Welcome to the group of Prof Sudarshan Kumar

Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai Mumbai, INDIA 400 076

Facilities

IIT Bombay

· Computational facilities

· High end PCs for combustion and fluid flow computations with 2.4 GHz dual and quad/hex core Xeon/Pentium processors and 4/8/16/24 GB RAM and 5 TB HDDs. Other computational facilities of Aerospace Department and Galaxy, a 64-node Xeon cluster for high performance computing are also accessible for high end computations.

· Experimental facilities

· High speed chemiluminiscence facility with various species filters for combustion diagnostics applications

· Laser based spray diagnostics facility for detailed spray analysis

· High accuracy electric mass flow controllers along with command module for measuring mass flow from 50 SCCM to 1000 SLM.

· Data Acquisition card for recording the pressure and temperature from a combustion system -16 parallel channels

· Flue gas analyzer for measuring the concentration of flue gases in the exhaust such as CO, CO₂, NOx and so on.

· DSLR camera and high speed camera (Casio Ex-HF20) for flame visualization and further analysis.

· Gas Chromatograph for detailed analysis of composition of gaseous combustion products