Abhijit Kalbhor
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Abhijit Kalbhor is a Doctoral Candidate at the Power and Flow group in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). With increasingly stringent regulations on aircraft emissions, there is an urgent need for accurate and reliable soot models to accelerate the combustor design process. In this regard, Kalbhor's research primarily focuses on the development of a computationally efficient modeling strategy for the prediction of soot characteristics in conditions relevant to the aero-engine operation. His research is a part of 'Horizon 2020' project 'ESTiMatE' funded by the European Commission within the 'Clean Sky' research program.
Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." -- Albert Szent-Györgyi
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Abhijit Kalbhor completed his Master's in Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) in 2017 with a major in Propulsion. His thesis concerned Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) studies on autoigniting hydrogen jets in shear flows. Prior to starting PhD, Kalbhor worked as Research Associate in the ‘Reactive Flow Physics Laboratory’ at the IISc. At RFPL, he contributed to the collaborative project supported by IISc-ISRO Space Technology Cell (STC). He also extended the On-the-Fly Lagrangian Particle Tracking technique for the analysis of turbulent expanding flames. Kalbhor holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Raipur with a University Gold Medal. He also worked as a Maintenance Engineer for the Govt. of India Maharatna PSU, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited.
Recent Publications
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Abhijit Kalbhor,Jeroen A. van Oijen
Modeling soot formation in normal and inverse diffusion flames using FGM chemistry and sectional method
12th Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, MCS 12 (2023) -
Abhijit Kalbhor,Daniel Mira,Jeroen van Oijen
LES study of soot formation in turbulent non-premixed flame with sectional method
Combura 2022 Symposium, NVV 2022 (2022) -
Abhijit Kalbhor,Jeroen A. van Oijen
Effects of curvature on soot formation in steady and unsteady counterflow diffusion flames
Combustion and Flame (2022) -
Abhijit Kalbhor,Daniel Mira,Jeroen A. van Oijen
Computationally efficient integration of a sectional soot model with FGM chemistry
18th International Conference on Numerical Combustion (2022) -
Abhijit Kalbhor,Jeroen A. van Oijen
Effects of flame curvature on soot formation in SF and SFO counterflow diffusion flames
13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, ASPACC 2021 (2021)
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