Recent News

July 2023     Manu Kamin defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Kamin!

May 2023     James Eblin joins the group to pursue his PhD.

May 2023     Dr. Himakar Ganti joins the group as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar.

April 2023     Jeremy Redding (graduate) and Marek Brodke (undergraduate) win the 2023 RT Davis Award. Congratulations, Jeremy and Marek!

March 2023     Himakar Ganti defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Ganti!

March 2023     Seyram Agudu wins the WTS Molitoris Leadership Scholarship Award. Congratulations Seyram!

January 2023     Nate Steffen receives the NASA Pathways Fellowship. Congratulations Nate!

January 2023     Siddharth Kamat joins Khare Research Group as a PhD student.

December 2022     James Eblin graduates with an MS degree. Congratulations James!

September 2022     Prashant Khare appointed as the Associate Department Head & Aerospace Engineering Program Chair.

August 2022     Marek Brodke receives the prestigious Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) undergraduate fellowship. Congratulations, Marek!

August 2022     Prashant Khare promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.

June 2022     Prashant Khare wins the Penn State College of Engineering's Early Career Award (previously called the 40 under 40 award).

May 2022     Army Research Laboratory funds a 5-year grant led by Prashant Khare.

May 2022     Naval Surface Warfare Center funds a 3-year grant led by Prashant Khare.

April 2022     Nate Steffen joins Khare Research Group. Welcome, Nate!

April 2022     Mitansh graduates with a MS in Aerospace Engineering. Congratulations, Mitansh!

April 2022     Prashant Khare wins the Penn State Mechanical Engineering Society's Early Career Award.

April 2022     Mitansh Tripathi's video presented at 47th AIAA DCASS titled, "Shock Droplet Interactions" wins the Art in Science video competition. Congratulations, Mitansh!

March 2022     Marek Brodke presents his work at 47th AIAA DCASS titled, "Gas Dynamic Simulations of Flow through a Converging-Diverging Nozzle Using Quantum Computing". Great job, Marek!

March 2022     Manu Kamin receives the 2022 RT Davis Memorial Scholarship. Congratulations, Manu!

March 2022     Mitansh Tripathi successfully defends his M.S. thesis. Congratulations, Mitansh!

January 2022     Our manuscript, The Effect of Weber Number on Spray and Vaporization Characteristics of Liquid Jets Injected in Air Crossflow" accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids Engineering..

January 2022     Our manuscript, A Computational Study on Shock Induced Deformation, Fragmentation and Vaporization of Volatile Liquid Fuel Droplets" published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer..

April 2021     Prashant Khare wins the CEAS Research Award for Early Career Faculty.

April 2021     Himakar Ganti wins the Professor Kirti “Karman” Ghia Endowed Graduate Student Scholarship. Congratulations Himakar!

April 2021     Jacob Gamertsfelder wins the 2021 R T Davis Award. Congratulations Jake!

March 2021     Sam Lacey and Marek Brodke join Khare Research Group. Welcome Sam and Marek.

August 2020     Our manuscript titled, Physical Aspects of CMAS Particle Dynamics and Deposition in Turboshaft Engines", [PDF] published in the Journal of Materials Research.

August 2020     Our manuscript titled, Design Space Exploration of Turbulent Multiphase Flows Using Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Model, [PDF] published in Energies.

August 2020     James Eblin joins Khare Research Group. Welcome James.

July 2020     FAA funds a 5-year co-operative agreement led by Prashant Khare.

July 2020     NSF funds a 3-year grant led by Prashant Khare. The funds will enable computational research to advance engineering, computer science, particle physics, chemistry and ditigal humanities. Read more about it here.

July 2020     Prashant Khare delivers a keynote lecture at the ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (FEDSM) titled, "Spray, Vaporization and Combustion of Liquid Fuels: High-Fidelity LES Modeling and Machine Learning Based Design Space Exploration".

June 2020     Our manuscript titled, Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling of Multiphase Flows Using Machine Learning Techniques accepted for publication in Computers & Fluids. Read the full manuscript here.

June 2020     Our manuscript titled, Binary Collision of CMAS Droplets - Part II: Unequal Sized Droplets accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Research. Read the full version of the paper here. [PDF].

May 2020     Our manuscript titled, Binary Collision of CMAS Droplets - Part I: Equal Sized Droplets accepted for publication in the Journal of Materials Research. Read the full version of the paper here. [PDF].

April 2020     Himakar Ganti wins the 2020 R T Davis scholarship! Congratulations Himakar!

April 2020     Evan Burke wins the Bradley Jones Award! Congratulations Evan!

March 2020     Jake's paper on atomization behaviors of liquid monopropellants using pintle injectors accepted for publication in Turbo Expo 2020! Read the paper here.

March 2020     Prashant Khare wins the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award.

March 2020     Prashant Khare wins the Neil Wandmacher Teaching Award for Early Career Faculty.

November 2019     Jake presents his research on swirling liquid jets at APS DFD 2019 in Seattle.

August 2019     Evan Burke, Patierre Thorpe, Mitansh Tripathi and Jacob Welsh join Khare Research Group. Welcome all!

July 2019     Prashant Khare receives a 3-year grant from Office of Naval Research (ONR). Read the complete story here.

May 2019     Prashant Khare receives the AEEM Excellence in Teaching Award.

April 2019     Manu Kamin and Kyle Windland win the 2019 R T Davis award! Congratulations Manu and Kyle!

March 2019     Paper titled, Liquid Jet in Crossflow: Effect of Momentum Flux Ratio on Spray and Vaporization Characteristics, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019. Congratulations Manu.

February 2019     Prashant Khare selected as a scholar in the third cohort of the Transdisciplinary Research Leadership program .

February 2019     Prashant Khare honored as the Professor of the Semester for Spring 2018 by the College of Engineering and Applied Science and Engineering and Applied Science Tribunal

February 2019     Manu Kamin, Jeremy Redding and Himakar Ganti present their work at 44th AIAA Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium.

January 2019     Jeremy Redding joins Khare Research Group.

October 2018     Himakar Ganti wins the poster award on his work on machine learning techniques applied to gaseous and spray fields at CCS², 2nd Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit held at University of Kentucky. Congratulations Himakar!

October 2018     Himakar Ganti wins the poster award on his work on machine learning techniques applied to gaseous and spray fields at CCS², 2nd Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit held at University of Kentucky. Congratulations Himakar!

October 2018     Manu Kamin, Jake Gamertsfelder and Himakar Ganti present their work at 14th ASME Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium.

July 2018     Himakar Ganti wins the ICLASS travel award and presents his work on machine learning techniques applied to gaseous and spray fields. Congratulations Himakar!

July 2018     Himakar Ganti and Manu Kamin present their research at AIAA Energy and Propulsion Forum in Cincinnati, OH.

June 2018     Journal paper, "Mixing Characteristics of Non-Newtonian Impinging Jets at Elevated Pressures" accepted for publication in Flow Turbulence and Combustion.

February 2018     Manu presents his research on large eddy simulation of kerosene combustion in air crossflow at 43rd AIAA DCASS conference in Dayton.

February 2018     Himakar presents his research on machine learning applied to primary atomization at 43rd AIAA DCASS conference in Dayton.

October 2017     Kyle Windland wins best technical content award at 13th ASME DESS conference for his research on the effect of inlet pulsations on primary atomization of liquid jets. Congratulations Kyle!

October 2017     Kyle Windland and Austin Johnston present their work at 13th ASME DESS conference at Wright State University.

October 2017     Austin Johnston wins poster award at CCS², 1st Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit for his research on high-fidelity simulations of water jets in air crossflow. Congratulations Austin!

October 2017     Austin Johnston and Kyle Windland present posters at CCS², 1st Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit held at University of Kentucky.

October 2017     Prashant Khare delivers a talk, "High-Fidelity Modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Flows" at CCS², 1st Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit.

October 2017     Prashant Khare delivers an invited keynote lecture, "Atomization of Liquid Jets and Droplets: Theory and Models" at 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in Las Vegas, NV.

August 2017     Manu Kamin and Himakar Ganti join the Ph.D. program at the Khare Research Group.

May 2017     Austin Johnston and Kyle Windland join the co-op program at the Khare Research Group.

May 2017     Prashant Khare wins best presentation and best video awards at AIAA DCASS, 42nd Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium held in Dayton, OH.

January 2017     Prashant Khare joins UC.