Ragini Acharya

Biography

August 2020-Present
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
University of Tennessee

March 2020-August 2020
Hypersonic Propulsion Lead–Sr. Principal Engineer
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, USA

Jan 2019-March 2020
Director Hypersonic Technology
CFD Research Corporation, Alabama, USA

September 2016-December 2018
Senior Principal Scientist
CFD Research Corporation, Alabama, USA

November 2010–August 2016
Senior Research Scientist
United Technologies Research Center, Connecticut, USA

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering – Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2008
• MS, Mechanical Engineering– Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2004
• BS, (Honors) Mechanical Engineering– Indian Institute of Technology, India, 2000

Research

Hypersonic and advanced propulsion, Hypersonic signatures, Uncertainty Quantification

Professional Service

• AIAA Technical Committee Member
• High-speed Airbreathing Propulsion
• Airbreathing Propulsion Integration
• AIAA Huntsville Section Council Elected STEM Outreach Director
• AIAA Technical Session Chair 2016-Current
• Reviewer for:
  • International Journal of Advancements in Energetic Materials and Chemical Propulsion
  • ASME TurboExpo
  • International Seminar on Fire & Explosion Hazards
  • Combustion Institute
  • Combustion and Flame

Awards and Recognitions

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow
• Best Paper Award in 7th International Symposium in Chemical Propulsion (7-ISICP) held in Kyoto, September 2007 for Interior Ballistics Processes in a Flash Tube.
• Invited Speaker for Ninth DOE Crosscut Workshop on Lean Emissions Reduction Simulation, May 2- 4, 2006, University of Michigan – Dearborn.
• Best Paper Awards in 24th Rocket Nozzle Technology Subcommittee Meeting, November 2005 for Nozzle Analysis and Modeling.

Publications

• Fundamentals of Turbulent and Multiphase Combustion,” John Wiley and Sons. Co-authored with Kenneth Kuo, John Wiley & Sons. April 2012
• Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118107683
• Applications of Turbulent and Multiphase Combustion,” John Wiley and Sons. Co-authored with Kenneth Kuo, John Wiley & Sons. August 2012.
• Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118127575
• Effect of chamber pressure & propellant composition on erosion rate of graphite rocket nozzle,” R. Acharya and K. K. Kuo, “Journal of Propulsion and Power, 23, 6, pp.1242-1254, 2007
• Development of Uncertainty Quantification Framework Applied to Scramjet Unstart Challenge R Acharya, PP Palies, JA Schetz, JD Schmisseur, 23rd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies, 2020
• Non-Intrusive Computational Method and Uncertainty Quantification for isolator operability calculations, R Acharya, J Schetz, JD Schmisseur, 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, 4537