Singh Receives Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship

PhD student Ajay Singh

Department of Mechanical Engineering graduate student Ajay Singh received the Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Education for the 2014-2015 academic year. The fellowship is awarded to engineering students pursuing their doctoral degree who are committed to a teaching career in engineering education.

Singh is currently a fifth year doctoral candidate in the department, as well as a 2014-2015 Clark School Future Faculty Fellow. Under the guidance of Fire Protection Engineering Assistant Professor Michael Gollner, Singh’s concentration of study is in thermal and fluid sciences, with a focus on laminar and turbulent boundary layer combustion.

His current research explores the dynamic relationship between combustible condensed fuel surfaces and gas-phase flames in both laminar and turbulent boundary layers, representing the small scales in which materials are actually tested to the realistic large-scale turbulent flames present in almost all unwanted fires such as hybrid rocket motors and other similar combustion phenomena.

According to Singh, “The [Northrup Grumman] Fellowship will help me immensely in travelling to the international and national conferences to present my research work.”

Singh is currently seeking a post-doctoral research position at various research labs across the country and has plans to take up an academic career after a few years of post-doctoral research.

Recently, Singh also won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 35^thInternational Symposium on Combustion. Singh received the award for his paper, “Estimation of local mass burning rates for steady laminar boundary layer diffusion flames”, which presented a thorough numerical and experimental investigation of laminar boundary-layer diffusion flames established over the surface of a condensed fuel.

March 11, 2015