Purnanand Elango

purnanandelango@gmail.com
Room 212, Composites Technology Centre
Department Of Aerospace Engineering
IIT Madras

Education

• Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, 2014 - 2019

Research Interests

• Wind gradient energy extraction for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft
• Flight dynamics
• Applications of spectral methods

Publications

• Dhruv Laad, Purnanand Elango, and Ranjith Mohan, In Fourier Pseudospectral Method for Trajectory Optimization with Stability Requirements, AIAA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 11 (2020), pp. 2073-2090.
• Purnanand Elango and Ranjith Mohan. Periodic flight of rotorcraft within thermal columns. In 2019 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, January 2019.
• Purnanand Elango and Ranjith Mohan. Trajectory optimisation of six degree of freedom aircraft using differential flatness. The Aeronautical Journal, 122(1257):1788-1810, 2018.