Publications


Journal Publications
  • Prasanth Prabhakaran, Sachin Y. Shinde and Roddam Narasimha, “An ‘episodic’ view of entrainment in an axisymmetric turbulent jet – a Direct Numerical Simulation study”, under review for Physics of Fluids.
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Physics of unsteady thrust and flow generation by a flexible surface flapping in the absence of a free stream”, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 474, 20180519, (2018). [pdf]
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0519
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Flexibility in flapping foil suppresses meandering of induced jet in absence of free stream”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 757, 231–250, (2014). [pdf]
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2014.480
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Jet meandering by a foil pitching in quiescent fluid”, Physics of Fluids, 25, 041701, (2013). [pdf]
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4800321


Conferences
  • Harisri M. Thulasi, Akshay B. Menon, Prashant K. Jaiswara and Sachin Y. Shinde, “Effect of flexible flap length on flow generation by an airfoil pitching in quiescent fluid”, for 9th International and 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 14–16 December 2022, IIT Roorkee, India (accepted).
  • Muhammad Najvan, Chandan Bose and Sachin Y. Shinde, “Effect of thickness on wake dynamics of an airfoil pitching in uniform flow”, UK Fluids Conference, 8–10 September 2021, University of Southampton (Online), (2021).
  • Muhammad Najvan, Brijesh K. Suman, Chandan Bose and Sachin Y. Shinde, “Effect of different linear algebraic solvers and dynamic mesh motion strategies on the flow-field of pitching foil”, The 16th OpenFOAM Workshop (OFW16), 7-11 June 2021, Dublin, Ireland (Online), (2021).
  • Chayanit Nigaltia and Sachin Y. Shinde, “Numerical investigation of switching of a jet generated by a foil pitching in still fluid”, 7th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS 2019), 11–13 December 2019, IIT Mandi, India, (2019).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “New measure based solely on wake data for hovering performance”, 72nd Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 23–26 November 2019, Seattle, Washington, USA (Talk), (2019).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “New Hovering Mechanism: Simple and Different from Birds and Insects”, Gallery of Fluid Motion,72nd Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 23–26 November 2019, Seattle, Washington, USA, (Poster), (2019).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Flexibility induces ‘unsteady actuator disk’ type of action for a foil flapping in the absence of free stream”, 71st Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 18–20 November 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Talk), (2018).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde, Prasanth Prabhakaran and Roddam Narasimha, “On the outer flow field and ‘episodic’ entrainment in a round turbulent jet”, 69th Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 20–22 November 2016, Portland, Oregon, USA (Talk), (2016).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Flapping flexible foil propulsion”, International Conference on Computational and Experimental Marine Hydrodynamics (MARHY 2014), 3–4 December 2014, Chennai, India, (Talk), (2014).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “The effect of chordwise flexibility on flapping foil propulsion in quiescent fluid”, 63rd Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 21–23 November 2010, Long Beach, California, USA, (Talk) (Received ‘Travel Award’ from the American Physical Society), (2010).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “A pitching foil with a flexible flap creates an orderly jet”, Gallery of Fluid Motion, 63rd Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 21–23 November 2010, Long Beach, California, USA, (Video), (2010)
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “A novel hovering mechanism from a flapping two-dimensional flexible foil”, International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems (ICIUS), 3–5 November 2010, Bali, Indonesia, (Talk), (2010).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “A new type of hovering from a flapping flexible foil”, 6th World Congress on Biomechanics (WCB), 1–6 August 2010, Singapore, (Talk), (Received ‘Student Travel Award’ from the World Congress on Biomechanics), (2010).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Hydrodynamic propulsion with a flapping flexible foil”, International Symposium – Fluids Days, 31 December 2007 – 1 January 2008, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, (Poster), (2007).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Study of oscillatory lift-based propulsion by flapping airfoil with flexible trailing edge”, 5th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB), 29 July – 4 August 2006, Munich, Germany, (Talk), (2006).
  • Sachin Y. Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Effect of flexibility on the flow over an oscillating airfoil”, International conference on Marine Hydrodynamics (MAHY), 5–7 January 2006, Visakhapattanam, India, (Talk), (2006).