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Education: |
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- D.M. I.T – M.I.T.
1967
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M.Tech., IIT Madras - 1972
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Professional
Experience: |
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- Assistant
Professor, IIT Madras, 1992-till date
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Lecturer, IIT Madras, 1977-1992
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Scientist, IIT Madras, 1972-1974
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Associate Lecturer, IIT Madras, 1972-1974
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Senior Technical Assistant, IIT Madras, 1967-1972
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Areas
of expertise: |
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- Aerodynamics
- Vortex
Dynamics
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Most
recently taught courses at IIT Madras and elsewhere: |
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- Design
of piston engines (B.Tech.)
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Flight Trajectory of rockets and space vehicles
(B.Tech.)
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Gas Dynamics (B.Tech.)
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Aerodynamics (B.Tech.)
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Advanced Aerodynamics (B.Tech.)
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Fluid Mechanics (B.Tech.)
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Flight Dynamics I (B.Tech.)
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Flight Dynamics II (B.Tech.)
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Performance of Airbreathing Engines (M.Tech.)
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Fundamentals of Aero. Engg. (M.Tech.)
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Numerical Methods in Gas Dynamics (Electives)
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Boundary layer Theory (Electives)
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Hypersonic Flow Theory (Electives)
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Theory and Computation of Vortex Dominated
Flows (Electives)
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Awards: |
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Research
Interests: |
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- Theory and Computation of
viscous in compressible vortex dominated flows
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Current
Research: |
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- Computation
of unteady in compressible viscous flows,
using vortex blobs
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Aerodynamics of Grid wing in supersonic flow
- Computation
of simple hypersonic Reacting flows
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Most
recently published papers: |
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Prabhu
Ramachandran and S. C. Rajan, "Identification
of regions of fastest mixing in a system
of point vortices", International Journal
of Numerical Methods in Fluids. pp 447-469,
(DOI: 10-10-02/fld. 130) 2002
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Prabhu Ramachandran, S. C. Rajan
and M. Ramakrishna,
"A fast two dimensional panel method"
S.I.A.M Journal on Scientific Computing,
24(6): pp 1864-1878, 2003.
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Prabhu Ramachandran, S. C. Rajan
and S. Santhakumar,
"Engineering Estimates of Normal Loads
on Slender Airbreathing Bodies" Journal
of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 41, No.6
pp 942-947, November - December, 2004.
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Short
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Future
plans: |
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Details
of major sponsored research projects: |
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Title
of Project: Aerodynamic study of
the Helicopter Rotor and Development of
computer code
Duration: 1997-2000 (3
years)
Sponsor: ARDB
Value: Rs. 2.6 lakhs
Co-investigators: Dr. M.
Balakrishnan and Dr.
M. Ramakrishna
Status: Completed
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Details
of major consultancy projects: |
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- Title of Project:
Development of software for calculation of
Aerodynamic characteristics of Air Breathing
Missiles
Duration:1/5/02- 31/1/03
Sponsor: DRDL
Value: Rs. 6.288 lakhs
Principal-investigator: Prof.
S. Santhakumar
Status: Completed
- Title of Project:
Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of Grid Fin
Duration: 23/9/02 to 01/09/05
Sponsor: DRDL
Value: Rs. 14.76 lakhs
Principal-investigator: Prof.
S. Santhakumar
Status: Phase I of the work
is completed
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