Dr Pankaj Pancharia

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:

• Pancharia P., Ramanan V., and Chakravarthy, S. R. (2024). Effect of inlet flow turbulence on hydro-acoustic coupling and flow-flame interactions in a premixed dump combustor, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci., Elsevier (2024), 1-21. 
• Pancharia P., Ramanan V., Sampath R., and Chakravarthy, S. R. (2022). Effect of inlet flow turbulence on flame-vortex dynamics during thermo-acoustically induced flame flashback in turbulent premixed combustor, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci., Elsevier, 139, (2022), 1-20. 
• Pancharia P., Ramanan V., and Chakravarthy, S. R. (2024). Effect of inlet flow turbulence on hydro-acoustic coupling during thermo-acoustically induced flame flashback in turbulent premixed combustor, Energy, Elsevier (2024), 1-18. (Under review - EGY-D-24-00235).
• D. Goeb, M. Davidovic, L. Cai, P. Pancharia, M. Bode, J. Beeckmann, W. Willems, K.A. Heufer and H. Pitsch. Oxymethylene ether - n-dodecane blend spray combustion: Experimental study and large-eddy simulations. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 38, (2021), 3417-3425.
• Arumugam V., Ananthapadmanaban R., Pancharia P., Tipnis V., Muruganandam T.M. (2019). Simultaneous TR-SPIV and CH* chemiluminescence during precursor to LBO in a lean premixed swirl dump combustor. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 37(4), 2019, 5105-5112, 

Conference proceedings

• Pancharia P., Ramanan V., Nagarajan B., and Chakravarthy, S. R., "Investigation on Effect of Inlet Flow Turbulence on the Combustion Instability Using Simultaneous PIV and CH* Chemiluminescence in a Backward Facing Step Combustor."Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition.Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. June 17–21, 2019. V04BT04A055. ASME.
• Pancharia P., Ramanan V., Nagarajan B., and Chakravarthy, S. R., "Simultaneous TR-PIV and CH* Chemiluminescence During Combustion-Instability Triggered Flame-Flashback in a Backward Facing Step Combustor."Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2019: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition.Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. Phoenix, Arizona, USA. June 17–21, 2019. V04BT04A018. ASME.