Aditya Sharma

Experience

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  Swapaksh

  Sept 2017 - Apr 2019

  Propulsion Engineer

  As a lead propulsion engineer, my job was to come up with suitable propulsion systems for various aircraft conceptualized by the team ( For AIAA-HEGAA and other aircraft design competitions). The team mainly focused on the design of the hybrid electric aircraft hence, I dealt with various hybrid electric architectures feasible for the aircraft propulsion and also with the conventional gas turbines which go with them. Designing the propeller— using modified blade element theory— with suitable tools was also my job. Show less

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  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

  May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Summer Intern

  ”Compound helicopter aerodynamics and design“: The onset of the stall at the retreating blades of the conventional helicopters at high speeds, limits the top speed they can achieve. Compound helicopters are one among many types of helicopters designed to overcome this challenge. The idea is to reduce the rotational speed of the main rotor to overcome the stall. The additional thrust required to achieve high speed and to overcome the thrust loss due to the lower rotational speed of the main rotor will be provided through the propeller, which is either placed at the rear of the helicopter or at either sides of the fuselage. An additional fixed wing will be required, to compensate for the lower lift from the main rotor due to the reduced rotational speed.During my internship at RWRDC-HAL, I was given a task to check whether their already designed helicopter — ALH— could be converted to a compound helicopter, and hence, the top speed of it could be increased. Using my elementary knowledge of aerodynamics, I carried out detailed calculations in MATLAB and estimated up to a 20% increase in the top speed of the helicopter. Show less

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  May 2019 - Jul 2019

  Summer Intern

  I worked—under the guidance of professor Arindrajit Chowdhury—on ”Flapping wing design, fabrication, and testing”. It involved understanding unsteady aerodynamics, selecting suitable airfoil sections for the inner and outer wing, selecting suitable material for making the wing ribs, putting things together to make the wing, and finally testing it on the test stand mounted on a car.

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  Team Veloce Hyperloop IIT Bombay

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2023

  Senior Subsystem Member (Aerodynamics)

  Adjoint based Aerodynamic shape optimization using Ansys fluent

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  MRF

  Jul 2023 - now

  Executive Technical

  Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Data Analysis, Product Design, Turbulence Modelling