Ashoke De Air-force Chair Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
ASME Fellow, AvHumboldt Fellow, AIAA-Associate Fellow, FAScT
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Ashoke De is currently a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and having joint appointment in the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. Dr. De received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University, USA in 2009. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he has worked as post-doctoral scholar at Technical University of Delft (TU-Delft), Netherlands and as Research Engineer in GE Global research at Bangalore, India. He is the recipient of DAAD Fellowship (2016), IEI-Young Engineer’s Award-2014 (Aerospace Engineering), Early Career Research award-2015 (DST, India), Expertise Award-2010 (GE Global research), and P K Kelkar Young Research Fellowship (2015-2018, IITK). He is ASME Fellow, AvHumboldt Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, Associate Editor of International Journal of Energy for a Clean Environment (2019-present), and currently member of APS, AIAA, ASME, SIAM, FMFP, ISHMT and Combustion Institute. Dr. De leads large scale initiatives in the modelling of turbulent flows at IIT Kanpur. His current research interests include multiphase modeling, hybrid RANS/LES model development, supersonic flows and Fluid-Structure interactions (FSI). He is actively pursuing research projects from various organizations like ISRO, ARDB, DST, DRDO, BRNS and Pratt & Whitney Canada.



New Immediate Opening for Post-doc positions/SRF/RA

FSI of Bio-fluid Mechanics
Multi-phase flows and combustion
*Interested Candidate(s) may send the resume to me drectly

New Immediate Opening for PhD students

FSI for Energy Harvesting/Thermal Storage/Flapping
Hypersonic Flows
Wind turbine and Hydro kinetic turbine modeling


Research Areas for PhD/Masters students

Atomization and Spray modeling
Thermal Cooling
Bio Fluid Mechanics
Electrochemical system modeling
Noise Predictions
Turbulence modeling and Flow Control
Lean Premixed Combustion


Research Interest

High Speed Flows
Thermal Cooling
Flow-Acoustics Coupling
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Energy Harvesting
Turbulence Modeling: DNS, LES, Hybrid RANS/LES
Combustion and Flame Dynamics
Spray modeling
Turbo-machinery Flows
Lattice Boltzmann Modeling
Flow Control
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