Recent Advances in Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics / Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (PDF)

B. N. Singh is a HAL Chair Professor and former Head of Aerospace Engineering Department and currently Dean (HR) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. Prof. Singh has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. His work focuses on aerospace composite structures and its uncertainty quantification and he has developed several stochastic and deterministic mathematical models and their applications in aerospace structural components made of smart composites. Prof. Singh has published more than 130 papers in reputed journals and more than 85 conference papers. Arnab Roy is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. His research areas include the development of high accuracy Navier Stokes solvers for LES and DNS for incompressible flows- studies on bluff bodies, jets and associated instabilities, reaction control system jets in supersonic cross flow, low Reynolds number airfoils for fixed wing UAV/ MAV applications and Particle Image Velocimetry for flapping wing aerodynamic studies. He has published 3 book chapters, 38 research papers in reputed journal and conferences Dipak Kumar Maiti is Professor and Former Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, prior to which he has worked at ADA Bangalore and Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay. His research interest include aeroelastic analysis of smart lifting, surface analysis of smart landing gear, structural health monitoring and FE analysis of smart multidirectional composites. He has authored over 80 international journal papers, over 70 conference papers and 50 technical reports related to various projects.