Propulsion & Energy Conversion Laboratory
Team
Professor Swetaprovo Chaudhuri
Professor Chaudhuri is an expert in turbulent reacting flows and propulsion, internationally recognized for his original contributions to turbulent flame stabilization, propagation, and structure through experiments, theory, and computation. He is a Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. Professor Chaudhuri has authored or co-authored more than one hundred articles in leading journals, conferences, and books, and has received honors from ASME, UConn, INSA, IAS, and the University of Toronto. He is an elected Associate Fellow of the AIAA and serves on its Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee. He also serves as a Colloquium Co-Coordinator at the International Symposium on Combustion and has served as a member of Ontario’s COVID-19 Modeling Consensus Table.
Students
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Kartikeya Akojwar - PhD student | Experiments and analysis in a self-decarbonizing combustor |
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Yazdan Naderzadeh - PhD student | Flame stabilization and propagation in a fuel-flex combustor |
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Arnab Mukherjee
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Aerosol dispersion and disease dynamics |
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Scott Watson - MASc student | Hydrogen-air flame dynamics |
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Saifullah - PhD student | DNS of hydrogen-air turbulent premixed flames |
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Matthew He - MASc student | Fundamental study of self-decarbonizing combustion |
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Owen Zeyl - MASc student | High-pressure micromix combustion |
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Raghu Alluri - MASc student | High-speed turbulent premixed flames |
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Hannah Drouillard - UG student | Mixing in turbulent flows |
Post-doctoral research fellows
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Dr. Amitesh Roy | Contrail in a lab: experiments and microphysical modeling |
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Dr. Samadhan Pawar | Thermoacoustic instability in swirling flames |
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Dr. Yuvraj | Turbulent flame structure: mixing-chemistry interactions |
Alumni
| Yuvraj | PhD 2024 | Thesis title: Enhancement of flame speeds of hydrogen-air premixed flames in turbulence
Post-Doc at UTIAS
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Ankit Dutta | PhD 2023 | Thesis title: Investigating instability mitigation through flame oscillator synchronization Advanced Designer at Honeywell International Inc.
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| Gopakumar R. | PhD 2020 | Thesis title: Dynamics of actuated and interacting swirl premixed flames in model gas turbine combustors.
Post-Doc at Sandia National Laboratories
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| Prasenjit Kabi | PhD 2020 | Thesis title: Evaporation of Sessile Nanoparticle Laden Droplets.
Post-Doc at University College London
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| Himanshu Dave | PhD 2019 | Thesis title: Structure and Propagation of Premixed Flames in Turbulence.
Marie Curie Fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles
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| Harsha Uranakara | PhD 2018 | Thesis title: Flame Particle Tracking Analysis of Turbulence-Premixed Flame Interaction
Post-Doc at KAUST
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| Vishal Singh | MSc 2021 | Thesis title: Experiments in an Effervescent Atomizer.
Research Associate at IISc
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| Abinesh Mohan | MSc 2018 | Thesis title: Lagrangian Flame Element Analysis of Turbulence-Premixed Flame Interactions.
Engineer at Airbus
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| Mallikarjuna Tilak | MSc 2019 | Thesis title: Analysis of interacting swirling flows.
Engineer at Tata Advanced Systems |