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Sathesh Mariappan
PhD (IIT Madras)
Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest
Fundamentals of Thermo acoustic interactions, Application of dynamical systems' theory to thermo fluid systems, Mechanism of dynamic stall in rotorcrafts,Optical flow diagnostics, Acoustic measurements
Education
PhD (Aerospace Engineering),Indian Institute of Technology Madras,Chennai, 2012 (direct admission from B.E)
B.E. (Aeronautical Engineering), Madras Institute of Technology,Chennai, 2007
Selected Publications
Mariappan, S. and Sujith, R. I. Modeling nonlinear thermoacousticinstabilityin an electrically heated Rijke tube. Journal of Fluid Mechanics,680:511–533, 2011, doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.176
Mariappan, S. and Sujith, R. I. Thermoacoustic instability in a solid rocketmotor: non- normality and nonlinear instabilities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics,653:1–33, 2010, doi:10.1017/S0022112010000133
Subramanian, P., Mariappan, S., Sujith, R. I. and Wahi, P. Bifurcation analysis of thermoacoustic instability in a horizontal Rijke tube. Int'lJournal of Spray and Combustion dynamics, 2:325–356, 2010
Mariappan, S., Gardner, A., Richter, K. and Raffel, M. Analysis of dynamicstall using dynamic mode decomposition technique, under revisionwithAIAA Journal, 2013
Lang, W., Gardner, A. D., Schuelein, E., Mariappan, S. and Raffel, M.Rotor blade boundary transition measured by temperature sensitive paint,thermal imaging and image derotation, submitted to Experiments in Fluids,2013
Awards & Fellowships
Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, in German Aerospace Center, Goettingen, Germany, 2012-2013
Session co-chair on Combustion Instabilities (51-PC-3), 47th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, San Diego, 2011
Session co-chair on Aero- and Thermo-Acoustical Coupling in Energy Applications II (40-AA-40), 16th AIAA/CEAS Aero acoustics Conference, Stockholm, 2010