Specialisation:

Computational Fluid Dynamics; Turbulent Reacting Flows

Major Professional Contributions:

1 Technical
 Scientist/Engineer in VSSC / ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram from 1986 to 2001. Involved in Aerodynamic design and analysis of various sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles of ISRO
 Scientist ‘F’ in DRDL/DRDO from November, 2001 to June’2007. Set up the Computational Combustion Dynamics (CCD) division for numerical simulation of turbulent reacting Flow in missile propulsion system.
 Scientist’G’ from July 1, 2007 to August 1, 2017. As Technology Director of Directorate
of Computational Dynamics (DOCD), I have guided and participated in numerical simulation of
nonreacting and reacting flow problems for aerodynamic and propulsion characterization of various
ongoing and future missiles of DRDO.

 Outstanding Scientist (scientist ‘H’) from August 2, 2017.
On October 2018, I was appointed As Group director of the design group which comprises of five important technology directorates namely; Mission, Aerodynamic, Flight Structure, Thermal Engineering and Computational Dynamics of DRDL. The activities of these groups are very critical for the design of various tactical and strategic systems. Also the two project activities namely; HyperSonic Technology Demonstartor vehicle (HSTDV) and Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) projects are also part of the design Group. In last one year, I guided more than 120 scientists and many technical officers to provide many important design inputs for the ongoing and new missile projects of DRDL, RCI and ASL.
 Appointed as Associate Director (Technology) of DRDL on May 07, 2019.
 Professor in Aerospace Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the Director of Centre of Propulsion Technology (CoPT) at IIT, Bombay. CoPT is established by DRDO as a bimodal research centre for propulsion technologies with IIT Bombay and IIT Madras as its primary nodes and with program office at IIT, Bombay. COPT is to facilitate and undertake multidisciplinary directed basic and applied basic research in the following verticals alongwith DRDO nodal labs. (1)Futuristic aero engines, (2) Hypersonic Propulsion for Long duration flight (3) Solid Propulsion Combustion modelling (4) Morphing aircraft including its propulsion and associated technologies. All 39 research projects pertaining to Small Turbo Fan Engine (STFE), Solid Propulsion Combustion Modeling (SPCM) and Morphing Wing Aircraft Technology (MWAT) verticals are extensively monitored through number of external and internal review meetings, The meeting of Research Advisory Board (RAB) and Governing Council (GC) are regularly conducted. Work has been initiated to start new activities for hypersonic vertical. My consistent efforts is making COPT as a center of excellence .in the area of propulsion technology.
 Leader of the design team of long range hypersonic mission in DRDL.
 Chairman of System Engineering Committee (SEC), of various DRDL missiles (ASTRA MKII, XRSAM, DMRSPS etc.).
 Member of Flight Readiness Review(FRR) committee of various missiles (ASTRA MKI, HSTDV, MPATGM etc.)
 Member of System Engineering Committee (SEC), of various DRDL missiles (ASTRA MKI, HSTDV, MPATGM etc.).
 Officer – in – Charge of Joint Advanced Technology Programme (JATP) between IISc and DRDL during the period February’04 – September’07. All technical collaboration between DRDL and IISC were managed.
 Point of Contact (POC) of Indo- Israel Joint CFD collaborative work Group. Development of six different advanced research topics co-ordinated.
 Coordinator for Extramural Research (ER) activities of DRDO Hyderabad Region Laboratories.

2 Academic

 AICTE-INAE Distinguished visiting Professor at Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, during 2007-2009.
 Visiting Professor at Computer Science department (CMSD), Hyderabad Central University, 2010.
 Editorial board member of Defence Science Journal.
 Guest Editor of Special issue of Defence Science Journal
 Associate Editor of Journal of Institute of Engineers ‘Series ‘C’
 Supervisor of Ph.D/ M.S students of IISc, IIT and other academic institutes
 Member ofBoard of Studies of Jaharwarlal Nehru Technical University, Hyderabad.
 Member ofBoard of Studies of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore.
 Editorial board member of Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technology.
 Research advisory board member of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore and Siddharth Engineering College, Vijayawada.
 Reviewed many papers for many reputed international Journals including Physics of Fluids, Combustion and Flame, International Journal of numerical methods in Fluid, International Journal of Heat and Fliud flow, Journal of Aerospace Engineering-Proc. of ASME, Acta Astronautica, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Powers, AIAA Journal of spacecraft and Rockets, AIAA Journal, Computers and Fluids, Defence Science Journal, Sadhana and many others.
 Obtained outstanding reviewer certificate from Acta Astronautica
 Chaired many important sessions of international conferences and organized many national and international conferences (SAROD-05, 07, 09,11, 13, NCAE-12, ICCMS-4 etc) and CEP courses and CFD workshops.
 Ph.D thesis examiner of IISc, IIT (Bombay), IIT (Madras), IIT (Guwahati), IIST, University of Hyderabad (UOH) and many other academic institutes.
 Chief of editorial team of DRDL house journal VIBGYOR from June’12- June’14.

3 Review of National programs
 Expert panel member of National Supercomputing Mission (Group on Application Development)
 Chairperson of NSM subgroup on “CFD in Engineering Problems”
 Review committee member of Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded National Center for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) established at IIT (M), Chennai and IISC, Bangalore.
 Member of the Advisory Committee of CMSD.
 Member for Sectional Committee(Aerospace Engineering) of Indian National Academy of Engineering for three years (2018, 2019 & 2020) from 1.1.2018
 Chairman of the review team of Brahmos (A) missile separation from SU-30 aircraft.
 Chairman of the review team of ASSRAM missile separation from SU-30 aircraft (Toofan Project of Indian Air Force).
 Chairman of the review team of DERBY missile separation from SU-30 aircraft (DOS Project of Indian Air Force)
 Member of expert advisory group on modeling and simulation of International Advance Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and new materials (ARCI), Hyderabad
 Member of the review committee of Screech mitigation of Kaveri engine afterburner of GTRE.
 Member of PARC committee of Project DAKSH (Development of Advanced Cryptanalytic Tools based on Distributed and Shared memory) of SAG, New Delhi. Various cryptanalytic tools and computing platforms were reviewed and suggestions were provided for better numerical performance of these tool.
 Member of Project Monitoring and Review Council (PMRC) and Executive Board of DRDO Multi Petaflop computing System SUVIDHA of ANURAG, Hyderabad.
 Chairman of TEC committee of CHITRA up gradation (3500 processor cluster) of ANURAG and PGAD, 300 teraflop GPU cluster, the specifications of the systems are finalized.
 Chairperson of Project Monitoring Committee(PMC) of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)- project entitled “ Design & Development of Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) System”
 Coordinator for Extramural Research (ER) activities of DRDO Hyderabad Region Laboratories.
 Expert Member of GTRE combustor Joint Working Group of Kaveri Phase – II dry engine project.
 Member of AR&DB Propulsion Panel from 2012.
 Member of AR&DB Aerodynamics Panel from 2012-2017.
 Member of Divisional Scientific Committee of Computational & Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Division of National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore during 2006-2013.
 Expert member for faculty/scientist recruitment in IISc, IIT (Madras), IIT (Kanpur) and DRDO.
 Member of ‘AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) Induction Review committee’ of Naval Material Research Laboratory (NMRL), DRDO, Ambernath, Maharasthra.

4 Administrative
 Chairman of DRDL Communication Advisory Council (CAC), DRDL technical publications screening committee, Human Resource Committee (HRC) (Sept, 2011, October, 2013)..
 Vice chairman of CFD Division of Aeronautical Society of Indiaduring 2004-2013.
 Chairman of Zonal Recruitment Board for the recruitment of technicians in 2008.

Consultancy Areas:

Sector Associated With:

R&D

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Educational / Academic institutions, Industry (Private), Industry (PSUs), R&D Organizations, Government (including funding agencies)

6.1 Technical

v Scientist/Engineer in VSSC / ISRO, Thiruvananthapuram from 1986 to 2001. Involved in Aerodynamic design and analysis of various sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles of ISRO

v Scientist ‘F’ in DRDL/DRDO from November, 2001 to June’2007. Set up the Computational Combustion Dynamics (CCD) division for numerical simulation of turbulent reacting Flow in missile propulsion system.

v Scientist’G’ from July 1, 2007 to August 1, 2017. As Technology Director of Directorate

           of Computational Dynamics (DOCD), I have  guided and participated in numerical simulation of

           nonreacting and reacting flow problems for aerodynamic and propulsion characterization of various  

           ongoing and future missiles of DRDO.

v Outstanding Scientist (scientist ‘H’) from August 2, 2017- November 30, 2019.

On October 2018, I was appointed As Group director of the design group which comprises of five important technology directorates namely; Mission, Aerodynamic, Flight Structure, Thermal Engineering and Computational Dynamics of DRDL. The activities of these groups are very critical for the design of various tactical and strategic systems. Also the two project activities namely;  HyperSonic Technology Demonstartor vehicle (HSTDV) and Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) projects are also part of the design Group. In last one year, I guided more than 120 scientists and many technical officers to provide many important design inputs for the ongoing and new missile projects of DRDL, RCI and ASL.

v Appointed as Associate Director (Technology) of DRDL on May 07, 2019.

v Professor in Aerospace Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the Director of Centre of Propulsion Technology (CoPT) at IIT, Bombay (Dec’2019-May’2022).

CoPT is established by DRDO as a bimodal research centre for propulsion technologies with IIT Bombay and IIT Madras as its primary nodes and with program office at IIT, Bombay. COPT is to facilitate and undertake multidisciplinary directed basic and applied basic research in the following verticals alongwith DRDO nodal labs. (1)Futuristic aero engines,  (2) Hypersonic Propulsion for Long duration flight  (3) Solid Propulsion Combustion modelling (4) Morphing aircraft including its propulsion and associated technologies. All 39 research projects pertaining to Small Turbo Fan Engine (STFE), Solid Propulsion Combustion Modeling (SPCM) and Morphing Wing Aircraft Technology (MWAT) verticals are extensively monitored through number of  external and internal review meetings, Brain-storming sessions were organized to decide the research problems in the area of long range hypersonic cruise mission and large Aero engine (110 KN) for indigenous Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). Request For Proposals (RFP) were sent to all important national academic institutes and research organizations. The received proposals were discussed with DRDO laboratories and peer reviewed through external review panels for necessary sanctions from the funding agency.  The meeting of  Research Advisory Board (RAB) and Governing Council (GC) are regularly conducted. Work has been initiated to start new activities for hypersonic vertical. My consistent efforts is making COPT as a center of excellence .in the area of propulsion technology.

v Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad

v Leader of the design team of long range hypersonic mission in DRDL.

v Chairman of System Engineering Committee (SEC), of  various DRDL missiles (ASTRA MKII, XRSAM, DMRSPS etc.).

v Member of Flight Readiness Review(FRR) committee of various missiles (ASTRA MKI, HSTDV, MPATGM etc.)

v Member of System Engineering Committee (SEC), of  various DRDL missiles (ASTRA MKI, HSTDV, MPATGM etc.).

v Officer – in – Charge of Joint Advanced Technology Programme (JATP) between IISc and DRDL during the period February’04 – September’07. All technical collaboration between DRDL and IISC were managed. MOU of the collaboration was formulated in 2007 and 2012.

v Point of Contact (POC) of Indo- Israel Joint CFD collaborative work Group. Development of six different advanced research topics co-ordinated.

v Coordinator for Extramural Research (ER) activities of DRDO Hyderabad Region Laboratories.

6.2 Academic

v Visitor’s Nominee at Aerospace Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.

v Visitor’s Nominee at Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad.

v AICTE-INAE Distinguished visiting Professor at Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, during 2007-2009.

v Visiting Professor at Computer Science and Simulation Department (CMSD), Hyderabad Central University, 2010.

v Editorial board member of Defence Science Journal.

v Guest Editor of Special issue of  Defence Science Journal

v Associate Editor of Journal of Institute of Engineers ‘Series ‘C’

v Supervisor of Ph.D / M.S students of IISc, IIT and other academic institutes

v Member of Board of Studies of Jaharwarlal Nehru Technical University, Hyderabad, Developed a course curriculum on CFD (April 17,2008)

v Member of Board of Studies of Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore, Developed course curriculum of Aerospace Engineering (Nov.15, 2016)

v Editorial board member of Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technology.

v Research advisory board member of Siddharth Engineering College, Vijayawada. Developed course curriculum of Aerospace Engineering (March 31, 2017)

v Reviewed many papers for many reputed international Journals including Physics of Fluids, Combustion and Flame, International Journal of numerical methods in Fluid, International Journal of Heat and  Fluid flow, Journal of Aerospace Engineering-Proc. of ASME, Acta Astronautica, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Powers, AIAA  Journal of spacecraft and Rockets, AIAA Journal, Computers and Fluids, Defence Science Journal, Sadhana and many others.

v Obtained outstanding reviewer certificate from Acta Astronautica

v Chaired many important sessions of international conferences and organized many national and international conferences (SAROD-05, 07, 09,11, 13, NCAE-12, ICCMS-4 etc) and CEP courses and CFD workshops.

v Ph.D thesis examiner of IISc, IIT (Bombay), IIT (Madras), IIT (Guwahati), IIST, University of Hyderabad (UOH) and many other academic institutes.

v Chief of editorial team of DRDL house journal VIBGYOR from June’12- June’14.

v Member Departmental Post Graduate Committee (DPGC) of Aerospace Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (May 2020- Till date). Discuss, review and provide suggestions on all matters related to PG students (Including on PGstudent admissions)

v Offered courses on (ME 777 combustion of energy materials and AE 711- Aircraft propulsion) to M.Tech students of Mechanical engineering and Aerospace Engineering departments of IIT, Bombay respectively. Also delivering guest lectures on optimization methods and computation of high-speed flows.

v Guiding and evaluating many Ph.D and M.Tech students of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in their thesis work.

v Presently offering the course on Aerodynamic and Flight Mechanics (ME 465) at Mahindra University, Hyderabad.

6.3 List of Research /Consultancy Projects

6.4 Review of National programs

v Expert panel member of National Supercomputing Mission (Group on Application Development)

v Chairperson of NSM subgroup on “CFD in Engineering Problems”

v Review committee member of Department of Science and Technology (DST) funded National Center for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) established at IIT (M), Chennai and IISC, Bangalore.

v Member of the Research council of CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), Durgapur.

v Member of expert advisory group on modeling and simulation of International Advance Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and new materials (ARCI), Hyderabad

v Member of the Advisory Committee of Centre of Modeling Simulation and Design (CMSD), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

v Member for Sectional Committee(Aerospace Engineering) of Indian National Academy of Engineering for three years (2018, 2019 & 2020) from 1.1.2018

v Member of the selection committee for the Young Engineer and Innovative Student project award of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) from 1-1-22

v Member of the committee for restructuring and expanding the number of Engineering Sections in Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

v Chairman of the review team of Brahmos (A) missile separation from SU-30 aircraft.

v Chairman of the review team of ASSRAM missile separation from SU-30 aircraft (Toofan Project of Indian Air Force).

v Chairman of the review team of DERBY missile separation from SU-30 aircraft (DOS Project of Indian Air Force)

v Member of the review committee of Screech mitigation of Kaveri engine afterburner of GTRE.

v Member of PARC committee of Project DAKSH (Development of Advanced Cryptanalytic Tools based on Distributed and Shared memory) of SAG, New Delhi.  Various cryptanalytic tools and computing platforms were reviewed and suggestions were provided for better numerical performance of these tool.

v Member of Project Monitoring and Review Council (PMRC) and Executive Board of DRDO Multi Petaflop computing System SUVIDHA of ANURAG, Hyderabad.

v Chairman of TEC committee of CHITRA up gradation (3500 processor cluster) of ANURAG and PGAD, 300 teraflop GPU cluster, the specifications of the systems are finalized.

v Chairman of Project Monitoring Committee(PMC) of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)- project entitled “ Design & Development of Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) System”

v Chairman of the peer review committee of  ARMament Research Board (ARMREB) research proposal “ Experimental Studies on Small-Scale Rotating Detonation Engine”

v Member of the peer review committee of  ARMament Research Board (ARMREB) research proposal “ Investigation on Phenomena of surface and volumetric discharge in ignitor plugs”

v Coordinator for Extramural Research (ER) activities of DRDO Hyderabad Region Laboratories.

v Expert Member of GTRE combustor Joint Working Group of Kaveri Phase – II dry engine project.

v Member of AR&DB Propulsion Panel from 2012 till date.

v Member of AR&DB Aerodynamics Panel from 2012-2017.

v Member of Divisional Scientific Committee of Computational & Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Division of National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore during 2006-2013.

v Expert member for faculty/scientist recruitment in IISc, IIT (Madras), IIT (Kanpur) and DRDO.

v Member of ‘AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) Induction Review committee’ of Naval Material Research Laboratory (NMRL), DRDO, Ambernath, Maharasthra.

v Member peer review committee of DRDO’s long range hypersonic mission.

v Member peer review committee of Naval Anti-Ship Missile (Medium Range) (NASM-MR) missile of RCI/DRDO, Hyderabad.

v Member peer review committee for the development of DRDO’s Anti-MIRV Missile System (AMIRV).

v Member peer review committee for the development of DRDO’s Anti-HGV Missile System

v Member peer review committee of integration of DRDL’s Air-to-air ASTRA missile with Light Combat Aircraft TEJAS

v Member of Flight data Review Committee of Hypersonic Airbreathing Cruise Vehicle (HS-03).

v Panel member of Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit (VAIBHAV-2020) for ‘Scientific Advances in Hypersonics’ on October 6, 2020 18:30 – 21:30 hrs.

v Panel member of Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit (VAIBHAV-2020) for ‘Airbreathing Engines’ on October 9, 2020 19:30 – 22:30 hrs

v Panel member of Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit (VAIBHAV-2020) for ‘CFD and Chemistry’ on October 17, 2020 19:30 – 22:30 hrs

v Panel member of Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik Summit (VAIBHAV-2020) for ‘Multiphysics modelling and Computation’ on October 19, 2020 20:00 – 23:00 hrs

v Academic expert for the DRDO’s “Dare -to Dream 2.0” program in the open category – Exploring the unthinkable and un-imaginable.

v Member of the Research Council of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), Durgapur

v Expert invitee for “standardization of procedure for numerical model generation” committee for Centre of Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), DRDO.

v Chairman of Technical Review committee to Russian (ROE) proposal on “Development of numerical simulation for the behavior of HE warhead /ammunition in response of thermal and Mechanical stimuli”

v Reviewed Pazy foundation, Israel proposal “Coupling Endothermic Reactions of Fuel for Cooling in Scramjet Engines”, Submitted by The Technion University and  Rafael-Advanced Defense  Systems.

6.5 Administrative

v Chairman of DRDL Communication Advisory Council (CAC), DRDL technical publications screening committee, Human Resource Committee (HRC) (Sept, 2011, October, 2013)..

v Vice chairman of CFD Division of Aeronautical Society of India during 2004-2013.

v Chairman of Zonal Recruitment Board for the recruitment of technicians in 2008.

7. Awards and Distinction

v Visitor’s nominee in Aerospace Engineering department of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras since September 2, 2022.

v Visitors nominee in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad since November 14, 2022.

v Elected as Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) with effect from 2014.

v Elected as Fellow of Aeronautical Society of India with effect from 2014.

v Elected as Fellow of Institute of Engineers (India) with effect from 2014.

v Elected as Fellow of Telengana Academy of Science, 2019.

v Elected as Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Engineering 2020.

v DRDO Scientist of the year award 2012.

Citation: Dr. Debasis Chakraborty, Scientist ‘G’, Defence Research & Development laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad has made excellent contributions to indigenous development of state-of-the-art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes, which are being used in numerical simulation after extensive validations.  This has reduced the dependence on the experiments in wind tunnel and other propulsion test facilities and resulted in significant reduction in developmental cost and time. The system developers are using CFD results to take stand-alone design decision without testing.

In recognition of his invaluable contributions, The Scientist of the year – 2012 is conferred on Dr. Debasis Chakraborty.

v DRDO award for Best innovation/futuristic Development, 2010

Citation: The team has successfully designed, developed and static tested the scramjet-combustor for HSTDV project. The indigenous development of the state-of-art supersonic combustor using Hydrocarbon liquid fuel has been achieved in our country for the time.

v Technology Group award (Group leader) of DRDL for 2008.

Citation: The team has contributed significantly in providing important data for aerodynamic and propulsive design of various DRDO missile system including HSTDV, Astra, B-05, LRSAM, PAD, SF&D etc. Important understanding of complex flow physics through numerical simulations provided by the team has enabled the designers to make necessary design changes for better performance of the system

v Awarded AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore during 2007-2009.

v Awarded Aerospace Engineering Division subject prize byInstitute of Engineers (India)   for the paper “Numerical simulation of supersonic combustion of pylon injected hydrogen fuel in scramjet combustor” (published in Journal of Institute of Engineers (India), Volume 87, pp 1-6) for the year 2006-2007.

v Awarded Aerospace Engineering Division subject prizeby Institute of Engineers (India)  for the paper “Numerical prediction of Surface heat flux during multiple jet firing for missile control”, (published in series ’C’, Journal of Institute of Engineers (India), Volume 94, issue 1, pp 85-91) for the year 2012-2013.

v Awarded Aerospace Engineering Division subject prizeby Institute of Engineers (India) for the paper “Numerical prediction of Non-equilibrium Plasma Discharge for high speed flow control” (published in series ’C’, Journal of Institute of Engineers (India), Volume 98, issue 3, pp 285-293) for the year 2017-2018.

v The paper “Numerical simulation of scramjet combustor flow field” was awarded the Second Best paper in the technical session of 54^th AGM of  Aeronautical Society of India.

v Sri S.R. Bando Gold Medal for securing the highest aggregate marks among all the courses of Master of Sciece Examination (Jadavpur University) in 1983.

v Sri D. R. Dutta Gold Medal for securing the highest aggregate marks among all the courses of Master of Sciece Examination (Jadavpur University) in 1983.

v Sri Sudhangshu Kumar Banerjee  Gold Medal for securing the highest aggregate marks of Post Graduate Examination in Mathematics (Jadavpur University) in 1983.

v Jadavpur University Medal for standing First in order of merit in Mathematics at Master of Science Examination, 1983.

8. Areas of Interest:

Aerodyamics, Propulsion, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence and Combustion

Modeling, Numerical Methods, Mathematical modeling ofTurbulent, Reacting and transient flows, System Engineering.

Professional Experience

Scientist/Engineer in VSSC/ISRO Thiruvananthapuram from 1986 to 2001. Involved in Aerodynamic design and analysis of various sounding rockets and satellite launch vehicles of ISRO Scientist F in DRDL/DRDO from November, 2001 to June2007. Set up the Computational Combustion Dynamics (CCD) division to start numerical simulation of turbulent reacting Flow. Scientist G from July, 2007 till date. As Technology Director of Directorate of Computational Dynamics (DOCD), I am guiding and participating in the numerical simulation of nonreacting and reacting flow problems for aerodynamic and propulsion characterization of various ongoing and future missiles of DRDO.

Keywords

Aerodynamics, Propulsion, CFD, High speed turbulent reacting flows, Combustion modelling, Numerical Methods.