SANJAY MITTAL


Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur


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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


Air Intakes



Hysteresis in the flow past an airfoil near stall


Supersonic wind-tunnel

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