• Suresh Menon
  • Professor

Contact Information

Office: Guggenheim 351
Phone: 404.894.9126
Fax: 404.894-2760

Education

  • B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, 1976, Indian Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, 1978, Indian Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, 1984, University of Maryland

Biography

Professor Menon joined Flow Industries, Kent, Washington, as a Research Scientist and in 1988 became a Senior Scientist and Program Manager for the Computational Fluid Dynamics group in Quest Integrated, Inc. (formerly called Flow Research, Inc.). At Quest, Dr. Menon led research teams in various research projects such as the active control of combustion instability in ramjet engines, supersonic mixing studies, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft fluid dynamics, and hypersonic reentry problems. In 1992, he joined Georgia Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor and became a Professor in 1997. Professor Menon is a world renowned expert in large-eddy simulation of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows and has developed unique simulation capabilities to study pollutant formation, ozone depletion in high-altitude aircraft jet plumes and combustion in gas turbine and ramjet engines. He has been (and is currently) a principal investigator for a wide range of research projects funded by NASA, Air Force, Office of Naval Research and NSF. He has published and/or presented over 250 papers. Professor Menon is member of the AIAA, and a member of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Combustion Institute and the Sigma Xi. He is a peer reviewer for numerous archival journals, NASA, NSF, DoD and DOE research proposals.

Research

Experimental and computational fluid mechanics, including:
  • Direct and large-eddy simulations of turbulent mixing and turbulent combustion in fundamental and canonical unit problems
  • Sub-grid modeling of combustion in premixed, partially premixed and non-premixed highly turbulent flows
  • Simulation of supercritical mixing and combustion in liquid-fueled rocket engines, solid propellant combustion, and nozzle erosion
  • Multi-phase detonation and blast explosive modeling with and without inert and reactive metal particles; agent defeat simulations of dense clouds of nano particles or aerosols
  • Studies of supersonic combustion with and without plasma control of flame ignition and stability

Selected Publications

  • Sankaran, V. and Menon, S., “LES of Spray Combustion in Swirling Flows,” Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2002.
  • Eggenspieler, G. and Menon, S., “Large-Eddy Simulation of Pollutant Emission from DOE-HAT Combustor,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1076-1086, 2004.
  • McDonald, B. A. and Menon, S., “Direct Numerical Simulation of Solid Propellant Combustion in Cross-Flow,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 460-469, 2005.
  • Menon, S. and Patel, N., “Subgrid Combustion Modeling for LES of Spray Combustion in Large-Scale Combustors,” AIAA J., Vol. 46, pp. 709--723, 2006.
  • Kemenov, K. and Menon, S., “Explicit Small-Scale Velocity Simulation for High Reynolds Number Turbulent Flows,” J. Computational Physics, 2006 (to appear).