Dr. Rinku Mukherjee

Associate Professor
Aerodynamics and Flow-Physics Laboratory
Applied Mechanics and BioMedical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India - 600036

Lab News & Updates

Feb 2025

Ravindra A Shirsath completed his PhD defense successfully

Jan 2025

Three papers from our lab were presented at AIAA SciTech 2025 in Orlando, Florida by
Hariprasanth Palanivel (AIAA 2025-0841),
Dr. Rinku Mukherjee (AIAA 2025-1076),
Shiladitya Bhowmick (AIAA 2025-0254).

Nov 2024

Dr. Rinku Mukherjee gave an invited talk in the 4th International Forum on Aerospace and Aeronautics and Physics and Astonomy Budapest, Hungary.

Nov 2024

Vasanth Kumar's Journal paper published in Fluid Dynamics.

Oct 2024

Hariprasanth Palanivel's Journal paper published in Acta Mechanica.

Jul 2024

PhD scholar, Egambaravel J graduated.

Mar 2024

Hariprasanth Palanivel presented a paper at 10th National Conference on Wind Engineering, VIT Chennai.

Selected Work

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Flow Control on Wind Turbine Blades
Acta Mechanica
Study of Rayleigh-Benard Convection
International Journal of Thermal Sciences
Configuration Flight
European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids
Experiments in Transonic Flows
Journal Of Spacecraft And Rockets
Post-Stall Prediction
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Morphing Technologies
Aerospace Science and Technology
3D Boundary Layer Separation
Acta Mechanica
3D Ground Effect Studies
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Show and Tell

Best Poster Award at AMBE Research Palooza 2024 for Hariprasanth Palanivel

NEW COURSE on DTH(Direct to Home): Dr. Rinku Mukherjee

PMRF Fellowship for Hariprasanth Palanivel

Best Paper award at ICTACEM 2021, IIT Kharagpur for Aritras Roy

AWSAR(Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research)-DST Award in PhD Category, AW/2021/324: Best Stories for Aritras Roy

Research Excellence Award from CSIR-NAL for Gireesh Yanamashetty

Best Paper Award at Conference in NYC, USA for Aritras Roy

Research Areas: Numerical Analysis, CFD, Experiment

Applied Aerodynamics

Unsteady Aerodynamics of Fixed-Wings
Post-Stall Flow Prediction (Steady & Unsteady)
Formation Flight
Experiments to Implement Post-Stall Flow Control
Wing in ground effect

CFD Animation of Single Pitching Airfoil

CFD Animation of Tandem Pitching Airfoils

Flow past Single Airfoil in Water Tank

Flow past Tandem Airfoils in Water Tank

Wake behind a Pitching 3D Wing from Numerical Analysis

Low-Speed Aerodynamics

Diamond-Back Morphing Wing with/without slender fuselage
Rectangular Wing with Airfoil-Shaped Vortex Generators

Oil Flow Visualization of Flow Past a Wing

High-Speed Aerodynamics

Diamond-Back Morphing Wing with/without slender fuselage at transonic and supersonic flows
Transonic Flows past Bluff-Bodies
Interaction of Boundary Layers and Shock Waves

Transonic Flow Past a NASA specified Bluff Body

Transonic Flow Past a Bluff Body with 20deg nose cone without Spike

Transonic Flow Past a Bluff Body with 20deg nose cone WITH Spike