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Pratibha Bhandari

Oklahoma State University

Pratibha Bhandari is pursuing her Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University’s Simulation to Flight Applied Research Laboratory (S2FAR). Her research spans a multitude of areas, including conceptual aircraft design, high-fidelity propulsion modeling, and control system integration. She is currently focused on aero-propulsive interaction modeling in subscale eVTOLs. Through her work, she aims to use subscale vehicles to assess design implications for full-scale systems, understand how control strategies scale with size and configuration, and inform multidisciplinary research efforts associated with UAM/AAM vehicle development. She is also the Vice-President of the VFS Student Chapter at OSU.