2025

  • Prof. Narsipur, in collaboration with Prof. Jamie Dyer (MSU Geosciences), receives an award from MSU ORED under the Advancing Collaborative Research Program to develop an observational meteorological platform for defining representative precipitation conditions in lab settings.
  • Mehdi Ouhabi's research work on off-board characterization of UAV aerodynamics and stability in glide flight published in The Aeronautical Journal.
  • Prof. Narsipur elected as chair of the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee (term: 2026-2028).

2024

  • Undergraduate researchers, Sulav Thapa and Joseph Harris, receive funding through MSU ORED's Undergraduate Research Program.
  • Joshua Kiley's research work on flow control over wings using internal acoustic excitation published in Physics of Fluids.
  • Prof. Narsipur assumes the role of Undergraduate Coordinator (equivalent of Director of Undergraduate Program) of MSU Aerospace Engineering.
  • Group welcomes graduate students, Alex Belew, Chris Enriquez, Devon Robinson, and Stan Burcham, and undergraduate student, Joseph Harris.
  • Prof. Narsipur takes over as the chair of the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics TC Honors and Awards Subcommittee.
  • Matthew White, Akhilesh Sriram, and Mehdi Ouhabi present their research at the 2024 AIAA Aviation conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Prof. Narsipur serves as the technical discipline chair for the 2024 AIAA Aviation conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada .
  • Prof. Narsipur, in collaboration with Prof. Shanti Bhushan (MSU Mechanical Engineering), receives a $600,000 award from DoD to investigate propeller-wing aerodynamics during transitional flight mode.
  • Mehdi Ouhabi and Prof. Narsipur granted a provisional patent on their algorithm to characterize aircraft aerodynamics and stability using motion capture data.
  • Prof. Narsipur elected to serve on Bagley College of Engineering's Dean Search Committee.
  • Joshua Kiley and Parker Bailey successfully defend their Master's thesis.
  • Prof. Narsipur's unsteady aerodynamics research published in Physics of Fluids and ACSE Journal of Aerospace Engineering.
  • Prof. Narsipur, in collaboration with Prof. Reuben Burch (MSU Athletic Engineering Institute), receives a grant from Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning to develop a mobile markerless motion capture system for movement data collection.
  • A collaborative paper on the experimental analysis of the Integrated High-Lift Propulsor is presented by Prof. Narsipur at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum.

2023

  • Prof. Narsipur is awarded the NASA RID grant to explore the aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of low Reynolds number propellers in hover.
  • Prof. Narsipur, in collaboration with Raspet Flight Research Labs, receives a $1 million award from NIST to develop a unique all-weather test facility (featured by Fox Weather).
  • Prof. Narsipur's collaborative research on compressible dynamic stall with researchers at Iowa Sate University presented at the AIAA Aviation 2023 Forum and published in the AIAA Journal.
  • The research group welcomes graduate students, Monish Ramu, and undergraduate student, Sulav Thapa.
  • Undergraduate research seminar advisees, Mallory Mott, Marylynn Armstrong, and Dawson Ozborn placed first in the Bagley College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • Prof. Narsipur's placed first in the SBIR/STTR Pitch Competition organized by the MSU Office of Technology Management.
  • Prof. Narsipur's unsteady aerodynamics research published in the AIAA Journal, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Journal of the American Helicopter Society.
  • The research group welcomes graduate student, Akhilesh Sriram.
  • Graduate researcher, Mohamed El Mehdi Ouhabi, presents his paper on off-board aerodynamic measurements of small UAVs at the AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum.

2022

  • Undergraduate researcher, Joshua Kiley, receives funding through MSU ORED's Undergraduate Research Program.
  • Prof. Narsipur becomes an affiliate of the Science Literacy for Equity (SL4E) Research Collaboratory.
  • Prof. Narsipur is awarded a NSF STTR Phase I in collaboration with Ward Aerospace and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
  • The research group welcomes graduate student, Parker Bailey.
  • Prof. Narsipur's unsteady aerodynamics research published in Physics of Fluids and Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  • Prof. Narsipur is awarded a NASA STTR Phase I contract in collaboration with Ward Aerospace and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
  • The research group welcomes undergraduate student, Joshua Kiley.
  • Undergraduate researcher, Jacob Witcher, receives MSU's Engineering Undergraduate Research Award.
  • Prof. Narsipur interviewed by The Economic Times on how to pursue a career in research.
  • Prof. Narsipur's Physics of Fluids article titled "Leading-edge-vortex tailoring on unsteady airfoils using an inverse aerodynamic approach" selected as a featured article.
  • Undergraduate research seminar advisees, Satsha Burden, Sarah Studer, Josh Figures, and Justin Randle placed first in Physical Sciences and Engineering Projects and second in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.

2021

  • Prof. Narsipur is awarded MSU's Global Discovery Seed Grant for international collaborative research.
  • Profs. Narsipur and Gaibisso receive MSU College of Arts & Sciences' Strategic Research Initiative award for K-12 STEM education.
  • The research group welcomes graduate student, Mohamed El Mehdi Ouhabi, and undergraduate student, Jacob Witcher.
  • Prof. Narsipur receives funding under MSU ORED's Undergraduate Research Program.
  • The Applied Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics Research Group welcomes its first graduate student member, Matthew White.