Publications


Journals
  • Sarthak K Patel and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Vortex Interactions and Wake Transitions for Flexible Foil Flapping in Flowing Soap Film”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1031, A36, (2026).
    doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11290
  • Manu S. Varghese, Abhishek Kumar and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Experimental Investigation of Flapping Flexible Surface with Change in Length and Flexural Rigidity”, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 33(xx), 1-21, (2026).
  • Biri Singh and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “The Effect of Thickness of Airfoil Pitching in a Flowing Soap Film on Wake Patterns”, under review for Sadhana.
  • Chandan Bose, Muhammed Najvan and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Thickness-induced wake bifurcation behind a pitching airfoil”, under review for Physical Review Fluids (Letters).
  • A. Verma, V. Kulkarni and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Experimental Investigations of Self-adjusting Bionic Flaps on Low-aspect Ratio Wings”, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, 18(4), 992-1006, (2025).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.47176/jafm.18.4.2922
  • Harisri M. Thulasi, Akshay B. Menon, Prashant K. Jaiswara and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Effect of flexible flap length on flow generation by an airfoil pitching in quiescent fluid”, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 31(4), 1-13, (2024).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.2024049118
  • Ojing Siram, Sachin Yashavant Shinde, Vinayak Kulkarni and Niranjan Sahoo, “In-depth three-component assessment of wind turbine wake using stereo Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) under low tip speed ratio conditions”, Physics of Fluids, 35, 115114, (2023).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0169891
  • Sachin Yashavant 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).
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0519
  • Sachin Yashavant 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).
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2014.480
  • Sachin Yashavant Shinde and J. H. Arakeri, “Jet meandering by a foil pitching in quiescent fluid”, Physics of Fluids, 25, 041701, (2013).
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4800321


Conferences
  • Akhil Joseph, K Prajwal Subudhi, Sachin Yashavant Shinde, and C. Chandraprakash, “Classification of liquids with material property charts”, 7th Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM 2026), 9–11 July 2026, IIT Kanpur, India, (2026).
  • Sachin Yashavant Shinde and Prasanth Prabhakaran, “Entrainment in a Turbulent Jet: A New Approach”, International Conference on Fluid and Thermal Engineering (ICFTE 2026), 19–21 January 2026, BITS Pilani, India, (2026).
  • Biri Singh and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “The Effect of Thickness of Airfoil Pitching in a Flowing Soap Film on Wake Patterns”, 12th International and 52nd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 19–21 December 2025, Nirma University, India, (2025).
  • Thangavel Sudeep and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Wake Modifications arising from a Bio-inspired Flexible Filament placed on NACA0012 Airfoil”, International Conference on Theoretical Applied Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM2025), 15–17 December 2025, IIT Kharagpur, India, (2025).
  • Sachin Yashavant Shinde and Sarthak Patel, “Role of flexibility in determining vortex interactions and wake dynamics of flapping flexible foil”, 78th Annual meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), 23–25 November 2025, Houston, Texas, USA, (2025).
  • Anuj V. Warghat, Sahil Mehra, Kushagra S. Saxena, Aditya Saurabh and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Response of Vertical Soap Film to Acoustic Waves Excitation”, 11th International and 51st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 21–23 December 2024, AMU Aligarh, India, (2024).
  • Manu S. Varghese, Abhishek Kumar and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Experimental Investigation of Flapping Flexible Surface with Change in Length and Flexural Rigidity”, 11th International and 51st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 21–23 December 2024, AMU Aligarh, India, (2024).
  • Anuj V. Warghat, Kushagra S. Saxena, Sahil Mehra, Aditya Saurabh and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Flow Structures in Vertical Stagnant Soap Film due to Acoustic Waves from a Rectangular Waveguide”, 11th International and 51st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 21–23 December 2024, AMU Aligarh, India, (2024).
  • Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Optimal length of flexible surface flapping in quiescent fluid for coherent jet generation”, 1st Mechanical Sciences Young Investigators Meet (MSYIM), 08–10 March 2024, IIT Kanpur, India, (2024).
  • Sarthak Patel and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Wake transition for flexible foil flapping in a soap film tunnel”, 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 20–22 December 2023, IIT Jodhpur, India, (2023).
  • Akshay Menon and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Effect of length of flexible flap on thrust generation for a flexible foil pitching in quiescent fluid”, 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 20–22 December 2023, IIT Jodhpur, India, (2023).
  • Keshav Birdi and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Automated extraction of contorted geometry of 2D flexible surfaces from noisy images using Deep Learning models and algorithms”, 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 20–22 December 2023, IIT Jodhpur, India, (2023).
  • Chandan K. Pothal and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Kinematics of flexible splitter filament behind square cylinder in soap film at low Reynolds number”, 10th International and 50th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 20–22 December 2023, IIT Jodhpur, India, (2023).
  • Harisri M. Thulasi, Akshay B. Menon, Prashant K. Jaiswara and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Effect of flexible flap length on flow generation by an airfoil pitching in quiescent fluid”, 9th International and 49th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP), 14–16 December 2022, IIT Roorkee, India, (2022).
  • Muhammad Najvan, Chandan Bose and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Effect of thickness on wake dynamics of an airfoil pitching in uniform flow”, UK Fluids Conference, 8–10 September 2021, University of Southampton, UK (2021).
  • Muhammad Najvan, Brijesh K. Suman, Chandan Bose and Sachin Yashavant 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, UK, (2021).
  • Chayanit Nigaltia and Sachin Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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 Yashavant 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).


Book Chapters
  • Sarthak Patel and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Wake Transition for Flexible Foil Flapping in a Soap Film Tunnel”, in "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering - Proceedings of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 2023, Vol. 5", Springer, Singapore. pp 361 – 373, (2025).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7759-4_30
  • Akshay Menon and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Effect of Length of Flexible Flap on Thrust Generation for a Flexible Foil Pitching in Quiescent Fluid”, in "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering - Proceedings of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 2023, Vol. 5", Springer, Singapore. pp 311 – 323, (2025).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7759-4_26
  • Keshav Birdi and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Automated Extraction of Contorted Geometry of 2D Flexible Surfaces from Noisy Images Using Deep Learning Models and Algorithms”, in "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering - Proceedings of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 2023, Vol. 5", Springer, Singapore. pp 337 – 348, (2025).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7759-4_28
  • Chandan K. Pothal and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Kinematics of Flexible Splitter Filament Behind Square Cylinder in Soap Film at Low Reynolds Number”, in "Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering - Proceedings of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (FMFP) 2023, Vol. 1", Springer, Singapore. pp 399 – 410, (2025).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6776-2_32
  • Chayanit Nigaltia and Sachin Yashavant Shinde, “Numerical Investigation of Switching of a Jet Generated by a Foil Pitching in Still Fluid”, in “Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations, Volume-II: Nano to Macro”, Springer, pp 283 – 294, (2020).
    doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8315-5_25