Akhil Ailaboina, PhD

• Manager, R&D (Base Engine), KOEL (May 2025 - Present)

• Fellowship Trainee, Research and Development, KOEL (May 2024 - May 2025)

  • Designed and developed spray-piston interaction models using advanced CFD simulations, optimizing fuel injector configurations for low, mid, and high horsepower diesel engines.

  • Contributed to the design and development of piston cooling nozzles and performed engine coolant flow analyses to enhance thermal management.

  • Conducted Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) analysis for high horsepower engines, improving overall engine performance and durability.

• Teaching Assistant - DESE, IIT Delhi (Dec 2018 - May 2024)

  • Conducted M.Tech Laboratory on "Simulation of Conventional and Alternative Fuel Sprays for Automotive Applications" (2018-19 Sem II & 2021-22 Sem I) 

  • Conducted B.Tech Laboratory on "Estimate Diffusion Time in Gaseous Mixtures of Varying Densities" (2022-23, Sem II)

  • Teaching Assistant for - ESL718 - Heat Transfer (2020-21 Sem I)

  • Teaching Assistant for - ESL875 - Alternative Fuels for Transportation (2021-22 Sem II)

  • Mentored M.Tech Students' Project Thesis  

    • Anish Tuteja - Modeling Methanol Blended Fuel Spray Characteristics 

    • Kiran Sawane - Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning in Spray Modeling

    • Manan Bansal - Estimation of Physical Properties of Fuel Blends for GDI Engines using Machine Learning

Ph.D - Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, (Dec 2018 - Jan 2025)

Thesis Title: Spray Modelling for Gasoline Direct Injection Applications

M.E (Thermal Engineering)  - Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (A), Osmania University, Hyderabad (2016-2018)

Thesis Title: CFD Analysis on Micro Gas Turbine Combustor using Alternative Fuels

B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) - Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology, JNTU - Hyderabad, (2012-2016)

Project Title: CFD Analysis on Intake Valve for Port Petrol Injection SI Engine 

Awards and Grants:

• "Research Scholar Travel Award" from IIT Delhi

• "CSIR Foreign Travel Grant" from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

• "International Travel Support" from Science and Engineering Research Board, India 

• "Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, IGEC-XIV (2022) Conference. Paper ID: IGEC2022-064"

Certifications:

• Specialization certificate on "Machine Learning" from DeepLearning.Ai and Stanford Online, through Coursera 

• Course completion certificate  on "6.00.1x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python" from MIT through EdX.

• Course completion certificate  on "6.86x: Machine Learning with Python-From Linear Models to Deep Learning" from MIT through EdX.

• Certificate of Participation for attending the workshop on "High-Performance Computing (HPC) for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applications" organized by IIT Bombay and C-DAC

• Certificate of Participation for attending "A hands-on workshop on OpenFOAM and LAMMPS" organized by Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Ropar

Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Sprays, Flash Boiling, Spray-wall Interaction in a DI Engine, Piston Bowl Optimization, 

Alternative Fuels for Automotive Engines and Gas Turbines, IC Engine Design

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Spray and Combustion for Internal Combustion Engines and Gas Turbine Applications 

• CFD Tools: CONVERGE CFD, ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM

• Post-processing Tools: ParaView, Tecplot

• Nd:YAG double-pulse laser (532 nm), DBI Imaging Techniques, Planar imaging, 1P-SLIPI, Davis 10 software

• Computational Language: C, MATLAB/Octave, Python

17. Ailaboina, A., Gandhi, N., Marwaha, A., Suwarna, G. et al., Optimizing Diesel Engine Performance through Parametric Study of Fuel Injector COnfigurations for Enhanced Sustainability, SAE Technical Paper 2026-26-0402, 2026 doi: https://doi.org/10.4271/2026-26-0402  

16. Ailaboina, A., Saha, K., 2025. Numerical Analysis on Investigating the Effects of Flash-boiling Sprays in a GDI Engine under Homogeneous and Stratified Modes. Proceedings of the joint 17th International Green Energy Conference (IGEC-XVII) & 6th International Conference on Energy and AI (ICEAI-VI) & 6th Arctic Energy Forum 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland. 

15. Dolui, S., Ailaboina, A., Biware, M., Saha, K., 2025. Rate-of-injection-based Lagrangian–Eulerian modeling of spray–wall interaction in a gasoline direct injection system under non-flashing conditions. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01930-3 

14. Ailaboina, A., Saha, K.,. 2025. Numerical Modeling of Flash-boiling Sprays using Iso-octane, Ethanol, and Methanol as Fuels for GDI Applications. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 103557, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2025.103557 

13. Ailaboina, A., "Spray Modelling for Gasoline Direct Injection Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2025.

12. Gaur, A., Ailaboina, A., Saha, K., 2024. Microscopic and macroscopic analysis of the flashing and non-flashing ethanol blended fuel for the direct injection sprays. Applied Thermal Engineering, 124924, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124924 

11. Sahu, S., Srivastava, S., Ailaboina, A., Agrawal, K. and Saha, K., 2023, July. CFD Analysis of Combustion of Gasoline, Hydrogen, CNG and HCNG Blends in Internal Combustion Engine. In International Green Energy Conference, Glasgow, UK (pp. 283-298). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

10. Ailaboina, A., Saha, K., 2022. Phenomenological Model Development of Flash Boiling Spray for Multi-Hole Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Systems. Proceedings of the ASME Internal Combustion Engines Forward Conference 2022, Indianapolis, USA.

9. Gaur, A., Ailaboina, A., Saha, K., 2022. Experimental Investigation of Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Sprays Using Diffused Back Illumination (DBI) and Structured Laser Illumination Planar Imaging (SLIPI) Techniques. Proceedings of the ASME Internal Combustion Engines Forward Conference 2022, Indianapolis, USA.

8. Dolui, S., Ailaboina, A., Saha, K., 2022. Numerical analysis of the effect of the chamber height and wall temperature on the spray wall interaction for the GDI system. Proceedings of the 14th International Green Energy Conference.

7. Ailaboina, A. and Saha, K., 2022. On modeling of Spray G ECN using ROI-based Eulerian-Lagrangian simulation. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 8:880635. doi: 10.3389/fmech.2022.880635

6. Sigh, S., Ailaboina, A., Battistoni, M., Danish, M., Saha, K., 2022. Numerical investigation of cavitation behaviour for dodecane and OME3 fuel in ECN Spray C Injector Nozzle. In International Conference in Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems, pp. 59-69. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. 

5. Ailaboina, A. and Saha, K., 2022. Modeling the spray characteristics of blended fuels for gasoline direct injection applications. International Journal of Green Energy, 20:12, 1326 - 1341, DOI: 10.1080/15435075.2022.2057801

4. Ailaboina, A. and Saha, K., 2021. Numerical study of combustion and emission performance on a multi-holed gasoline direct injection engine with and without flash boiling spray. In ISHMT Digital Library. Begel House Inc. DOI: 10.1615/IHMTC-2021.810

3. Ailaboina, A. and Saha, K. , 2021. Modeling the spray characteristics of blended fuels for gasoline direct injection applications. Proceedings of the 13th International Green Energy Conference, Tianjin, China. 

2. Priyadarsini, C.I., Akhil, A. and Shilpa, V.S., 2020. Non-premixed combustion analysis on micro-gas turbine combustor using LPG and natural gas. In Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 65-79). Springer, Singapore. 

1. Akhil, A., "CFD Analysis on Micro Gas Turbine Combustor using Alternative Fuels," M.E. Thesis, 2018.