Sudheer Thalakoti

Student Assistant involved in experimental setup development for hydrogen flame studies, optical laser diagnostics, and combustion flow behavior analysis.

During my Master's Thesis at the Reaktive Strömungen und Messtechnik (RSM) department, TU Darmstadt, I designed and built a calibration test rig for Bronkhorst mass flow controllers supporting high-pressure hydrogen combustion research. I developed instrumentation and data acquisition workflows, conducted systematic calibration procedures, and performed high-pressure flame experiments — contributing to validated test infrastructure for advanced combustion diagnostics.

2023 | Structure Team Member Contributed to FRODO-J airframe design and assembly. Led CFRP body tube manufacturing — layup, curing, and NDT inspection. 2023–2024 | Aerostructure Team Lead Owned structural design, composite manufacturing, and full AIT of the FRODO-M airframe. Coordinated interfaces with propulsion, recovery, and avionics Team placed 3rd at EuRoC 2024 (25 international teams). 2024–Present | Propulsion Team Member Hybrid/bi-liquid engine test stand for sounding-rocket campaigns.

Focus areas: space propulsion, advanced rocket-engine technologies (incl. RDE), aircraft propulsion, combustion modeling, ML applications, laser diagnostics in combustion, turbomachinery, flight dynamics, and navigation.

Focus areas: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Internal Combustion Engines, Turbomachinery, Dynamics of Machines, Machine Design, Manufacturing Processes, Production Technology, CAD/CAM, and Automobile Engineering.