Ph.D., May 2007, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
M.S., August 2002, Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
B.E., May 2000, Mechanical Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India.
Professor (May 2021 - Present), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Associate Professor (May 2017 – May 2021), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Associate Professor (August 2014 – May 2017); Assistant Professor (August 2008 – August 2014), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA
Post Doctoral Research Associate (April 2007 – July 2008), School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Dr. Abhilash Chandy received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), Trichy, India in May 2000. He pursued his Masters in Aerospace Engineering at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, until August 2002, where he worked on shock-tube experiments studying various properties such as ignition delays and shock-impact characteristics of high-energy density fuel mixtures. He received his Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in May 2007. During this period, he worked on developing numerical methods to investigate several combustion phenomena such as turbulent flame extinction/reignition, radiation and soot, using large eddy simulation (LES) and probability density function (PDF) methodologies. After completing his PhD program, he continued to work as a post-doctoral researcher at Purdue for over a year, during which he worked on modeling plasma reactors for waste incineration and developed high fidelity fast-Fourier transform (FFT)-based spectral methods to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a homogenous turbulence environment. In August of 2008, he joined the Mechanical Engineering department of University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. At The University of Akron, Dr. Chandy was involved in research activities pertaining to modeling turbulence, manufacturing processes and acoustics.
In May of 2017, he moved back to India and joined the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in May 2021 and he continues to work on varied problems related to manufacturing process modelling and stratified and MHD turbulence.