Raja Banerjee

Raja Banerjee is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He holds a PhD from the University of Missouri Rolla (2001), an MTech from IIT Kharagpur (1998), and a BE from Govt. Engineering College, Rewa (1995).

Research Interests include:

• Multiphase and interfacial flows
• Spray and atomization dynamics
• Turbulent combustion modeling
• High Performance Computing (HPC) for CFD
• Fluid-structure interaction in industrial systems

His publications focus on:

• Coal/water slurry atomization
• LNG storage tank stratification
• Alternative fuel combustion (butanol, ethanol)
• Sloshing noise prediction in automotive systems
• GPU-accelerated CFD solvers
• Micro-scale cavitating flows

Labs & Facilities under his leadership include:

• 3D Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA)
• Constant Volume Spray Chambers
• Schlieren/Shadowgraph imaging setup
• High-end computational clusters with K80/P100 GPUs
• Optical engine for combustion visualization