Research Associate
Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab
Yang & Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, m/c 4020
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305
Tel: (408) 4315433
Email:subbayya(@)stanford.edu
I work as a Research Associate with
Oliver Fringer's Group at Stanford University.
I obtained a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering
from the University of Rhode Island, and received a Master of Science in Hydraulic Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM).
Before I came to Stanford, I worked as a hydrodynamic modeler for seven years, at Applied Science Associates, a marine environmental modeling company based in Rhode Island.
Research Interests
My present project involves modeling internal waves in Monterey Bay. I am also interested in modeling circulation and
transport in estuaries.
Selected Publications
Sankaranarayanan S (2006) “ Modeling tide and wind-induced circulation in Buzzards Bay",
Estuarine,Coastal and Shelf Science, 73, pp.467-480.
[buzzards.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan S and Matthew C Ward (2006) Development and Application of a three-dimensional orthogonal
coordinate hydrodynamic model, Continental Shelf Research, 26, pp. 1571-1594. [ortho.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan S (2005) “ A 3D boundary-fitted barotropic hydrodynamic
model for the New York Harbor Region", Continental Shelf Research, 25, pp.2233-2260
[newyork.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan, S and Spaulding, M. L (2003) “
A study of the effects of grid non-orthogonality in the boundary-fitted
coordinate system", Journal of Computational Physics", 184(1), pp.299-320,
[pap1.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan, S and Spaulding, M. L (2003) “ Dispersion and Stability
Analyses of the Linearized Two-dimensional Shallow Water Equations in Boundary-fitted coordinates",
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids,42(7), pp.741-763. [ijnmf.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan S and McCay, D F (2003) “ Three-dimensional
hydrodynamic modeling of tidal circulation in Bay of Fundy",
ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Harbor, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 129(3), pp. 114-123
[bof_jh1.pdf]
Sankaranarayanan S and McCay, D F (2003) “ "Application of a two-dimensional depth-averaged hydrodynamic model',
Ocean Engineering, 30(14), pp.1807-1832..
Sankaranarayanan, S and Spaulding, M. L (2003) “ Dispersion and Stability
Analyses of the Linearized Two-dimensional Shallow Water Equations in Cartesian
Coordinates"
Spaulding, M. L., S. Sankaranarayanan, L. Erikson, T, Fake, and T. Opishinski, 1998. COASTMAP, An
integrated system for monitoring and modeling of coastal waters: Application to Greenwich
bay, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal
Modeling, American Society of Civil Engineers, Alexandria, VA, October 22-24, 1997,
pp.231-251
Sankaranarayanan,S., Shankar, N. J., and Cheong, H. F. (1998) “Three-dimensional finite difference
model for transport of conservative pollutants”, Journal of Ocean Engineering,
25(6), 425-442.
Shankar, N. J., Cheong, H. F., Sankaranarayanan, S. (1997) “Multilevel finite difference model for
three-dimensional hydrodynamic circulation”, Journal of Ocean Engineering, 24(9),785-81
Sankaranarayanan, S and H. Suresh Rao, (1996) "Finite element analysis of free surface flow
through gates", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 22(5),
375-392.
Sankaranarayanan, S., Cheong, H. F., and Shankar, N. J. (1996) “Discussion on the paper
titled 3D Model of estuarine circulation induced by surface discharges,Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE,
122(7), 420-422
Suresh Rao, H and S. Sankaranarayanan, (1995)Location of water table by using FEM and electrical
analogy experiments, Ground Water, 33(3), 372-377.
Suresh Rao, Hand Sankaranarayanan, S(1992) Discussion on the paper, Solving turbulent flows
using finite elements”, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE,118, 1698-1700.