Harsha K. Chelliah

About

Professor Chelliah joined the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1992. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in January 1989. After completion of his Ph.D., he continued his research at Princeton University as a Research Associate/Staff Member from 1988-1992. His research interests include fundamental interactions between finite-rate kinetics and fluid transport phenomena, with applications to fire initiation, propagation, and mitigation; basic combustion aspects related to gas-turbine engines; turbulence-chemistry interactions in hypersonic engines; endothermic cooling using jet/rocket fuels; kinetics of ceramic material (SiC, BN, ...) synthesis, and many others.  

Professor Chelliah is an active member of the Combustion Institute, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is a Fellow of ASME, Fellow of the Combustion Institute, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a visiting Fellow of Peterhouse College at Cambridge University. In 2016, he was the Thomas Jefferson Fellow at the Downing College at Cambridge University. 

Education

B.S. ​Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, 1981

M.S. ​Mechanical Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1984

Ph.D. ​Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 1989