Vrishank Raghav

Aerospace Engineering
Walt and Virginia Woltosz Associate Professor
Ginn Faculty Achievement Fellow
312 Davis Hall
334.844.6811
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Education

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Fluid Dynamics
Unsteady Aerodynamics
Biofluid Mechanics
Rotorcraft
Experimental Techniques

In The News

Auburn rocket plume research to aid future spacecraft landings

David Scarborough, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Auburn University is working to reduce stress of spacecraft landings by studying thruster-induced plume-surface interactions (PSI) to better predict their outcomes.

Aerospace engineering student earns Department of Defense fellowship

Matthew Hooks, a master's student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship sponsored by the Department of Defense (DOD).
Aerospace engineering faculty earn DOD research project to study rotor performance in adverse environments

Nek Sharan, an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Vrishank Raghav, an associate professor of aerospace engineering are one of the 27 collaborative academic teams awarded research projects through the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) program.
Aerospace engineering associate professor awarded DOD grant for novel rotorcraft instrumentation

Vrishank Raghav, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is among 281 researchers nationwide awarded a Department of Defense grant under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
Aerospace engineering faculty member uses bio-inspired surface textures to ensure smooth flight

Study is part of a three-year, $600,000 Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research grant.
Auburn aerospace engineering well represented at AIAA Greater Huntsville Section awards

Three Auburn Engineering students, two alumni, a faculty member and future student earned key honors by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Greater Huntsville Section (GHS) at its annual awards dinner on May 20.
Researchers earn multi-year VLRCOE grant to study coaxial rotor phenomena

Assistant professors in aerospace engineering, Vrishank Raghav and Ehsan Taheri, and graduate student Lokesh Silwal, received multi-year funding from the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence for their proposal

#GINNing Podcast: Fluid Situation

When you think of unsteady separated flows over rotating wings, multi-rotor aeromechanics, biomechanics of avian gust interactions, plume-surface interactions, pulsatile droplet-laden flows, heart valve flows and respiratory diseases, who's the first person that comes to mind? Vrishank Raghav — exactly. 
Aerospace researchers awarded for visual analysis at international conference

Students Lokesh Silwal, Daniel Stubbs, and Abbishek Gururaj, and postdoctoral fellow Vikas Bhargav coupled their scientific findings with creative visual skills at the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society conference Dec. 4-7 in Sydney, Australia.
Aerospace engineering students earn Vertical Flight Society scholarships

Lokesh Silwal and Abbishek Gururaj were awarded $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, by the Redstone Chapter of the Vertical Flight Society
Aerospace engineering study encourages face mask redesign in the future

While basic surgical face masks offer a first line of defense to both the wearer and the people around them, they are not foolproof as flow leakage occurs around the mask and their effectiveness under realistic coughing conditions is not known.
Assistant professor in aerospace engineering earns prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Vrishank Raghav, who directs the university's Applied Fluids Research Group, is the Department of Aerospace Engineering's first recipient of the award.
Graduate student in aerospace engineering wins research poster competition

Abbishek Gururaj's work on rotating three-dimensional velocimetry takes first place at American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics Conference

Aerospace professor to study physics of infectious disease spread with NSF award

Assistant aerospace engineering professor Vrishank Raghav will study the physics involved in droplet dispersal during coughing, sneezing or speech to understand how infectious diseases spread.

Auburn Engineering researchers awarded NASA grant to aid in future moon landings

Auburn University researchers recently received a grant from NASA through the organization’s Early Stage Innovations 2019 initiative for a project that aims to aid in future moon landings.

Aerospace engineering assistant professor receives NIH Trailblazer award

Vrishank Raghav, assistant professor in Auburn University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer R21 award for a project designed to help doctors identify and treat patients who have a particular lung disease known as Expiratory Central Airway Collapse (ECAC).
Aerospace assistant professor awarded DOD grant for instrumentation

Vrishank Raghav, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, is among 185 researchers nationwide who have been awarded a Department of Defense grant under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
Aerospace engineering assistant professor awarded Army grant to study helicopter performance

Vrishank Raghav, an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a grant by the Army Research Office to help the military branch better understand dynamic stall that severely limits the performance envelope of current generation helicopters. 
Aerospace student wins Vertical Flight Foundation scholarship

Aerospace engineering student Nathaniel Reed has won a $3,000 Vertical Flight Foundation scholarship from the American Helicopter Society