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Jayanta Kapat

Jayanta Kapat

Professor and CATER Director

EMAIL
  • Office: ENG I, Room 407E
  • Email: jayanta.kapat@ucf.edu
  • Phone: 407-823-2179
  • CATER

BIOGRAPHY

Jayanta Kapat is a Pegasus Professor and the director of the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research. The most significant impact of Kapat’s work stems from his vision for CATER. He brought 10 core faculty members with multidisciplinary capabilities together to solve some of the most complex research problems in turbomachinery for power generation, aviation and space propulsion. Through CATER, Kapat has facilitated graduate-level research and degrees and has established excellent success rates for internship and job placement of students at all levels. Because of the international reputation of CATER, high-caliber students from Brazil, France, Germany and India now come to UCF.

EDUCATION

  • Sc.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Arizona State University
  • B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering – Indian Institute of Technology

RESEARCH

  • Miniaturization of engineering systems
  • Micro-scale fluidics
  • Heat transfer and related sensors with application to MEMS
  • Aerodynamics and heat transfer for gas turbines and other turbomachineries
  • Transition and turbulence and associated effects on droplet evaporation and transport augmentation
  • Flow and transport in different material processing techniques

PUBLICATIONS

  • Sosa, J.G, Chambers, J.G, AHMED, K.A. *, Poludnenko, A., Gamezo, V., “Compressible Turbulent Flame Speeds of Highly-Turbulent Standing Flames,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, (Distinguished Paper Award), Vol. 37, 2019. (Impact Factor: 4.12)
  • Geikie, M. G, AHMED, K.A. *, “Pressure-Gradient Tailoring Effects on the Turbulent Flame-Vortex Dynamics of Bluff-Body Premixed Flames,” Combustion and Flame, Vol. 197, 2018. (Impact Factor: 4.806)
  • AHMED, K.A. *, Wiley, A.G, “Structured light-field focusing for flowfield diagnostics,” Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 89, 2017. (Impact Factor: 3.079)
  • Chambers, J.G/UG, AHMED, K.A. *, “Turbulent Flame Augmentation using a Fluidic Jet for Deflagration-to-Detonation,” Fuel, Vol. 199, 2017. (Impact Factor: 4.14)
  • McGarry, J. G, AHMED, K.A. *, “Flame-Turbulence Interaction of Laminar Premixed Deflagrated Flame,” Combustion and Flame, Vol. 176, 2017. (Impact Factor: 4.806)
  • Geikie, M. G, AHMED, K.A. *, “Lagrangian Mechanisms of Flame Extinction for Lean Turbulent Premixed Flames,” Fuel, Vol. 194, 2017. (Impact Factor: 4.14)
  • Geikie, M. G, Carr, Z.R., AHMED, K.A. *, Forliti, J., “On the flame-generated vorticity dynamics of bluff-body-stabilized premixed flames,” Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 99, 2017. (Impact Factor: 1.863)
  • Chambers, J.G, AHMED, K.A. *, Poludnenko, A., “Exploration of Turbulence Driven Deflagration to Detonation of Fast Flames,” International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS), 2017
  • UCF departmental research award, 2006
  • CECS Distinguished Researcher Award, 2006
  • UCF Research Incentive Award, 2006

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