Santanu De

PhD (IISc Bangalore)

Email: sde[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-6478

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization

Fluid and Thermal Sciences

Research Interest

Turbulent Combustion, Spray Combustion, Flame Dynamics, Ignition, Coal and Biomass Combustion, Modeling of Turbulent Combustion, Conditional Moment Closure Method, Stochastic Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore
Thesis Title: Modeling and Computation of Turbulent Nonreacting and Reacting Sprays
Supervisor: Prof. K. N. Lakshmisha, (Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore)
M. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, North Bengal University, W.B.

Website(s)

Homepage

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Combustion, Advanced Combustion, Turbomachinery

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Santanu De, S.H. Kim. Large eddy simulation of dilute reacting sprays: droplet evaporation and scalar mixing, Combustion and Flame, 2013, 160(10), 2048-2066.
Santanu De, K.N. Lakshmisha, R.W. Bilger. Modeling of nonreacting and reacting turbulent spray jets using a fully stochastic separated flow approach. Combustion and Flame, 2011, 158(10), 1992-2008.
Santanu De, K.N. Lakshmisha. Simulations of evaporating spray jet in a uniform co-flowing turbulent air stream. Int J. Spray and Combustion Dynamics, 2009, 1(2), 169-198.
S. S. Patwardhan, Santanu De, K. N. Lakshmisha and B. N. Raghunandan. CMC simulations of lifted turbulent jet flame in a vitiated coflow. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2009, 32, 1705-1712.
Santanu De, K. Nagendra, K.N. Lakshmisha. Simulation of laminar flow in a three-dimensional lid-driven cavity by lattice Boltzmann method. Int. J. Numer. Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 2009, 19(6), 790-815.

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Effects of SGS scalar fluctuations on droplet evaporation and subsequent scalar mixing processes are investigated using Large Eddy Simulation (LES), where the gas-phase combustion is modeled following Flamelet Progress Variable (FPV) approach. The present approach may be used to investigate complex turbulence-spray-combustion interaction phenomena in industrial problems. Accompanying figure shows the contours of OH mass fractions for different jet Reynolds numbers.

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PhD Candidate: Sanjeev Kumar Ghai, Eshan Sharma
M.S. (Research) Candidate: Mukesh Adlak
M.Tech. Candidate: Sudhakar Singh

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Assistant Professor (Dec 2014 - present): Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Research Associate (Nov 2013 - Dec 2014): Institute for Combustion Technology (ITV), University of Stuttgart, Germany
Research Associate (Aug 2011 - Jul 2013): Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, USA
Scientist/Engineer SC (Jul 2004 - Jul 2005), Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, Valiamala, Trivandrum, Kerala, INDIA.

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Life Member, International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES)

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Office

NL 302 (Northern Laboratory),
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016

Office Phone: 0512-259-6478 (O)

Residence Phone: 0512-259-8709 (R)

Lab(s)

CFD Laboratory,
NL 302 (Northern Laboratory),
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Kanpur 208016

Office Phone: 0512-259-7655

Fax no: 0512-259-7408

Email: sde[AT]iitk.ac.in

+ - Keywords Click to collapse

Combustion, Turbulence, Turbulent Combustion, Spray Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer