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Karthick S Kandasamy

Ramanujan Faculty Fellow

MSB 314, Mechanical Sciences Block

PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 2017.

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  • Dr. Karthick Senunthapuram Kandasamy received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 2017 and continued his research as a Research Associate at IISc until May 2018. He received his M. E. in Aerodynamics of Ballistics, Missiles and Rockets from BIT, Mesra in 2012 and a B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rajalakshmi Engineering College in 2010. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Technion, Israel from 2018 to 2023 and joined IIT Madras as Ramanujan Faculty Fellow in February 2023.
  • Dr. Karthick’s research interests include Gas Dynamics, Turbomachinery, Hypersonic and Aeroacoustics.

  1. Feb 2023: Ramanujan Fellowship, Dept. Mech. Egg., IIT Madras
  2. Editor’s Pick, Physical. Fluids (Vol 35, Issue 1, 016105)
  3. Aug 2019: Fine Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship

  1. SK Karthick, Soumya R Nanda, J Cohen: Unsteadiness in hypersonic leading-edge separa- tion. Experiments in Fluids; 12/2022; 64(1):13; Impact Factor: 2.790
  2. SK Karthick, D Bhelave, A De: Supersonic flow unsteadiness induced by control surface deflections. Physics of Fluids; 01/2023; 35(1):016105; Impact Factor: 3.514 (Editor’s Pick)
  3. S Janardhanraj, SK Karthick, A Farooq: A review of diaphragmless shock tubes for interdis- ciplinary applications. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science; 10/2022; 93(1):101042; Impact Factor: 35.34
  4. Luckachan K George, SK Karthick1, AR Srikrishnan, R Kannan: Unsteady dynamics in a subsonic duct flow with a bluff body. Physics of Fluids; 05/2022; 34(6):067114; Impact Fac- tor: 3.514 (Best Paper, Featured Article)
  5. Ibrahim M Sugarno, R Sriram, SK Karthick1, G Jagadeesh: Unsteady pulsating flow field over spiked axisymmetric Forebodies at hypersonic flows. Physics of Fluids; 01/2022; 34(1):016104; Impact Factor: 3.514 (Invited Paper)
  6. Soumya R Nanda, SK Karthick, TV Krishna, A De, Ibrahim M Sugarno: On the unsteady dynamics of partially shrouded compressible jets. Experiments in Fluids; 10/2021; 62(8):221; Impact Factor: 2.790