Best Paper Award in FMFP 2016

Best paper award to two final year B.Tech. (mechanical) students Mr. Vishal Nagarkoti, and Mr. Omprakash Sahu in the 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power(FMFP2016) held in MNNITA, Allahabad, India during December 15-17, 2016.

Paper Title: Experimental Investigation of Effect of Wing Rotation on Aerodynamic Force Generation in Bird-like Flapping Wing MAV Prototype

Authors: Vishal Nagarkoti, Omprakash Sahu, Michael Fenelon and Parag Deshpand

The paper was conferred Prof. Y. V. N. Rao award for the best paper in the category of academia industry interaction. The work was carried out by the students during summer internship at National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), Bangalore. The other two authors are from NAL.