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Soumendu Jana

National Aerospace Laboratories CSIR

ORCID iD 0000-0003-2286-796X

About

Soumendu Jana graduated from Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1989) and an alumni of Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur (MTech 1992, PhD 1998). He joined as scientist to the Propulsion Division of CSIR-NAL in February 1998. At present, he is working as the Chief Scientist & Head, Propulsion Division of CSIR-NAL.
Dr. Soumendu Jana has been member of various learned body such as, Bureau of Indian Standard (Mechanical Vibration & Shock Sectional Committee, MED-28), Tribology Society of India, Aeronautical Society of India, Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS, IISc, India). He has been awarded National Design Award in Mechanical Engineering for the Year 2013 by National Design Research Forum of the Institution of Engineers, India for indigenous development of Active Magnetic Bearings besides two awards from CSIR-NAL for excellence in ‘Design & Development’. He has published more than 75 technical papers in Journals & Conferences and has two Indian patent to his credit.

His research group is actively involved in experimental performance evaluation of aero-engine bearings under various operating conditions of unbalance & transient loads, oil interruption, oil contamination, development of high speed rotor-bearing system, development of magnetic bearings and air-foil bearings, external dampers for rotor under sponsored projects and aero-engine health management.

Employment

  • National Aerospace Laboratories CSIR Chief Scientist & Head
    1998 - Present

Education

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Publications (4)