People

Research group

Students, postdocs and alumni of the Combustion & Energy Conversion Systems Lab, IIT Kanpur.The group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Graduates of the group have gone on to postdoctoral positions at Cambridge, RWTH Aachen and Argonne National Laboratory, and to industrial R&D. Prospective PhD students and postdocs with a background in combustion, CFD or laser diagnostics are welcome to get in touch.

Doctoral students

Current

  • Krishna Chaitan MarthiMechanisms of thermoacoustic and hydrodynamic instabilities in lean-premixed gas turbine combustors · with Prof. Sathesh MariappanPMRF
  • Keshav YadavFlame stabilization in a jet engine afterburnerPMRF
  • Darshilkumar N. ChhatrodiyaMetal-catalyst-free dual-phase ceramic membranes for CO2-rich methane conversion · with Prof. S. OmarPMRF
  • Ajay PawarFluidized bed gasification of biomass and high-ash coal
  • Shobhit Kumar GautamMMC-LES of nonreacting and reacting dense sprays
  • ShubhamGasification of high-ash coal and biomass in a pressurized bubbling fluidized bed gasifier
  • Shobhit SrivastavaDevelopment of solid oxide fuel cell stack

PhD alumni

  • Dr. Noorul HudaStabilization and dynamics of lean premixed and partially premixed flames with hydrogen enrichmentPhD awarded · Jan 2026Postdoc, IIT Kanpur
  • Dr. Abhishek Kumar GuptaAtomization, mixing, and combustion of liquid fuel in a lean premixed prevaporized gas turbine combustorPhD awarded · Jan 2026NIAMT, Ranchi
  • Dr. Gunvir Singh WaliaA filtered Rankine–Hugoniot based hybrid LES-FDF approach for combustion in high-speed flows · with Prof. M. J. Cleary, SydneyPhD awarded · Dec 2025Postdoc, University of Calgary
  • Dr. Ashwini Kumar PalDynamics of colliding drops with and without evaporation: deformation, migration and other interactions · with Prof. G. BiswasPhD awarded · Dec 2024Postdoc, Florida A&M University – Florida State University
  • Dr. Eshan SharmaDynamic mixing time-scale model for multiple mapping conditioning approach applied to LES of reactive flowsPhD awarded · Oct 2022RWTH Aachen → Argonne
  • Dr. Saurabh GuptaInvestigation of hydrodynamics and high-ash coal gasification in fluidized bedPhD awarded · Dec 2021Donaldson Inc.
  • Dr. Sanjeev Kumar GhaiStochastic MMC for multi-regime turbulent reacting flowsPhD awarded · 2019Newcastle → Cambridge

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Surendra Kumar SoniStructured laser illumination diagnostics of atomizationDST-HFC
  • Bhoopendra PandeyValorization of industrial oily sludge through pyrolysisGAIL
M.Tech, MS and dual-degree theses
  1. M. Prasanth (MS) — Atomization of liquid fuel in a supersonic crossflow
  2. S. Kondru — LES of stratified flames with combined ATF and FGM (2024)
  3. R. R. Pandey — Fixed bed pyrolysis and catalytic upgrading of pyro-oil (2024)
  4. K. K. Prajapati — Shear, swirl and stratification in turbulent premixed CNG/air flames (2023)
  5. A. Pandey (MS) — MILD combustion of ethanol sprays with MMC-LES (2022)
  6. A. Kumar — Machine learning for reacting and non-reacting flows (2022)
  7. S. Satnami — Rice husk pyrolysis in a fixed bed reactor (2022)
  8. E. Sharma — Sparse-Lagrangian MMC of lifted CH4/air flames in vitiated coflow (2022)
  9. R. Singh — Buoyancy effects on film boiling over a sphere (2021)
  10. U. Patidar (dual) — Energy, exergy and cost optimization of a hybrid solar power tower (2021)
  11. A. Singhal (dual) — Supersonic combustion of hydrogen and kerosene in model scramjets (2020)
  12. V. Vijayamanikandan — LES-based sparse-Lagrangian MMC for swirling jet flames (2020)
  13. P. K. Nahak — LES of a lifted DME flame with sparse-Lagrangian MMC (2019)
  14. S. Yadav (dual) — LES Σ-Y model for primary atomization with ESF (2019)
  15. S. Choudhary (dual) — MP-PIC simulation of biomass gasification in a BFB (2019)
  16. Suraj (MS) — MP-PIC simulation of biomass gasification in dense fluidized beds (2019)
  17. D. Chaubey — Centrifugal compressor impeller design for a micro gas turbine (2019)
  18. P. Halder — Steady and unsteady combustion in a 100 kW micro gas turbine (2019)
  19. Nishant — Euler–Euler hydrodynamics of fluidized bed gasifiers (2019)
  20. S. K. Ghai — Minor mixing time scale in stochastic MMC for lifted flames (2018)
  21. R. Gupta (MS) — Stochastic MMC simulations of lifted jet diffusion flames (2018)
  22. M. Singh (dual) — LES of nonreacting and reacting pulverized coal jets (2018)
  23. M. Adlak (MS) — Mixing and combustion in a hydrogen-fuelled scramjet combustor (2018)
  24. S. Singh — Sparse-Lagrangian MMC of a piloted jet diffusion flame (2017)
  25. A. Dash — RANS-CMC of lifted H2 flames in a vitiated coflow (2015)
  26. S. Vivek (MS) — Large eddy simulation of primary atomization
  27. R. P. Chalapalli (MS) — Species measurements in premixed CNG/air flames
Current M.Tech students
  1. Pankaj Saini — H2 injection in the tuyere of a blast furnace
  2. Arvind — Raman measurements of combustion species
  3. Adwaith — Numerical simulation of a dual fluidized bed
  4. Sarvesh Maurya — LES-ESF simulations of turbulent combustion
  5. Pabitra Kumar Bhuyian — Experimental diagnostics of a dual swirl burner