Dr. Muruganandam TM
Professor
Dr. Muruganandam TM did his BTech (Aero) and MS(Aero) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His work was related to optical diagnostics in various flows including high speed flows, subsonic flows, combustion and rarefied flows. Following this, He did MS(Mech) at Stanford University, where he acquired more spectroscopic diagnostics knowledge. He did his PhD(Aero) from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. He studied the precursors to lean blowout of swirl dump combustors, for the first time in the world, and explained the stabilisation loss process for a swirl dump combustor. This was done using several high speed optical/ spectroscopic diagnostics including Chemiluminescence, PLIF, Oil droplet evaporation.
He is passionate about various flow phenomena, with a special flavour for high speed flows and combustion. His overall passion is to explain unsteady flow phenomena in high speed flows and flame stabilisation. His group uses experimental methods to investigate flow phenomena from Gas turbine combustors, to scramjet combustors, to fundamental canonical flow fields. The focus is to understand the phenomena using a large array of optical/spectroscopic diagnostic facilities, and specialised experiments.
- Doctor of Philosophy:
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- Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA (2006)
- Master of Science:
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- Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA (2001)
- Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India (2000)
- Bachelor of Technology :
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- Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, India (1997)
- Assistant Professor:
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (May 2006-Aug 2013)
- Associate Professor :
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (Aug 2013 - Jul 2018)
- Professor :
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India (Jul 2018 -Present)
- Propulsion, Combustion, Experimental fluid mechanics, Flow Visualisation, Development and application of optical diagnostics including spectroscopic methods, High speed flows, Dynamical systems, Supersonic combustion, Combustion stabilization, Detection of blowout.
- High speed flows, Combustion stabilisation, Supersonic combustion, Gas turbine combustors, Diagnostics for flows, Optical Sensor development.