Gangadhar Venkata Ramana Pinapatruni
I am a doctoral research scholar in the Department of Aerospace Engineering under the supervision of Professor Sunil Manohar Dash. Tubercle airfoil aerodynamics, Flapping airfoil aerodynamics, Experimental aerodynamics, Computational fluid dynamics, and Lagrangian coherent structures are areas of expertise.
I work at the Bio-Inspired Aero and Hydrodynamics Research Laboratory, which Prof. Sunil Manohar Dash leads. I've been working on numerical and experimental studies of flapping tubercle airfoils. I conduct numerical and experimental research using the ParamShakti computational facility and the open surface recirculating water tunnel facility.
The Indian government's Ministry of Education awarded me the Prime Minister's Research Fellow role in cycle 9 (beginning in 2022). The title of the proposed project is "On the Study of the Aerodynamic and Propulsive Performance of Static and Flapping Tubercle Airfoils."