Faculty

Dr. Sunetra Sarkar
 
Name:   Dr. Sunetra Sarkar
Designation:   Assistant Professor

Office Address:   ASE 121
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, 600036
Office Hours:  

Phone Number:   +91-44-2257 4024 (Office)
Email Address(es):   sunetra@ae.iitm.ac.in
Personal Home Page:   http://www.aero.iitm.ac.in/~sunetra
 
  Education:
 
  • Ph.D. Dept. of Aerospace Engg., Indian Institute of Science, 2005

  • M.Sc.(Engg.) Dept. of Aerospace Engg., Indian Institute of Science, 2000

  • B.E. Jadavpur University, 1997


 
  Professional Experience:
 
  • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2007
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Technical University of Delft, 2005-2007

  
  Areas of expertise:
 
  • Unsteady Aerodynamics
  • Aeroelasticity
  • Nonlinear Dynamics

  
  Most recently taught courses at IIT Madras and elsewhere:
 
 
  Awards:
 
  • Rubicon Fellow, awarded by Netherlands foundation for scientific research (NWO), 2006-2007
  • Mrs. Sabita Chaudhuri Memorial Award, for the best thesis in the Mechanical Sciences division, Indian Institute of Science, 2004-2005
  • Zonta International Amelia Earhardt Fellowship Award, for academic excellence and research contribution in aerospace engineering, 2003-2004
  • Young Researcher Fellowship Award, by 1st M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, 2001
  • Prof. S. Neogi Memorial Award, for merit and academic activities, by the Alumni Association Jadavpur University, India, 1996.



 
  Research Interests:
 
  • Aerodynamics of insects and man made flapping devices, particle techniques in fluid dynamics, nonlinear aeroelasticity, uncertainty quantification.


 
  Most recently published papers:
 
  • Sarkar S. and Bijl H. Nonlinear aeroelastic behavior of an oscillating airfoil during stall induced vibration," accepted, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2007.
  • Loeven, G.J.A., Sarkar, S., Witteveen, J.A.S., and Bijl, H., ''Dynamic stall flutter analysis with uncertainties using Multi-Element Probabilistic Collocation,'' AIAA paper 2007-1964, Proc. of the 48th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Honolulu, April, 2007
  • Witteveen, J.A.S., Sarkar S. and Bijl, H., ''Modeling Physical Uncertainties in dynamic stall induced fluid-structure interaction of turbine blades using arbitrary polynomial chaos'' Computers and Structures, Vol. 85, 866—878, 2007
  • Sarkar S. and Venkatraman K., ''Period-doubling phenomenon observed in the dynamic stall vortex patterns'' AIAA Journal, Tech Note, Vol. 45(7), 1786--1790, 2007.
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