Gopal H. Gaonkar (born 1936) is a professor of engineering at Florida Atlantic University, Florida. His research interest is in Helicopter dynamics,

Floquet theory Floquet theory is a branch of the theory of ordinary differential equations relating to the class of solutions to periodic linear differential equations of the form :\dot = A(t) x, with \displaystyle A(t) a Piecewise#Continuity, piecewise contin ...

and Large-Scale and parallel computing. Gaonkar is a recipient of American Helicopter Society's Fellow Award in 2005, was the Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of the American Helicopter Society'', and a member of the AHS Technical Council.Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of the American Helicopter Society''
Born and raised in Hanehalli village, Gaonkar completed his high school (1955) from the A. H. School, Bankikodla. Gaonkar earned a B.E. degree (1960) in Civil Engineering from B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology (Now known as KLE Technological University), Hubli, a M.E. degree (1963) in Civil Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai and a D.Sc. degree (1967) in Helicopter Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining FAU, Gaonkar was a research professor at the

University of Southern Illinois Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois. Its headquarters is in Carbondale, Illinois. Board of trustees The university is governed by the nine member SIU Board of Tr ...

, Edwardsville and a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During the year 2009–2010, Gaonkar was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, his alma mater. He is married to Anasuya Gaonkar, and has two daughters. He has four grandsons and two granddaughters.

References

The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

How to Modify a Helicopter... without a Helicopter

Florida Atlantic University faculty McKelvey School of Engineering alumni 1938 births Living people Kannada people Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science American aerospace engineers American magazine editors Indian magazine editors People from Uttara Kannada Engineers from Karnataka Indian aerospace engineers 20th-century Indian engineers {{US-academic-stub