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Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
My research interest is in combustion and high speed Aerodynamics. Specifically I have worked in the areas of experimental and numerical studies of supersonic combustion, drag force measurements in a short duration test facility e.g. shock tunnel. In recent times I have worked on the characterization (including radiative heat loss) of a laser induced spark and its efficacy in the ignition of combustible mixture and on wave drag reduction. A new experimental facility on laser ignition of liquid fuel spray-air mixture and combustion spectroscopy is under development. In the numerical simulations, the ongoing efforts are to improve the spatial accuracy to fourth order of a compressible chemicallly reaction flow solver (developed in-house) which will be used for studies on LES of combustion. Being an engineer, the sole aim of the above studies is to solve real life problems related to Aerospace combustion and high speed aerodynamics. The endeavor has always been to try and simplify things to maximum possible extent. Students make an important part in my research/study in the sense I learn a lot from them while teaching as well as when they express their own ideas in research. I extend liberty in choosing the areas students want to work on and encourage independent thinking (updated in December 2016). My citations could be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1-_oT00AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
High-speed photography and background oriented schlieren techniques for characterizing tulip flame by Joarder R., Choudhury S. P. Combustion and Flame 245 - (2022)
Study of Double Pulse Laser Ignition of an Atomized Fuel-air Mixture Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
Hari Chand
Area of Research: Combustion
Sandeep Pandey
Area of Research: Combustion
Abhishek Kumar
Area of Research: Experiments on chemically reacting flows
Digbijoy Mukherjee
Area of Research: Chemically reacting flow computation
Manas Jain
Area of Research: Experiments on chemically reacting flows
Vivek Upadhyay
Area of Research: Numerical and experimental combustion
