Design and Development of Aerospace Vehicles and Propulsion Systems Proceedings of SAROD 2018

Dr. S. Kishore Kumar is a DRDO fellow in the Gas and Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), Associate Editor of Journal of Aerospace Sciences & Technologies of AeSI and Technical Adviser to National Design & Research Forum. He has previously served as Associate Director and Programme Director (GATET), GTRE. His areas of specialization include design & CFD analysis of Gas Turbine Engines, Optimization, mathematical modelling and dynamical systems. He has published 7 edited volumes and more than 100 research papers & Technical Reports. Dr. Indira Narayanaswamy is a Research Professor at Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, India. She has previously served as a scientist and Technology Director at Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore. Dr. Narayanaswamy’s areas of specialization include CFD applications for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), MDO for MAV design and Numerical Investigations on Supersonic Retro Propulsion (SRP). She has authored more than 150 research papers and Technical Reports. She is one of the Editors of the Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on MDAO, published by Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2020. Dr. V. Ramesh is the Head of the CTFD Division in NAL, an AcSIR  Professor and the Secretary of the CFD Division of the Aeronautics Society of  India. His research interests are primarily in aerospace science and technology, and  includes Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), mesh free methods, and computational aero-elasticity. He has authored more han 150 research publications and  reports.