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Welcome to the Combustion Instabilities Group at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. We are a group of senior undergraduate and graduate researchers, working with Prof.S.R.Chakravarthy. Both computational and experimental investigation is carried out in this lab. You could find more About Us in various pages of site. Please feel free to navigate around.

List Of Publications

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  • Manoharan, S., Chandra, B. U., Chakravarthy, S. R., Ramakrishnan, S. R., and Subramanyam, J. D. A., “Experimental Studies on Supersonic Cold Flow Mixing with Ramp Mixers,” accepted for publication in Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2005.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., Seitzman, J. M., Price, E. W., and Sigman, R. K., “Intermittent Burning of Ammonium Perchlorate - Hydrocarbon Binder Monomodal Matrixes, Sandwiches, and Propellants,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 20, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2004, pp. 101-109

  • Panyam, R. R., Price, E. W., and Chakravarthy, S. R., “Combustion at the Interface of a Laminate System of Solid Oxidizer and Solid Fuel,” Combustion and Flame, Vol. 136, 2004, pp. 1-15.

  • Anavaradham, T. K. G., Chandra, B. U., Babu, V., Chakravarthy, S. R., and Panneerselvam, S. “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Confined Unsteady Supersonic Flow over Cavities,” The Aeronautical Journal, March -2004, pp. 135-144.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., Price, E. W., Sigman, R. K., and Freeman, J. M., “Combustion of Propellants with Ammonium Dinitramide,” Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2004, pp. 220-230.

  • Karthik, B., Venkateswarlu, N., Kowsik, B. V. R., Chakravarthy, S. R., Sujith, R. I., and Tulapurkara, E. G., “Vortex-Resonant Sound Interaction in a Duct Containing an Orifice,” Journal of the Aeronautical Society of India, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2004, pp. 217-225.

  • Chandra, B. U. and Chakravarthy, S. R., “Experimental Investigation of Cavity-Induced Acoustic Oscillations in Confined Supersonic Flow,” revision submitted to ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2004.

  • Karthik, B. Chakravarthy, S. R., and Sujith, R. I., “Jet Forking Driven by Pipe Tone,” Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 113, No. 6, June 2003, pp. 2091-2094.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., Price, E. W., Sigman, R. K., and Seitzman, J. M., “Plateau Burning Behavior of Ammonium Perchlorate Sandwiches and Propellants at Elevated Pressures,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2003, pp. 56-65.

  • Sabari Giri, V., Sarathi, R., Chakravarthy, S. R., and Venkataseshaiah, C., “Studies on Production and Characterisation of Nano-Al2O3 Powder Using Wire Explosion Technique,” Materials Letters, Vol. 58, No. 6, 2003, pp. 1047-1050.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., Price, E. W., Sigman, R. K., and Freeman, J. M., “Anomalous Deflagration Behavior of Ammonium Perchlorate at Elevated Pressures,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan-Feb. 2003, pp. 56-65.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., “Surface Layer Dynamics in the Pyrolysis of Ammonium Perchlorate-Hydrocarbon Binder Propellants”, Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2000, pp.601-606.

  • Sankaralingam, K. and Chakravarthy, S. R., “A Computer Model of Flamelet Distribution on the Burning Surface of a Composite Solid Propellant,” Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 161, 2000, pp. 49-68.

  • Price, E. W., Chakravarthy, S. R., Sambamurthi, J. K., and Sigman, R. K., “Details of Combustion of Ammonium Perchlorate Propellants: Leading Edge Flame Detachment,” Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 138, 1998, pp. 61-81.

  • Chakravarthy, S. R., Price, E. W., and Sigman, R. K., “Mechanism of Burning Rate Enhancement of Composite Solid Propellants by Ferric Oxide,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 13, No. 4, July-August 1997.
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