Aditya Saurabh

PhD (Technical University Berlin)

Email: asaurabh[at]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-2070

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Specialization

Thermoacoustic instability; experiments, diagnostics of reacting flows

Research Interest

Dynamics of gas turbine (GT) combustors, flame dynamics, atomization of liquid fuels, alternative and biofuels in GT engines, suppression of noise and instabilities in combustors.

Announcements

Nov 3–7, 2019: Course on ULTRA CLEAN AND LOW PULSATION GAS TURBINES (Link to brochure), by Prof. C. O. Paschereit and me; hosted by Dr. Devendra Deskmukh at IIT Indore.
Presently accepting Masters and PhD students for research and development activities on liquid fuel atomization, thermoacoustic instability, combustion.

Education

2017: PhD, Chair of Fluid Dynamics, TU Berlin
2010: Dual degree (BTech + MTech), Dept. Aerospace Eng., IIT Madras

Website(s)

Homepage

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ME 341 – Heat transfer lab (2019)
ME 401 – Energy Systems II (2019)

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Postdoctoral research, Chair of Fluid Dynamics, TU Berlin 2017–2018

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Recently published Papers (updated 02.2019)

Premixed Flame Dynamics in Response to Two-Dimensional Acoustic Forcing, Combustion Science Technology 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2018.1516648)
Dynamics of premixed swirl flames under the influence of transverse acoustic fluctuations, Combustion and Flame 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2017.04.014)
Numerical results on noise-induced dynamics in the subthreshold regime for thermoacoustic systems, Journal of Sound and Vibration 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2016.12.004)
Fractal Characteristics of Combustion Noise, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4038766)
Recurrence Analysis of Combustion Noise, AIAA Journal 2015 (https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J053285)
Noise-Induced Dynamics in the Subthreshold Region in Thermoacoustic Systems, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4034544)
Route to chaos for combustion instability in ducted laminar premixed flames, Chaos 2012 (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4718725)
Combustion Instability in a Swirl Flow Combustor With Transverse Extensions, ASME Turbo Expo, Combustion and Fuels 2013 (https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2013-95732
See ResearcherID for an updated list: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-5923-2018