Punnag Chatterjee

Education:

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2015 – 2018.
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2013 – 2015.
• B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, 2006 – 2010.

Dissertation:

Structural Modeling of a Compliant Flexure Flow Energy Harvester.

Current Research:

• Working on analytical modelling of compliant flexure flow energy harvesters.
• Working on hybrid (solar & wind) energy harvesting concepts for Martian rovers.

Acknowledgement:

• iSSRL Lab – For providing equipment, infrastructure and supporting the project.
• NASA Space Grant – For supporting the project.

Conferences and Publications:

1. Chatterjee P and Bryant M, Aeroelastic modelling of a Piezo-solar tensioned energy harvesting ribbon, SPIE vol 9431, p 979914, 2016.
2. Chatterjee P and Bryant M, Structural modelling of a compliant flexure flow energy harvester, Smart Mater. Struct. 24 094007, 2015.
3. Chatterjee, P., Bryant, M., Transfer Matrix Modeling of a Tensioned Piezo-Solar Hybrid Energy Harvesting Ribbon, Proc. SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials: Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems, March 8-12, San Diego, CA, 2015.
4. USNCTAM 2014 : Flow Energy Harvesters with Compliant Flexure Joint – Punnag Chatterjee, Matthew Bryant
5. Chatterjee, P. M. and Bryant, M., “Aeroelastic-photovoltaic ribbons for integrated wind and solar energy harvesting ,” Smart Mater. Struct, Vol. 27, No. 8, 2018.
6. Chatterjee, P., and Bryant, M., “ Analysis of tension-tunable clamped–clamped piezoelectric beams for harvesting energy from wind and vibration,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 30, No. 16, Jul. 2019.
7. Khatri, D.N., Chatterjee, P., Metoyer, R., Mazzoleni, A.P., Bryant, M. and Granlund,K. O, “Dual-Actuator Disc Theory for Turbines in Yaw,” AIAA J., pp. 1–5, Jan. 2019.