I am a Post-doctoral research associate at the department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (AME) at the Univeristy of Arizona. My primary research work focuses on:
- How structural motion of airfoils caused by unsteady loading affects transition from laminar to turbulent flow at low flight Reynolds numbers
- Understanding hypersonic transition in the presence of shock boundary layer interaction
I study subsonic transition physics through flight testing (on an instrumented scaled model X-56 aircraft) and using experimental methods such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Schlieren flow visualization, hot wire anemometry, pressure measurements etc in a large (3 ft x 4 ft x 12 ft) subsonic wind tunnel.
My reserach on hypersonic tansition is done in a Mach 5 Ludwig tube (at Reynolds number of upto 20 million per meter) facility and an in-draft supersonic tunnel. I employ high frequency pressure transducers and high-speed imagining techniques.
I'm also interested in using Linear Stability Theory (LST) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to complement my experimental work.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Aerospace Engineering at Univeristy of Arizona (2020)
Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) - Aerospace Engineering at University of Michigan Ann Arbor (2013)
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Visvesvarya Technological University (2010)
