Introduction
The Propulsion Panel was constituted in 1972 with objectives to sponsor research , development and design projects in the field of Aircraft Propulsion, keeping in view the future needs of the country with regard to the development of aero-gas turbine engine for military applications. Subsequently, the panel has widened its scope of activities to cover frontier areas in aerospace propulsion and to address problems related to civil aviation.
Panel Activities
The Propulsion Panel was constituted by the AR&DB with following objectives:
To promote research and development activities related to aero-gas turbine engine and rocket propulsion. To support projects directly or indirectly related to the indigenous gas turbine engine program. Also to support basic and fundamental projects on all aspects of aircraft and rocket propulsion being undertaken at the Institutes of higher learning. The Panel has also initiated some projects related to civil aviation. The following types of project have been promoted through the Panel:
- Applied research and development projects whose outcome has a promising application as a retrofit to the engines, manufactured under license or in the new engine under consideration for development.
- Demonstration of a new/advanced concept or a measurement technique under simulated conditions of promising application in gas turbine engines/ propulsion systems.
- Generation of general purpose design data through parametric investigation and or validation of general purpose computerized design/ analysis methods experimental design data.
- Fundamental investigation to understand in depth the behavior of components/ systems and evolve a scientific basis for the explanation of their behavior, as a pursuit of knowledge related to the propulsion field.
Panel Members
Dr V Ramanujachari
CSIR-Bhatnagar-Fellow
Official Address :
National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD), IIT Madras, Chennai- 600036.
Office : 044-22579881
E-mail :vramanujachari[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in
C/MCoordinator
| Sr. No. | Member Name | Designation | Official Address | Tele/Fax | C/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr V Ramanujachari | CSIR-Bhatnagar-Fellow | National Centre for Combustion Research & Development (NCCRD), IIT Madras, Chennai-600036 | vramanujachari[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in | Coordinator |
| 2 | Dr RV Ravi Krishnan | Professor | Department of Mech. Engineering, IISc, Bangalore-560012 | ravikris[at]mecheng[dot]iisc[dot]ernet[dot]in | Member |
| 3 | Dr SR Chakravarthy | Professor | Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT, Madras | 044-22574011 (O) 044-22574002 (Fax) src[at]ae[dot]iitm[dot]ac[dot]in | Member |
| 4 | Dr Debasis Chakraborty | Scientist G | Project Director, HSTDV, DRDL, Hyderabad | 040-24583310 (O) 040-24345325 (Fax) debasis_cfd[at]drdl[dot]drdo[dot]in | Member |
| 5 | Dr Abhijit Kushari | Professor | Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT, Kanpur-208016 | akushari[at]iitk[dot]ac[dot]in | Member |
| 6 | Dr K Nanda Kumar | Head, CRD/ PRSG | Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), Valiamala, Trivandrum-695547 | 0471-2567794 (O) 0471-2567094 (Fax) nandakumar_k1[at]yahoo[dot]com | Member |
| 7 | Dr AK Darpe | Professor | Deptt. of Mechanical Engg., IIT, Delhi | 011-26596095 011-26582053 (Fax) akdarpe[at]mech[dot]iitd[dot]ac[dot]in | Member |
| 8 | Shri KM Unni(Retd.) | Dir-Engineering | Air India, Santacruz Airport, Mumbai- 400029 | 022-26157020 022-26157068 (Fax) km[dot]unni[at]airindia[dot]in | Member |
| 9 | Shri RK Mishra | Scientist F | RCMA (Engines), CEMILAC, Marathahalli Colony Post, Bangalore - 560 037 | 080-25241488 080-25240075 (Fax) rkmishra[dot]drdo[at]gmail[dot]com | Member |
| 10 | Shri H Siddesha | Scientist G | Project Director (PS), ADA, Bangalore | 080-25238493 080-25238579 (Fax) siddesha[at]jetmail[dot]ada[dot]gov[dot]in | Member |
| 11 | Dr R Rajendran | Principle Scientist & Dy Head Propulsion Division | National Aerospace Laboratory, Bangalore | 080-25081787/1788 080-25222494 (Fax) rrajendran[at]nal[dot]res[dot]in | Member |
| 12 | Shri Raghvendra | Scientist 'E' | Aeronautical Development Establishment, CV Raman Nagar PO, Bangalore-560093 | 080-25057152 lnraghav[at]ade[dot]drdo[dot]in | Member |
| 13 | Dr Maitreyee Nanda | Secy. AR&DB | AR&DB Sectt., 'A' Wing, DRDO Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi-110011 | Tel: 011-23007803 Fax: 011-23007853 mnanda[at]hqr[dot]drdo[dot]in ardb[at]hqr[dot]drdo[dot]in | Member Secy |
Projects
| Project Title | Principal Investigator | Institute |
|---|---|---|
| Orpheus 703R-2000K. | AVM S N Roychowdhury | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Research on GTX-Engine components. | AVM S N Roychowdhury | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Design condtruction and commissioning of a cascade wind tunnel. | Prof. S Soundaranayag | IISc, Bangalore |
| Boundary layer development in compressor and turbine cascades. | Prof. S Soundaranayag | IISc, Bangalore |
| To carry out simulated flight performance testing of the 703-R-2000 degree K reheat system in high altitude test beds. | AVM S N Roychowdhury | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Influence of slot geometery and free stream turbulance on the cooling efffectiveness of film cooled turbine. | Dr. W V Nabar | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of high speed rotor vibration. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of blade vibration. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of blade vibration. | Dr. B S Chittawadgi | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of heat transfer to turbine nozzle blade with heat resistant coating. | Dr. W V Nabar | IIT, Bombay |
| Effect of surface finish and porosity on heat transfer in a compressible flow with arbitrary pressur egradient. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Design and performance testing of turbine blades cascade suitable for supersonic inlet velocities. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Feasibility study on use of ex-service aircraft engine as power plant in military and civil applications. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation in exhaust pollutant of aircraft turbojet engine and investigation in the performance of a full scale main. | Dr. B S Chittawadgi | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of thermodynamic processes of aircraft gas turbine engine under. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| To prepare a flexible and accurate calculation procedure and necessary computer programme for performance. | Dr. B S Chittawadgi | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigation of heat transfer to the impulse rotor blades at supersonic velocities. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Prediction & measurement of air pollutants found in gas turbine combustion chamber. | Dr. B S Chittawadgi | IIT, Bombay |
| Theoretical & experimental investigation in estimation of true thermodynamics efficiencies of compressor turbine. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Research on hybrid rockets. | Prof. A K Chatterji | BIT, Ranchi |
| Hypergolic ignition studies with N2O4 and RRNA oxidiser. | Prof. B L Gupta | BIT, Ranchi |
| Ignition delay variation in hypergolic propellants under reduced ambient pressure and temperatures. | Prof. S N Agarwal | BIT, Ranchi |
| Two dimensional and annular cascade studies on JT-3D engine compressor and turbine blade. | Dr. R Singh | IIT, Kanpur |
| Two dimensional flow in axial turbomachine. | Dr. R Singh | IIT, Kanpur |
| Experimenta; and theoritical study of blade vibrations. | Dr. N G R Iyengar | IIT, Kanpur |
| Flow properites behind flame stabliser symmetric and assymmetric configuration. | Dr. A K Gupta | IIT, Kanpur |
| Rocket combustion and flow through rocket nozzles. | Dr. O P Sharma | IIT, Kanpur |
| High speed cascade tests. | Prof. D Prithviraj | IIT, Madras |
| High speed compressor and turbine investigation. | Prof. D Prithiviraj | IIT, Madras |
| Design & developemnt of ramjet engine. | Dr. K Damodharan | IIT, Madras |
| Effect of variable starters on performance of multistage axial compressor. | Dr. S Soudranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Research on high temperature combustion chamber for small gas turbine. | Prof. B C Dutta | IISc, Bangalore |
| Hybrid rocket motor. | Dr. V K Jain | IISc, Bangalore |
| Some studies on composite solid propellant rocket. | Dr. V K Jain | IISc, Bangalore |
| Combustion studies on composite solid propellant rocket. | Dr. H L Girdhar | Kashmir Univ |
| Theoretical study of the effect of swirling motion on flame characteristics. | Dr. O P Sharma | IIT, Kanpur |
| Contrl of ignition of propellants. | Dr. T P Pandya | Lucknow Univ |
| Study of jet noise. | Sh. C K Grover | Roorkee Univ |
| Drilling of long sleder holes in high strength temperature resistant metals and alloys. | Dr. P C Pandey | Roorkee Univ |
| Development of small gas turbine for jet belt. | Dr. K L Kumar | IIT, Delhi |
| Mean drop size measuring technique in sprys using on optical system. | Dr. K V L Rao | NAL, Bangalore |
| Theoretical & experimantal investigation of certain problems in gas turbine. | Dr. T K Bose | IIT, Madras |
| Aerodynamics of mixed flow compressor | Dr. B C Dutta | IISc, Bangalore |
| Studies on generation and suppression of the exhaust noise of turbojet engines. | Dr. M L Munjal | IISc, Bangalore |
| Evaluation of comparative performance of film cooling configuration for combustion chamber lines. | Sh. B R Pai | NAL, Bangalore |
| Development of hybrid propulsion system. | Prof. V K Jain | IISc, Bangalore |
| Reacting turbulant flows in wakes and jets. | Dr. R K Sullery | IIT, Kanpur |
| Investigation of flow through vaned diffusers compressor. | Dr. K L Kumar | IIT, Delhi |
| Development of a twin beam optical probe for measurement of velocity of turbulance in turbomachines. | K Shivshankar | NAL, Bangalore |
| Electrical control of propellant combustion. | Dr. T P Pandya | Lucknow Univ |
| Investigation in vibration of transonic compressor rotor blades having low thickness and aspect ratio. | Dr. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Rapid response measurement techniques turbomachines. | Sh. Hariharan | IISc, Bangalore |
| Rotating stall in axial impellers and secondary flow in compressor cascades. | Dr. S Soudaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Role of substituent groups and energetic atoms of fuel binders propellants combustion. | Dr. H L Girdhar | Kashmir Univ |
| Studies on premixed type combustor. | Prof. Chittawadgi | IIT, Bombay |
| Development of a reversible flow of combustion chamber. | Prof. K N Damodaran | IIT, Madras |
| Heat transfer in rotating balde and nozzles. | Dr. A K Mahanty | IIT, Kharagpur |
| Annular boundary layers in axial compressors. | Sh. Venkateshwaran | IISc, Bangalore |
| Development of data acquisition system for flow investigation on a contra rotating axial flow compressor. | Dr. P B Sharma | IIT, Delhi |
| Development of theoretical and experimental models for simulation of squeeze filmed two spool rotors projects. | Sh. Rahul Basu | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Experimental study of turning supersonic cmpressor cascades. | Prof. B C Dutta | IISc, Bangalore |
| Hot cascade test rig. | Prof. T K Bose | IIT, Madras |
| Film cooling studies of turbine blade. | Sh. V Krishnamurthy | NAL, Bangalore |
| Aerodynamics and cooling performance investigation of massive multiple row discrete hole film cooled turbine blades. | Sh. M D Manickam | NAL, Bangalore |
| Model studies on combustion of composite. | Prof. V K Jain | IISc, Bangalore B |
| Development of an axisymmetric supersonic air intake for ramjet. | Dr. Damodaran | IIT, Madras |
| Performance investigation of labyrinth seals. | Sh. Nanjunda Rao | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Studies towards establishing propulsion characteristics during flight of an airbreathing vehicle. | Prof. S M Deshpande | IISc, Bangalore |
| Effect of fuel properties on gas turbine combustor performance. | Sh MS Chidananda | NAL, Bangalore |
| Studies on fuel fed systems for a reversible type combustion chamber. | Prof. Dutta | IISc, Bangalore |
| Aerodynamic investigation of higher pressure ratio centrifugal impellers and their diffusers. | Sh. Shankaranarayanan | NAL, Bangalore |
| Dynamics of pretwisted compressor rotor blades. | Prof. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Nozzle deposition problem for airbreathing composite engines. | Prof. S S Gokhale | IIT, Madras |
| Boundary layers and stall in turbo machines. | Prof. S Soudaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| 3 dimensional flow in arbitrary impellers. | Prof. S Soudaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Development of gas turbine fuel control system using microprocessor. | Dr. K A Damodaran | IIT, Madras |
| Application of software analysis of combustor turbo machinery. | Dr. T R Shabarkar | NAL, Bangalore |
| Mathematical modelling & development of a computer programme for the design of a gas turbine after burner system. | Dr. V P Singh | Naval College of Engg, Lonaval |
| Aeroengine blade and rotor dynamics. | Dr. K Gupta | IIT, Delhi |
| Surge and stall studies in an axial compressor. | Dr. P B Sharma | IIT, Delhi |
| Heat transfer studies pertaining to turbine blades. | Dr. A K Mahanty | IIT, Kharagpur |
| Development of SFRJ for a gun launched projectile. | Dr. K A Damodaran | IIT, Madras |
| Experimental investigation of droplet burning behaviour in the presence of flame interference. | Dr. A K Ghosh | IIT, Kharagpur |
| Self pyrolysable polymers as fuel rich propellant in air augmented missile. | Prof. K Kishore | IISc, Bangalore |
| Computation and experimental investigation of flame speeds in laminar and turbulent flow. | Prof. H S Mukunda | IISc, Bangalore |
| Swirling flow in annuli with curved wells. | Prof. S Soudaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Study of tandane bladed compressor blade cascade. | Dr. Bhaskar Roy | IIT, Bombay |
| Implemntation of compressor computation programme. | Prof. Soundaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Some studies on solid propellant combustion. | Prof. V K Jain | IISc, Bangalore |
| Multifunction nozzles. | Sh. Chidananda | NAL, Bangalore |
| Prediction of flow with supercritical cascades using time marching techniques. | Sh. A Girigoswami | NAL, Bangalore |
| Development of controlled diffusion airfoils (supercritical airfoils) for advanced axial flow compressors. | Sh. K Mohan | NAL, Bangalore |
| Development of novel technique for cooling turbine blades. | Dr. B R Pai | NAL, Bangalore |
| Studies on energetic materilas. | Dr. Gurdip Singh | Gorakhpur Univ |
| Investgative studies on foil bearing. | Sh. S Ramamurthy | NAL, Bangalore |
| Aerodynamic and heat transfer studies of HPT rotor and stator blades of GTX-35VS engine. | Dr. B R Rai | NAL, Bangalore |
| The Rmokinetic and combustion studies of energetic composites. | Dr. H L Girdhar | Kashmir Univ |
| Design and analysis of flow through contra rotating fan/ compressor. | Dr. Bhaskar Roy | IIT, Bombay |
| Experimental investigation of heat transfer & flow through the internal cooling passage of cooled gas turbine. | Dr. V Krishnamurthy | NAL, Bangalore |
| Investigations in squeeze film damping of high speed rotor systems. | Dr. R W Shewnde | IIT, Bombay |
| Inlet distortion studies in compressors. | Dr. N Venkatrayulu | IIT, Madras |
| Studies on polyvinylnitrate as a high energy materialin rocket propellants. | Sh. U G Durgapal | IAT, Pune |
| 3-D conduction code for temperature distribution using FEM for GT Blades. | Prof. K N Seetharamu | IIT, Madras |
| Studies on the mixing & combustion phenomenon in ramjet combustion chambers. | Sh. R Natarajan | IIT, Madras |
| Axial compressor stage performance improvements using end bend stators. | Dr. P B Sharma | IIT, Delhi |
| Investigation of swirling flow in vaned radial diffusers for high pressure centrifugal compressors. | Dr. D P Aggarwal | IIT, Delhi |
| Numerical prediction of turbulent flow heat transfer in a gas turbine blade cooling passage with ribbed roughness. | Sh. A W Date | IIT, Bombay |
| Computer modelling of two stroke engines for RPV applications. | Dr. V Ganesan | IIT, Madras |
| Experimental studies on aeroengine rotor dynamics transient and squeeze film damper effects. | Dr. K Gupta | IIT, Delhi |
| Expert system for rotor dynamics. | Dr. R P Shimpi | IIT, Bombay |
| Erosive burning studies of solid propellants under transonic and supersonic cross flow mach numbers. | Dr. S Krishnan | IIT, Madras |
| Design & rotor blades due to combined effects of vibratory and thermal loads. | Prof. J S Rao | IIT, Delhi |
| Ttransition in 3-D flows in turbo machines. | Dr. S Soudaranayagam | IISc, Bangalore |
| Numerical prediction of two dimensional reacting flows with application to ramjet combustion. | Dr. R Natarajan | IIT, Madras |
| Development of a computer code in curvilinear coordinates for small gas turbine components. | Dr. D P Aggarwal | IIT, Delhi |
| Investigations of effect of cooling air injection on boundary layer and wake characteristics in case of the turbine. | Sh. M D Manickam | NAL, Bangalore |
| Studies on control of rotating stall in high speed axial flow compressors. | Sh. Q H Nagpurwala | NAL, Bangalore |
| Heat transfer in rotating coolant passages of gas turbine blades. | Dr. V Krishnamoorthy | NAL, Bangalore |
| Study of gas turbine combustion using air blast atomisers. | Dr. S K Som | IIT, Kharagpur |
| Computer aided instruction for air breathing propulsion. | Dr. Gokhale & Prof. Mukunda | IIT, Madras |
| Tip clearance flows in compressors. | Dr. N Venkatrajulu | IIT, Madras |
| Heat transfer in rotating serpentine passages with and without rib turbulators. | Dr. R P Vedula | IIT, Bombay |
| Surface curvature effects on film cooling with and without imposed pressure gradient. | Dr. R P Vedula | IIT, Bombay |
| Feasibility study on the use of Wankal Engine for aeronautical applications. | Sh. K Sivasankaram | NAL, Bangalore |
| Removal of aromatic hydrocarbons from light petroleum fraction by hydrogenation. | Dr. S R Patwardhan | IIT, Bombay |
| Studies in mixin process in low bypass turbofan engine. | Dr. S D Sharma | IIT, Bombay |
| Estimation of blade damping using finite element modelling. | Prof. C V Ramakrishnan | IIT, Delhi |
| Software development for life estimation of turbine blades. | Dr. J S Rao & Prof. N S Vyas | IIT, Kanpur & IIT, Delhi |
| Dev of a 3-D eular code using time marching computational technique for propulsion fa applications. | Sh. H Girigaswami | NAL, Bangalore |
| Design & dev of an early warning system of onset of compressor surge. | Prof. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| 3-D effects in diffusers. | Prof. R C Malhotra | IIT, Delhi |
| Feasibility studies for a small gas turbine engine development. | Dr. K Murugesan | NAL, Bangalore |
| Numerical tool for design of ejector supercharging of ground level bed test to simulate high mach entry. | Prof. A G Marathe | IIT, Bombay |
| Thermophoretic augmentation of aerosal particle transport in gas turbines (phase-I). | Sh. K Jayaraj | REC, Calicut |
| Tip clearance effects in an axial flow compressor stage. | Prof. P B Sharma | DCE, Delhi |
| Pyrolisable polymers as fuel rich propellants for Ram Rockets. | Dr. S P Panda | IAT, Pune |
| Effect of gust and freestream turbulance on flow past cascade. | Dr. T K Senagupta | IIT, Kanpur |
| Development of noval techniques for cooling turbine blades phase II. | R Lakshminarayanan | NAL, Bangalore |
| Development of a flow solver for 2-D compressible flows in complex geometries and extended to 3-D flow. | D P Agarwal | IIT, Delhi |
| Computer & graphics based instruction for rocket propulsion. | Dr. N K S Rajan | IISc, Bangalore |
| Design of multivariable controller for gas turbine engine. | Sh. A Santharam | NAL, Bangalore |
| Boundary layer and flow studies for design and development of highly loaded blade profiles for axial flow compressor. | Dr. Bhaskar Roy | IIT, Bombay |
| Investigations of a multiphase jet mixing and combustion in a dump combustor. | Dr. R Natarajan | IIT, Madras |
| Computational flow studies for development of highly loaded blade profiles for axial flow compressors. | Dr. J C Mandal | IIT, Bombay |
| Wankel Engine Studies Phase II. | Sh. K Sivasankaran | NAL, Bangalore |
| Influence of geometric nonlinearities, composite coupling effects. | Dr. K B Subramanyam | NBKR Institute |
| Demonstration of a small gas turbine based core engine. | Dr. K Murgesan | NAL, Bangalore |
| Dynamic modelling of compressor for stall and surge. | Prof. S K Sane | IIT, Bombay |
| Virtual Instrumentation for rotor dynamic applications. | Dr. N S Vyas | IIT, Kanpur |
| Numerical prediction of flow and combustion in gas turbine combustion system. | Dr. V Ganesan | IIT, Madras |
| Further erosive burning studies of solid propellants under transonic & supersonic cross flow mach numbers. | Dr. S Krishanan | IIT, Madras |
| Investigations of aerodynamic & thermal performance of turbine blade trailing edge ejection. | Dr. M D Manickam | NAL, Bangalore |
| Study of radial combustor design. | Dr. T R Shembharkar | NAL, Bangalore |
| Prediction of shock boundary layer interaction in 3-D internal flow. | Dr. K S Ravichandran | NAL, Bangalore |
| Investigations on supression of rotating stall in high speed axial flow compressors through boundary layer control. | Q H Nagpurwala | NAL, Bangalore |
| Heat transfer of pressure drop studies to identify configurations in rotating gas turbine coolant passage for improved. | Dr. R P Vedula | IIT, Bombay |
| Modelling of isothermal and reacting flows in afterburners. | Prof. V Ganesan | IIT, Madras |
| Stall inception in centrifugal compressor. | Dr. S Ramamurthy | NAL, Bangalore |
| Design & Development of speckle pattern interfrometric system for measurement monitoring of vibration. | Dr. Chandra Shekher | IIT, Delhi |
| CFD simulation of cold and reacting flows in reverse flow gas turbine combustor. | Prof. S N Gupta | IIT, Delhi |
| Linear and Non-linear parameter estimation in rotor bearing systems. | Dr. NS Vyas | IIT, Kanpur |
| Non linear dynamics and control of surge oscillations in axial flow compressors | Dr. Sanjay P Bhat | IIT, Bombay |
| Studies on supersonic mixing and combustion. | Dr. Job Kurian | IIT, Madras |
| Assessment of L/D ratio for virtual and artificial birds and characterisation of birds flow on engine components. | Dr. K Ramchandra | GTRE, Bangalore |
| Non linear dynamics and control of surge oscillations in axial flow compressors. | Dr. Sanjay P Bhat | IIT, Bombay |
| A three dimensional Navier Strokes analysis for a film cooled rotating blade. | Dr. Subrata Sarkar | IIT, Kanpur |
| Investigative studies on elastomer dampers for rotating systems. | Dr. V Arun Kumar | NAL, Bangalore |
| Study of hot jet aeroacoustics. | Prof. T S Sheshadri | IISc, Bangalore |
| Numerical prediction of flows through swirlers. | Prof. V Ganesan | IIT, Madras |
| Computer aided analysis and design of high speed ball and roller bearings. | Dr. R Tiwari | IIT, Guwahati |