Chairman of ISRO
He was the Chairman of the Space Commission and Secretary to the Government of India at the Department of Space. In the decade following his appointment, he directed the Indian space programme through a period of extraordinary growth and spectacular achievement.
Although he was the head of the Indian space programme, he devoted substantial efforts towards boundary layer research. His most important contributions are presented in the seminal book Boundary Layer Theory by Hermann Schlichting. He was a professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), located in Bangalore, where he set up the country's first supersonic wind tunnel. He also pioneered research on relaminarization of separated boundary layer flows, three-dimensional boundary layers and trisonic flows.
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