Funded Projects:
Initiation grant, IIT Kanpur, 2023: “Effect of nozzle geometry on vortex breakdown forms” (25 lakhs INR).
Start-up Research Grant (SERB), 2023: “Bubble and conical forms of vortex breakdown in turbulent swirling jets” (30 lakhs INR).
Ongoing research projects
The connection between transonic buffet and low-frequency oscillations (Jewel Rupini)
Effect of nozzle geometry on vortex breakdown in swirling jets (Ritvik Pareek)
Vortex breakdown in microfluidic T-junctions and T-vortex mixers (Rahul Meena & Dr. Sandhya Moise, Dr. Hannah Leese, Univ of Bath)
Vortex breakdown in the transitional regime in wing-tip vortices (Sameer Mishra, with Prof. Debopam Das)
Turbulent vortex breakdown in swirling jets (Tolstoy Debbarma, with Prof. Ashoke De)
Effect of forced transition on separation bubble modes in the transonic regime (Shraman Maiti, with Dr. Navaneeth, IITR)
Simulations of flows over oscillating cylinders (Ayush Boral, with Dr. Arnab Samanta)
The connection between buffet and stall cells (Parth Jagdish Patil)
Vortex breakdown in the human heart (Aman Jain)
Resolvent analysis of spiral instabilities in swirling jets (Hrithik Shivanagouda Patil)
Parallelized streaming code for performing spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (Mitul Sidhapara)
Global linear stability analysis of transonic buffet (Vishw Dipak Patel, with Dr. Rajesh Ranjan)
A parametric open-source airfoil to study transonic buffet (with Dr. Markus Zauner, Dr. David Lusher, Dr. Andrea Sansica from JAXA and Prof. Neil Sandham from Univ. of Southampton)
Planned research projects
Developing microfluidic tools for the detection of cell-derived extracellular vesicles (with Dr. Sandhya Moise and Dr. Hannah Leese, University of Bath)
Experimental investigation of transonic buffet (with Dr. Burak Tuna & Dr. Rajan Kumar, Florida State University)
Experimental investigation of low-frequency oscillations (with Dr. Tufan Guha)
Experimental investigation of vortex breakdown in swirling jets (with Prof. Debopam Das)
Vortex breakdown on delta wings
Vortex breakdown in tornadoes (with Dr. Johannes Dahl, Texas Tech University)