Dr. Lakshmi N. Sankar

Regents Professor and Associate Chair for

Undergraduate Programs

Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Montgomery Knight Aerospace Building, Room 360

(404) 894-3014

lsankar@ae.gatech.edu

Dr. Sankar is a Regents Professor in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As Director of the School's Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab, he leads a research and education program focused on the modeling and simulation of unsteady viscous flow around helicopters, horizontal axis wind turbines, and turbo-machinery components. As the Associate Chair of the Undergraduate Programs, he coordinates undergraduate curriculum related activities. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in the areas of aerodynamics, helicopter theory, wind energy, aerodynamic design, and computational aerodynamics.

Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 1982, Dr. Sankar worked at Lockheed Martin in Marietta, GA. While at Lockheed, he contributed to the development of 2-D and 3-D flow analyses that solve 3-D unsteady transonic flow over airfoils, wing-alone, wing-body, and complete aircraft configurations. He also extended 2-D transonic design methodologies to 3-D transonic wing and wing-body configurations. He also worked closely with researchers at Ford Motor Co on 3-D Navier-Stokes simulations of next generation automobile configurations.

Dr. Sankar is the author or co-author of more than more than 250 technical publications in the fields of spatially and temporally high order algorithm development, 3-D unsteady transonic flow over aircraft configurations, helicopter aerodynamics, compressor stall and surge, and aerodynamic design. He is an AIAA Fellow, and a member of the American Helicopter Society,  American Society of Engineering Educators, and the American society of Mechanical Engineers.

Research Program:

· Research Projects

· Ph D Graduates

· Publications

Courses:

Dr. Sankar teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in the areas of low speed aerodynamics, high speed aerodynamics, transonic flow, wind energy, airfoil design, helicopter aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. He has also offered distance learning courses and continuing education short courses in these areas.