Sarasija Sudharsan

Assistant Professor

Sarasija.Sudharsan@erau.edu

Aerospace Engineering Department

Prescott College of Engineering

Areas of Expertise

Unsteady aerodynamics, vortex flows, data-driven techniques 

Sarasija Sudharsan

Overview

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University

Aerodynamics Engineer, GE Aviation (2014 - 2017)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Physical Society (APS)
  • Research Excellence Award, Graduate College, Iowa State University (ISU), 2023
  • Winner of ‘Most Pedagogical’ and ‘Most Comprehensive’ flow visualization awards at the AIAA Aviation Forum, San Diego, CA, 2023
  • Alexander Lippisch Memorial Scholarship award, ISU, 2023
  • Presented at the 2022 'Rising Stars in Aerospace' Symposium, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, Aerospace Engineering, ISU, 2022
  • Computational Grants:

    • Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

    • NSF ACCESS Discover grant

Research

Publications:

  • Sudharsan, S., and Sharma, A. (2025). Compressibility Effects on Leading-Edge Dynamic Stall Criteria at High Reynolds Number. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23704. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23704
  • Sudharsan, S., and Sharma, A. (2025). A numerical demonstration of dynamic stall control. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.18449. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18449
  • Sudharsan, S. and Sharma, A. (2024). Criteria for dynamic stall onset and vortex shedding in low-Reynolds-number flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 996, A11. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.753
  • Sudharsan, S., Narsipur, S., and Sharma, A. (2023). Evaluating Dynamic Stall Onset Criteria for Mixed and Trailing-Edge Stall. AIAA Journal, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J062011
  • Sudharsan, S., Ganapathysubramanian, B., and Sharma, A. (2022). A vorticity-based criterion to characterise leading edge dynamic stall onset. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 935, A10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.1149


Conference Proceedings/Presentations:

  • Sudharsan, S. and Sharma, A. (2025). Comparing Conventional and Physics-Constrained Neural Approaches for Euler Riemann Problems. In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Sudharsan, S. (2024). A numerical demonstration of real-time dynamic stall control. In: Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Sudharsan, S., Narsipur, S., and Sharma, A. (2023). Effects of Compressibility on Leading-Edge Dynamic Stall Criteria. In: AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3371
  • Sudharsan, S., Narsipur, S., and Sharma, A. (2022). Evaluating Dynamic Stall Onset Criteria for Mixed and Trailing-Edge Stall. In: AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1983
  • Sudharsan, S., and Sharma, A. (2021). Exploring Various Techniques to Characterize Leading-Edge Dynamic Stall Onset. AIAA 2021-2520. In AIAA AVIATION 2021 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-2520