Department of Aerospace Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai

Research in Propulsion spans the fundamental science and engineering of aerospace propulsion systems, from combustion processes to complete propulsion architectures. Areas of investigation include rocket propulsion, solid-propellant combustion, air-breathing engines, multiphase flows, combustion instabilities, and turbomachinery. The domain combines theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to understand complex physical phenomena and develop advanced propulsion technologies.

  • ✔ Rocket Propulsion and Solid Propellant Combustion
  • ✔ Multiphase Flow Simulation
  • ✔ Combustion Instability
  • ✔ Optical Flow/Combustion Diagnostics
  • ✔ Cascade flows, High fidelity CFD in Turbomachines
  • ✔ Airbreathing Propulsion and Combustion.
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Test Facilities

Bullet Icon Window bomb

  • A cylindrical combustion chamber
  • Ability to handle elevated pressure upto 150 bar
  • Facility to visualize and record propellant combustion with external illumination

Bullet Icon Erosive burning facility

  • Capability of burning solid propellant under high mach number(including supersonic) cross flow conditions
  • Detection of burning rate changes under different cross-flow conditions, using high speed photography

Bullet Icon Static solid rocket motor test facility

  • Capability of burning 80 gm of solid propellant within one second
  • Provision to test nozzleless solid rocket motor configuration, solid fuel ramjets and hybrid rocket motors

Bullet Icon Gelled liquid propellant rocket motor static test facility

  • To study the injection characteristics and atomization of impinging jets involving gelled propellants

Bullet Icon Diagnostic techniques

  • Thrust calculation for supersonic combustor by load cells

Bullet Icon Thermal measurements

  • Thin film gauges for heat transfer studies
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