Dr. Lakshmi Sankar

Biography

Professor Lakshmi N Sankar is a Regents Professor and Sikorsky Professor at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He directs the school's Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab and leads a research education program focused on modeling and simulation of unsteady viscous flow in aircraft, helicopters, horizontal axis wind turbines, and turbo-machinery components. Professor Sankar teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in aerodynamics, helicopter theory, wind energy, and aerodynamic design, as well as computational aerodynamics. Before joining Georgia Tech's faculty in 1982, he worked at Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA, where he contributed to the development of 2-D and 3-D flow analyses to solve 3-D unsteady transonic flow problems related to airfoils, wing-alone, and complete aircraft configurations. He has been involved in extending 2-D transonic design methodologies to 3-D transonic wing and wing-body configurations and worked with researchers from Ford Motor Co. on 3-D Navier-Stokes simulations used for generating automobile configurations. Professor Sankar has authored and co-authored over 400 technical publications in areas including high-order algorithm development for 3-D unsteady transonic flow in aircraft configurations and helicopter aerodynamics, and is recognized as an AIAA Fellow and Technical Fellow of the American Helicopter Society.

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