National Center for Combustion Research and Development

Indian Institute Of Technology Madras & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Faculty
Dr. Santosh Hemchandra
DESIGNATION

Assistant Professor Dept of Aerospace Engg., IISc Bangalore



CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Combustion, Combustion Instability , Multi-phase flows, Numerical methods.

CONTACT
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • K. Kashinath, S. Hemchandra, and M. Juniper, "Nonlinear thermoacoustics of ducted premixed flames: the influence of perturbation convection speed", Combustion and Flame, vol. 160, 2013, pp. 2856.                                                                                                                                                        
  • K. Kashinath, S. Hemchandra, and M. Juniper, "Nonlinear phenomena in Thermoacoustic Systems with Premixed flames", Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (recipient of the IGTI's best paper award in the Comb. Fuels and Emissions track), vol. 135.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  • S. Hemchandra, and T. Lieuwen, "Local consumption speed of turbulent premixed flames–An analysis of “memory effects”", Combustion and Flame, vol. 157, 2010.                                                                                                                 
  • S. Hemchandra, N. Peters, and T. Lieuwen, "Heat release response of acoustically forced turbulent premixed flames—role of kinematic restoration", Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 33, 2011.

PROJECTS

  1. Combusion instabilty modelling for gas turbine combustors with multiple interacting flames, Pratt and Whitney Corp. (USA), 2013-2014                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
  2. Modelling the primary atomization of liquid jets using the level-set method, ISRO - IISc STC, 2013-2016