“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
As a Postdoctoral Scholar in the CCSE Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
( Jan. 2022 - Present )
2023
Sawant, S. S., Léonard, F., Yao, J., & Nonaka A. A Coupled Electrostatic - Quantum Transport Framework for Exascale Systems. (to be submitted)
Sawant, S. S., Yao, J., Jambunathan, R., & Nonaka A. (2023) Characterization of transmission lines in microelectronic circuits using the ARTEMIS solver. IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, vol. 8, pp. 31-39.
As a PhD Student in the Department of Aerospace
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
( Dec. 2015 - Dec. 2022 )
2022
Sawant, S. S., Theofilis, V., & Levin, D. A. (2022) On the synchronisation of three-dimensional shock layer and laminar separation bubble instabilities in hypersonic flow over a double wedge. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 941, A7.
Klothakis A., Quintanilha Jr H., Sawant, S. S., Protopapadakis E., Theofilis, V., & Levin, D. A. (2022) Linear stability analysis of hypersonic boundary layers computed by a kinetic approach: a semi-infinite flat plate at 4.5 ≤ M∞ ≤ 9 Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 36, 117-139.
(Referred Proceedings) Sawant, S. S., Tumuklu, O., Theofilis, V., & Levin, D. A. (2022). Linear instability of shock-dominated laminar hypersonic separated flows. In 9th IUTAM symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Sept. 2-6, 2019 (ed. Spencer Sherwin, Peter Schmid & Xuesong WU), Springer, London, UK.
2021
Sawant, S. S., Levin, D. A., & Theofilis, V. (2021) Analytical prediction of low-frequency molecular fluctuations inside a one-dimensional shock. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 36, 25-40.
Sawant, S. S., Levin, D. A., & Theofilis, V. (2021) A kinetic approach to studying low-frequency molecular fluctuations in a one-dimensional shock. Physics of Fluids (Editor's pick), 33 (10), 104106.
2020
Marayikkottu, V. A., Sawant, S. S., & Levin, D. A., Huang C., Schoenitz M., Dreizin E. (2020) Numerical study of the particle lifting mechanism in electrostatic discharge. International Journal of Multiphase Flows, 137, 103564.
Sawant, S. S., Rao, P., Harpale, A., Chew, H. B., & Levin, D. A. (2019). Multi-scale thermal response modeling of an AVCOAT-like thermal protection material. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 133, 1176-1195.
2019
Harpale, A., Sawant, S. S., Kumar, R., Levin, D. A., & Chew, H. B. (2018). Ablative thermal protection systems: Pyrolysis modeling by scale-bridging molecular dynamics. Carbon, 130, 315-324.
2018
Sawant, S. S., Tumuklu, O., Jambunathan, R., & Levin, D. A. (2018). Application of adaptively refined unstructured grids in DSMC to shock wave simulations. Computers & Fluids, 170, 197-212.