Supervision
Mr. Dheeraj Tripathi
Ph.D. Scholar (2020 - Present), Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, India
Co-supervising with Dr. Venkatramani J.
Tentative Thesis: Investigations into Stall Flutter Problems Subjected to Stochastic Inflows.
Research Interests: Stall Flutter, Stochastic Bifurcation, Fatigue Damage Analysis.
Mr. Vignesh S. P.
M.E. Project (2020 - 2021), Energy Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India.
Co-supervising with Prof. R. Velraj.
Tentative Thesis: Aerodynamics of Whale-Inspired Wind Turbine Blades.
Research Interests: Biomimetics, Wind Turbine, Overset Meshing.
Mr. Abraham Thomas Chirathalattu
M.Tech. Project (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, India.
Co-supervising with Dr. Santhosh Balakrishnan.
Tentative Thesis: Suppressing the Instability due to Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) using a Nonlinear Energy Sink (NES).
Research Interests: Vortex-Induced Vibration, Nonlinear Energy Sink, Targeted Energy Transfer.
Mentoring
1. Mr. Muhammad Najvan, M.Tech. Project (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (Collaborator: Dr. Sachin Shinde).
Project: Effect of Thickness on the Wake Dynamics of a Pitching Foil.
2. Mr. Brijesh K. Suman, M.Tech. Project (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (Collaborator: Dr. Sachin Shinde).
Project: Aerodynamic Investigations of Tandem Pitching Foils.
3. Mr. Rik Mandal, B.Tech. Project (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, India (Collaborator: Dr. Sirshendu Mandal).
Project : Synchronization Study on Vortex-Induced Vibrations.
4. Mr. Vishal Gali , Junior Research Fellow (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, India (Collaborator: Dr. J. Venkatramani).
5. Mr. Ashwad Raj , M.Tech. Project (2020 - 2021), Mechanical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, India (Collaborator: Dr. J. Venkatramani).
Project (Vishal and Ashwad): Discontinuity-Induced Bifurcation Route to Stall-Flutter.