Neeraj Kumar Pradhan
Assistant Professor
neeraj.pradhan@mahindrauniversity.edu.in
Dr. Neeraj Kumar Pradhan is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Mahindra University, Hyderabad. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, specializing in solid propellant combustion modeling, and has 7 years of industry experience at General Motors.
His research focuses on combustion modeling, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics, integrating phenomenological, one-dimensional reactive CFD, and two-dimensional CFD approaches to advance predictive understanding of homogeneous and heterogeneous propellants.
Education
- M.Tech: IIT Kharagpur
- Ph.D. : IIT Bombay
Experience
- 7 years in General Motors Technical Center India Pvt. Ltd.
Publications
- N.K. Pradhan, A. Chowdhury, D. Chakraborty, N. Kumbhakarna, Modified multiflame model for AP-HTPB composite propellant combustion, Combust Flame 259 (2024) 113195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.113195 N. K. Pradhan, J. Patel, A. Chowdhury, D. Chakraborty, and N. Kumbhakarna, “A multizonal numerical combustion model of ammonium perchlorate,” Fuel, vol. 382, p. 133742, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.133742
- N.K. Pradhan, A. Chowdhury, D. Chakraborty, N. Kumbhakarna, A numerical model for AP/HTPB premixed combustion, Appl. Therm. Eng. 290 (2026) 130106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2026.130106
- Solid propellant combustion modeling
- Reactive CFD modeling of homogeneous and heterogeneous propellants
- Heat transfer and fluid mechanics in reacting flows
- Computational modeling of propulsion and energy systems
