Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Email: ajayvs@iitk.ac.in
“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”
-Claude Bernard
Awards and Fellowships
Awards and Fellowships
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​2024 Exemplary Performance in Teaching
Academic Senate
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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2023 Exemplary Performance in Teaching
Academic Senate
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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2021 Best Paper Award
RP2-1 and RP2-2 propellants powered rotating
detonation waves for applications in rocket motors
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in
Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020), Dubai, UAE
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2021 Best Paper Award
Local burning behavior of wind-driven flames under
turbulent airflow conditions
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in
Fluid and Thermal Sciences (iCRAFT 2020), Dubai, UAE
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2019 Early Career Research Award
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
MHRD, Government of India, India
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2019 Exemplary Performance in Teaching
Academic Senate
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Elsevier in cooperation with The Combustion Institute
(for Proceedings of the Combustion Institute)
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2017-2020 New Faculty Fellowship
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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2016 Silver Combustion Medal Nominee
The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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2015 Distinguished Paper Award
Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames
35th International Symposium on Combustion, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA https://www.combustioninstitute.org/resources/awards/distinguished-papers/
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2015 Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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2015 Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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2014-2015 Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Education
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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2014-2015 Future Faculty Fellowship
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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2010-2015 Graduate Research Assistantship
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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2006-2008 Graduate Research Assistantship
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
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2002-2006 Outstanding Student Scholarship
U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India
International Peer
Recognition
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2021 International Advisory Committee
40th World Conference on Applied Science, Engineering &Technology Goa, India, 2021
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2021-present Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Combustion Engineering
(specialty section of Frontiers in Thermal Engineering), Frontiers in Thermal Engineering,
Avenue du Tribunal Federal 34, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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2022 Invited Speaker
Sixth International Conference on Fossil and Renewable Energy, (F and R Energy-2022),
Houston, TX, USA during February 15-17, 2022.
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2021 Invited Speaker
4th International Conference and Expo on Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering, Valencia,
Spain, October 25-27, 2021.
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2021 Distinguished Speaker
International Conference on Environmental Science and Green Energy, Paris, France,
September 13-15, 2021
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2021 Organizing Committee Member
Mechanical, Aerospace Science and Technology (ICEAERO-2021), Berlin, Germany,
November 08-09, 2021.
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2021 Session Chair
38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, 2021
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2020 International Advisory Committee
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Dubai, UAE, 2020
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2019 Member, Proulx and Magnusson Early Career Awards Committee 13th IAFSS Symposium, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2020
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2018 Session Chair
37th International Symposium on Combustion, Dublin, Ireland, 2018​