Research Experience :  Swansea University UK, (2010-2015)

Research Officer-Lecturer, 

Morphing Aircraft Lab, 
Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering 

Swansea University, (Previously-University of Wales) UK

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering/zcce/aerospace-engineering-structures/

Project: Modeling of Morphing Aircraft, funded by European Research Council. 

Education: (2004-2010)

PhD (Helicopter Dynamics & Aeroelasticity), Helicopter Lab, IISc, Bangalore

PhD Thesis: Stochastic Aeroelasticity of Helicopters

MS, (Helicopter Dynamics & Aeroelasticity), Helicopter Lab, IISc, Bangalore

MS Thesis: Design of Helicopters Rotors for Vibration Reduction

BE, Government College of Engineering-Anna University, India

Funded Research Projects:

Morphing Aircraft, European Research Council, UK (2010-15) 

Dynamics and Aeroelasticity of Morphing Aircraft, NFSG, IITM, India-15 Lakhs, (2019-21)

Nonlinear Dynamics & Aeroelasticity of Morphing UAV Wing, SERB-India, 35 Lakhs, (2020-23).

Courses (Advanced) Taught:

Helicopter Dynamics (Swansea University UK, IISc, IIT-M)

UAV Aircraft Design (Swansea University UK, IIT-M)

Structural Dynamics & Aeroelasticity (IIT-M)

Smart Structures: Analysis & Control (IIT-M),  Nonlinear Dynamics & Stability (IIT-M)

Aircraft Design Projects (IIT-M), 

Helicopter Aerodynamics (IIT-M)

International Collaborators & Co-Authors:

UNITED KINGDOM

    Prof. M. I. Friswell, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Prof. Sondipon Adhikari, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Prof. Ben Woods, Lecturer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

    Prof. EA de Souza Neto, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Prof. Satish Kumar Ponnusamy, City University, London, UK

USA

    Prof. Daniel J Inman, University of Michigan, Blacksburg, USA

SPAIN 

    Prof. Rafael Gallego, University of Granada, Spain

    Dr. RafelCastro Triguero, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain

CHILE

    Dr Erick I. Saavedra Flores, University of Santiago, Chile

2024:

1.  Data Driven Modeling and Control of Delivery Drone. In: Tiwari, R., Ram Mohan, Y.S., Darpe, A.K., Kumar, V.A., Tiwari, M. (eds) Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery, Volume II. VETOMAC 2021. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 153. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8986-7_13 

2023: 

1. Arghya Mondal, Murugan Senthil, "Flexural wave propagation characteristics of Metabeam with simultaneous acoustic black hole and local resonator",  European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids  (Accepted)

2. Arghya Mondal, Sayan Dutta, Senthil Murugan Coupled flexural and torsional vibration attenuation with locally resonant metamaterials, 2023 Materials Today: Proceedings

3. Arghya Mondal, Senthil Murugan Attenuation bandwidth enhancement in meta-structures with nonlinear multistable local resonator, 2023 VETOMAC 2023

4. David Chaudhary, Senthil Murugan Trajectory Tracking Control of Morphing Space Robot for Space Debris Capture, 2023 ISME 2023 proceedings

5. David Chaudhary, Senthil Murugan Particle swarm optimization based control for a controlled floating space robot, 2023 IEEE RAAI 2023

6. Singha, D., and Murugan, S. Aeroelasticity of telescopic morphing UAV wing, AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023

7. Singha, D., and Murugan, S. Morphing-Induced Dynamics of a Two Stage Coupled Telescopic Beam, iNaCoMM-2023

8. Singha, D., and Murugan, S. Morphing-Induced nonlinear Dynamics in Telescopic beams VETOMAC 2023

9. Prabhakar, M., and Murugan, S. DYNAMICS AND STABILITY OF A DISCRETE SMART BEAM WITHTIME-VARYING STIFFNESS, VETOMAC 2023 

10. Sunny Sunny and Senthil Murugan, Dynamics of UAV Wing with Smart Metamaterial Resonators. Sunny Sunny and; Senthil Murugan. Sunny Sunny ... AIAA 2023-4392. 

11. Sunny, and Murugan, S. Elastic wave attenuation of metamaterial box beam with hybrid resonators2023 iNaCoMM-2023

12. Sunny, and Murugan, S. Wave Propagation in UAV metamaterial wing with periodic RL- parallel circuits 2023 VETOMAC 2023

13. Senthil Murugan, S LM, IIT Madras, Stochastic Aeroelastic Stability of Distributed Electric Propulsion Wing, The First International Conference on Advanced Air Mobility Systems, Bangalore, India

14. Senthil Murugan and S LM,  Data Driven Modeling of Electric Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Dynamics       12-16 June 2023AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, USA.

15. Senthil Murugan and Jeevan Raj "Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINN) based Data-driven Dynamic Modelling:  Applications on Quadcopter with a suspended payload" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation Systems (IRMAS 2023) during May 4-5, 2023 at Chennai.  ("Best Paper Award" )

2022: 

Singha, D., and Murugan, S. Aeroelastic analysis of a span morphing wing with moving loads AIAA SCITECH Forum 2022 

Singha, D., and Murugan, S. Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a span morphing Telescopic beam, VETOMAC 2022

Murugan, S., and Sunny  Aeroelastic Wave Propagations of Metamaterial UAV Wing

2022 IFASD 2022

Sunny, and Murugan, S. Dynamics of Thin-Walled Metamaterial beam with Local Resonators

2022 INCAM 2022

 Prabhakar, M., and Murugan, S. DYNAMICS AND STABILITY OF CAMBER MORPHING WING WITH TIME-VARYING STIFFNESS

2022 ASME 2022 conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS 2022)

2020:

34) Maroju, Dileep, and Murugan, Senthil, 'Dynamic modeling of a morphing beam structure using parametric non linear regressive method', International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Belgium, September 2020. 

2019 :

33) Denil Chawda & Senthil Murugan  "Dynamics of Large-Scale Span Morphing Beam Structures" XIIIth International Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Dynamics, April 2019, France

32) Mr. Gowtham, Denil Chawda & Senthil Murugan, "Coupled vibration of Maglev trains with varying speeds", 4th Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics, July 3-5, 2019  IISc Bangalore.

2017/18 :

31) Leelendhu K, Senthil Murugan M, Soundarapandian S, "Manufacturing and Design of a 3D-Active Camber structure"  International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures- ICCMS 2017, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 2017 

30)  'Best Presentation Award' at ICTACEM, 2017:

T. V. Raghav,  M. Senthil Murugan “Stability Analysis of Corrugated Structures for Morphing Wings” International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computation and Environmental Mechanics (ICTACEM-2017​), Kharagpur, December 28-30, 2017.   

             ************************   Publications (-Still 2017):   *******************

                                        I) Dynamics & Aeroelasticity of Morphing Aircraft

Journal Papers :

29) Murugan, M.S., B.K.S Woods, and Friswell, M. I, "Hierarchical Modeling and Optimization of Camber Morphing Wing", Aerospace Science and Technology, 2015.

28) Murugan, M.S., Friswell, M. I, “Morphing Wing Flexible Skins with Curvilinear Fiber Composites”, Composite Structures, Vol. 99, May 2013, Pages 69–75. 

27) Murugan, M. S., Erick, S. F. I., Friswell, M. I., and Adhikari, S., "Optimal design of variable fiber spacing composites for morphing aircraft skins", Composite Structures, Vol. 94, No. 5, 2012.

26) Saavedra Flores, E.I., Murugan, M.S., Friswell, M.I. and de Souza Neto, E.A., "Re-orientation of fibres and local mechanisms of deformation in a wood-inspired composite", Journal of Multiscale Modelling, Vol. 04, No. 01, 2012. 

25) E. I. Saavedra Flores, M. S Murugan, M. I. Friswell, E. A de Souza Neto. “Multi-scale Constitutive Model for a Wood-Inspired composite”, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 10, 2011, Pages 3616–3621

Conference proceedings :

24) MS Murugan, M. I. Friswell, D. J. Inman, Aeroelastic Modelling of Morphing Wing Aircraft, Royal Aeronautical Society's 4th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Belfast, UK, October 7 - October 10, 2014.

23) Murugan, M. S., Woods, B. K. S., and Friswell, M. I., "Morphing Helicopter Rotor Blade with Curvilinear Fiber Composites". 38th European Rotorcraft Forum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4- 7 September 2012, 

22) Saavedra Flores E. I.*, Murugan, M. S., Friswell, M. I., de Souza Neto E. A, Multi-scale constitutive model for a wood-inspired composite International Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 

21) Murugan,M. S., Saavedra Flores, E. I., Friswell, M. I., and Adhikari, S., Optimal Design of Elastomer Composites for Morphing Skins, ASME 2011 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, September 18- 21, 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. 

20) EI Saavedra-Flores, Murugan, M. S., MI Friswell & EA de Souza-Neto, Computational Multi-scale Constitutive Model for Wood Cells and its Application to the Design of Bio-inspired Composites. SPIE Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 6-10 March 2011, San Diego, California, USA.

II) Helicopters Dynamics & Aeromechanics 

Journal Papers :

19) Murugan, M. S., Rajib, C., Adhikari, S., and Friswell, M. I., “ Helicopter Aeroelastic Analysis with Spatially Uncertain Rotor Blade Properties", Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2012. TOP 25 MOST DOWNLOADED ARTICLES IN 2012, AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. ( SOURCE : CERTIFICATE BY SCIENCEDIRECT)

18) Murugan, M.S., Ganguli, R., and Harursampath, D., “Surrogate Based Design Optimization of Composite Airfoil Cross-Section for Helicopter Vibration Reduction”, Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 116, No. 1181, 2012.

17) Murugan, M. S., Ganguli, R. and Harursampath, D., “Stochastic Aeroelastic Analysis of Composite Helicopter Rotor,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2011.

16) Siva, Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “ Uncertainty Quantification in Helicopter Performance using Monte Carlo Simulations", Journal of Aircraft -AIAA, Vol. 48, No. 5, 2011.

15) Siva, Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “Effects of Uncertainty on Helicopter Performance Predictions”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 224, No 5, 2010.

14) Murugan, M. S., Harursampath, D., and Ganguli, R., “Material Uncertainty Propagation in Helicopter Nonlinear Aeroelastic Response and Vibratory Analysis,” AIAA Journal, (0001-1452), Vol. 46, No. 9, 2008.

13) Murugan, M. S., Ganguli, R., and Harursampath, D., “Aeroelastic Response of Composite Helicopter Rotor with Random Material Properties,” Journal of Aircraft -AIAA, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2008. 5th TOP CITED ARTICLE for the years 2008-2012, JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT (REF : http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_aviationaerospace&view_op=list_hcore&venue=WWPWzqvcsY0J.2013)

12) Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “Influence of Inflow Models on Helicopter Aeroelastic Optimization,” Computational Fluid Dynamics JOURNAL /International Society of CFD, Vol.16, No.2, July 2007.

11) Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “Aeroelastic Stability Enhancement and Vibration Suppression in a Composite Helicopter Rotor,” Journal of Aircraft-AIAA, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2005.

10) Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “Vibration Reduction in Helicopter Rotors with Dynamic Stress Constraints using Response Surface Methods,” Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2004

Conference proceedings :

9) S. Murugan, R. Chowdhury, S. Adhikari, M. Friswell, "Effects of Spatially Uncertain Structural Properties on Helicopter Aeroelastic Response Predictions using High Dimensional Model Representation", 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2011

8) C. Siva, Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R, “Helicopter Performance Predictions with Structural and Aerodynamic Uncertainties” 2nd International Forum on Rotorcraft Multidisciplinary Technology, Korea, October, 2009. 

7) Murugan, M. S., Harursampath, D., and Ganguli, R., “Robust Optimal Design of Helicopter Rotor Blade Cross Section,” 34th European Rotorcraft Forum, Liverpool, UK, 2008.

6) Murugan, M. S., Harursampath, D., and Ganguli, R., “Robust Aeroelastic Optimization of Composite Helicopter Rotor,” International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008.

5) Murugan, M. S., Harursampath, D., and Ganguli, R., “Stochastic Aeroelastic Analysis of Composite Helicopter Rotor,” 33rd European Rotorcraft Forum, Kazan, Russia, 2007.

4) Murugan, M. S., Ganguli, R., and Harursampath, D., “Effects of Structural Uncertainty on Aeroelastic Response of Composite Helicopter Rotor,” 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Hawaii, USA, 2007.

3) Murugan, M. S., and Ganguli, R., “Design of Experiments Approach to Helicopter Rotor Optimization,” 29th European Rotorcraft Forum, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 2003.

III) Control of Mechanical Structures

2) Rafael Castro-Trigueroa, Senthil Murugan, Rafael Gallegoc, Michael I. Friswell, Robust Sensor Placement under Parametric Uncertainty, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, July 2013 

1) Rafael Castro-Triguero, Senthil Murugan, Michael I. Friswell, Rafael Gallego, “Optimal Sensor Placement for Structures Under Parametric Uncertainty”, Topics in Dynamics of Bridges, Volume 3, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, 2013, pp 125-132.