Aerodynamics - IIT Tech Ambit

How to design a Supersonic Jet Engine- the tale of Jatayu

A team of Aerospace engineering undergraduates from IIT Kharagpur have designed an engine to power an aircraft across the Atlantic in less than two hours! Their design won them the eighth place in the 2020 AIAA Engine Design Competition, organised with the Georgia Institute of Technology

Space

NASA'S Mars Helicopter: "Ingenious" enough to explore the Red Planet

When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will launch on July 30 this year, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with some outsize ambitions. This will be the first time in history when an artificial body will be lifted on any other planet.

Research

Taming Turbulence- Active flow control

The ubiquitous turbulence manifests itself in several seemingly unrelated phenomena, from solar flares to rustling of leaves to the very familiar (and often scary) intense vibration of aircraft. It is an equally important subject in engineering as much it is in science, or perhaps even more.

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