Venkata Satyanand Mutnuri

Venkata Satyanand Mutnuri is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Ecole Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore. Post Ph.D. he worked briefly as a postdoctoral research Scholar at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, USA, and as a postdoctoral fellow/research associate at IIT Hyderabad.

His research interests include wave motion in elastic solids with applications towards structural, autonomous navigation technologies, and examining large deformations in slender structures. He is interested in:-

• understanding the physics of mechanical behavior of matter and to translate it into systems
• design and development of unmanned air vehicles – upset recoveries

• Ph.D. – Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India – (October 2021)
• M.Tech. – Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India – (August 2013)
• B.Tech. – Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India – (May 2010)

Publications

• N. Kumar, A. Dasgupta, V. S. Mutnuri, and R. Pachamuthu. An efficient approach for calibration of automotive radar-camera with real-time projection of multimodal data. IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, vol. 2, pp. 573-582, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRS.2024.3408231
• S Kumar N.T., P. K. Duba, N. P. B. Mannam, V. S. Mutnuri, R. Pachamuthu. Aeroacoustics and Vibration Analysis of Multirotor eVTOL for Sustainable Urban Air Mobility (UAM), IEEE Sensors Letters. Vol 8 (5): 1-4, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3387329
• N. Kumar, S. Abhilash, A. Thakur, O. Gopi, A. Dasgupta, A. Algole, B. Anand, V. S. Mutnuri, S. Reddy, N. P. B. Mannam, S. Saripali, and R. Pachamuthu, TIAND: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomy on Indian Roads, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV), 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IV55156.2024.10588583
• M. Hamza, V. Mutnuri, H-Y Kim, and A. Chattopadhyay. Physics-based recurrent neural network model for flight path trajectory prediction under high-altitude stall. AIAA SCITECH, January 2023. https://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-0147
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan. An examination of primitive causality in linear generalized continuum theories, Oral presentation delivered at IUTAM Symposia, Paris, July 2021.
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan (2021). Propagation of elastic waves in non-local bars and beams. Chapter-1, Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations. Vol-1: Materials to Structures, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Eds.- S. K. Saha and M. Mukherjee, Springer Singapore (Book Chapter). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8138-0_1
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan. On causality of wave motion in nonlocal theories of elasticity – A Kramers-Kronig relations study, Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics. 12:165-187, 2020.
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan. A re-examination of wave dispersion and on equivalent spatial gradient of the integral in bond-based peridynamics. Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling. 2:243-277, 2020.
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan. A comparative study of wave dispersion between discrete and continuum linear bond-based peridynamics systems: 1D framework. Mechanics Research Communications. 94:40-44, 2018.
• V. S. Mutnuri and S. Gopalakrishnan. Elastic wave propagation in in-homogeneous peridynamic bar. Oral presentation delivered at SPIE Smart Structures/NDE, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2017. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2259991
• V. S. Mutnuri and P. M. Mohite. A comparative study of the micromechanics models in predicting effective mechanical properties of fibrous composites, Oral presentation delivered at ICCAE, IIT Madras, India, December 2013.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mahindra University (Aug 2025 – Present)
• Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad (Feb 2025 – Jul 2025)
• Technical Officer, NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation (TiHAN), IIT Hyderabad, India (Oct 2023 – Oct 2024)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad (Apr 2023 – Oct 2023)
• Postdoctoral Research Scholar, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, USA (Feb 2022 – Jan 2023)

Broad areas of research: Solid Mechanics, Nonlocal Elasticity Theories, Autonomous Navigation, Mechanics of Slender Structures

• Computation of local/nonlocal elastic moduli, Identification of frequency spectrum plots for wave motion in structures, and in examination of causality in elasticity theories
• Data sets generation for automation in ground and in low/high altitude aerial vehicles operations towards smart mobility and advanced air mobility applications, respectively.
• Buckling and post-buckling analysis of slender structures