• Investigation of an Axisymmetric Spiked Body in a Hypersonic Shock Tunnel 

      Narayana, Gopalakrishna
      The forefront research in the regime of hypersonic flow is intended to focus on improving the overall performance of the existing aerospace vehicles. A high-speed vehicle experiences a high level of aerodynamic heating and ...
    • Liquid Jet in Swirling Cross Flow 

      Surya Prakash, R
      Liquid jets in cross flows (JICF) have been an important part of spray research in the last few decades owing to the wide spectrum of applications ranging from agricultural sprays to aircraft gas turbine engines. However, ...
    • Real Time Solutions to Aerospace Optimal Control Problems 

      Swaminathan, Shriram
      A real-time autonomous trajectory generation methodology for aerospace vehicles using pseudo-spectral based global collocation methods is presented in this thesis. The proposed method is formulated in a manner whereby ...
    • Two Problems on the Parametric Resonances and Bifurcations in Rotating Beams 

      Gagan, Versha
      The current research work addresses two interesting systems related to rotating beams. The first dynamical system under consideration is an articulated uniform beam rotating in vacuum under vertical hub excitation along ...
    • Uncertainty modeling and analysis of aerospace structures 

      Mukherjee, Shuvajit
      Aerospace structures are different from other structures due to the difference in the required properties for an aerospace application. The primary motivation of this kind of structure lies in its lightweight nature, ...