Dr. Chhote Lal Shah
PhD, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras.
Postdoctoral, Department of Aerospace Engineering, UIUC, USA
GOOGLE SCHOLAR, ResearchGate, ORCID
Research Focus
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Flapping Underwater Automated Vehicles/Flapping Micro Air Vehicles (FUAV and FMAV)
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Unsteady Aerodynamics and Low Reynolds Number Flows (flow dynamics behind flapping wings/fins).
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Fluid-Structure Interactions (effect of chord/spanwise wing flexibility in bio-inspired propulsions and flow energy harvesting).
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Transition to Chaos (unpredictable flow behaviour in flapping flight)
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Biological Fluid Dynamics (Birds/Insects fly and Fish Motions).
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Effect of gust in the flight performance of flapping wing Micro Aerial Vehicles.
Research Experties
Immerse Boundary Method, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flapping Wing Aerodynamics, Fluid-structure Interaction Dynamics, Open Source Solvers - Fluid-structure coupling, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Time Series Analysis, Experimental Force Measurements.