Balajee Ramakrishnananda
Asst. Professor
Department of Aerospace
Amrita University - Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
India
Biography
Dr. Balajee Ramakrishnananda got his Doctoral Degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 1997. His doctoral thesis work centered around the computational study of flow through a centrifugal vaned diffuser used in transonic flow regimes. He obtained his Masters degree from IISc, Bangalore and B. Tech. from IIT, Madras. Prior to joining Amrita, he was working as a Software Engineering Manager at AMD, Hyderabad in the area of GPGPU Computing. Dr. Balajee had also worked as a Scientist-B at National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore in the area of Transonic Wind Tunnel Testing. He has worked for several years in the Military & Flight Simulation fields in product development and managerial roles. He had also worked on physics based animation where he placed aerodynamics and flight mechanics of birds in a perspective suited for computer animation.
Research Interest
Micro Aerial Vehicles, Wind Turbines, Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hypersonic Flow, Propulsion, Compressible Fluid Flow
