation Between Geometry and Wake Characteristics of a Supersonic Microramp, AIAA Journal, (2021) https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J059868.
    5. Tambe S., Schrijer F., Gangoli Rao A. & Veldhuis L., Boundary layer instability over a rotating slender cone under non-axial inflow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 910, A25 (2021), doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.990.
    6. Tambe S., Schrijer F., Gangoli Rao A. & Veldhuis L., An experimental method to investigate coherent spiral vortices in the boundary layer over rotating bodies of revolution, Experiments in Fluids, 60(7), 115 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-019-2756-8.

  • Work Experience

    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Mar 2025 - present)
    • INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (Apr 2023 - Mar 2025)
    • Guest researcher, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands (Jan 2022-present)

  • Patents

    Tambe S., De S., Joseph R. & Diwan S., CONTROLLING FLUCTUATING SURFACE EFFECTS OF TURBULENT SPOTS IN A TRANSITIONAL BOUNDARY LAYER , Indian Patent Office,(2024), (filed and published) https://iprsearch.ipindia.gov.in/PublicSearch/PublicationSearch/PatentDetails.

Research Interests

  • ● Instability and transition of rotating boundary-layers
  • ● Experimetnal fluid mechanics
  • ● Novel flow diagnostic (3C PIV, IRT) and data processing techniques (POD, sPOD, DMD)
  • ● Passive flow control
  • ● Roughness-induced flow transition