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20222026
most citedContribution of spanwise and cross-span vortices to the lift generation of low-aspect-ratio wings: Insights from force partitioning

31 citations · 35 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.comp-ph2026

A Scalable Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Method for Moving Boundary Flow Simulation on Multi-GPU Systems

Sushrut Kumar, Joshua Romero, Massimiliano Fatica +2

Sharp-interface immersed boundary methods provide a versatile framework for simulating flows with complex moving boundaries, but their irregular data structures, dynamic sparsity,…

physics.comp-ph2026

GPU-Accelerated Simulations of Moving Boundary Problems and Fluid-Structure Interaction at Extreme Scales

Sushrut Kumar, Joshua Romero, Jung-Hee Seo +2

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing un…

physics.comp-ph2026

AeTHERON: Autoregressive Topology-aware Heterogeneous Graph Operator Network for Fluid-Structure Interaction

Sushrut Kumar

Surrogate modeling of body-driven fluid flows where immersed moving boundaries couple structural dynamics to chaotic, unsteady fluid phenomena remains a fundamental challenge for b…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 2 cited

A GPU-Accelerated Sharp Interface Immersed Boundary Solver for Large Scale Flow Simulations

Sushrut Kumar, Joshua Romero, Jung-Hee Seo +2

Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) facilitate the simulation of flows around stationary, moving, and deforming bodies on Cartesian grids. However, extending these simulations to the…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 2 cited

Flow-induced dorso-ventral deformation enhances propulsive efficiency in flexible caudal fins

Sushrut Kumar, Matthew J. McHenry, Jung-Hee Seo +1

Fish swim with flexible fins that stand in stark contrast to the rigid propulsors of engineered vehicles. Using numerical simulations of the dynamics of flow-structure interaction,…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Computational Modeling and Analysis of the Coupled Aero Structural Dynamics in Bat Inspired Wings

Sushrut Kumar, Jung-Hee Seo, Rajat Mittal

We employ a novel computational modeling framework to perform high-fidelity direct numerical simulations of aero-structural interactions in bat-inspired membrane wings. The wing of…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 31 cited

Contribution of spanwise and cross-span vortices to the lift generation of low-aspect-ratio wings: Insights from force partitioning

Karthik Menon, Sushrut Kumar, Rajat Mittal

This study reports on the vortex-induced lift production mechanisms in low Reynolds number flows over low aspect-ratio rectangular wings. We use a rigorous force partitioning metho…