RESEARCH
RESEARCH
I am currently working in the Space Safety and Sustainability Project Group of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). I am part of a 6 member team currently working on a journal paper titled “Earth's Orbits as a UNESCO World Heritage Site”. The aim of the paper is to translate the UNESCO principles, and revise and adapt them to space, more specifically to Earth’s orbits. We see this as a necessity as we aim to protect orbits from becoming a landfill and prevent objects and debris from becoming a threat to people living on Earth and on the current and future space stations. I am involved in various tasks like literature surveys, presentation-making, and collecting views, and opinions of professionals about the policies and rules across various fields through surveys.
As a part of the (SGAC) Space Generation Advisory Council's Small Satellites Project Group. I worked on a project titled “Analysis of Space Debris Mitigation and Removal Techniques for Small Satellites in Low Earth Orbit in Purview of the Guidelines Issued by the FCC” which was published as a conference paper in the 74th International Astronautical Congress held at Baku, Azerbaijan. I contributed majorly to the Active debris removal (ADR) method and research sub-topics like the Re-entry of Space objects into Earth's atmosphere, the Acceleration of natural spacecraft decay, and Space debris mitigation laws and policies. I was involved in tasks like presentation-making, conducting in-depth literature surveys on the above-mentioned research sub-topics, and devising several analytical approaches.
As a remote research intern at the Simulation lab, I worked on a Subsonic Aircraft component to develop a feature on the Wing Flap for enhancing aerodynamic efficiency using ANSYS Fluent. Through my research findings, I concluded that more stability was observed when the feature had a more aerodynamic tail. But there was an interesting behaviour also observed in the non-aerodynamic feature tail. It exhibited a parabolic increase in efficiency. The highest efficiency was obtained from the peak of both the parabolas with respect to the increase in alpha and beta angles. Thus, I concluded that a combination of aerodynamic and non-aerodynamic feature tail design may lead to more stability and higher efficiency.
I was one among the 186 students selected across India for the highly competitive SURGE (Students – Undergraduate Research Graduate Excellence) Program conducted by the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in the year 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program was held online mode, I worked as a remote researcher under the guidance of Dr. Arun Kumar Perumal in the domain of over-expanded nozzles and tried to solve a major problem prevailing in the aerospace industry to mitigate high noise levels produced during high-speed compressible flows and did an analytical approach to the problem statement. Devised equations after a thorough literature review to find the analytical expression for determining Mj (Fully expanded jet Mach number) at which the Mach reflection is eliminated and becomes a regular reflection, for a given design Mach number Md and specific heats ratio of gas (gamma).
Under the guidance of Dr. Anup S of the prestigious IIST (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology), I worked as a remote research intern on the Mechanics of Bio-inspired Composites project, devised MATLAB codes for the development of random fuse models for bio-inspired composites for the aerospace structures which is analogous to the spring-mass system in control systems using Finite element method. During the internship, I made various presentations to explain the processes that I used to approach the problem statement.