Laboratory for Hypersonic and Shockwave Research

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Profile

Kannan Munusamy

MSc Student

Joined IISc in 2015

Email ID: kannaniisc1@gmail.com
Mobile No.: (+91)
Field of Interest: Shock tunnels, Hypersonic and non-equilibrium flow, Surface heat transfer measurement, Optical diagnostic methods.

Research Experience

Project assistant [2014-2015]: Combustion and Laser Diagnostics lab, Indian Institute of Science.

Lecturer [2013-2014] : P.B. College of Engineering-Chennai.

Research assistant [2012-2013] : Hypersonic CFD laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay.

Test Engineer and support Consultant [2010-2012] : Rusada Pvt. Ltd – Chennai.

Project Undertaken

MSc [ongoing]: Rotational temperature measurement in hypersonic shock tunnel using tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) technique” – a freestream temperature measurement in reflected mode operation of a shock tunnel. [IISc Bengaluru]

Btech Project: Experimental determination of airfoil characteristics at low Reynolds number flow applicable to micro air vehicles

Project assistant: Adsorption study of silica gel particle exposed to humid air stream at low Reynolds number

Research assistant: Study of shock turbulent boundary layer interaction in high speed air intake

Publications