Dr Kannan Munusamy
Research Fellow
BE., MSc., PhD
Academic and research departments
Centre for Aerodynamics, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, School of Engineering.About
My qualifications
2024
PhD in Aerospace Engineering
University of New South Wales - Australia
2019
M.Sc. (Research) in Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Science - Bengaluru
ResearchResearch interests
- Experimental aerodynamics, High speed flow and shock waves, Rarefied gas dynamics and Microfluidics.
- Laser diagnostic techniques and DSMC simulation.
Research collaborations
- Currently engaged in a collaborative research project investigating laser based sensor on shock tunnels alongside Dr. S K Karthick (Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
Research interests
- Experimental aerodynamics, High speed flow and shock waves, Rarefied gas dynamics and Microfluidics.
- Laser diagnostic techniques and DSMC simulation.
Research collaborations
- Currently engaged in a collaborative research project investigating laser based sensor on shock tunnels alongside Dr. S K Karthick (Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering) of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
Teaching
- Currently engaged as TA for "Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics" course.
Publications
Kannan Munusamy, Harald Kleine and Sean O'Byrne (2024) Measurement of binary diffusion at elevated Knudsen numbers using laser absorption spectroscopy
Kannan Munusamy, Harald Kleine and Sean O'Byrne (2024) Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy and DSMC Calculations for the Determination of Species-Specific Diffusion Coefficients of a CO2-N2O Gas Mixture in the Transition Gas Regime
Yedhu Krishna, Sean O’Byrne, Kannan Munuswamy, and Gopalan Jagadeesh (2018) Effect of noise-induced wavelength fluctuation in tunable diode lasers on narrow-linewidth absorption measurements
M. Kannan, Y. Krishna, G. Jagadeesh & K. P. J. Reddy (2019) Temperature Measurement in a Shock Tunnel Using Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy