Education

• January 2004 - Present
  PhD Candidate, GPA: 3.86
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
  
• August 2002 - December 2004
  MS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
  
• July 1998 - July 2001
  BE in Mech. Engg.
  University of Bombay, Bombay, India
  
• July 1994 - July 1998
  Diploma in Mech. Engg.
  University of Bombay, Bombay, India

Research Interests

Aeroacoustics, jet noise, active flow control

Current Research

Cavity tone suppression using rod in cross flow: experimental/theoretical work to investigate working principle of the rod-in-cross-flow actuator for the cavity tone suppression.

Jet noise suppression using high frequency excitation: experimental work to demonstrate the efficacy of ultrasonic Powered Resonance Tubes (PRT) to suppress subsonic and weakly supersonic jet noise.

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of the Fifty for Future award sponsored by Illinois Tech Association (ITA) for innovation and leadership (2008)
• Awarded second prize for the poster "Ultrasonic Actuator Concept for Jet Noise Suppression," IIT Research Poster Competition, Illinois Institute of Technology (2008)
• Recipient of the Dean's Scholarship at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
• Awarded second prize for the paper "Advances in Manufacturing Technologies: Rapid Prototyping" in "COSMOS 2000" (2000)

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

• AIAA, student membership

Publications

• Theses
  
  PhD thesis "Cavity Tone Suppression Using Rod in Cross Flow," advisor Dr. Ganesh Raman, sponsor AFOSR, experimental/theoretical work to investigate working principle of the rod-in-cross-flow actuator for the cavity tone suppression.
  
  Masters thesis "Powered Resonance Actuators for Jet Impingement Tone Suppression," advisor Dr. Ganesh Raman, sponsor AFOSR, development of the large bandwidth aeroacoustics actuator called Powered Resonance Tubes (PRT) to suppress the jet impingement tone. The work aimed at demonstrating the efficacy a novel active flow control technology, i.e., high frequency forcing.
  
  
• Journal Publications
  
  Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "Linear Stability of a Hybrid Mean Velocity Profile and its Relevance to Cavity Resonance Suppression," Physics of Fluids (under review).
  
  Sarpotdar, S., Raman, G., and Cain, A. B., "Jet Impingement Tone Suppression Using Powered Resonance Tube," AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 5 (2007) pp. 972-979.
  
  Sarpotdar, S., Raman, G., and Cain, A. B., "Powered Resonance Tubes: Resonance Characteristics and Actuation Signal Directivity," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 39, No. 6 (2005) pp. 1084-1095.
  
  Sarpotdar, S., Ananthkrishnan, N., and Sharma, S. D., "The Rijke Tube - a Thermo-acoustic Device," Resonance, Jan. 2003, pp. 59-71.
  
  Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "Influence of Shedding Rod on Cavity Flow Dynamics" (in preparation).
  
  Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "Influence of Stability of Wake of the Inner Nozzle on the Aeroacoustics of Coannular Jets" (in preparation).
  
  Chaudhari, K., Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "Development of Ultrasonic Powered Resonance Tube Actuators to Suppress Jet Noise" (in preparation).
  
  
• Conference Publications
  
  Sarpotdar, S., Raman, G., and Cain, A. B., "Actuation Signal Directivity and Supply Pressure Effects in Powered Resonance Tubes," 42^nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 2004, AIAA Paper 2004-678.
  
  Raman, G., Sarpotdar, S., Tassy, J., Cain A., B., and Kerschen, E. J., "An Overview of the Development of High Bandwidth Resonance Tube Actuators: Experiments and Simulations," Proceedings of the ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, Vol. 1A (2003) pp. 301-306.
  
  Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "Influence of Shedding Rod on Cavity Flow Dynamics," 15^th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference (30^th AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference), Miami, May 2009.
  
  Cain, A. B., Kerschen, E. J., Raman, G., and Sarpotdar, S., "Simulation of Powered Resonance Tubes: Understanding Parameter Space," 9^th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference and Exhibit, Hilton Head, South Carolina, May 2003, AIAA Paper 2003-3103.
  
  Raman, G., Cain, A. B., and Sarpotdar, S., "Features of the Operation of Powered Resonance Tube Actuators: Experiments and Simulations," ASME Conference, Hawaii, August 2003.
  
  Panickar, P., Sarpotdar, S., and Raman, G., "An Experimental Study of Instability Modes in a High-speed Impinging Jet Using Nonlinear Spectral Analysis," ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, November 2006, Paper IMECE2006-16369.