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Dr Shantanu Bhat

Dr Shantanu Bhat

Postdoctoral Fellow
UNSW Canberra
School of Eng & Tech

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 U...

  • 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