Personal Information
Full Name: Prof. Avijit Chatterjee
Building: Aero Annex
Phone: 25767128
Email: avijit[at]aero.iitb.ac.in


Specialization: Aerodynamics

Background

    GNU  S.Korea,   ADA Bangalore, Technion Haifa, 

    IIT Bombay, UF FL

Awards & Fellowships

     
R&D
Publications: 

 

  • A multilevel numerical approach with application in time-domain electromagnetics, Communications in Computational Physics, (2015).
  • Reducing aircraft radar cross section with owl wing type serrated trailing edges ( with Sai Teja & Manoj Vaghela), Current Science, (2017)
  • Higher-order multilevel framework for ADER scheme in computational aeroacoustics (with Subodh Joshi) , Journal Computaional Physics, (2017)
  • A p-variable higher-order finite volume time domain method for electromagnetic scattering  (with Subodh Joshi), Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, (2018)
  • Computing with large time steps in time-domain electromagnetics (with Nikitabahen Makwana), Journal Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, (2018)
  • Analyses and implications of higher order finite volume methods on first-order macroscopic traffic flow models  (with Sreekumar M,  Subodh Joshi & Tom Mathew), Transportation Letters (2019)
  • Computing with large time steps for electromagnetic wave propagation in multilayered homeogenous media (with Nikitabahen Makwana), Progress in Electromagnetics Research M, (2019).
  • Reducing wing observability to radar using microserrations at leading edge (with K Sai Krishna Reddy), Current Science (2019)
  • A-posteriori diffusion analysis of numerical schemes for application to propagating linear waves  (with Subodh Joshi), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (2021).
  •  Automated adaptive TFSF method for solving time domain Maxwell's equations (with Vaibhav Shah ,K. Anandhanarayanan),   International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields (2021)
  •  A multi-class first-order traffic flow model to explain the disordered behaviour of vehicles (with Sreekumar M,  Subodh Joshi & Tom Mathew), Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics (2021)
  • Divergence error based p-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin solution of time-domain Maxwell's equations," (with Apurva Tiwari), Progress In Electromagnetics Research B (2022)
  • Pathogen spread prediction in a large lecture hall using CFD modeling (with G. Bhat) , Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies (2023)
  • Shock wave interaction with a naturally generated vortrex ring (with Swapnil Ahire), Physics of Fluids (2024)
  • p-Adaptive algorithms in discontinuous Galerkin solutions to the time-domain Maxwell’s equations (with Apurva Tiwari), Journal Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, (2025)
R&D Areas/Projects: 

    Current Interets:

    Aircraft Design (emphasis on electric & hybrid aircraft), Electromagnetics/telemetry in hypersonic plasma flows (CFD & CEM)

    Projects (recent):

    • RCS analysis of AMCA intake duct and code development for radar absorbing materials, ADA, Bangalore
    • RCS of coated cavities in flying wing configurations, ADA Bangalore

    Committee member (Aircraft  Design/Procurement): 

    • Avro replacement - Transport Aircraft for IAF  (MoD)
    •  TRL  review AMCA  (ADA)
    • Design review (Aerodynamics) LCA AF MK 2 (ADA)

    Editorial Board::

    International Journal of CFD (IJCFD)

Teaching
Courses Taught: 
  • Aerodynamics of Aerospace Vehicles 
  • Aircraft Design
  • Numerical Methods Conservation Laws
  • Aircraft Design Laboratory (with others)
  • Aircraft Design Project  (usually in Autumn semester)

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Talk at ADA Bangalore (May 2024)  (Edge effects and related design issues in aerodynamics and beyond...)

Op-ed  (Indian Express, July 2025)  (Aircraft design and related safety issues in civil aviation) pdf

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Currently I do not have summer/winter internship type positions with me for non IITB undergraduates and am thus not able to respond to email requests.  Apologies for the same. 

Non IITB undergraduates can apply via IITB Internship awards   usually during August for internships starting next January.