Dr. K.K.J.

Ranga Dinesh EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow

+44 (0) 1234 750111 ext. 5350 Applied Mathematics and Computing Group
K.K.J.Ranga-Dinesh@Cranfield.ac.uk School of Engineering, Cranfield University.

Full Academic CV
Personal Information
Surname : Kahanda Koralage
Other names : Janaka Ranga Dinesh
Title : Dr
Current appointment : EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department : Applied Mathematics and Computing Group, Process and Systems
Engineering, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK

Education/Qualifications

1998-2002 : Bachelor of Science (BSc), 1st class honours, Special Degree of

Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Ruhuna, Sri
Lanka (Gold Medal for the best science faculty student)
2003-2007 : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Wolfson
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough
University, UK

Career History

(A) Appointments

2002-2003 : Assistant Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of

Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
2003-2007 : Research Student, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering, Loughborough University, UK
2007-Present : EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Engineering,
Cranfield University, UK
(B) Short courses and Workshops

2006 : International Workshop on Measurements and Computation of

Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames (TNF), Organised by Sandia National
Laboratory, USA
2007 : Summer School of Computational Combustion using High-
Performance Computing, UK
2008 : Workshop on Message Passing Programming, HPCx Capability
Computing, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, UK
2008 : Workshop on How to write Research Proposals for Government and
Industrial Organisations, UK
2008 : One week course on Gas Turbine Combustion, Cranfield University,
UK

Membership of learned or professional societies

2004-Present : Member, The Combustion Institute (British section)
2006-2006 : Member, Workshop on Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames (TNF)
organised by Sandia National Laboratory
2007-Present : Member, Consortium on Computational Combustion for Engineering
Applications (COCCFEA)

Research

(A) Publications

Undergraduate Report:

K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, “General Transport Equation in Physical Coordinate System,”

Department of Mathematics, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 2002

PhD Thesis:

K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, “Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Swirling Flames,”

Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough
University, UK, 2007

Journal Articles:

(1) W.Malalasekera, K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, S.S. Ibrahim and M.P. Kirkpatrick, “Large
Eddy Simulation of Isothermal Turbulent Swirling Jets,” Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol.179, pp. 1481-1525. 2007

(2) W.Malalasekera, K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, S.S.Ibrahim and A.R.Masri, “LES of

Recirculation and Vortex Breakdown in Swirling Flames,” Combustion Science and
Technology, Vol. 180, pp. 809-832, 2008
(3) A. Kempf, W.Malalasekera, K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, O. Stein, “Large Eddy
Simulation of Swirling Non-premixed Flames with Flamelet Models,” Flow
Turbulence and Combustion, 1386-6184 (print), 1573-1987 (online first), 2008

(4) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, M.P.Kirkpatrick, “Study of Jet Precession, Recirculation and

Vortex breakdown in Turbulent Swirling Jets using LES,” Computer and Fluids,
Under review, 2008

(5) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, M.P.Kirkpatrick, “Simulation of Unsteady Oscillations in

Turbulent Non-Premixed Swirling Flames, Under construction for Combustion and
Flame

Conference Proceeding Papers:

(1) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, J.M.J.J.Peries, “General Transport equation in physical

coordinate system,” First Sci. Faculty Symposium, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka,
October 2002

(2) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, M.P. Kirkpatrick, “Large
Eddy Simulation of Isothermal Swirling Flows,” ASPACC05, Adelaide, Australia,
July 2005

(3) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, M.P. Kirkpatrick, “Large
Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Unconfined swirling Flows,” HEFAT2005, Paper
number RK1, Cairo, Egypt, September 2005

(4) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, M.P. Kirkpatrick, “Large
Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Non-Premixed Swirling Flames,” THMT05,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, September, 2006

(5) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, “Comparisons of

Sydney/Sandia Bluff Body and swirl Flames,” TNF 8. Heidelberg, Germany, August
2006

(6) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, A.R. Masri, ''LES of
Recirculation and Vortex Breakdown in Swirling Flames'', Proceedings of the Fifth
Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, MCS5, Monastir, Tunisia, September 2007

(7) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, T.M.Dunstan, K.W.Jenkins, “Large eddy simulation of

Turbulent Flame Kernels,” Large eddy simulation, Int. Conf. Numerical Combustion,
SIAM, Monterey, California, USA, March 2008

(8) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, K.W.Jenkins, “Large eddy simulation of Turbulent Swirling

Flames,” Flame Modelling and Interactions, Int. Conf. Numerical Combustion,
SIAM, Monterey, California, USA, March 2008

(9) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, K.W.Jenkins, “LES of Turbulent Swirling Flames: A tool for
Gas Turbine Combustor Simulations,” Cranfield Multi-Strand Conference (CMC),
Cranfield University, May 2008
Posters:

(1) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, W.Malalsekera, S.S.Ibrahim, “Large eddy simulation of

isothermal swirling jets,” Poster, Inst. of Physics meeting, UK, 2005

(2) K.K.J. Ranga Dinesh, W. Malalasekera, S.S. Ibrahim, “LES of Turbulent Non-
Premixed Swirling Flames,” Working Poster (4A35), 31st Combustion Symposium,
Heidelberg, Germany, 2006

Industrial Technical Reports:

(1) K.K.J.Ranga Dinesh, K.W.Jenkins, C.P. Thompson, “Natural Convection: 3D

Thermal Mapping,” Official Technical Report for AIRBUS (UK), July 2008

(B) Future Research Proposals

(1) Five years research proposal for Advanced Modelling of Next Generation
Gas Turbine Combustion Systems: Development of a computational tool for the
simulation of gas turbine swirl flow dynamics, gaseous and spray combustion,
emissions, combustion generated noise and instabilities: This work mainly focuses to
address both fundamental and design driven applied research of particular interest to
next generation gas turbine combustion design community. The ultimate goal of this
work is to establish a perfect platform for advanced modelling of next generation gas
turbine combustors for enhancing performance, operability and emissions while
reduce the gap between academic and industrial communities. The author submits this
proposal to Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship programme.
The author has close relation with Computational Combustion Groups at Rolls-Royce
Plc. and ALSTOM power generation and hence he seeks to work closely with
industrial partners.

(2) PhD research topic: Large eddy simulation of turbulent multiphase

combustion: Progress towards application of the large eddy simulation (LES)
technique to turbulent multiphase combustion processes is continuously growing as
LES can provides a means to study coupled combustion, transport and multiphase
processes. This work focuses the modelling of flow fields include more than one
phase (gas and liquid) such as those encountered in gas turbines, liquid fuel rocket
engines, diesel engines and industrial furnaces. The author submits this proposal to
EPSRC.

(3) PhD research topic: Investigation of combustion instabilities using large eddy
simulation: Lean premixed (LP) combustion has been widely adopted for the modern
gas turbine engines combustors as it can reduce pollutant emissions such as
NO x while increase combustion intensity, shorter flame lengths and better fuel
burnout. The motivation of this work is to study the characteristics of combustion
instabilities for lean premixed flames for different geometrical configurations under
various conditions. LES will be used as a numerical technique, because of the
inherent unsteadiness of all the important processes, both spatial and time accuracy is
essential in the simulation strategy. The author submits this proposal to EPSRC.
(4) The author also like to introduce few MSc research topics under Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) category, which include the structured and unstructured grid
generation, finite volume method for convection/diffusion problems, theoretical
investigation for large eddy simulation.

(C) Research Interest

(1) Numerical Methods for Direct numerical simulations and Large-eddy simulations.

(2) Modelling of Turbulent Premixed/Non-Premixed/Partially-Premixed Combustion.

(3) Advanced modelling of Swirl Stabilized Gas Turbine Combustion Systems.

Teaching

(A) Departmental Duties

Lecture Course Length of Hours Number of Students
Introduction to 12 40 (under graduate
Computational Fluid students)
Dynamics (Jan. 2003)

Tutorials Length of Hours Number of Students

Mathematical Analysis 60 80 (under graduate
(Sept 2002-June 2003) students)

(B) Other Teaching

Seminar Length of Hours Number of Participants
Computational Fluid 4 60
Dynamics, Turbulence
Modelling

Administrative and other service

(1) Organising committee member: Summer school of Computational Combustion
using High Performance Computing, Cranfield University, July 2007

(2) Exam invigilation: University of Ruhuna, 2003

Date Curriculum Vitae Prepared

21st July 2008