Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Aerodynamics Faculty

Alakesh Chandra Mandal, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7062 (O)
 

Research Interests: Experimental aerodynamics, Flow instability and transition, Turbulent shear flows

Arnab Samanta, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-2182 (O)
  https://sites.google.com/view/fpcal

Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, aeroacoustics, hydrodynamic stability, wave mechanics, flow control

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

Research Interests: Experimental aerodynamics, High speed flows, Subsonic and supersonic jets, Jets in cross flow, Impinging jets, Drag reduction on automotive vehicles.

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

Research Interests: Theoretical and Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Aeroacoustics, Instability & transition, Vortex Dynamics. Unsteady Aerodynamics, Bird's and Insect's Flight

Kamal Poddar, Professor
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  +91-512-2597293, 7843 (O)/ 8723 (R)
 

Research Interests: Aerodynamics, Turbulence, Low and High Speed Flows

Mohammed Ibrahim Sugarno, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High Enthalpy Test Facilities, Shock Waves

Navrose, Assistant Professor
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  0512 259 2022 (Office – 1st Floor, Helicopter Building)
 

Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Optimization, Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Pradeep Moise, Assistant Professor
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  0512-259-2347 (O)
  https://www.pradeepmoise.com/

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, swirling flows, transonic flows, hydrodynamic stability, modal decomposition

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

Research Interests: Hypersonics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Microfluidics, Molecular Dynamics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Design

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

Research Interests: Aerodynamics, CFD, FEM

Sanjay Kumar, Professor
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  +91-512-2596768
 

Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics - bluff body wakes, shock-accelerated flows, shock waves, shock tubes

Tufan Kumar Guha, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-2592352
  https://sites.google.com/view/eag-iitk-ae/

Research Interests: Experimental Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Active and Passive Flow Control

Flight Mechanics & Control Faculty

Ashish Tewari, Professor
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  +91-512-2597868 (O) / 8499 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ashtew

Research Interests: Flight Mechanics, Control, Aeroservoelasticity, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Space Dynamics

Dipak Kumar Giri, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259 7107
  https://sites.google.com/view/dipakgiri

Research Interests: Linear and nonlinear controls for aerospace systems (flight vehicle), Satellite Attitude Dynamics and Control.

Mangal Kothari, Professor
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  0512-259-6104 (O)/ 5623 (H)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~mangal/

Research Interests: Optimal Control, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Flight Vehicle Guidance and Control, State Estimation, Motion Planning and Cooperative Control

Raghavendra P. Kukillaya, Assistant Professor
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  6706 (Office, HSAL-02)
 

Research Interests: Aircraft and Airship dynamics and control, Systems modeling, simulation and design, Optimal control, Biomechanics

Subrahmanyam Saderla, Associate Professor
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  0512-259-2009 (Office, HSAL-05)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~saderlas/

Research Interests:

  • Real Time Aircraft Parameter Estimation
  • Aerodynamic Characteristics of UAVs using flight testing methods
  • Aircraft Instrumentation and Control
  • Aircraft/UAV Simulations and Simulator development
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design
  • Experimental Flight Dynamics
  • Drone Design and Development
  • AI based controller design for UAVs
  • Controller reconfiguration of UAVs using online system identification
Structures, Structural Dynamics & Aeroelasticity Faculty

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

Research Interests: Rotary Wing Aeromechanics, Hover Capable Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), System Identification, Multibody Dynamics, Inverse Flight Dynamics Simulation for Helicopters, VTOL, Helicopter Design

C. S. Upadhyay, Professor
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  91-512-2597936 (O) / 8745 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~shekhar

Research Interests: Solid Mechanics, Adaptive Finite Element Methods, Structural Optimization

G.M.Kamath, Professor & Head
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  +91-512-259-6614 (w)
  https://www.gmkamath.in/

Research Interests: Structural Health Monitoring, Composite Materials and Structures, Structural Dynamics, Condition Monitoring, Machine Learning, Aeroelasticity

P. M. Mohite, Professor
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  +91-512-259-6024 (O) / 6024
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~mohite

Research Interests: Damage Mechanics of Laminated Composites, Composites, Finite Element Analysis

Pritam Chakraborty, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-7951 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~cpritam/

Research Interests: Mesoscale mechanics for plasticity, fatigue, creep and fracture; FEM; Multi-scale methods

Rajesh Kitey, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7060 (O) / 7853 (L) / 8898 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~kitey/

Research Interests: Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Experimental Stress Analysis, Optical Metrology, Mechanics of Thin Films, Composite Materials, Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods

Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-679-2092 (O)
  https://www.tmukhopadhyay.com/

Research Interests: Mechanical metamaterials, Advanced composites, Deployable materials and structures, 2D materials and heterostructures, Multi-scale mechanics (nano to macro), Stochastic analysis, Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis, Surrogate modelling, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Additive manufacturing

Tanmay Dutt Mathur, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2398

Research Interests: Rotorcraft and aeroengine gearboxes, rotordynamics of turbomachinery, design of rotating mechanical systems, tribology and lubrication.

Propulsion Faculty

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

Research Interests: Rocket and Gas Turbine Propulsion, Instrumentation in Combustion and Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Atomization and Liquid Combustion, Active Flow Control, Combustion Instability, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, High Speed Flows

Ajay Vikram Singh, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Combustion and Reacting Flows, Combustion Generated Functional Nanoparticles, Soot Formation and Oxidation, Detonations, Boundary Layer Combustion, Gas Turbine Combustion, Fire Dynamics, Flame Spread, Material Flammability, Renewable Energy Conversion

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

Research Interests: CFD, High Speed Flows, Flow-Acoustics Coupling, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Turbulence Modeling, Multiphase flows and Combustion, Energy Harvesting

D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Evaporation and combustion of fuel droplets, Laser-induced evaporation and atomization of droplets, Pulse laser-induced atomization of droplets, Femtosecond laser-induced bubble dynamics

D. P. Mishra, Professor
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  +91-512-2597125 (O) / 8695 (R)
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Research Interests: Combustion, CFD of Chemically Reacting Flows, Propulsion, Heat Transfer

Rajesh Ranjan, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2203 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~rajeshr

Research Interests: Turbomachinery Flows, Applied Aerodynamics, Stability & Flow Control, Transition and Relaminarization, High Performance Computing

Sathesh Mariappan, Professor
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  +91-512-259-6331 (O)
  https://sites.google.com/view/sathesh-mariappan/

Research Interests: Fundamentals of thermoacoustic interactions, Application of dynamical systems' theory to thermo fluid systems, Optical flow diagnostics, Acoustic measurements

Vaibhav Arghode, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-6294 (O)
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Research Interests: Combustion, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational Mechanics Faculty

Arnab Samanta, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, aeroacoustics, hydrodynamic stability, wave mechanics, flow control

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

Research Interests: CFD, High Speed Flows, Flow-Acoustics Coupling, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Turbulence Modeling, Multiphase flows and Combustion, Energy Harvesting

C. S. Upadhyay, Professor
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  91-512-2597936 (O) / 8745 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~shekhar

Research Interests: Solid Mechanics, Adaptive Finite Element Methods, Structural Optimization

Pradeep Moise, Assistant Professor
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  0512-259-2347 (O)
  https://www.pradeepmoise.com/

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, swirling flows, transonic flows, hydrodynamic stability, modal decomposition

P. M. Mohite, Professor
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  +91-512-259-6024 (O) / 6024
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~mohite

Research Interests: Damage Mechanics of Laminated Composites, Composites, Finite Element Analysis

Pritam Chakraborty, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-7951 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~cpritam/

Research Interests: Mesoscale mechanics for plasticity, fatigue, creep and fracture; FEM; Multi-scale methods

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

Research Interests: Aerodynamics, CFD, FEM

Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-679-2092 (O)
  https://www.tmukhopadhyay.com/

Research Interests: Mechanical metamaterials, Advanced composites, Deployable materials and structures, 2D materials and heterostructures, Multi-scale mechanics (nano to macro), Stochastic analysis, Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis, Surrogate modelling, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Additive manufacturing

Aero-Thermodynamics and Thermal Sciences Faculty

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

Research Interests: Rocket and Gas Turbine Propulsion, Instrumentation in Combustion and Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Atomization and Liquid Combustion, Active Flow Control, Combustion Instability, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, High Speed Flows

Ajay Vikram Singh, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-2592006 (O)
  https://www.ajayvsaero.com/

Research Interests: Combustion and Reacting Flows, Combustion Generated Functional Nanoparticles, Soot Formation and Oxidation, Detonations, Boundary Layer Combustion, Gas Turbine Combustion, Fire Dynamics, Flame Spread, Material Flammability, Renewable Energy Conversion

Arun Kumar Perumal, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental aerodynamics, High speed flows, Subsonic and supersonic jets, Jets in cross flow, Impinging jets, Drag reduction on automotive vehicles.

D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2338 (O)
  https://chaitanyarao.in/

Research Interests: Evaporation and combustion of fuel droplets, Laser-induced evaporation and atomization of droplets, Pulse laser-induced atomization of droplets, Femtosecond laser-induced bubble dynamics

Mohammed Ibrahim Sugarno, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High Enthalpy Test Facilities, Shock Waves

Rajesh Ranjan, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2203 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~rajeshr

Research Interests: Turbomachinery Flows, Applied Aerodynamics, Stability & Flow Control, Transition and Relaminarization, High Performance Computing

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

Research Interests: Hypersonics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Microfluidics, Molecular Dynamics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Design

Sanjay Kumar, Professor
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Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics - bluff body wakes, shock-accelerated flows, shock waves, shock tubes

Sathesh Mariappan, Professor
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  https://sites.google.com/view/sathesh-mariappan/

Research Interests: Fundamentals of thermoacoustic interactions, Application of dynamical systems' theory to thermo fluid systems, Optical flow diagnostics, Acoustic measurements

Tufan Kumar Guha, Assistant Professor
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  https://sites.google.com/view/eag-iitk-ae/

Research Interests: Experimental Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Active and Passive Flow Control

Vaibhav Arghode, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-6294 (O)
  https://sites.google.com/view/varghode

Research Interests: Combustion, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics