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Academic Background

Dr. Abhilash Chandy received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), Trichy, India in May 2000. He pursued his Masters in Aerospace Engineering at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, until August 2002, where he worked on shock-tube experiments studying various properties such as ignition delays and shock-impact characteristics of high-energy density fuel mixtures. He received his Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in May 2007. During this period, he worked on developing numerical methods to investigate several combustion phenomena such as turbulent flame extinction/reignition, radiation and soot, using large eddy simulation (LES) and probability density function (PDF) methodologies. He also worked as an intern at ANSYS-FLUENT, for three summers from 2004-2006. After completing his PhD program, he continued to work as a post-doctoral researcher at Purdue for over a year, during which he worked on modeling plasma reactors for waste incineration and developed high fidelity fast-Fourier transform (FFT)-based spectral methods to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a homogenous turbulence environment. In August of 2008, he joined the Mechanical Engineering department of University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.http://www.nitt.edu/http://www.ufl.edu/http://www.purdue.edu/http://www.fluent.com/http://www.fftw.org/http://www.uakron.edu/shapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5

Current Research Activities

Modeling soot in turbulent flames Modeling magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows in plasma jets Soot.htmlMHD.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1
Mechanical Engineering Department, ASEC 114 University of Akron, Akron, OH - 44325-3903 Phone: 330-972-8676 Fax: 330-972-6027 Email: achandy@uakron.edumailto:achandy@uakron.edushapeimage_7_link_0

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Vortical structures in LES of a turbulent flame illustrated by the lamda-2 criterion and colored by temperature. Also shown are slices of scalar dissipation rate (XZ) and mixture fraction (XY)

Turbulent structures indicated by density in the classic Richtmeyer-Meshkov instability (RMI), where a Mach 1.2 shock passes through an interface between two fluids of widely-ranging densities.

Vortical structures illustrated by the lambda-2 criterion in LES of a high-Re grid turbulence experiment at two different times indicating the energy decay; t=0.2 (left) and t=0.4 (right)

Sample Findings