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Nilanjan Chakraborty

Nilanjan Chakraborty

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
51
Citations
10742
World Ranking
1105
National Ranking
75

Overview

Nilanjan Chakraborty is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and chemical engineering, with a particular emphasis on computational mechanics and fluid flow and transfer processes. Key subfields also include safety, risk, reliability and quality, aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to combustion and flame dynamics, advanced combustion engine technologies, and fire dynamics and safety research. Additional topics of interest include fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, combustion and detonation processes, wind and air flow studies, and particle dynamics in fluid flows.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Nilanjan Chakraborty include:

  • Influence of Thermal Expansion on Fluid Dynamics of Turbulent Premixed Combustion and Its Modelling Implications (2021, Flow Turbulence and Combustion)
  • Scalar Gradient and Strain Rate Statistics in Oblique Premixed Flame-Wall Interaction Within Turbulent Channel Flows (2020, Flow Turbulence and Combustion)
  • A comparison between head-on quenching of stoichiometric methane-air and hydrogen-air premixed flames using Direct Numerical Simulations (2021, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow)
  • Comparison of Flame Propagation Statistics Extracted from Direct Numerical Simulation Based on Simple and Detailed Chemistry-Part 1: Fundamental Flame Turbulence Interaction (2021, Energies)
  • Influence of thermal wall boundary condition on scalar statistics during flame-wall interaction of premixed combustion in turbulent boundary layers (2021, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow)

Nilanjan Chakraborty frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • Umair Ahmed
  • Markus Klein
  • Josef Haßlberger
  • Sanjeev Kumar Ghai
  • Khalil Abo-Amsha

The main venues where Nilanjan Chakraborty's research is published consist of:

  • Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Combustion Science and Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Best Publications

  • Chitosan nanoparticles: A positive modulator of innate immune responses in plants.

    Swarnendu Chandra;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Adhiraj Dasgupta;Joy Sarkar

  • Laminar natural convection of power-law fluids in a square enclosure with differentially heated side walls subjected to constant temperatures

    Osman Turan;Osman Turan;Anuj Sachdeva;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Robert J. Poole

  • Unsteady effects of strain rate and curvature on turbulent premixed flames in an inflow-outflow configuration

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;Stewart Cant

  • Laminar natural convection of Bingham fluids in a square enclosure with differentially heated side walls

    Osman Turan;Osman Turan;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Robert J. Poole

  • Scalar Dissipation Rate Modeling and its Validation

    H. Kolla;J. W. Rogerson;N. Chakraborty;N. Swaminathan

  • Influence of the Damköhler number on turbulence-scalar interaction in premixed flames. I. Physical insight

    N. Chakraborty;N. Swaminathan

  • Green Synthesized Copper Oxide Nanoparticles Ameliorate Defence and Antioxidant Enzymes in Lens culinaris.

    Joy Sarkar;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Arindam Chatterjee;Avisek Bhattacharjee

  • Influence of Lewis number on curvature effects in turbulent premixed flame propagation in the thin reaction zones regime

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • Effects of Lewis number on flame surface density transport in turbulent premixed combustion

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R.S. Cant

  • Effects of turbulence on spark ignition in inhomogeneous mixtures : A direct numerical simulation (DNS) study

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;E. Mastorakos;R. S. Cant

  • Effects of Lewis number on the reactive scalar gradient alignment with local strain rate in turbulent premixed flames

    N. Chakraborty;M. Klein;N. Swaminathan

  • Scalar dissipation rate modelling for Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent premixed flames

    T.D. Dunstan;Y. Minamoto;N. Chakraborty;N. Swaminathan

  • Laminar Rayleigh-Bénard convection of yield stress fluids in a square enclosure

    Osman Turan;Osman Turan;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Robert J. Poole

  • Effects of strain rate and curvature on surface density function transport in turbulent premixed flames in the thin reaction zones regime

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • A priori analysis of the curvature and propagation terms of the flame surface density transport equation for large eddy simulation

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R. S. Cant

  • A priori direct numerical simulation assessment of algebraic flame surface density models for turbulent premixed flames in the context of large eddy simulation

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;Markus Klein

  • The effects of turbulence on molten pool transport during melting and solidification processes in continuous conduction mode laser welding of copper–nickel dissimilar couple

    Nilanjan Chakraborty

  • The effects of strain rate and curvature on surface density function transport in turbulent premixed methane–air and hydrogen–air flames: A comparative study

    N Chakraborty;ER Hawkes;JH Chen;RS Cant

  • Curvature and wrinkling of premixed flame kernels?comparisons of OH PLIF and DNS data

    Sara Gashi;Johan Hult;Karl W. Jenkins;Nilanjan Chakraborty

  • Effects of Lewis number on turbulent scalar transport and its modelling in turbulent premixed flames

    Nilanjan Chakraborty;R.S. Cant

  • Influence of the Damköhler number on turbulence-scalar interaction in premixed flames. II. Model development

    N. Chakraborty;N. Swaminathan

Frequent Co-Authors

Nedunchezhian Swaminathan
Nedunchezhian Swaminathan University of Cambridge
RS Cant
RS Cant University of Cambridge
Robert J. Poole
Robert J. Poole University of Liverpool
Epaminondas Mastorakos
Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge
Suman Chakraborty
Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Hong G. Im
Hong G. Im King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Andreas Kempf
Andreas Kempf University of Duisburg-Essen
Ryoichi Kurose
Ryoichi Kurose Kyoto University
Evatt R. Hawkes
Evatt R. Hawkes University of New South Wales
Krishnendu Acharya
Krishnendu Acharya University of Calcutta

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