The Ohio State University

Abstract: 

Results from the numerical simulation of supersonic combustion in model and full scale combustors will be presented. The talk will highlight fundamental issues in supersonic combustion and in supersonic development. It is established that CFD can play a major role in the design and testing of supersonic combustors. The predictions of the calculations are validated against experimental data for several fuels and injection schemes in model combustor geometries. Finally, results for a full scale concept combustor and a comparison with experimental data are presented.  

Author Bio: 

Prof. Babu received his and M.S and Ph.D in Mechanical engineering from the Ohio State University in 1989 and 1991. He was a Research Associate at the Ohio State University from 1991-1995. He joined the Ford Research Lab at Dearborn, Michigan in August 1995 and worked as a Technical Specialist till Nov. 1998. He joined the Faculty of Indian Institute of Technology Madras in Dec 1998. He has received the Henry Ford Technology Award in 1998 for his work on the development of a Virtual Wind Tunnel. He has four US patents and has authored two books. His research interests are simulation of high speed reacting flows, supersonic combustion, computational aeroacoustics, lattice Boltzmann method and high performance computing.

The seminar will be held in E001 Scott Laboratory.