Monika Nanjaiah

Lehrstuhl für Fluiddynamik M.Sc. Monika Nanjaiah

Contact Details

 

Carl-Benz Straße 199
47057 Duisburg
Room: NETZ 1.15


Phone: +49-(0)203-379 8115
E-Mail: monika.nanjaiah [at] uni-due.de

Research Interests

 

  • Reaction Kinetics and Mechanisms
  • Spray Combustion and Nanoparticles
  • Simulation of Nanoparticle Synthesis in OpenFoam
  • Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows

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Current Project

DGF project: "SPP1980: Investigation of the interaction of precursor and flame chemistry". The aim of the project is to investigate the role of precursor kinetics in particle formation with focus on aerosol combustion, development and validation of reduced reaction mechanisms for new precursors.

Scientific Career


Since 2018

PhD student
Research project: Investigation of the interaction of precursor and flame chemistry
Fluid Dynamik, IVG, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg-Germany

2015 (October) - 2017 (December)

M.Sc in Computational mechanics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen-Germany
Thesis: Detailed Large-Eddy Simulation of a Turbulent Flame with Thermo-Acoustic Oscillations

2013-2015

Research Assistant
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Flows Physics Laboratory, Mechanical Department, Bangalore, India

2009-2013

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Mechanical Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University, India
Thesis: Optimization of Pressure Compensated Drip Emitters

Conference Poster / Presentations

  • M. Nanjaiah, P. Wollny, H. Janbazi*, A. Kempf, I. Wlokas, Iron and Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Formation from Decomposition and Combustion of Iron Pentacarbonyl in Flames, poster presentation at the 29th Deutscher FlammenTag, 2019, Bochum, Germany.
  • Monika Nanjaiah, Hans Jünger, Mathieu R. Lalanne, Igor Rahinov, Andreas Kempf, Irenäus Wlokas, Detailed and Reduced Reaction Schemes for Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis Flames, oral presentation at the 17th  International Conference on Numerical Combustion, 2019, Aachen, Germany.    
  • M. Nanjaiah, A. Pilipodi- Best, A. Fomin, S. Cheskis, L. Deng, H. Jünger, J. Sellmann, A. Kempf, I. Wlokas, I. Rahinov, Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles from Flame Assisted Synthesis, poster presentation at the 9th European Combustion Meeting (ECM), 2019, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Nanjaiah, M., Janbazi, H., Roderigo, K., Kempf, A., Wlokas, I., Development of Compact, Skeletal Reaction Mechanisms for the Combustion of n-Butanol/Air and o-Xylene/Air, poster presentation at the 3rd International Symposium on Gas-Phase Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials 2018, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Roderigo, K., Nanjaiah, M., Janbazi, H., Kempf, A., Wlokas, I., A compact, global-skeletal reaction mechanism for spray combustion of o-xylene in air, poster presentation at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, 2018, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Nanjaiah, M., Janbazi, H., Roderigo, K., Kempf, A., Wlokas, I., Development of a compact skeletal reaction mechanism for the combustion of n-butanol in air using the global fuel breakdown approach, poster presentation at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, 2018, Dublin, Ireland.

Teaching

SoSe2020: Exercise for the Lecture Numerics and flow simulation
WiSe2019: Exercise for the Lecture Gas Dynamics
SoSe2019: Exercise for the Lecture Numerics and flow simulation
WiSe2018: Exercise for the Lecture Gas Dynamics