• High Speed Flows
• Flow-Acoustics Coupling
• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Energy Harvesting
• Turbulence Modeling: DNS, LES, Hybrid RANS/LES
• Combustion and Flame Dynamics
• Spray modeling
• Turbo-machinery Flows
• Lattice Boltzmann Modeling
• Flow Control

Faculty

Ashoke De, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7863 (O) / 8301 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ashoke

• Unsteady aerodynamics, high – α aerodynamics
• Flow control on airfoils, wings, and other bodies
• Bluff body flows
• Vortex dynamics
• Decelerator aerodynamics
• Transition & turbulence
• Jets

Faculty

• Gas Dynamics - experimental and theoretical investigation
• Rarefied flows
• Applied Gas Dynamics and High speed jets
• Sudden expansion problems
• Active and passive control of jets and base flows
• Supersonic, Transonic and subsonic Aerodynamics

Faculty

Arun Kumar Perumal, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2155 (O)
 

• Parameter Identification
• Design and Control
• Space Dynamics
• Missile Guidance and Control
• Flight testing
• Unmanned and Autonomous Air Vehicles (UAV)
• Development and validation of aerodynamic parameter estimation techniques using flight data
• High angle of attack aerodynamics
• Estimation of concentration of trace gases and pollutants
• Validation and calibration of IMU’s
• GPS Receiver Testing, GPS/INS Navigation

Faculty

• Decelerator Aerodynamics
• Development of High Lift Devices
• Unsteady and High Angle of Attack Aerodynamics
• Transport Aircraft Studies Including Development of Airfoils
• Missile Aerodynamics
• Helicopter Aerodynamics
• Aerodynamics of Road Vehicle
• Wind Effect on Structures
• Aerodynamics of Wind Power Devices
• Bridge Aerodynamics

• Computational Aeroelasticity, dynamics and vibration, mini-helicopter design and fabrication
• Stochastic analysis, design and analysis of fastener systems (for Indian Railways)
• Smart structure modeling and analysis
• Composite structure analysis and design, homogenization, generalized damage mechanics.

Faculty

• Stabilized finite element methods
• Unsteady aerodynamics
• Laminar separation bubbles on airfoils
• Shape optimization of airfoils
• Linear stability analysis
• Buzz instability in air intakes
• Aerodynamics of sport balls and shuttle cock
• Bluff body flows
• Fluid-Structure Interactions
• High performance computing

Faculty

Sanjay Mittal, Professor
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  +91-512-2597906, 6603 (O)/ 8702, 1132 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~smittal

• Experimental study on compressible vortex rings: Flow velocity measurements in circular and non-circular vortex rings using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Time-Resolved PIV (TRPIV) and Hotwire. Flow visualization using high speed Schlieren system in supersonic flow.
• Aeroacoustics of supersonic vortices during evolution and interaction.
• Impinging jet flow studies for GSLV MK-III. Flow and acoustic field during initial startup, interaction with the reflected shock and interaction with the deflector.

Faculty

Debopam Das, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7227 (O)/ 8578 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~das

• Design and fabrication of MAVs/UAVs
• Hover capable VTOL/STOL vehicles
• Development of NAAVIK (Navigation for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles by IIT Kanpur)
• Cross platform auto-pilot system for fully autonomous indoor and outdoor navigation for UAVs/MAVS
• Helicopter Aeromechanics
• Helicopter inverse simulation for loads prediction
• Morphing rotor concept
• Geometrically exact beam formulation
• Comprehensive analysis for helicopter design
• Vertical Axis wind turbine design for urban application

Faculty

Abhishek, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-7515 (O), 6259 (L)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~abhish/

Gelled Jet A1 Propellant Spray Combustion

• Scope of Studies
• Develop and characterize Jet A1 based gelled propellant formulation
• Achieve atomization of highly viscous non-Newtonian gel propellant in an air-assist atomizer
• Unravel breakup mechanisms and spray characteristics
• Discover distinguishing features of gel propellant spray flames

Faculty

D. P. Mishra, Professor
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  +91-512-2597125 (O) / 8695 (R)
  https://www.iitk.ac.in/aero/dpm/index.htm

• Modeling of High Speed and Non-equilibrium Gas Flows
• Rarefied Gas Dynamics using Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Approach
• Development and Implementation of Particle based Approaches
• Micro/nano-fluidics using Particle based Approach
• Numerical Simulation of Granular Flows using Discrete Element Method (DEM)
• Simulation of Dusty-Gas Flows using CFD-DEM or DSMC-DEM based Approach
• Planetary Landing and Reentry Flow Simulation in Particle Framework
• Study of Gas-Surface Interactions, Pyrolysis Kinetics and Surface Chemistry using Molecular Dynamics Approach
• Experimental and Numerical Simulation of Jet Flows and Plug Nozzles
• Heat Transfer and Thermal Management of Aerospace Systems

Faculty

Rakesh Kumar, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-6301 (O)/ 5524 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~rkm

• Unsteady Gas Dynamics
• Flow control
• Bluff body flows
• Vortex dynamics
• Granular Flows

Faculty

Sanjay Kumar, Professor
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  +91-512-2596768
 

• Gas turbine combustion
• Solar thermal energy
• Gas-particle flows
• Nano energetics
• Thermal management of aerospace systems
• Thermo-fluids diagnostics
• Vortex shedding combustors
• Entropy driven instabilities
• Azimuthal instability in annular combustors

Faculty

• Rocket and Gas Turbine Propulsion
• Combustion
• Liquid Atomization
• Turbo-machinery
• Intake and Nozzle Flows
• Electric Propulsion
• Flow Physics and Flow Control
• Aeroacoustics
• Fluid Structure Interaction
• Fire Dynamics and Suppression

Faculty

Abhijit Kushari, Professor & Head
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  +91-512-2597126 (O) / 8536 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~akushari/

• Planetary Entry Studies – Convective & Radiative heat transfer
• Hypersonic Shock-Wave Boundary Layer Interaction (H-SWBLI)
• Scramjet Propulsion – External and internal flows
• High Enthalpy Test Facility Development
• Shock Waves – Shock focusing & shock interaction with complex media

Faculty

Mohammed Ibrahim Sugarno, Assistant Professor
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  +91 512-2596345 (O)