Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Aditya Nair has received a three-year, $600,000 award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to estimate and control the aeroelastic instabilities of flexible swept wings, a project that could lead to more efficient, effective aircraft systems.

The funded project, “Cluster-based Estimation and Control of Turbulent Aeroelastic Flows,” will run through 2026, with $200,000 per year to support the research endeavors. Nair will be working with a colleague from the Mechanical Engineering department, Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel, on this effort. Nair and van Breugel collaborated back in 2021, when they were among the founding members of a new institute, AI for Dynamic Systems. For this project, their team will be rounded out with two Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral student.

Nair also won the Department of Energy Early Career Research award in 2022 for building better energy sources.

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Prof. Aditya Nair, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the UNR Department of Aerospace Engineering. Nair graduated with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bombay and the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University.

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