Department of Aerospace Engineering
The department was set up in 1965 leading to B.Tech (Hons.) degree after a high power committee appointed by GOI stressed the need for manpower training in the field of Aeronautical Engineering. Over the years, the department has built up laboratories in the areas of aerodynamics, structures and propulsion. A Centre of Excellence for Composite Structures Technology, funded by ARDB, has been established in 1999. Some major thrust areas of the future are Aerospace Control Systems, Aero-Servo-Elasticity, Aerothermo-Mechanics, Industrial Aerodynamics, Air Breathing Propulsion, Composites, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Non-destructive testing and Wind Energy. Currently, the research efforts of the faculty are supported by a large number of projects sponsored by ARDB, ADA, ISRO, DST, AICTE, MHRD and many other organisations
Research Areas
| Smart and Composite Structures |
| Uncertainty Quantification in Aircraft Analysis & Design |
| Jet controls. |
| Aerospace structures |
| Nonlocal elasticity |
| FEM |
| FGM |
| Smart Structures |
| Composite materials and nano-composites |
| Optimization |
| FGM Plates and Shells |
| Composite and Smart Structures |
| Structural Dynamics & Aeroelasticity |
| Design & Development of MR fluid damper & Landing Gear Dynamics |
| Structural Health Monitoring |
| Composite Structures |
| Micro Air Vehicle |
| Computational Aerodynamics Experimental Aerodynamics |
| Fluid Mechanics |
| Aerodynamics |
| Aeroacoustics |
| Large Eddy Simulation |
| Fluid-Structure Interaction |
| Computational fluid dynamics and flight mechanics |
| Flight Dynamics Controls System-Identification Neural Networks |
| Combustion and propulsion |
| Fault Detection and Isolation |
| Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) |
| Combustion of Solid Fuels and Energetic Particles |
| Path Planning of Autonomous Vehicles |
| Droplet and Spray Combustion |
| Experimental Methods in Combustion |
| Atomization and Sprays |
| System Identification/Parameter Estimation - Neural Networks |
| Flight Dynamics & Control and Flight Testing |
| Design Guidance and Control of Rockets Parafoil UAV MAV WIG-Craft etc. |
| Numerical simulation of compressible and chemically reacting flows |
| Combustion Driven Shock Tunnel |
| Laser spectroscopy (new field) |
| Two-Phase Flow Computations |
| DNS |
| LES |
| Compressible turbulence |
| Turbulence-radiation interaction |
| Turbulent reacting flows |
| high performance computing |
| Solid Mechanics |
| Hydrodynamics. |
| Aero-acoustics. |
| Shock-Boundary Layer Interactions. |
| Radiative heat transfer |
| Combustion |
| Trajectory Optimization |
| Dubins Vehicle |
| Obstacle Avoidance |
| Turbomachines |
| Gas turbine |
| Estimation Theory |
| UAV |