Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Propulsion Faculty

Abhijit Kushari, Professor
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  +91-512-2597126 (O) / 8536 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~akushari/

Research Interests: Rocket and Gas Turbine Propulsion, Instrumentation in Combustion and Fluid Mechanics, Liquid Atomization and Liquid Combustion, Active Flow Control, Combustion Instability, Experimental Fluid Mechanics, High Speed Flows

Ashoke De, Professor
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  +91-512-259-7863 (O) / 8301 (R)
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Research Interests: CFD, High Speed Flows, Flow-Acoustics Coupling, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Turbulence Modeling, Multiphase flows and Combustion, Energy Harvesting

D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Evaporation and combustion of fuel droplets, Laser-induced evaporation and atomization of droplets, Pulse laser-induced atomization of droplets, Femtosecond laser-induced bubble dynamics

D. P. Mishra, Professor
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  +91-512-2597125 (O) / 8695 (R)
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Research Interests: Combustion, CFD of Chemically Reacting Flows, Propulsion, Heat Transfer

Ajay Vikram Singh, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Combustion and Reacting Flows, Combustion Generated Functional Nanoparticles, Soot Formation and Oxidation, Detonations, Boundary Layer Combustion, Gas Turbine Combustion, Fire Dynamics, Flame Spread, Material Flammability, Renewable Energy Conversion

Rajesh Ranjan, Assistant Professor
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  +91-512-259-2203 (O)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~rajeshr/

Research Interests: Turbomachinery Flows, Applied Aerodynamics, Stability & Flow Control, Transition and Relaminarization, High Performance Computing

Sathesh Mariappan, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Fundamentals of thermoacoustic interactions, Application of dynamical systems' theory to thermo fluid systems, Optical flow diagnostics, Acoustic measurements

Vaibhav Arghode, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Combustion, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics