Devina P. Sanjaya

Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics Lab (SCFDL)

502 Dougherty Engineering Building

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

865-974-5309

dsanjaya [at] utk [dot] edu

Recent News

SCFDL hosted one NSF-REU student and one Collaborative REU student for the next 10 weeks to do shape optimization of cargo casings for delivery drones.
Congratulations, Aidan Lay, for receiving the UTK Graduate School Fellowship! This fellowship provides $10,000/year for 4 years.
Congratulations, Aidan Lay, for earning your B.S. in Mechanical Engineering! SCFDL is excited to welcome you as a direct Ph.D. Student.
My Ph.D. Student, Justin Weinmeister, presented his work on "An Open-Source Python Package for CFD Solution Verification" at ASME VVUQ 2025 (Apr. 2025)
I was invited to serve as a panelist for "WeLEAP Future Faculty Development Series: Succeeding in Faculty Jobs" hosted by WeLEAP and MIT RPA^3 (Mar. 2025)
I was invited to give a talk on "Understanding the Role of High-Order Nodes in Finite-Element Meshes" at Rice University's CMOR NASC RTG Seminar (Feb. 2025)
I started my service as the Chair of MVCE Student Paper Competition for the 2026 AIAA SciTech Forum and landed Flexcompute sponsorship (Jan. 2025)
I successfully completed my service as the Technical Discipline Chair of MVCE for the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum. More MVCE papers and joint sessions! (Jan. 2025)
SCFDL kicked off the year of 2025 with 2 papers presented at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum by me and Trenton Henderson (Jan. 2025)
I was invited to give a talk on "A Path to High-Order CFD on Optimally Curved Meshes" at the Jameson-Kim-Wang Symposium (Dec. 2024, Group Photo)