Santanu De

Santanu De is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur). His research specializes in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, with a focus on combustion dynamics, turbulence modeling, and computational fluid dynamics. He supervises multiple graduate students including PhD and M.Tech candidates.

Education:

• PhD, Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore (Thesis: Modeling and Computation of Turbulent Nonreacting and Reacting Sprays)
• M.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
• B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College

Research Focus: His work explores turbulent combustion, spray ignition, biomass energy systems, and advanced computational methods like Large Eddy Simulation and stochastic modeling. Research applications include sustainable energy and propulsion systems.

Publication Trends: Recent articles emphasize computational fluid dynamics applied to combustion optimization, spray dynamics, and multiphase flows, using techniques like Conditional Moment Closure and lattice Boltzmann methods.

Laboratory: Leads the CFD Laboratory at IIT Kanpur's Northern Laboratory (NL 302), focusing on experimental and computational combustion research.