Amrita K. Lonkar

Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Durand Building, Room 010A
Stanford, CA 94305

Background

Ph.D. Candidate, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, 2009-present.
M.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, 2009.
B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, 2007.

Research Interests

• Computational and theoretical fluid dynamics
• Magneto-fluid-dynamic simulation of plasma for aerospace applications
• Active flow control technology
• Design, analysis and optimization of large (multi MW) wind turbines
• Aircraft design, synthesis and analysis
• Structural health monitoring

Current Work

My interests include developing solution procedures for solving the equations governing the physics of chemically reacting gases with applications to high temperature plasma around re-entry vehicles and non-thermal plasma for flow control using plasma actuators. The governing equations encompass multiple disciplines including the physics of charged particles: governed by Maxwell's equations, the dynamics of fluid: governed by the Navier-Stokes equations and the chemistry of reacting gases in thermo-chemical non-equilibrium. In my doctoral research, I have developed and validated a numerical solver which solves the governing equations for multiple, chemically reacting species in a flow. The solver is part of the open-source suite of tools, SU² and has a general formulation for any number of species and chemical reactions in the flow.

Publications