Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Shantanu Bhat
UNSW Canberra
School of Engineering & IT
Expert in fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, insect flight aerodynamics and boundary-layer flows.
EMPLOYMENT
Research experience
- Research Associate (Jan 2022 - Current) - School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australia
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021) - School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Research Officer (Jun 2018 - Dec 2019) - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Teaching experience
- Teaching Associate (Jun 2022 - Current): Fluid Mechanics, Thermofluids, Aerodynamics - School of Engineering and IT, UNSW Canberra, Australia
- Course instructor (Jun 2021 - Dec 2021): Space Vehicle Design - School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Teaching Associate (Aug 2016 - Dec 2019): Aerodynamics, Advanced Dynamics, Orbital Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Transport Phenomena and Numerical Methods, and Professional Practices - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Professional experience
- Lead Engineer (Dec 2011 - Aug 2014) - General Electric (Aviation), GE India Technology Centre, Bangalore, India
- Executive E1 (Jul 2007 - Jul 2009) - Oil and gas special projects, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai, India
EDUCATION
- PhD (Oct 2014 - Aug 2018) - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Master of Science (Engineering) (Jul 2009 - Dec 2011) - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Bachelor of Technology (Jul 2003 - May 2007) - Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Pune, India
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Insect-wing aerodynamics
- Fluid mechanics of bio-locomotion
- Bluff-body flows and vortex dynamics
- Boundary-layer flows
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Outreach and community engagement grant (2023) by UNSW Canberra: $1800
- Postdoctoral fellowship by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-2019): ¥ 8,888,000
- International travel grant (2016) by Monash University
- Monash Graduate Scholarship and Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2014-2018)
- Fresh Science SA (2021) Finalist
- Allocation of high-performance computational resources from the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS), project rt14 (2021)
- Allocation of high-performance computational resources by Pawsey, Australia, under the director's share, project director2168 (2020)
- Allocation of high-performance computational resources by NCI Australia under the startup scheme, project bm04 (2020)
- GE's Engineering Excellence Award (2013) for the contribution to the innovative LEAP Engine fuel-nozzle design
- Best Outgoing Student Award (2007) at the College of Engineering Pune
- Research Associate at UNSW Canberra (Jan 2022 - Current) - Investigating dynamics stall and flow-perturbation effects on wings, the feasibility of outdoor blimps in performing source localisation
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021) - Studied the turbulent boundary-layer flows on flat surfaces and applied micro-cavity arrays to control the flow instabilities to reduce drag
- Research Officer at Monash University (Jun 2018 - Dec 2019) - Explored novel techniques of optimising wing shapes and motion kinematics for flapping wings of insect-size micro-air vehicles
- Doctoral Researcher at Monash University (Oct 2014 - Aug 2018) - Studied the aerodynamics of rotating and flapping wings of insects with particular attention to their aspect ratio, Reynolds number and area distribution
- Masters Researcher at IISc Bangalore (Jul 2009 - Dec 2011) - Investigated the propensity of an isolated turbomachine blade to undergo self-excited oscillations under certain flow conditions
My Teaching
- Fluid Mechanics
- Advanced Dynamics
- Thermofluids
- Astrodynamics