DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MECHANICS
& BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Indian Institute Of Technology Madras

Rinku Mukherjee

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA,(2004)

M.S., Ocean Engineering, - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, WB, India,(2001)

B.E.,Civil Engineering, - Jadavpur University Kolakata, India,(1998)

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rinku[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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 Research Areas: Numerical Analysis, CFD, Experiment

 Applied Aerodynamics

  • Unsteady Aerodynamics of Fixed-Wings
  • Post-Stall Flow Prediction (Steady & Unsteady)
  • Formation Flight
  • Experiments to Implement Post-Stall Flow Control

 Low-Speed Aerodynamics

  • Boundary Layer Flows
  • Boundary Layer Stability (2D and 3D)

 High-Speed Aerodynamics

  • Transonic Flows past Bluff-Bodies
  • Interaction of Boundary Layers and Shock Waves

 Office Location

   Fluid Mechanics Building, Room#206,
   IIT Madras, Chennai, India-600036,
   Phone: +91 44 2257 4069/6069
   Fax: +91 44 2257 4052
   Email: rinku@iitm.ac.in

 2007 - Present

  Faculty

  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-36

 2006 - 2007

  Staff Scientist

  MVSystems.,Golden,CO,USA

 Refereed Journal Papers

 AIAA Meet Papers

  • Bhowmick, S., Mukherjee, R., and Chakravarthy, V. K., "Aerodynamic Investigation of a Novel Diamond-Back Morphing Wing Configuration", AIAA 2023-2456
  • Ravindra A. Shirsath and Rinku Mukherjee, "Experimental Investigations of the Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Finite Rectangular Wing in Ground Effect", AIAA 2022-1978
  • Aritras Roy and Rinku Mukherjee, "Control of Laminar Boundary-Layer Separation on a Rectangular Wing using Decambering Approach", AIAA 2022-0711
  • Vasanth Kumar G. and Rinku Mukherjee, "Study of Separation of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layer using Critical Point Theory", AIAA 2021-1995
  • Aritras Roy and Rinku Mukherjee, "Time Series Behaviour of Laminar Separation Bubbles at Low Reynolds Number", AIAA 2021-1197
  • Aritras Roy and Rinku Mukherjee, "Numerical Morphing of a Rectangular Wing to Prevent Flow Separation", AIAA 2020-1765
  • Antony B. Samuel and Rinku Mukherjee, "Prediction of Post-Stall Aerodynamic Characteristics of wing(s) with separated Flow modeled as a Single Nascent Vortex", AIAA 2016-0306
  • M Gunasekaran and Rinku Mukherjee. "Reduction of Induced Drag in Configuration Flight using Wing Twist at Post-Stall Angles of Attack", AIAA 2016-1779
  • Egambaravel J. and Rinku Mukherjee, "Linear Stability Analysis of Laminar Separation Bubble over NACA0012 Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers", AIAA 2014-0253
  • Vasanth Kumar G. and Rinku Mukherjee, "A Numerical Study of the Unsteady Motion of a Wing Using N-Body Approximation", AIAA 2014-1108
  • Gunasekaran M. and Rinku Mukherjee, "A Numerical Study of the Aerodynamics of Cessna 172 aircrafts in Echelon formation", AIAA 2014-1107
  • Ravindra A. Shirsath, Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "A Numerical Study of Tandem Pitching Airfoils", AIAA 2013-0793
  • Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady aerodynamics of multiple airfoils in configuration", AIAA 2011-3523
  • Mukherjee, R., and Gopalarathnam, A., "Post-Stall Prediction of Multiple-Lifting-Surface Configurations Using a Decambering Approach", AIAA 2004-0219
  • Mukherjee, R., Gopalarathnam, A., and Kim, S., "An Iterative Decambering Approach for Post- Stall Prediction of Wing Characteristics Using Known Section Data", AIAA 2003-1097

 APS DFD Presentation

  • Vipul Dalela & Rinku Mukherjee, "An Experimental Investigation of Flow past a Wing at High Angles of Attack", APS DFD, 19-21Nov 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA

 Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics

  • G. Vasanth Kumar and Rinku Mukherjee, "Investigation of Flow Separation Lines Over a Finite Wing", Proc. of The 16th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Dec 2020, Bangalore, IndiaACFM 2020
  • Gireesh Yanamashetti, G. K. Suryanarayana and Rinku Mukherjee, "Development of Flow Over Blunt-Nosed Slender Bodies at Transonic Mach Numbers", Proc. of The 15th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Nov 2016, Kuching, Malaysia
  • Antony B. Samuel and Rinku Mukherjee, "High-Alfa Aerodynamics with Separated Flow Modeled as a Single Nascent Vortex", Proc. of The 15th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, Nov2016, Kuching, Malaysia
  • Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady aerodynamics of suddenly accelerated multiple airfoils", Proc. of The 13th Asian Congress on Fluid Mechanics, ISBN: 978-984-33-2214-2, Dec 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 Others(WASET, FMFP, ICTACEM etc.)

  • Ravindra A. Shirsath and Rinku Mukherjee, "Computational Investigations of Aerodynamic Properties for Flow Past NACA 0012 3D Wing in Ground Proximity", FMFP, IIT Guwahati, 2020
  • Aritras Roy, Rinku Mukherjee,"Unsteady 3D Post-Stall Aerodynamics Accounting for Effective Loss in Camber Due to Flow Separation", 20th International Conference on Aerospace Engineering, Classification of Flying Vehicles and Flight Software, NYC, USA, June 2018
  • Aritras Roy and Rinku Mukherjee, "Experimental Study of Leading Edge Laminar Separation Bubble for Flow past a Rectangular Wing", FMFP, IIT Bombay, 2018
  • Gireesh Yanamashetti, G. K. Suryanarayana and Rinku Mukherjee, “Control of Pressure Field Around Nose Region of a Launch Vehicle Using an Aerodisk and an Aerospike at Transonic Mach numbers", FMFP, IIT Bombay, 2018
  • Ravindra A. Shirsath and Rinku Mukherjee, "Effect of Ground Proximity on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of NACA 0012 Airfoil Using Computational Fluid Dynamics", FMFP, IIT Bombay, 2018
  • Vipul Dalela, Aritras Roy and Rinku Mukherjee, "An Experimental Validation of Numerical Post-Stall Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Wing", ICTACEM, Dec, IIT Kharagpur, 2017
  • Gunasekaran M. and Rinku Mukherjee, "Numerical Analysis of the Post-Stall Aerodynamics of Chevron formation", INCAM (Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics), July 13-15, 2015
  • Rinku Mukherjee, Hossain Aziz and Ravindra A. Shirsath, "Unsteady Aerodynamics of Tandem Pitching Airfoils", Proc. of 14th. Annual CFD Symposium, Bangalore, August 2012
  • Egambaravel J. and Rinku Mukherjee, "Transition Prediction in Laminar Separation Bubble over NACA0012 airfoil", Proc. of 14th. Annual CFD Symposium, Bangalore, August 2012
  • Ravindra A. Shirsath and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady aerodynamics of tandem airfoils pitching in phase", Proc. of 2nd. Intl. Conference on Mechanical, Production and Automobile Engg., ISBN: 978-81-922428-8-0, Singapore, April 2012
  • Ravindra A. Shirsath and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady aerodynamics of multiple airfoils in formation", 20th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Canada, May 2012
  • Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady aerodynamics of multiple airfoils in configuration", Proc. of Intl. Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engg., WASET, Vol. 71, pp 94-105, ISSN: 1307-6892, Oct 2010, Paris, France
  • Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady Aerodynamics of multiple airfoils suddenly set into motion with different velocities", Proc. of 4th Intl. Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, ISBN: 978-81-910 571-1-9, Dec 2010, IIT Madras, India
  • Hossain Aziz and Rinku Mukherjee, "Unsteady Aerodynamics of multiple airfoils suddenly set into motion with different chord lengths", Proc. of 5th Intl. Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational & Experimental Mechanics, ISBN: 978-93-80813-03-5, Dec 2010, IITKGP, India
  • Egambaravel J and Mukherjee, R., "Non-unique solutions in prediction of post-stall aerodynamics", 3rd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS09), IIT Bombay, December 1-5 2009
  • Egambaravel J and Mukherjee, R., "Hysteresis effects on Medium Aspect Ratio Wings in Post- Stall regime", 3rd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS09), IIT Bombay, December 1-5 2009
  • Hossain Aziz and Mukherjee, R., "Aerodynamic characteristics of a wing-tail and wing-canard configuration", 3rd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation (ICCMS09), IIT Bombay, December 1-5 2009
  • Hossain Aziz and Mukherjee, R., "Aerodynamics of a Cessna 172 aircraft flying in echelon formation", International Conference on Recent and Emerging Advanced Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE09), Sepang, Malaysia, November 23-24 2009

 Team Leader

  • Dr. Rinku Mukherjee - Associate Professor

 Current Scholars

  • Egambaravel J. - Ph.D, 2014
  • G. Vasanth - Ph.D, 2018
  • Ravindra Shirsath - Ph.D, 2018
  • Shiladitya Bhowmik - Ph.D, 2021
  • Hariprasanth Palanivel - Ph.D, 2021
  • Shubham Paunikar - MS, 2019

 Graduated Scholars

  • Aritras Roy - Ph.D, 2022
  • Gireesh Y. - Ph.D, 2021
  • Gunasekaran M. - Ph.D, 2017
  • Vipul Dalela - MS, 2018
  • Antony Samuel - MS, 2016
  • G. Vasanth - MS, 2014
  • Egambaravel J. - MS, 2013
  • Ravindra Shirsath - MS, 2012
  • Hossain Aziz - MS, 2011