Education
- BTech-MTech, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2015
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022
Background
Prasoon Suchandra is a research engineer (non-tenure track research faculty) at Georgia Tech working with Professor Cyrus Aidun on experimental characterization of transition to turbulence in non-Newtonian and multiphase flows in channels and other relevant nozzle geometries using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), with the aim to enhance the efficiency of drying of paper and other fiber composite products.
For his postdoctoral research, Suchandra worked with Shabnam Raayai to study the mechanics of fluids and solids with irregular geometric features, at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University. For his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, Suchandra worked with Professor Devesh Ranjan on experimental investigation of fluid instabilities (acceleration-driven Rayleigh-Taylor and shear-driven Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities) and variable density turbulent flows, using PIV, laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), and hotwire anemometry. He also has experience with wind tunnel design and fabrication. For his master's research, he worked with Professor Tapan Sengupta at IIT Kanpur to develop computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers to understand dynamic stall of pitching airfoils.
Apart from research, he likes mentoring STEM students and teaching core aerospace/mechanical engineering subjects like engineering mathematics, continuum mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, heat transfer, and propulsion.