Dr Pankaj Pancharia

  • Research Associate
Publications

Aerospace Engineer (2016-2024) at Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, National Centre for Combustion Research and Development, India:

  • Handling the projects relevant to research and investigation of unstable combustion-induced events like thermo-acoustic instability, flame flashback, and lean blowout in gas turbine combustors.
  • Expertise in high-speed (Class 4) laser-based experimental measurements (PIV, PLIF, Mie, etc.) and developed reduced-order models (POD, DMD, LCS) to study the effect of flow-flame dynamics and turbulence on combustion-triggered events.
  • Experienced in handling reactive flows of Hydrogen and CO (Syngas) combustion and involved in designing and developing a burner for Hydrogen-based laboratory-scale combustion systems.

Consultant (2021-2024) at Aircraft Engineering, Directorate General of Civil Aviation:

  • Consultant on projects relevant to low-carbon and decarbonisation technologies and carbon offset and reduction schemes for aerospace industrial activities.

Senior Research Scientist (2019-2020) at Institut für Technische Verbrennung, RWTH Aachen University, Germany:

  • UGC-DAAD Joint Doctoral work – Sustainable fuel blend spray combustion in high-pressure and high-temperature combustion chamber (Kopernikus Project P2X).

Qualifications

  • BEng, (hons) Aeronautical Engineering, 
  • MEng, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India
  • PhD, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India

 

Research group: Applied Aerodynamics

Research interests:

Sustainable Aircraft Propulsion, Hydrogen Combustion, Reacting Flow Turbulence, Thermo-Acoustic Instabilities, Combustion Dynamics, Optical Laser Diagnostics, Flame Flashback.

Specialities:

  • Optical Laser Diagnostics of combustion system aerothermal process.
  • Experimental study on the effect of inlet flow turbulence on combustion instabilities and thermo-acoustically induced flame flashbacks

Teaching Assistant for the academic courses:

  • Combustion, Flow and Flame Diagnostics, 
  • Transport Process in Reacting Flows and 
  • Sustainable Aircraft Propulsion offered by Prof. S.R. Chakravarthy at Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
  • Member of the National Centre for Combustion and Aerothermal Technology in future low-emission aero gas turbine combustion technologies.
  • Member of the Rolls-Royce UTC in Combustion System Aerothermal Processes.

Journal:

Conference proceedings