PhD Students

Zehao Lu Email: lu752@purdue.edu Research: Modeling of Combustion Instabilities in Self-Excited Resonance Combustor

Master Students

	Fnu AMAAN KHAN Email: famaankh@purdue.edu Research: modeling of boundary layer flows under acceleration
	Gokula Tavva Email: gtavva@purdue.edu Research: detonation combustion simulations
	Daigo Mimuro Email: dmimuro@purdue.edu Research: machine learning for combustion chemistry
	Jiekun Wu Email: wu1618@purdue.edu Research: Detonation combustion modelling

Undergraduate students

Alumni

Post Doctoral Researchers

• Dr. Utsav Jain, 2024.
  • Research topic: Turbulent Combustion Modeling of Turbulent Jet Ignition (TJI) driven by Machine Learning Algorithms.
  • Current Position: Dassault Systèmes.
• Dr. Jinlong Liu, 2020.
  • Research topic: Computational modeling of Turbulent Jet Ignition (TJI) in pre-chamber engines.
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

PhD Students

• Jie Tao, PhD, 2024.
  • Thesis: Machine learning assisted convective wall heat transfer models for fire modeling along vertical walls, ceilings and floors
  • Current Position:
• Utsav Jain, PhD, 2023.
  • Thesis: Computational Modeling of Ignition and Premixed Flame Propagation Initiated by a Pre-chamber Turbulent Jet
  • Current Position: Postdoc at CEPL.
• Tianfang Xie, PhD, 2022.
  • Thesis: Representation of Differential Molecular Diffusion by Using Laminar Flamelet and Modeling of Pool Fire by using Transported PDF Method
  • Current Position: Software Engineer at F5 Networks.
• Tejas Pant, PhD, 2019.
  • Thesis: Numerical Modeling of Thermo-acoustic Instability in a Self-excited Resonance Combustor using the Flamelet Modeling Approach and Transported Probability Density Method
  • Current Position: AI Scientist at Accrete.
• Pei Zhang, PhD, 2019.
  • Thesis: Large Eddy Simulation/Transported Probability Density Function Modeling of Turbulent Combustion: Model Advancements and Applications
  • Current Position: PostDoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
• Chao Han, PhD, 2018.
  • Thesis: Differential Molecular Diffusion in Turbulent Non-premixed Combustion: Power-law Scaling, Modeling Requirements, and Flamelet Simulations.
  • Current Position: Combustion CFD Developer at Ansys Inc.
• Harshad Lalit (co-advisor: Prof. Jay Gore), PhD, 2017.
  • Thesis: Computational Investigation of Soot and Radiation in Turbulent Reacting Flows.
  • Current Position: Quantitative Analyst at the Rockefeller Capital Management.
• Cheng Huang (co-advisor: Prof. W. Anderson), PhD, 2015.
  • Thesis: Modeling oxygen and hydrogen combustion under supercritical conditions using computational fluid dynamics.
  • Current Position: Research Scientist at University of Michigan.

Master Students

• Samuel Goilo, MS, 2024.
  • Thesis: Deep neural network modeling of a turbulent jet ignition system.
  • Current Position: The Aerospace Corporation, Technical Staff.
• Charles Guo, MS, 2024.
  • Thesis: Convergence and Scaling Analysis of Large-Eddy Simulations of a Pool Fire.
  • Current Position: Northrop Grumman, GNC engineer.
• Biswaranjan Pati, MS, 2021.
  • Thesis: Large Eddy Simulations of a Back-step Turbulent Flow and Preliminary Assessment of Machine Learning for Reduced Order Turbulence Model Development.
  • Current Position: PhD student at CEPL, Purdue.
• Krutika Appaswamy, MS, 2021.
  • Thesis: Computational Studies of Cambridge Stratified Premixed Flames using Transported Probability Density Function Method.
  • Current Position: PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue.
• Abhinand Ayyaswamy, MS, 2020.
  • Thesis: Computational Modeling of Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers By Using Machine Learning.
  • Current Position: PhD student at CEPL, Purdue.
• Shashank Kashyap, MS, 2019.
  • Thesis: Multi-Regime Turbulent Combustion Modeling using Large Eddy Simulation and Probability Density Function.
  • Current Position: Senior HPC/CAE engineer at Rivian (Past positions: Application Engineer at Rescale).
• Menglin Ni, MS, 2018.
  • Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Darmstadt Turbulent Stratified Flames Using Composition Probability Density Function Transport ModelComputational Investigation of Soot and Radiation in Turbulent Reacting Flows.
  • Current Position:
• Jie Tao, MS, 2017.
  • Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Pulsed Jet Flame.
  • Current Position: PhD student at CEPL, Purdue.
• Utsav Jain, MS, 2017.
  • Thesis: Computational Analysis of Spray Jet Flames.
  • Current Position: PhD student at CEPL, Purdue.
• Akshay Koodly-Ravishankara, MS, 2016.
  • Current Position: PhD student at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands.
• Tejas Pant, MS, 2014.
  • Thesis: Study of a Generalized Imperical Model for Predicting Pressure Drop for Internal Flows.
  • Current Position: PhD candidate at CEPL, Purdue.

Undergraduate Students

• Patton Courie, BS, 2026.
  • Research: modeling studies of biomass pyrolysis.
  • Current Position:

• Xiao Jing, BS, 2018.
  • Research: Combustion Modeling of Stratified Flames.
  • Current Position: Graduate Student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor at Purdue University.

Visiting Scholars

• Wanhui Zhao, 2020.
  • Research: Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Spray Flames.
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor at Civil Aviation University of China.
• Dr. Meng Xia, 2019.
  • Research: Turbulent Mixing Models and Multiphase Flow Simulations.
  • Current Position: Lecturer at SPEIT, Shanghai Jiatong University.