Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Aero-Thermodynamics and Thermal Sciences 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

Ajay Vikram Singh, Associate Professor
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  https://www.ajayvsaero.com/

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

Arun Kumar Perumal,Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental aerodynamics, High speed flows, Subsonic and supersonic jets, Jets in cross flow, Impinging jets, Drag reduction on automotive vehicles.

Mohammed Ibrahim Sugarno, Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, High Enthalpy Test Facilities, Shock Waves

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

Rakesh Kumar, Professor
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  +91-512-259-6301 (O)/ 5524 (R)
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Research Interests: Hypersonics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Microfluidics, Molecular Dynamics, Heat Transfer & Thermal Design

Sanjay Kumar, Professor
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Research Interests: Fluid Mechanics - bluff body wakes, shock-accelerated flows, shock waves, shock tubes

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, Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Combustion, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Experimental Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics

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

Tufan Kumar Guha, Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Experimental Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Active and Passive Flow Control