Skills & Activities

Research Interests

Gas dynamics, turbomachinery, hypersonics, aeroacoustics, experimental fluid dynamics, mixing flows, aerothermodynamics, shock/wind tunnels, fluidic devices, flow measurement techniques, optical flow diagnostics, thermo-fluids, high-speed imaging, jets and wakes, data-driven techniques, digital image processing

Other Research Interests

Aircraft design, vehicle dynamics and stability, flow control, fluid-structure inter-actions, fluid turbulence, computational fluid dynamics using commercial solvers, energy conversion and conservation

Research Activities

Real and ideal flow analysis of obstacles, Design and development of supersonic blow-down wind tunnel, Ground proximity studies of supersonic bullets, Flow morphology of the supersonic free/confined jet, Studies on exotic supersonic noz-zle shapes, Aerodynamics behind the auto rotation of seeds, DBD plasma wall jet PIV studies, Blast-wave visualization, hypersonic flow visualization, Mist genera-tion and applications in high speed flows, spiked bodies in supersonic/hypersonic flows, transonic flow past cavities, external flow control, jet aeroacoustics, cold flow mixing studies in the gas turbine combustors and supersonic inlets, high-speed facility design and testing, low Re flows past polygons, supersonic wall jets

Experimental Skills

Rayleigh/Mie Scattering, Particle Image Velocimetry, Laser Induced Fluorescence (acetone, iodine, NO and OH PLIF), Particle Size Analysis, Stereoscopy, High Speed Imaging, Schlieren and Shadowgraph Imaging, Spectroscopy, Surface pressure measurements (steady/unsteady), Oil flow visualization, Aeroacoustics

Software Skills

Ansys ICEM Meshing (2D, 3D), Ansys Fluent (2D, 3D RANS/URANS, DES, LES), Davis 8.5 (2D PIV, LIF, Stereoscopic PIV), Tecplot (2D, 3D), Matlab (Im-age Processing Routines, Data Processing), Catia V5 & V6 (Sketching, Part, Sur-face, Assembly, Drafting), Solid Works (sketching, drafting, assembly, render-ing), Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Publisher), Adobe (Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Light Room), and LaTeX

Languages | (Read, Write & Speak)

English, Tamil