SANJAY MITTAL
Professor
of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Flow past an end-to-end rectangular wing with Eppler-61 airfoil at 10 deg angle of attack
Flow past a finite wing: wing tip vortices and vortex shedding
Flow past a finite wing – effect of aspect ratio: wing tip vortices, vortex shedding
Flow past a finite wing: comparison of Cp on elliptic, rectangular and optimal planform from adjoint based optimization
Flow past a finite wing: streamwise vorticity for rectangular, optimal and elliptic planform from adjoint based optimization
Fluid-Structure interactions: Flow past a cylinder with attached splitter plate vibrating in third mode
Fluid-Structure interactions: Flow past two side-by-side cylinders with attached splitter plates vibrating in phase (top) and out-of-phase (bottom)
Fluid-Structure interactions: failure of an inflated spherical balloon
Transition of the boundary layer on a smooth sphere
Transition of the boundary layer via shear layer vortices on a smooth cylinder
Effect of a trip wire on the transition of boundary layer on a cylinder
Surface pressure on a cricket ball at various Re (swing and reverse-swing)
Wind-tunnel testing of parachutes
Wind-tunnel testing of sports balls (force measurements)
Wind-tunnel testing of smooth sphere (oil flow visualization)
Wind-tunnel testing of cricket ball (oil flow visualization). Formation of Laminar separation bubble (LSB) on seam-side (swing) and nonseam-side (reverse-swing)
Wind-tunnel testing of sports balls (2D PIV measurements)
One single sample of cricket ball artificially roughened to study contrast-swing
Wind-tunnel measurement of swing-force coefficient for contrast-swing
LES of flow over a cricket ball – appeared on the cover page of JFM
Various sports projectiles tested in the wind-tunnel
Relative drag on various sports projectiles tested in the wind-tunnel
Pressure coefficient on a stalk along the skirt for various models of shuttlecock from CFD
Velocity profiles for various models of shuttlecock from CFD
Fluid-structure interaction analysis of a Badminton Shuttlecock
Wind-tunnel testing of Aeroelastic response of a bridge
Wind-tunnel testing of Structures in a Thermal Power Station
Wind-tunnel testing of Cluster of High Rise Buildings
Oil flow visualization on the wing of a transport aircraft
Force measurements on a motor-cycle using an in-house platform balance
Force measurements on an automobile model
Evaluation of fan performance
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Air Intakes
Hysteresis in the flow past an airfoil near stall
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Supersonic wind-tunnel |