சி. எஸ். ஐ. ஆர். - கட்டமைப்பு பொறியியல் ஆராய்ச்சி நடுவம்

Professional Background

• Principal Scientist/ Scientist - E, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre – November 2021-present
• Assistant Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) – January 2020 – present
• Senior Scientist, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre – November 2016-October 2021
• Scientist, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre – November 2011-October 2016
• Quick Hire Scientist (Fellow), CSIR - Structural Engineering Research Centre – September 2009 to October 2011
• IGSTC Post-Doctoral Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems, Oldenburg, Germany - June 2022 to June 2023

Professional Society Membership

• Indian Society for Wind Engineering (ISWE) – Life Member
• Member of BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards)/Additional Alternate Member for
  • CED 37: WG03 - Working Group for revision of IS 875 (Part 3)
  • CED 37: Structural Safety Sectional Committee – 37: P04-Panel for Wind Loads
  • CED 38: Special Structures Sectional Committee - 38:03-Chimneys and Stagings Subcommittee
  • CED 38: Special Structures Sectional Committee - 38:05-Tall Buildings Subcommittee
  • CED 39: Earthquake Engineering Sectional Committee - 39: P01- Panel for Tsunami Resistant Structures
  • CED 57: Cyclone Resistant Structures Sectional Committee

Areas of Scientific Interest

• Bluff body aerodynamics
• Numerical simulation of flow around structures/structural components using Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD)
• Aeroelastic phenomena in long-span bridges and tall RC chimneys
• Improved stochastic methods for studies on fluctuating pressures from wind tunnel pressure measurements on structures
• Aerodynamics of floating offshore wind turbines

Awards & Honours

• DST-Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC) Post-Doctoral Industrial Fellowship-2021 to carry out R&D at Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems, Oldenburg, Germany for a duration of 12 months - Duration: June 2022 to June 2023
• IEI Young Engineer Award-2023-2024 by The Institution of Engineers (India), under civil engineering category
• Inducted as a member of a Task of International Energy Agency (IEA) Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP) for global wind energy research collaboration, with active working group involving eight countries
• Featured in “CSIR Women Achievers in STEM” Compendium, 2023
• “Best Paper Award” for the paper titled “Aerodynamic characteristics of mosaic tower – A wind tunnel study” at the Tenth National Conference on Wind Engineering (NCWE-2024), 2024
• “Best Masters Thesis Award” in the field of Wind Engineering by Indian Society for Wind Engineering (ISWE)
• “Springer Best Paper Award” for the paper titled “Estimation of peak factors for tall buildings subjected to wind induced pressures” at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention (SEC-2016)
• Gold medals for being yearly topper of the civil engineering department at undergraduate level, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University
• “Best Project” and “Best mini-project” awards of the civil engineering department at undergraduate level, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University
• Certificate of merit by C.B.S.E., for outstanding academic performance in a subject (top 0.01%) in Class X, 2003

Foreign exposure

• Visited Germany as DST-Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC) Post-Doctoral Industrial Fellow during 2022-2023
• Visited Glasgow, United Kingdom to present a paper in Wind Energy Science (WESC-2023)
• Visited Seoul, South Korea to present a paper in 2011 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Recognitions

• Reviewer for several SCI journals

Publications

Journals

• Keerthana, M and Harikrishna, P (2025), “Fully coupled analysis of a floating offshore wind turbine under wind and wave loading”, Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences (IJEMS), Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 447-461.
• Keerthana, M and Harikrishna, P (2023), “Signal complexity approach based investigation of flutter instability in sectional models of bridges in wind tunnel”, Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 13, October, 2023, pp. 2520–2542. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13694332231190709.
• Subbulakshmi. A., Verma, M., Keerthana, M., Sasmal, S., Harikrishna, P. and Kapuria, S (2022), “Recent advances in experimental and numerical methods for dynamic analysis of floating offshore wind turbines — An integrated review”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 164, August 2022, 112525. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112525.
• Keerthana, M and Harikrishna, P (2022), “Numerical investigations on the effect of mean incident wind on flutter onset of bridge deck section”, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Vol. 82, No. 4, May 2022, pp. 517-542, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2022.82.4.517.
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P (2022), “Pressure and force measurement-based investigations on aerodynamic characteristics of a trapezoidal section”, Materials Today: Proceedings, Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022, pp. 520-526. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.03.076.
• Keerthana, M and Harikrishna, P (2017), “Wind tunnel investigations on aerodynamics of a 2:1 rectangular section for various angles of wind incidence”, Wind and Structures, Vol. 25, No. 3, Sep 2017, pp. 301-328 DOI: 10.12989/was.2017.25.3.301.
• Keerthana, M and Harikrishna, P (2017), “Hermite model based estimation of peak factors for tall buildings subjected to wind induced pressures”, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 44, No. 3, August - September 2017, pp. 203-213.
• Keerthana, M., Selvi Rajan, S., Harikrishna, P., Ramesh Babu, G., Abraham, A and Chitra Ganapathi, S (2017), “Wind tunnel testing of long span cable stayed bridge models”, IABSE The Bridge and Structural Engineer, Vol. 47, No. 4, December 2017, pp. 77-83.
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P (2014), “Numerical Simulation of lock-in effect of a 2-D rectangular section under forced oscillations”, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 41, No. 1, April – May 2014, pp. 18-25.
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P (2013), “Application of CFD for assessment of galloping stability of rectangular and H sections”, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Vol 72, July 2013, pp. 419-427.
• Keerthana, M., Sriramkrishnan, M., Velayutham, T., Abraham, A., Selvi Rajan, S. and Parammasivam, K. M (2012), “Aerodynamic analysis of a small horizontal axis wind turbine using CFD”, Journal of Wind and Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, July 2012, pp. 14-28.
• Keerthana, M., Jaya, K. P., Selvi Rajan, , Thampi, H., and Ravi Sankar., R (2011), “Numerical studies on evaluation of aerodynamic force coefficients of cable-stayed bridge deck”, Journal of Wind and Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 2, July 2011, pp. 19-29.
• Bharathi Priya, C., Keerthana, M., Verma, M. and Banjara, N, K (2011), “Design of steel channel tension members-proposal to IS 800:2007”, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 2, June – July 2011, pp. 122–130.

Book Chapters

• Keerthana, M., Johannes Nicolaas Theron, and Bernhard Stoevesandt (2026)., "Numerical investigations into aerodynamics of multi Megawatt wind turbines under yawed flow", AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 3489, No. 1, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, May 2026, pp. 280046-1–280046-5. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0328375).
• Keerthana, M., Babu, G. R., & Ganesh, D. S., “Aerodynamic Characteristics of Mosaic Tower-A Wind Tunnel Study”, Recent Developments in Wind Engineering: Notes in Mechanical Engineering - Select Proceedings of NCWE 2024, Springer, June 2025, pp. 347-359. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9947-3_30).
• Mohit Verma, Subbulakshmi, A., & Keerthana. M., “Development of a novel floating platform for harnessing offshore hybrid renewable energy / समुद्री हाइब्रिड नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के दोहन हेतु एक नवीन फ्लोटिंग प्लेटफॉर्म का विकास”, Samudrika, NIOT, December 2025, Vol 12, pp. 13. (in Hindi)
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P., “Probabilistic modeling of non-Gaussian wind induced peak pressures on a model of tall building”, Advances in Reliability and Safety Assessment for Critical Systems, Ed. Senthil Kumar, C., Sujatha, R., Muthukumar, R., Rao, K. Balaji., Prakash, Raghu V. and Varde, Prabhakar V., Springer, 2023, Singapore, pp. 271-281. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5049-2_22).
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P., “Estimation of Peak Factors for Tall Buildings Subjected to Wind-Induced Pressures,”, Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Vol 2, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Vol 12, Ed. Rama Mohan Rao, A., Ramanjaneyulu, K, Springer, Singapore, pp. 173-184. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0365-4_15)
• Keerthana, M., and Harikrishna, P., “Improved ERA based identification of flutter derivatives of a thin plate.”, Advances in Structural Engineering, Ed. V. Matsagar, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015, pp.1431-1443.

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