Modeling of turbulent, compressible, reacting flows in propulsion systems, heat & mass transfer enhancement, heat transfer in microchannels, and heat transfer in phase changing materials.

Numerical simulation of multiphase flows, level set methods, bubble and drop simulations, sloshing dynamics, simulation of waterhammer phenomena, Rayleigh-Benard convection

Sequencing and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Aerospace systems, Supply chain management, Cellular Manufacturing Systems, Just-in-Time systems

Computational Fluid Mechanics Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Compressible & Incompressible Flow Unsteady Flows Associate Member, Aeronautical Society of India Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Materials Forming, Aerospace Materials, Metal joining, Heat treatment

Finite Element Methods

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Laminar Burning Velocity/ Flame speed using Freely propagating Spherical Flame Method for gaseous/ liquid fuel-Air/O2 mixtures Implementation of a Radiation model in ANSYS CHEMKIN Experimental and Numerical Inve

Acoustics, Vibration, Condition Monitoring, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Nonlinear Dynamics and NVH

Heat Transfer in Space applications: Major areas of research involves film/regenerative cooling of liquid rocket thrust chambers, liquid rocket engine cycle analysis, cryogenic two phase flow, plume radiation modeling of solid rocket motors, micro nozzles

Gas Dynamics, Hypersonic flows, Experimental Aerodynamics

RBCC based Hypersonic Propulsion and Medium Independent-Turbojet in Mars, Supersonic combustion, Cavity induced oscillation and Pylon based mixing in high speed flows, Vacuum Ejector High pressure Methane-O2 and H2-O2 combustion, Combustion Instabilty in

Aerodynamics, Aeroacoustics, Unsteady flows, Flow instability, Experimental methods

Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations, Structural Dynamics, Theory of Plates and Shells, Approximate Mathematical Methods, Bi-linear Oscillators, Fluid Structure Intereaction, Friction Induced Vibrations, Modelling and Simulation of MEMS & NEMS.

Structural Health Monitoring, Lamb waves, Energy harvesting, Smart Structures Modeling of Composite Materials.

Conjunction analysis for near earth (mainly LEO) objects (satellites and space debris) Aircraft system identification using Physics Informed Neural Networks Online Trajectory optimisation using Machine Learning Trajectory optimisation using direct/Indirec

Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design System Identification and Parameter Estimation of Flight Vehicles Dynamics and Control of Fixed wing and Multi-rotor UAVs Reinforcement Learning-based control of UAVs

Flow instability and transition to turbulence, Boundary layer flows, Stratified flows, Experimental fluid mechanics, Convective Heat transfer

Two-phase fluid flow ( Primarily Boiling Instabilites and Internal Cavitating flows) Radiation in participating solid media Thermal analysis in spacecraft components Electronic cooling

Research Work / Area Aerospace Propulsion: Rocket Propulsion: thrust augmentation, throttling Air-breathing Propulsion: Swirl combustion, Supersonic Combustion (Mixing, fuel injection dynamics, thermometry) Clean Combustion Burner development for natural

Mechanics of biological and bio-inspired composites, Buckling of shells, Composite micromechanics