Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Faculty

Propulsion Faculty

Abhijit Kushari, Professor
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  +91-512-2597126 (O) / 8536 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~akushari/

Research Interests: Rocket and Gas Turbine Propulsion, Instrumentation in Combustion and Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Atomization and Liquid Combustion, Active Flow Control, Combustion Instability, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, High Speed Flows

Ashoke De, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7863 (O) / 8301 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ashoke

Research Interests: CFD, High Speed Flows, Flow-Acoustics Coupling, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Turbulence Modeling, Multiphase flows and Combustion, Energy Harvesting

D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2338 (O)
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Research Interests: Evaporation and combustion of fuel droplets, Laser-induced evaporation and atomization of droplets, Pulse laser-induced atomization of droplets, Femtosecond laser-induced bubble dynamics

D. P. Mishra, Professor
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  +91-512-2597125 (O) / 8695 (R)
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Research Interests: Combustion, CFD of Chemically Reacting Flows, Propulsion, Heat Transfer

Ajay Vikram Singh, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-2592006 (O)
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Research Interests: Combustion and Reacting Flows, Combustion Generated Functional Nanoparticles, Soot Formation and Oxidation, Detonations, Boundary Layer Combustion, Gas Turbine Combustion, Fire Dynamics, Flame Spread, Material Flammability, Renewable Energy Conversion

Rajesh Ranjan, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2203 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~rajeshr/

Research Interests: Turbomachinery Flows, Applied Aerodynamics, Stability & Flow Control, Transition and Relaminarization, High Performance Computing

Sathesh Mariappan, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-6331 (O)
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Research Interests: Fundamentals of thermoacoustic interactions, Application of dynamical systems' theory to thermo fluid systems, Optical flow diagnostics, Acoustic measurements

Vaibhav Arghode, Associate Professor
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  +91-512-259-6294 (O)
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Research Interests: Combustion, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Former Faculty

Here are brief details for IIT Kanpur's Aerospace Engineering department former faculty who have helped establish the strong reputation enjoyed by the department

A. K. Ghosh, Professor & Former Head
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  +91-512-2597716 (O) / 8221 (R)
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Dr. S. Kamle, Professor and Former Head
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  +91-512-2597689 (O) / 8619 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~kamle

Dr. Tapan K. Sengupta, Professor
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  +91-512-2597945, 7253 (O)/ 8482 (R)
  https://spectral.iitk.ac.in/hpcl/

Dr. E. Rathakrishnan, Professor
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  +91-512-2597847 (O) / 8522(R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~erath

Dr. C. Venkatesan, Professor and Former Head
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  +91-512-2597284 (O) / 8466 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~cven

Dr. A. K. Gupta, Professor and Former Head

Dr. Krishna Kumar, Professor and Former Head
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Dr. Kunal Ghosh, Professor and Former Head
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Dr. N. C. Nigam, Professor and Former Head

Dr. N. G. R. Iyengar, Professor and Former Head
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Dr. N. L. Arora, Professor and Former Head

Dr. R. K. Sullery, Professor and Former Head
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Dr. V. K. Gupta

Dr. Vijay Gupta, Professor and Former Head

Dr. A.C. Jain

Dr. C.S. Moorthy

Dr. C. V. R. Murthy

Dr. D Yadav

Dr. Noor Afzal

Dr. O.P. Sharma, Professor and Former Head

Dr. P.N. Murty, Professor and Former Head

Dr. R.N. Gupta

Dr. S. Narayanan

Dr. S Pradeep

Dr. T.K. Srikantiah

Dr. S.C. Raisinghani

Dr. Pandiyan

Dr. Holt Ashley, Professor and Former Head

Dr. S.M. Ramachandra, Professor and Former Head

Visiting & Adjunct Faculties

Dr. V. K. Saraswat
Appointed as Distinguished Honorary Professor at IIT Kanpur

Dr. P.D. Mangalgiri
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Appointed as Visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur

Information for Prospective Faculty 

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT-Kanpur is looking for faculty applicants at all levels in all traditional areas of Aerospace Engineering (Propulsion, Structures, Flight Mechanics & Aerodynamics). Applicants are expected to participate in research activities and contribute to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Interested applicants with excellent academic record are requested to send their complete curriculum vitae (including a full list of publications, and reprints of significant papers) with names of three referees to:

G.M.Kamath, Professor & Head
Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Kanpur-208 016, UP (India)
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For further information, please check DOFA site.

Visiting & Adjunct Faculties

Dr. Murali Damodaran, Visiting Professor
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Research Interests:

  • High Fidelity Computational Aeromechanics and Control of Flight Vehicles
  • Computational Aeroelasticity and Design Optimization
  • Scientific Machine Learning for Applied Aerodynamics

Prof. Prabhat Hajela, Distinguished Visiting Professor
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Research Interests:

  • AI/ML in Aerospace System Design
  • Evolutionary and Heuristic Algorithms for Optimization
  • Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO)
  • Realizing Digital Twins

Vice Admiral Puneet Kumar Bahl, AVSM, VSM (Retd)
Visiting Professor of Practice
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Research Interests:

  • India’s nuclear strategy
  • Defence Procurement
  • Naval Technology
  • United Nations Convention on Laws of the Sea
  • Future of warfare
  • Aviation management, procurement and sustainability

Welcome Message

The Aerospace Engineering Department is more than 40 years old. Till 1991, it was known as Aeronautical Engineering Department. The name change was accompanied by addition of topics relating to spacecraft in the UG curriculum; some members of the faculty had been conducting research and guiding PG students in this area even before the formal alteration of the name in 1991. In matters of teaching, research & development, the department has always tried to strike a balance between hardware development and experiments on one hand... - Read More

Prof. G. M. Kamath

Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering