Dr. K. V. Nagendra Gopal

 

Name:

 

Dr. K. V. Nagendra Gopal

Designation:

 

Assistant Professor

Office Address:

 

ASE-110
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, 600036

 

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Education:

 

 

  • B.Tech (Aero) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  • M.S. (Aero) Texas A&M University
  • Ph.D. (Aero) Indian Institute of Science

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

  • Research Associate (Aero) Indian Institute of Science(2001 - 2003)
  • Research Engineer, GE Global Research , Bangalore(2003 - 2004)
  • Assistant Professor, IIT, Madras (2005 -)

 

 

Areas of expertise:

 


Fracture & Structural Health Monitoring, Structural Dynamics and Aero-elasticity, Computational Mechanics, Composites

 

 

Most recently taught courses:

 

·  Advanced Strength of Materials (Fall 2005)

·  Mechanics of Damage Tolerance (Spring 2006, Spring 2009)

·  Vibrations (Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2010)

·  Composite Structures (Fall 2006)

·  Aircraft Structures (Spring 2007, Fall 2011)

·  Finite Element Analysis (Fall 2007, Spring 2010, Fall 2011)

·  Elasticity (Spring 2011)

·  Structural Dynamics and Aeroelasticity (Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011)

·  Basic Strength of Materials (Fall 2009)

 

 

Research Interests:

 

 

  • Mechanics of Composites and Smart Structures
  • Fracture Mechanics and Structural Health Monitoring
  • Vibrations and Structural Dynamics
  • Aeroelastic Analysis and Design of  Wind Turbines
  • Computational Mechanics and Multi-scale modeling

 

 

Ongoing Research Projects:

 
  • Computational Modeling of Dynamic Response of Radial Tires (Sponsor: MRF Ltd., India)
  • Constitutive Modeling and Simplified Models for Rubber Tires (Sponsor: MRF Ltd., India)
  • Bend-Twist Coupled Dynamics of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades
  • Wake Turbulence and 3-D Dynamic Stall Modelling in Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWT) using CFD (Sponsor: Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark)

 

 

 

Graduate Students :

 

 M.S. (Research)

1.    Ramesh Gedhar
Thesis:  Coupled CFD-FEM aero-elastic modelling of 3-bladed horizontal axis wind turbine rotor with unsteady aerodynamic effects.

2.    U. Balavishnu

Thesis: Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity and Rotor Blade Dynamic Analysis

M.Tech/DualDegree(DD)

1.      Sameer Jitkar  (DD)
Project: Biomechanics of a human femur modelling the bone as a heterogeneous material

2.      Prashanth Pinnamaneni (DD)
Project: Mechanics of multifunctional composites with piezoelectric structural fibres.

3.      N. V. Shivaram (DD)
Project: Fracture analysis of interface arc cracks between a piezoelectric fiber embedded in a matrix. 

 

 

Graduate Students (Past) :

 

 

 M.S. (Research)

1.      Rajeev John (2010) (with Airbus Engineering Centre India, Bangalore )
Thesis:  Finite Element Modeling of Fracture in Functionally Graded Materials Under Low Velocity Impact

2.      Swapnil Bhende (2011) (presently with Eaton Technologies, Pune
Thesis: Bend-Twist Coupled Dynamic Response of a Horizontal AxisWind Turbine Rotor using Modal Superposition Method

3.      Kota Vidyasagar  (2011)
Thesis: Finite element based numerical approach for estimating rolling resistance in radial tires

M.Tech/DualDegree(DD)

1.      N. Chandra  (2010)  (with National Aerospace Labs (NAL), Bangalore)
Project: Active Structural Acoustic Control Studies on a Typical Aircraft Panel

2.      Mudasser Uddin (2010) (with ANSYS India, Pune)
Project: Analysis of a circular arc interface crack between a piezoelectric fibre and a homogeneous elastic matrix.

3.      Sandeep Patil  (2010) (GE India Technology Centre, Bangalore)

Project: Fracture analysis of crack in functionally graded piezoelectric layer bonded to two dissimilar homogeneous piezoelectric half planes.

4.      M. Mohith  (BTech/DD, 2010) (Ph.D student at UIUC, Illinois)

Project: Modelling the Elastic Buckling Behaviour of Carbon Nanotubes

5.      Ashith Paulson - B.Tech/DD (2009) (formerly with Airbus Engineering Center, India, currently Ph.D student @Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Project: Numerical Modeling of Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity 

6.      Suvendu Mahapatra (2008) (@NAL, Bangalore)
Project: Finite Element Analysis of Interface Cracks between a FGM and a homogeneous layer

7.      Amuthan Arunkumar – B.Tech/DD. (2006) (currently Ph.D.@IISc)
Project: A nonlinear finite element based aeroelastic solver for rod-like structures