Sudarshan

SUDARSHAN KUMAR Ph.D. (IISc, 2004)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay Powai Mumbai
E-mail: sudar@aero.iitb.ac.in, sudar4@gmail.com
Web: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/~sudar
Work Experience:
Jan 2024 – onwards: Dean, International Relations, IIT Bombay, India
Mar 2021 – onwards: Institute and Tata Chair Professor, IIT Bombay
May 2020 – May 2023: Head, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.
Research Interests
Research interests include pollutant emission reduction from combustion devices and furnaces, flameless combustion, advanced aerothermochemistry, turbulent combustion, modeling of combustion systems, Reduction of pollutant emissions from combustion systems, combustion in micro-channels, flame instabilities, pattern formation of flames and catalytic combustion in micro-channels, high speed flows, supersonic combustion. Development of micro rockets based on solid propellants
Selected awards, recognitions and memberships:
1.Member, Financial Committee and Board of Governors, IIT Jammu
2.Fellow, Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), (2025).
3.Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, (2022).
4.Fellow, The Combustion Institute, USA (2022)
5.Fellow, ISEES (2020)
6.Associate Fellow, AIAA (2022)
7.The IIT Bombay Research Publication Award (2022).
8.INAE Young Engineer Award (2011).
9.Dr. Bernard Lewis Fellowship (2002). Conferred to selected bright young combustion scientists by The Combustion Institute, biennially.
Selected publications:

1.A. A. Konnov, Akram M., V Ratnakishore, N.I. Kim, C. Prathap, Sudarshan Kumar, ”A comprehensive review of measurements and data analysis of laminar burning velocities for various fuel+air mixtures,” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Vol. 68, 197-267 (2018).
2.Aravind B., GKS Raghuram, Ratna Kishore V., Sudarshan Kumar, ”Compact design of planar stepped micro combustor for portable thermoelectric power generation,” Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 156, 224-234 (2018)
3.Robin J. Varghese, Sudarshan Kumar, ”Machine learning model to predict the laminar burning velocities of H2/CO/CO2/N2/air mixtures at high pressure and temperature conditions,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 45(4) 3216-3232 (2020).
4.Saurabh Sharma, P Singh, A. Gupta, A Chowdhury, B. Khandelwal, Sudarshan Kumar, ”Distributed combustion in a can-type gas turbine combustor – A numerical and experimental study,” Applied Energy, Vol. 277, 115573 (2020).
5.C. H. Bhuvan, K Hiranandani, B Aravind, Vineeth Nair, Sudarshan Kumar, ”Novel flame dynamics of rich mixture of premixed propane-air in a planar microcombustor,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 32, 103604 (2020).
6.Rohit Kumar, Sudarshan Kumar, ”Formulation of a three-component gasoline surrogate model using laminar burning velocity data at elevated mixture temperatures,” Fuel, Vol. 306, 121581 (2021).