1. Published Books, Book Chapters, and edited Volumes

1. Sankar, L. N. and Malone, J. B., "A Numerical Solution Procedure for Steady and Unsteady Transonic Potential Flows," Chapter in Recent Advances in Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. III, (W.G. Habashi, Editor), Pineridge Press (1983) 

2. Wu, J.C., Rizk, Y.M. and Sankar, L.N., "Problems of Time- Dependent Navier- Stokes Flow," Chapter 6 in Developments in Boundary Element Methods. Vol. 111, Applied Science Publishers (1983). 

3. Wu, J.C., Guicat, U., Wang, C.M. and Sankar, L.N., "A Generalized Boundary Element Method for Unsteady Viscous Flow Problems," Chapter in Topics in Boundary Element Research, Vol. V, (C. A. Brebbia, Editor), Springer Verlag, 1989. 

4. Sankar, L. N. and Malone, J. B., "Modem Computational Methods for Rotorcraft Applications," in Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics., Vol. 4, (W.B. Habashi, Editor), Gordon-Breach Publishers, 1990. 

5. Sankar, L. N., "Advanced Computational Techniques for Detailed Analysis of Flows over Fixed and Rotary Wing Geometries," in Computational Fluid Dynamics Review 1998, M. Hafez and K. Oshima, Editors. World Scientific Publishing Co., 1998. 

6. Liu, Y., Sankar, L., Ahuja, K., Englar, R., Gaeta, R., “Computational Evaluation of the Steady and Pulsed Jet Effects on the Performance of a Circulation Control Wing Section,” in Applications of Circulation Control Technology, Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA Series, 2006. 

2. Refereed Publications 

1. Tassa, Y. and Sankar, L. N., "Effect of Suction on Shock- Boundary Layer Separation," AIAA Journal, Vol. 17, No. 11, 1979. 

2. Sankar, L. N. and Tassa, Y., "Reynolds Number and Compressibility Effects on the Dynamic Stall of a NACA 0012 Airfoil," AIAA Journal, Vol. 19, No. 5, 198l. 

3. Sankar, L.N., Malone, J.B. and Tassa, Y., "A Strongly Implicit Procedure for Steady Three- Dimensional Potential Flows," AIAA Journal. Vol. 20, No. 5, 1982. 

4. Roach, R.L. and Sankar, L.N., "Strongly Implicit Procedure Applied to the Flow Field of Transonic Turbine Cascades," AIAA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 9, 1982. 

5. Sankar, L. N., "A Multigrid Strongly Implicit Procedure for Two-Dimensional Transonic Potential Flow Pr6blems," AIAA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 11, 1983. 

6. Malone, J. B. and Sankar, L.N., "Numerical Simulation of Two-Dimensional Unsteady Transonic Flows Using the Full Potential Equation," AIAA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 8, 1984. 

7. Lekoudis, S.G. and Sankar, L.N., "A Method for Designing Three-Dimensional Configurations with Prescribed Skin Friction," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 21, No. 11, 1984. 

8. Lekoudis, S.G., Sankar, L.N. and Malone, J.B., "The Application of Inverse Boundary Layer Methods to the Three- Dimensional Viscous Design Problem," Communications on Applied Numerical Methods, Vol. 2, pp. 57-62, 1986. 

9. Sankar, L.N., Wake, B.E. and Lekoudis, S.G., "Solution of the Unsteady Euler Equations for Fixed and Rotor Wing Configurations," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 283- 289, 1986. 

10. Wake, B.E., Sankar, L.N. and Lekoudis, S.G., "Computation of Rotor Blade Flows Using the Euler Equations," Journal of Aircraft, Vol.:23, No. 7, pp. 582-588, 1986. 

11. Malone, J. B., Sankar, L. N. and Sotomayer, W., "Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling of a Fighter Wing in Unsteady Transonic Flow," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 23,No. 8, pp. 611-620,1986. 

12. Sankar, L.N., Malone, J. B. and Schuster, D., "Euler Solutions for Transonic Flow past a Fighter Wing," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 24, NO. 1, pp. 10-1 6, 1987. 

13. Malone, J.B., Vadyak. J. and Sankar, L.N., "Inverse Aerodynamic Design Method for Aircraft Components," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 8-9, 1987 

14. Sotomayer, W., Sankar, L. N. and Malone, J. B., "A Comparison of Numerical Algorithms for Unsteady Transonic Flow," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 64, pp237-265,1987. 

15. Ruo, S. Y. and Sankar, L. N., "Euler Calculations for Wing- Alone Configuration, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 1988, pp436-441. 

16. Wu, Jiunn-Chi, Kaza, K and Sankar, L. N., "A Technique for the Prediction of Airfoil Flutter Characteristics in Separated Flow," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 26, No. 2, February 1989, pp l68- 177. 

17. Wake, B. E. and Sankar, L. N., "Solutions of the Navier- Stokes Equations for the Flow About a Rotor Blade," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, April 1989. 

18. Wu, Jiunn-Chi, Huff, D. and Sankar, L.N., "Evaluation of Three Turbulence Models in Static Airloads-and Dynamic Stall Predictions," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 27, No. 4, April 1990, pp382- 384. 

19. Tang, W., Komerath, N. and Sankar, L. N., "Numerical Simulation of the Growth of Instabilities in Supersonic Free Shear Layers," Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 6, No. 4, July-August 1990, pp455-460. 

20. Kwon, O. J., Hodges, D., and Sankar,L. N., “ Stability of Hingeless Rotors Using Three-Dimensional Unsteady Aerodynamics," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1991. 

21. Srivastava, R., Sankar, L. N. and Reddy, T.S.R., "Application of an Efficient Hybrid Scheme for Aeroelastic Analysis of Advanced Propellers," Journal of Propulsion and Power, September- October 1991, pp 767-775. 

22. Malone, J. B., Narramore, J. C. and Sankar, L. N., "Airfoil Design Method Using the Navier-Stokes Equations," J. of Aircraft, Vol. 28, No. 3, March 1991, pp2l6-224. 

23. Hassan, A. A. and Sankar, L. N., "Separation Control Using Moving Surface Effects: A Numerical Simulation," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 29, No. 1, January-February 1992, pp. 131-139. 

24. Tuncer, I. and Sankar, L. N., "Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Supersonic Free Shear Layers," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, April 1992., pp. 871-873. 

25. Srivastava, R. and Sankar, L. N., "Efficient Hybrid Scheme for the Analysis of Counter-Rotating Propellers," Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 9, No. 3, May June 1993. 

26. Kwon, 0. J. and Sankar, L. N., 'Viscous Flow Simulation of a Fighter Aircraft," J. of Aircraft, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp 886-891, September-October 1992. 

27. Sankar, L. N., Bharadvaj, B. and Tsung, Fu-Lin,'7hree-Dimensional Navier-Stokes/Full Potential Coupled Analysis for Viscous Transonic Flow," AIAA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 10, October 1993, pp 1857-1862. 

28. Hixon, Ray and Sankar, L. N., "Application of a Generalized Minimum Residual Method to Two- Dimensional Unsteady Flows," AIAA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 10, October 1993, pp 1955-1957. 

29. Berezin, C. R. and Sankar, L. N., "An Improved Navier-Stokes/Full Potential Coupled Analysis for Rotors," Mathematical and Computer Modeling, Vol. 19, No. 3/4, February 1994, ppl25-133. 

30. Tuncer, 1. H. and Sankar, L. N., "Unsteady Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Dual-Element Airfoil," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 31, No. 3, May-June 1994. 

31. Hassan, A. A., Sankar, L. N., and Tadghighi, H., "Effects of Leading and Trailing Edge Flaps on Airfoil-Vortex Interactions," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, April 1994, Vol. 39, No.2, pp. 35-46. 

32. Hixon, Duane, Tsung, Fu-Lin, and Sankar, L. N., "Comparison of Two Methods for Solving Three- Dimensional Unsteady Compressible Viscous Flows," AIAA Journal, October 1994, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 1978-1984. 

33. Viswanathan, K and Sankar, L. N., "Toward the Direct Calculation of Noise: Fluid/Acoustic Coupled Simulation," AIAA Journal, December 1995, Vol. 33, No. 12, pp. 2271-2279. 

34. Bangalore, A. and Sankar, L. N., "Numerical Analysis of Aerodynamic Performance of Rotors with Leading Edge Slats,' Journal of Computational Mechanics, Vol. 17, pp. 335-342,1996. 

35. Bangalore, A., Latham, R. L. and Sankar, L. N., "Numerical Simulation of Viscous Flow over rotors using a Distributed Computing Strategy," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 10, October 1996, pp. 2189- 2190. 

36. Nance, D., Viswanathan, K and Sankar, L. N., *Low Dispersion Finite Volume Scheme for Aeroacoustic Applications," AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 1997. 

37. Bangalore, A and Sankar, L. N., "Forward Flight Analysis of Slatted rotors using Navier-Stokes methods," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 34, No. 1, January-February 1997, pp. 80-86. 

38. Berkman, M., Sankar, L. N., Berezin, C. and Torok, M., "A Navier-Stokes/Full Potential Free Wake Method for Rotor Flows," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 34, No. 5, September-October 1997, pp. 635- 640. 

39. Tapia, F., Sankar, L. N. and Schrage, D. P., "An Inverse Design Method for Rotor Blades," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, October 1997, pp. 321-326. 

40. Kwon, O. J. and Sankar, L. N., "Numerical Simulation of the Flow about a Swept Wing with Leading Edge Ice Accretions," Computers and Fluids, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 183-192, 1997. 

41. Berezin, C. R. and Sankar, L. N., "Improvements to a Tightly Coupled Viscous-Inviscid Procedure for 3-D Unsteady Transonic Flow," Computers and Fluids, Vol. 27, No. 5-6, pp.689-694, 1998. 

42. Stein, A., Niazi, S. and Sankar, L. N., "Computational Analysis of Surge and Separation Control in Centrifugal Compressors," AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 16, No. 1, January- February 2000, pp.65-71. 

43. Vermeersch, S., Weed, R., Sankar, L. N. and Rai, P., "Towards Cost-Effective Aeroelastic Analysis on Advanced parallel Computing Systems," AIAA Journal of Aircraft, July-August 1999, Volume 36, No. 4, pp. 710-715. 

44. Mello, O. and Sankar, L. N., "Computation of Unsteady Transonic Flow over a Fighter Wing using a Zonal Navier-Stokes/Full Potential method," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 29, pp.575-585, 1999. 

45. Wang, G., Sankar, L. N., and Tadghighi, H., "Prediction of Rotorcraft Noise with a Low Dispersion Finite Volume Scheme," AIAA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 3, March 2000, pp. 395-401. 

46. Xu, Guanpeng, and Sankar, L. N., “Computational Study of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines," ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 122, No. 1, February 2000, pp. 35-39. 

47. Stein, A., Niazi, S., and Sankar, L. N., "Computational Analysis of the Centrifugal Compressor Surge Control using Air Injection," J. Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 513-520, May-June 2001. 

48. Liu, Z., Russell, J. W., Sankar, L. N., and Hassan, A., "A Study of Rotor Tip Vortex Structure Alteration Techniques," J. Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 473-477, May-June 2001. 

49. Xu, G. and Sankar, L. N., “Application of a Viscous Flow methodology to NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine,” Journal of Wind Energy, 2002. 

50. Yang, Z., Sankar, L. N., Smith, M. J., and Sankar, O., “Recent Improvements to a Hybrid Method for Rotors in Forward Flight,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 804-812, September-October 2002. 

51. Sahin M., Sankar L., Chandrasekhara, M.S. and Tung C., "Dynamic Stall Alleviation using a Deformable Leading Edge Concept - A numerical Study", AIAA Journal of Aircraft, 40 (1), 2003, pp.77-85. 

52. Hariharan, N., and Sankar, L. N., "Unsteady Overset Simulation of Rotor-Airframe Interaction," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 40, No.4, July-Aug 2003, pp 662-675. 

53. Hariharan, N., and Sankar, L. N., "High-Order Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes for Rotary- Wing Wake Computations," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp 258-267, March-April 2004. 

54. Tongchitpakdee, C, Benjanirat, S., Sankar, L., “Numerical Simulation of the Aerodynamics of Horizontal Axial Wind Turbines under Yawed Flow Conditions,” J. of Solar Energy, Vol. 127, 2005. 

55. Tongchitpakdee C., Benjanirat, S. and Sankar, L. N. “Numerical Studies of the Effects of Active and Passive Circulation Enhancement Concepts on Wind Turbine Performance,” J. Sol. Energy Eng. 128 432 (2006). 

56. Hariharan, N., and Sankar, L. N.,” Uniformly High-Order Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes for Vortex Convection across Overset Interfaces,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2008. 

57. Min, B. Y., Lee, W., Englar, R., and Sankar, L. N.,” Numerical Investigation of Circulation Control Airfoils,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2009, pp. 1403-1410. 

58. Bain, J., Sankar, L. N., Prasad, J. V. R., Bauchau, O., Peters, D. A., and He, C., ” Computational Modeling of Variable Droop Leading Edge in Forward Flight,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 617-626, March-April 2009. 

59. Moodie, A., Sankar, L. and Schrage, D. P., “Sizing and Performance-Prediction Method for Rotary-Wing Ejector Nozzles,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 951-961, May-June 2009. 

60. Min, B. Y., Sankar, L. N., Rajmohan, N., and Prasad, J. V. R., “Computational Investigation of Gurney Flap Effects on Rotors in Forward Flight,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 1957- 1964, November-Dec 2009. 

61. Zaki, M., Menon, S., and Sankar, L. N., “Hybrid Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes and Kinetic Energy Simulation of External and Internal Flows,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 805- 811, May-June 2010. 

62. Min, B. Y. and Sankar, L. N., “Hybrid Navier-Stokes/Free Wake Method for Modeling Blade- Vortex Interactions,” Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 975-982, May-June 2010. 

63. Zaki, M., Sankar, L. N., and Menon, S., “Hybrid Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes/Kinetic-Eddy Simulation of Stall Inception in Axial Compressors,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 26, No. 6, Nov-Dec 2010, pp. 1276-1282. 

64. Matalanis, C., Wake, B. E., Opoku, D., Min, B. Y., Yeshala, N., and Sankar, L. N., “Aerodynamic Evaluation of Miniature Trailing-Edge Effectors for Active Rotor Control,” J. Aircraft, Vol. 48, No. 3, May-June 2011, pp. 995-1004. 

65. Glaz, Bryan, Liu, Li, Friedmann, P., Bain, J., and Sankar, “A Surrogate Based Approach to Reduced Order Dynamic Stall Modeling,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 57, No. 2, 9 pages, April 2012. 

66. Feigh, K., Sankar, L. N., and Manivannan, V., "Statistical Determination of Vertical Resolution Requirements for Real-Time Wake-Vortex Prediction," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 49, No. 3, May– June 2012, pp. 822-835. 

67. Iyengar, V. and Sankar, L. N., "Comprehensive Application of a First Principles Based Methodology for Design of Axial Compressor Configurations," ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, Volume 134, No. 6, November 2012. 

68. Glaz, B., Freidmann, P., Liu, L., Cajigas, J. G., Bain., J., Sankar, L. N., “Reduced-Order Dynamic Stall Modeling with Swept Flow Effects Using a Surrogate-Based Recurrence Framework,” AIAA Journal, 2013, Vol 51, pp. 910-921. 

69. Collins, Kyle B.; Sankar, Lakshmi N.; Mavris, Dimitri N., “Application of Low- and High-Fidelity Simulation Tools to Helicopter Rotor Blade Optimization,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Volume 58, Number 4, October 2013, pp. 1-10. 

70. Marpu, R., Sankar, L. N., Makinen, S., Egolf, T. A., Baeder, J. D., Wasikowski, M., “"Physics-Based Modeling of Maneuver Loads for Rotor and Hub Design". Journal of Aircraft, March 2014. 

71. Iboshi, N., Itoga, N., Prasad, J. V. R., Sankar, L. N., “Ground Effect of a Rotor Hovering above a Confined Area,” Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering (FAE), Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2014. 

72. Min, B. Y., Sankar, L. N., and Bauchau, O. A., “A CFD-CSD Coupled-Analysis of HART-II Rotor Vibration Reduction using Gurney Flaps,” Aerospace Science and Technology (2016), pp. 308- 321. 

73. Zhou, Chong, Sankar, L. N., and jagoda, J.,” Assessment of Wind Energy Potential for Shanghai, China,” International Journal of Renewable Energy Sources, Vol. 3, pp 78-84, December 2018. 

74. Pichitkul, A., Sankar, L. N., “Aerodynamic Design and Modeling of Large-Scale Offshore Wind Turbines,” CFD Letters, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp 1-14, 2019. 

75. Kong, Y. B., Prasad, JVR, Sankar, L. N., He, C., “Finite State Inflow Model for Coaxial Rotor Configuration," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 2020. 

76. Pichitkul, A., Sankar, L. N., “Computational Aerodynamics Modeling of a 5MW NREL Wind Turbine,” Suranaree Journal of Science and Technology, 2020. 

77. Gahlot, A., Eschol, R. M., Sankar, L. N., and Kreeger, R. E., “Numerical Simulations of the Adverse Effects of Rain on Airfoil and Rotor Aerodynamic Characteristics,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 68, 022004 (2023).  
78. Gupta, A., Gahlot, A.S. & Sankar, L.N. , ‘’Drone rotor performance under icing conditions’’, CEAS Aeronaut J (2025).  

79. Gahlot, A., Kim. J., Sankar, L. N.,” A Comparison of Low-and High-Fidelity Models for Tail Rotor Icing Phenomena,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 70,042000 (2025).