Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Joint Faculty Appointment with Math Department
Scientific Computing & Fluid Dynamics Lab
502 Dougherty Engineering Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-5309 o dsanjaya [at] utk [dot] edu
I presented "Trust-Region Approaches for High-Order Node Movement: HOMES vs. TRPO" at AFOSR Computational Mathematics Program Review (August 2026)
My Ph.D. Student, Justin Weinmeister, presented his work on "Spatial Distribution and Length Scale of Discretization Errors in Canonical Internal Flows" at ASME FEDSM 2026 (July 2026)
I successfully led an interdisciplinary group of researchers and concluded the 2026 IREAAMU NSF-REU and Collaborative REU (July 2026)
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October 1, 2026: I will be presenting my work on "Aligning Industry, Pedagogy, and Workforce Readiness in an Advanced Air Mobility REU" at NSF Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) Grantees Conference.
October 15, 2026: I will give an invited talk at Georgia Tech Aerospace Seminar.
January 12, 2027: My IREAAMU REU students will present their work on "Effects of Modular Cargo Attachments on Quadrotor Aerodynamics and Formation Flight" at AIAA SciTech Forum.
January 14, 2027: I will give a talk on IREAAMU REU design, and my M.S. Student, Jacob Howard, will present his work on "Anisotropic, Metric-Based Mesh Adaptation for Incompressible Flows" at AIAA SciTech Forum.
January 15, 2027: I will give a talk on HOMES at AIAA SciTech Forum.
Scalable, High-Order CFD Methods
Mesh Adaptation, Optimization, and Generation
Error Estimation
Computational Aerodynamics
Uncertainty Quantification and Machine Learning
Engineering Education
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and Scientific Computing (2019)
Advisor: Prof. Krzysztof J. Fidkowski
Dissertation: Towards Automated, Metric-Conforming, Mesh Optimization for High-Order, Finite-Element Methods
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with minor in Mathematics (2011)
M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (2014)
MGB-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Early Career Fellow
UTK Office of the Provost Research Development Academy Scholar
Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)
NASA Ames Research Center Visiting Scientists (Summer 2019, 2017, 2016)
Zonta International Amelia Earhart
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASc)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD)