Faculty Profile

About

I am Dr.D.Saravanan working as an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. I completed my PhD (Full-Time) at IIT Kanpur in the department of Aerospace Engineering. The field of specialisation is high-speed Aerodynamics and done my M.Tech at Madras Institute of Technology in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. Finished my Bachelors at Shanmugha College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Education

• PhD - High Speed Aerodynamics
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
  Passed Year: 2017 | Program Type: FullTime
• M.E. - High Speed Aerodynamics
  Madras Institute of Technology/ Anna University
  Passed Year: 2006 | Program Type: FullTime
• B.E. - Mechanical Engineering
  Shanmugha College of Engineering/Bharathidasan University
  Passed Year: 2000 | Program Type: FullTime

Selected Publications

• Conference | Published On : 15-07-2022
  Sai Swaroop, Vineetha Bhatt, Harshit Bansal and D.Saravanan
  "Numerical simulation of unsteady flow over an oscillating airfoil" (Got First Prize) @ CSIR-NAL, Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Kannada Samskruthika Sangha.
• Journal | Published On : 05-01-2022
  Ashwin Sivan, D. Saravanan, and Y. S. Rammohan.
  "A numerical study to reduce the drag effects in hypersonic flow over the backward facing step." Materials Today: Proceedings 52 (2022): 963-970.
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• Conference | Published On : 20-12-2018
  D.Saravanan (Presented) and Debopam Das
  "Oblique Interaction of Compressible Vortex rings with the wall" - NACAE (BIT-Mesera) - Advances in Aerospace Sciences and Technologies.
• Conference | Published On : 15-02-2014
  D.Saravanan (Presented) and Dr.Debopam Das
  "Normal Interaction of a compressible vortex ring with the wall" PhD symposium held @ IIT Kanpur
• Journal | Published On : 22-12-2011
  C.Lakshmana Dora, D.Saravanan, K.Karunakar, Debopam Das
  "Characteristics of embedded-shock-free compressible vortex rings: a detailed study using PIV." Advances in Mechanical Engineering 3 (2011): 650871.
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• Conference | Published On : 17-12-2011
  D.Saravanan (presented), C.Lakshmana Dora and Debopam Das
  "Experimental Investigation of Flow and Noise characteristics of impinging twin jets, simulating starting flow from a rocket booster on a launch pad" -(Space Transportation Systems) Vikram Sarabhai Space centre - Thiruvananthapuram.
• Conference | Published On : 12-12-2009
  C.Lakshmana Dora, D.Saravanan, S.Sauravkumar Gosh and Debopam Das
  "Flow field analysis of Compressible Vortex Ring at High Mach numbers using PIV" - Eighth International symposium (PIV09)
• Conference | Published On : 14-10-2009
  T.Murugan, C.Lakshmana Dora, D.Saravanan, K.Karunakar and Debopam Das
  "Initial Acoustic Load Distribution on Launch Vehicle model during flow development" - European Conference for AeroSpace Sciences (EUCASS)

Other Information

Achievements: Mentored aerospace department students of BMS in the Aerothon 2021 competition conducted by SAE India and students got 8th prize among the participating 77 institutions.

Funded projects worked on during my PhD:
1. Design and Fabrication of an Autonomous Flapping wing unmanned Aerial Vehicle for surveillance and aerial photography.
2. Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Buoyant plume and ceiling jet behaviour using Time-Resolved PIV (TRPIV), Shadowgraph and quantitative schlieren - BAARC Project.
3. Development of Low-cost PIV - BAARC Project.
4. Experimental Investigation of Flow and Noise characteristics of impinging twin jets, simulating starting flow from a rocket booster on a launch pad - project given by Sriharikota and it is a part of my PhD thesis.

A Yoga teacher passionate towards Hatha yoga and had given training to students from the age of 1 to 25 for participating in state-level competitions.
Hobbies - Creating my own tunes on the keyboard, Cycling to at least 10 km, Listening to Carnatic, and fusion music and symphonies, and Cooking.

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