Staff Profile

Dr Sanjeev Ghai obtained his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering with 1st class Hons with gold medal from the Punjab Technical University Jalandhar in 2013, which was followed by a Dual Masters and PhD in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on computation of turbulent combustion at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India in 2019. He joined Newcastle University as a Research associate in 2021, prior to this he has worked as a Institute postdoctoral Research fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (2020-2021). 

Dr Ghai's research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), with a focus on turbulence, heat transfer, computational combustion with advanced turbulence chemistry interaction models such as PDF and MMC methods. 

Areas of expertise

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Advanced turbulent combustion interaction models
• Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of flame wall interactions

• Articles

  • Ahmed U, Ghai S, Chakraborty N. Relations between Reynolds stresses and their dissipation rates during premixed flame-wall interaction within turbulent boundary layers. Physics of Fluids 2024, 36(4), 045120.
  • Ghai S, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N. Modelling of the flame surface density transport during flame-wall interaction of premixed flames within turbulent boundary layers. Combustion Science and Technology 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Ahmed U, Ghai SK, Chakraborty N. Assessment of laws of the wall during flame-wall interaction of premixed flames within turbulent boundary layers. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 2024. In Press.
  • Ghai S, Ahmed U, Klein M, Chakraborty N. Turbulent kinetic energy evolution in turbulent boundary layers during head-on interaction of premixed flames with inert walls for different thermal boundary conditions. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 2023, 39(2), 2169-2178.
  • Ghai S, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N. Statistical Behaviour and Modelling of Variances of Reaction Progress Variable and Temperature During Flame-Wall Interaction of Premixed Flames Within Turbulent Boundary Layers. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 2023, 112, 845–878.
  • Ghai SK, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N. Effects of Fuel Lewis Number on Wall Heat Transfer During Oblique Flame-Wall Interaction of Premixed Flames Within Turbulent Boundary Layers. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 2023, 111, 867-895.
  • Ghai SK, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N, Klein M. Entropy generation during head-on interaction of premixed flames with inert walls within turbulent boundary layers. Entropy 2022, 24(4), 463.
  • Ghai S, Chakraborty N, Ahmed U, Klein M. Enstrophy evolution during head-on wall interaction of premixed flames within turbulent boundary layers. Physics of Fluids 2022, 34(7), 075124.
  • Ghai S, Ahmed U, Klein M, Chakraborty N. Energy integral equation for premixed flame-wall interaction in turbulent boundary layers and its application to turbulent burning velocity and wall flux evaluations. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2022, 196, 123230.
  • Ghai SK, De S, Kronenburg A. Numerical simulations of turbulent lifted jet diffusion flames in a vitiated coflow using the stochastic multiple mapping conditioning approach. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 2019, 37(2), 2199-2206.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Ghai SK, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N. Statistical behaviour of scalar variance transport during flame-wall interaction in turbulent boundary layers. In: 12th Mediterranean Combustion Symposium. 2023, Luxor, Egypt. In Press.
  • Ahmed U, Ghai S, Liu L, Chakraborty N. Statistical behaviour and closure of turbulent scalar flux during turbulent premixed flame-wall interaction within turbulent boundary layers. In: 11th European Combustion Meeting (ECM 2023). 2023, Rouen, France: Combustion Institute.
  • Chakraborty N, Ghai S, Ahmed U. Effects of fuel Lewis number on turbulent flow statistics in oblique-wall quenching of premixed V-shaped flames within turbulent channel flows. In: 14th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements (ETMM14). 2023, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Ahmed U, Ghai S, Chakraborty N, Klein M. Scalar statistics in premixed flame-wall interaction within turbulent boundary layers under different flow configurations. In: 17th UK Heat Transfer Conference. 2022, University of Manchester.
  • Chakraborty N, Ahmed U, Ghai S. Premixed Flame-Wall Interaction and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Turbulent Boundary Layers: Insights based on Direct Numerical Simulations. In: 5th International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer (CONV-22). 2022, Izmir, Turkey.
  • Ghai S, Ahmed U, Chakraborty N. Performance of wall functions in premixed flame-wall interaction within turbulent boundary layers. In: 33rd Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics conference (ParCFD 2022). 2022, Alba, Italy.