Propulsion & Energy Conversion Laboratory

Journal papers:

1. Yuvraj, H. Im, and Chaudhuri, “How "mixing" affects propagation and structure of intensely turbulent, lean, hydrogen-air premixed flames,” Accepted for publication in Combustion and Flame, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17197, 2025.
2. S. Akojwar, S. A. Pawar, and S. Chaudhuri, “Performance analysis of a self-decarbonizing com- bustor,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power, vol. 47, p. 011013, 2025.
3. D. Rathod, S. Kumar, S. Chaudhuri, P. Panda, and S. Basu, “Isothermal flow field characterization of a full-scale sector combustor at elevated pressures,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 147, no. 4, 2025.
4. S. Singh, R. Bhavi, P. R. Midhun, A. Bhaskarana, P. Mishra, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Inter- mittency transition to azimuthal instability in a turbulent annular combustor,” International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics, 2024.
5. J. Bae, Y. Naderzadeh, P. Vena, and S. Chaudhuri, “Effect of swirler spin on flame shape and combustion dynamics,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 40, p. 105663, 2024.
6. S. Akojwar, S. A. Pawar, and S. Chaudhuri, “Mitigating co2 emission of methane based ther- mal power using a self-decarbonizing combustor,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute,  vol. 40,  p. 105689, 2024.
7. J. Bae, S. Yun, S. Chaudhuri, and P. Canteenwalla, “Combustion characteristics of sustainable aviation fuels at a scaled-down afterburner test rig,” The Aeronautical Journal, vol. 40, p. 1429–1449, 2024.
8. S. Singh, A. Roy, J. M. Dhadphale, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Mean-field synchronization model of turbulent thermoacoustic transitions,” AIP Advances, vol. 14, p. 065106, 2024.
9. Yuvraj, Y. Naderzadeh, W. Song, , H. G. Im, C. K. Law, and S. Chaudhuri, “On flame speed enhancement in turbulent premixed hydrogen-air flames during local flame-flame interaction,” Com- bustion and Flame, vol. 257, p. 113017, 2023.
10. S. Singh, A. Dutta, J. M. Dhadphale, A. Roy, R. I. Sujith, and S. Chaudhuri, “Mean-field model of synchronization for open-loop, swirl controlled thermoacoustic system,” Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 043104, 2023.
11. S. Chaudhuri and B. Savard, “Turbulent flame speed based on mass flow rate: theory and DNS,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 252, p. 112735, 2023.
12. S. Chaudhuri, P. Kasibhatla, A. Mukherjee, W. Pan, G. Morrison, S. Mishra, and V. K. Murty, “Analysis of overdispersion in airborne transmission of Covid-19,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 34, no. 5, p. 051914, 2022.
13. Yuvraj, W. Song, H. Dave, G. Im, and S. Chaudhuri, “Local flame displacement speeds of hydrogen-air premixed flames in moderate to intense turbulence,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 236, p. 111812, 2022.
14. S. Bagchi, S. Basu, S. Chaudhuri, and A. Saha, “Penetration and secondary atomization of droplets impacted on wet facemasks,” Physical Review Fluids, vol. 6, no. 11, p. 110510, 2021.
15. A. Roy, S. Singh, A. Nair, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Flame dynamics during intermittency and secondary bifurcation to longitudinal thermoacoustic instability in a swirl-stabilized annular combus- tor,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 5171–5180, 2021.
16. A. Rasheed, S. Sharma, P. Kabi, A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Precipitation dynamics of surrogate respiratory sessile droplets leading to possible fomites,” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 600, pp. 1–13, 2021.
17. Majee, A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, D. Chakravortty, and S. Basu, “Two-dimensional mathematical framework for evaporation dynamics of respiratory droplets,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 33, no. 10, 2021.
18. S. Chaudhuri, A. Saha, and S. Basu, “An opinion on the multiscale nature of covid-19 type disease spread,” Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 54, 2021.
19. S. Singh, A. Roy, K. Reeja, A. Nair, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Intermittency, secondary bifurca- tion and mixed-mode oscillations in a swirl-stabilized annular combustor: Experiments and modeling,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 143, no. 5, 2021.
20. S. Sharma, R. Pinto, A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “On secondary atomization and blockage of surrogate cough droplets in single- and multilayer face masks,” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 10, 2021.
21. P. Kabi, V. Razdan, D. Roy, L. Bansal, S. Sahoo, R. Mukherjee, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Evaporation-induced alterations in oscillation and flow characteristics of a sessile droplet on a rose- mimetic surface,” Soft Matter, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1487–1496, 2021.
22. Z. Liu, V. Unni, S. Chaudhuri, R. Sui, C. Law, and A. Saha, “Self-turbulization in cellularly unstable laminar flames,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 917, 2021.
23. Z. Liu, V. Unni, S. Chaudhuri, C. Law, and A. Saha, “Local statistics of laminar expanding flames subjected to darrieus–landau instability,” Proceedings of the  Combustion  Institute,  vol.  38,  no.  2, pp. 1993–2000, 2021.
24. S. Basu, P. Kabi, S. Chaudhuri, and A. Saha, “Insights on drying and precipitation dynamics of respiratory droplets from the perspective of covid-19,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 12, 2020.
25. S. Chaudhuri, S. Basu, and A. Saha, “Analyzing the dominant sars-cov-2 transmission routes toward an ab initio disease spread model,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 12, 2020.
26. S. Kumar, S. Malavalli, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Spray characteristics and flow topologies of high shear injector at high primary swirl,” International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 131, 2020.
27. S. Chaudhuri, S. Basu, P. Kabi, V. Unni, and A. Saha, “Modeling the role of respiratory droplets in covid-19 type pandemics,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 6, 2020.
28. G. Ramachandran, A. Dutta, H. Durairaj, and S. Chaudhuri, “On the interaction of swirling flames in a lean premixed combustor,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, vol. 142, no. 3, 2020.
29. H. Dave and S. Chaudhuri, “Evolution of local flame displacement speeds in turbulence,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 884, 2020.
30. A. Dutta, G. Ramachandran, and S. Chaudhuri, “Investigating thermoacoustic instability mitigation dynamics with a kuramoto model for flamelet oscillators,” Physical Review E, vol. 99, no. 3, 2019.
31. V. Unni, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Flame blowout: Transition to an absorbing phase,” Chaos, vol. 28, no. 11, 2018.
32. P. Kabi, B. Chattopadhyay, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Evaporation-oscillation driven assembly: Microtailoring the spatial ordering of particles in sessile droplets,” Langmuir, vol. 34, no. 42, pp. 12642–12652, 2018.
33. H. Dave, A. Mohan, and S. Chaudhuri, “Genesis and evolution of premixed flames in turbulence,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 196, pp. 386–399, 2018.
34. A. Kalbhor, S. Chaudhuri, and L. Chitilappilly, “Autoignition of hydrogen in shear flows,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 30, no. 5, 2018.
35. R. Vishwanath, P. Tilak, and S. Chaudhuri, “An experimental study of interacting swirl flows in a model gas turbine combustor,” Experiments in Fluids, vol. 59, no. 3, 2018.
36. P. Kabi, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Micro to nanoscale engineering of surface precipitates using reconfigurable contact lines,” Langmuir, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 2109–2120, 2018.
37. S. Mahesh, R. Gopakumar, B. Rahul, A. Dutta, S. Mondal, and S. Chaudhuri, “Instability control by actuating the swirler in a lean premixed combustor,” Journal of Propulsion and Power,  vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 708–719, 2018.
38. J. Singh, R. Vishwanath, S. Chaudhuri, and R. Sujith, “Network structure of turbulent premixed flames,” Chaos, vol. 27, no. 4, 2017.
39. S. Chaudhuri, H. Kolla, H. Dave, E. Hawkes, J. Chen, and C. Law, “Flame thickness and conditional scalar dissipation rate in a premixed temporal turbulent reacting jet,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 184, pp. 273–285, 2017.
40. H. Uranakara, S. Chaudhuri, and K. Lakshmisha, “On the extinction of igniting kernels in near- isotropic turbulence,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1793–1800, 2017.
41. P. Kabi, S. Chaudhuri, and S. Basu, “Insights into drying of noncircular sessile nanofluid droplets toward multiscale surface patterning using a wall-less confinement architecture,” Langmuir, vol. 32, no. 42, pp. 10977–10986, 2016.
42. H. Im, P. Arias, S. Chaudhuri, and H. Uranakara, “Direct numerical simulations of statistically stationary turbulent premixed flames,” Combustion Science and Technology, vol. 188, no. 8, pp. 1182– 1198, 2016.
43. R. Gopakumar, S. Mondal, R. Paul, M. S., and S. Chaudhuri, “Mitigating instability by actuating the swirler in a combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 165, pp. 361–363, 2016.
44. A. Sanyal, S. Basu, and S. Chaudhuri, “Controlling particle deposit morphologies in drying nano- particle laden sessile droplets using substrate oscillations,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 18, no. 21, pp. 14549–14560, 2016.
45. H. Uranakara H., S. Chaudhuri, H. Dave, P. Arias, and H. Im, “A flame particle tracking analysis of turbulence-chemistry interaction in hydrogen-air premixed flames,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 163, pp. 220–240, 2016.
46. S. Chaudhuri, “Pair dispersion of turbulent premixed flame elements,” Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 91, no. 2, 2015.
47. P. Kabi, S. Basu, A. Sanyal, and S. Chaudhuri, “Precision stacking of nanoparticle laden sessile droplets to control solute deposit morphology,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, no. 6, 2015.
48. A. Sanyal, S. Basu, and S. Chaudhuri, “Agglomeration front dynamics: Drying in sessile nano-particle laden droplets,” Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 123, pp. 164–169, 2015.
49. F. Wu, A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and C. Law, “Propagation speeds of expanding turbulent flames of c4 to c8 n-alkanes at elevated pressures: Experimental determination, fuel similarity, and stretch-affected local extinction,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1501–1508, 2015.
50. S. Chaudhuri, A. Saha, and C. Law, “On flame-turbulence interaction in constant-pressure expanding flames,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1331–1339, 2015.
51. S. Chaudhuri, “Life of flame particles embedded in premixed flames interacting with near isotropic turbulence,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 1305–1312, 2015.
52. P. Kabi, S. Basu, and S. Chaudhuri, “Deployment strategy for controlled morphologies in sessile, mixed colloidal droplets,” RSC Advances, vol. 5, no. 109, pp. 89586–89593, 2015.
53. F. Wu, A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and C. Law, “Facilitated ignition in turbulence through differential diffusion,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 113, no. 2, 2014.
54. A. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and C. Law, “Flame surface statistics of constant-pressure turbulent expand- ing premixed flames,” Physics of Fluids, vol. 26, no. 4, 2014.
55. A. Sanyal, S. Basu, S. Chowdhuri, P. Kabi, and S. Chaudhuri, “Precision control of drying using rhythmic dancing of sessile nanoparticle laden droplets,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 104, no. 16, 2014.
56. S. Chaudhuri, F. Wu, and C. Law, “Scaling of turbulent flame speed for expanding flames with mark- stein diffusion considerations,” Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear,  and Soft Matter Physics,  vol. 88, no. 3, 2013.
57. S. Tuttle, S. Chaudhuri, K. Kopp-Vaughan, T. Jensen, B. Cetegen, M. Renfro,  and J. Cohen,  “Lean blowoff behavior of asymmetrically-fueled bluff body-stabilized flames,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 160, no. 9, pp. 1677–1692, 2013.
58. V. Akkerman, S. Chaudhuri, and C. Law, “Accelerative propagation and explosion triggering by expanding turbulent premixed flames,” Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 87, no. 2, 2013.
59. S. Yoo, S. Chaudhuri, K. Sacksteder, P. Zhang, D. Zhu, and C. Law, “Response of spherical dif- fusion flames subjected to rotation: Microgravity experimentation and computational simulation,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 665–672, 2012.
60. S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, M. Renfro, and B. Cetegen, “Blowoff mechanism of harmonically forced bluff body stabilized turbulent premixed flames,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 638–640, 2012.
61. S. Chaudhuri, F. Wu, D. Zhu, and C. Law, “Flame speed and self-similar propagation of expanding turbulent premixed flames,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, no. 4, 2012.
62. S. Tuttle, S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka Jr., K. Kopp-Vaughan, T. Jensen, B. Cetegen, and M. Renfro, “Time-resolved blowoff transition measurements for two-dimensional bluff body-stabilized flames in vitiated flow,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 159, no. 1, pp. 291–305, 2012.
63. S. Chaudhuri, V. Akkerman, and C. Law, “Spectral formulation of turbulent flame speed with con- sideration of hydrodynamic instability,” Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, vol. 84, no. 2, 2011.
64. S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, S. Tuttle, M. Renfro, and B. Cetegen, “Blowoff mechanism of two dimen- sional bluff-body stabilized turbulent premixed flames in a prototypical combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 158, no. 7, pp. 1358–1371, 2011.
65. K. Saha, S. Chaudhuri, and B. Cetegen, “Modeling of ceramic particle heating and melting in a microwave plasma,” Journal of Heat Transfer, vol. 133, no. 3, 2011.
66. S. Patel, S. Chaudhuri, and M. Pikal, “Choked flow and importance of mach i in freeze-drying process design,” Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 65, no. 21, pp. 5716–5727, 2010.
67. S. Chaudhuri, S. Kostka, M. Renfro, and B. Cetegen, “Blowoff dynamics of bluff body stabilized turbulent premixed flames,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 157, no. 4, pp. 790–802, 2010.
68. S. Chaudhuri and B. Cetegen, “Blowoff characteristics of bluff-body stabilized conical premixed flames in a duct with upstream spatial mixture gradients and velocity oscillations,” Combustion Science and Technology, vol. 181, no. 4, pp. 555–569, 2009.
69. S. Chaudhuri, A. Mukhopadhyay, M. Biswas, B. Cetegen, and S. Basu, “Control of combustion in a thermally stabilized burner,” Proceedings  of the Institution of Mechanical  Engineers, Part A: Journal    of Power and Energy, vol. 223, no. 2, pp. 127–139, 2009.
70. S. Chaudhuri and B. Cetegen, “Response dynamics of bluff-body stabilized conical premixed turbulent flames with spatial mixture gradients,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 156, no. 3, pp. 706–720, 2009.
71. S. Chaudhuri and B. Cetegen, “Blowoff characteristics of bluff-body stabilized conical premixed flames with upstream spatial mixture gradients and velocity oscillations,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 153, no. 4, pp. 616–633, 2008.