Som Dutta
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Assistant Professor
Educational Background
Biography
Som is from India, and completed his graduate studies at University of Illinois (UIUC) in Civil Engineering. After that, he did his post-doctoral training in Scientific Computing and Mathematics at UIUC and City University of New York (CUNY), respectively. Som is interested in studying complex flow and transport phenomena in the natural and the built environment using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models that often require the use of large-scale HPC platforms. Some of the diverse range of phenomena he is interested are exploring the mechanism underlying drag reduction by shark denticles (skin); dispersal of oil and contaminant in oceans, rivers and lakes; fundamental dynamics of moving bodies in stratified environments; and transmission of airborne pathogens through aerosols.
Teaching Interests
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Multiphase Flows, Turbulence Modeling
Research Interests
Turbulent Multiphase Flows, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, River and Coastal Mechanics, High Performance Computing
Awards
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2022
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University
Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, 2021
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University
Bayfield Visiting Researcher award in Fluid Dynamics, 2019
Energy and Environment Institute (EEI) at the University of Hull, UK
Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), 2017
Exascale Computing Project, DOE Office of Science and the NNSA
Ravi K. Kinra and Kavita Kinra Fellowship, 2016
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship, 2011
Computational Science and Engineering, University of Illinois and Urbana-Champaign
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Dighe, S., Maity, D.K, Fonnesbeck, J., Dutta, S., Truscott, T., (2024). Extremely large water droplet impact onto a deep liquid pool. Physical Review E
- Lloyd, C.J, Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Dorrell, R.M, Peakall, J., Keevil, G.M, Burns, A.J, (2023). Multi-fidelity modelling of shark skin denticle flows: insights into drag generation mechanisms. Royal Society Open Science
- Schimmoller, B., Trovao, N., Isbell, M., Cardinal, K., Dutta, S., Daniel, A., Beheshti, A., (2022). Covid-19 Exposure Assessment Tool (CEAT): Exposure Quantification Based on Ventilation, Infection Prevalence, Group Characteristics and Behavior. Science Advances
- Kiyama, A., Rabbi, R., Pan, Z., Dutta, S., Allen, J.S, Truscott, T., (2022). Morphology of bubble dynamics and sound in heated oil. Physics of Fluids, 34:6
- Jin, C., Coco, G., Tinoco, R., Ranjan, P., Gong, Z., Dutta, S., San Juan, J., Friedrich, H., (2022). High-resolution Large Eddy Simulations of Vortex Dynamics Over Ripple Defects under Oscillatory Flow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth
- Beck, K., Barfuss, S.L, Sharp, Z., Johnson, M.C, Moon, T.K, Dutta, S., (2022). The effect of high-fidelity flow models on electromagnetic flowmeter analysis . Journal of American Water Works Association Water Science, 4:2, 1-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1279
- Marshall, C., Dorell, R., Dutta, S., Kevill, G., Peakll, J., Tobias, S., (2021). The effect of Schmidt number on gravity current flows: The formation of large-scale three-dimensional structures. Physics of Fluids
- Rasmussen, M., Dutta, S., Neilson, B.T, Crookston, B.M, (2021). CFD Model of the Density-driven Bidirectional Flows through the West Crack Breach in the Great Salt Lake Causeway. Water by MPDI, 13(17):2423, doi: 10.3390/w13172423
- Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Fischer, P., (2021). Multirate Time-Stepping for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Overlapping Grids. Journal of Computational Physics
- Fabregat, A., Gisbert, F., Vernet, A., Ferre, J.A, Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Pallares, J., (2021). Direct Numerical Simulation of turbulent dispersion of evaporative aerosol clouds produced by an intense expiratory event. Physics of Fluids
- Fabregat, A., Gisbert, F., Vernet, A., Dutta, S., Mittal, K., Pallares, J., (2021). Direct numerical simulation of the turbulent flow generated by a violent expiratory event. Physics of Fluids
- Jin, C., Coco, G., Tinoco, R.O, Ranjan, P., San Juan, J., Dutta, S., Friedrich, H., Gong, Z., (2021). Large-Eddy Simulation of Three-Dimensional Flow Structures Over Wave-generated Ripples. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Fischer, P., (2020). Direct Numerical Simulation of Rotating Ellipsoidal Particle using Moving Nonconforming Schwarz-Spectral Element Method. Computers and Fluids
- Fischer, P., Min, M., Rathnayake, T., Dutta, S., Kolev, T., Dobrev, V., Camier, J., Kronbichler, M., Warburton, T., Swirydowicz, K., Brown, J., (2020). Scalability of High-Performance PDE Solvers. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 34:5
- Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Fischer, P., (2019). Nonconforming Schwarz-Spectral Element Methods For Incompressible Flow. Computers and Fluids, 191, 104237.
- Dutta, S., Garcia, M.H, (2018). Discussion of "Evaluation of Sediment Diversion Design Attributes and their Impact on the Capture Efficiency" by Ahmed Gaweesh and Ehab Meselhe. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144:8, 07018007, 1-4.
- Dutta, S., Garcia, M.H, (2018). Nonlinear Distribution of Sediment at River Diversions: Brief History of the Bulle Effect and Its Implications. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 144:5, 06118001,1-12.
- Dutta, S., Wang, D., Tassi, P., Garcia, M.H, (2017). Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Bulle-Effect: the non-linear distribution of near-bed sediment at fluvial diversions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42:14, 2322-2337.
- Dutta, S., Tokyay, T.E, Catano-Lopera, Y., Serafino, S., Garcia, M.H, (2014). Application of computational fluid dynamic modelling to improve flow and grit transport in Terrence J. O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, Chicago, Illinois. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 52:6, 759–774.
- Dutta, S., Cantero, M.I, Garcia, M.H, (2014). Effect of self-stratification on sediment diffusivity in channel flows and boundary-layers: a study using Direct Numerical Simulations. Earth Surface Dynamics, 2, 419-431.
- Ghosh, M.K, Dutta, S., Sen, D., (2014). Sediment Flushout from pond of river diversion barrages by gate operation. Water Resources Management, 28:15, 5335-5356.
- Sahay, R.R, Dutta, S., (2009). Prediction of longitudinal dispersion coefficients in natural rivers using genetic algorithm. Hydrology Research, 40:6, 544-552.
- Dutta, S., Rohela, P., Roy, I., (2008). Increasing the safe angle of external clay dump with the application of flyash in Sonepurbazari Opencast Project, India. Minetech - The Indian Mining and Engineering Journal, 29:4, 33-36.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Research Reports
- Dutta, S., Crookston, B., Rasmussen, , Larsen, E., (2021). Predicting Flow through the Causeway of the Great Salt Lake using Hydrodynamic Simulations and Artificial Neural Networks. Utah DNR *
- Jackson, R.P, Sinha, S., Dutta, S., Johnson, K., Duncker, J., Garcia, M.H, (2013). Investigation of Hysteresis in Index-Velocity Ratings for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Lemont, Illinois. USGS Scientific Investigations Report
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Other
- Crookston, B.M, Rasmussen, M., Larsen, E., Kartchner, H., Dutta, S., (2022). Predicting Density-Driven Exchange Flows Through the West Crack Breach of the Great Salt Lake Causeway with CFD and ANN. 9th International Symposium on Hydraulic Structures
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.