Kulatilaka, Waruna
individual record
Associate Professor
Positions:
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
overview
My research focuses on Combustion and Energy Conversion, Optical Diagnostics and Imaging, Laser Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Lasers, Chemical Kinetics, Fluid Flow and Plasma Diagnostics, Supersonic and Hypersonic Propulsion, Gas Turbine Combustion and IC Engines.
education and training
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University - (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States) 2006
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2002
- B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa - (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) 2000
selected publications
Academic Articles42
- Parajuli, P., Paschal, T. T., Turner, M. A., Wang, Y., Petersen, E. L., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2021). High-Speed Hydroxyl and Methylidyne Chemiluminescence Imaging Diagnostics in Spherically Expanding Flames. AIAA Journal. 1-9.
- Wang, Y., Jain, A., Schweizer, C., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2021). OH, PAH, and sooting imaging in piloted liquid-spray flames of diesel and diesel surrogate. Combustion and Flame. 231, 111479-111479.
- Turner, M. A., Paschal, T. T., Parajuli, P., Kulatilaka, W. D., & Petersen, E. L. (2021). Resolving flame thickness using high-speed chemiluminescence imaging of OH* and CH* in spherically expanding methane–air flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 38(2), 2101-2108.
- Jain, A., Wang, Y., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2021). Simultaneous imaging of H and OH in flames using a single broadband femtosecond laser source. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 38(1), 1813-1821.
- Jain, A., Parajuli, P., Wang, Y., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2020). Hydroxyl radical planar laser-induced fluorescence imaging in flames using frequency-tripled femtosecond laser pulses.. OPTICS LETTERS. 45(17), 4690-4693.
Conference Papers52
- Turner, M. A., Paschal, T., Kulatilaka, W. D., & Petersen, E. L. (2019). An Investigation of Laminar Flame Speed of CH4-O2-CO2 Mixtures.
- Wang, Y., Paschal, T., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2019). Combustion Characterization of a Fuel-Flexible Piloted Liquid-Spray Flame Apparatus Using Advanced Laser Diagnostics.
- Parajuli, P., Paschal, T., Turner, M. A., Petersen, E. L., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2019). High-Speed Spectrally Resolved Imaging Studies of Spherically Expanding Natural Gas Flames Under Gas Turbine Operating Conditions.
- Paschal, T., Parajuli, P., Turner, M. A., Petersen, E. L., & Kulatilaka, W. D. (2019). High-Speed OH* and CH* Chemiluminescence Imaging and OH Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) in Spherically Expanding Flames.
- Turner, M. A., Parajuli, P., Paschal, T., Kulatilaka, W. D., & Petersen, E. L. (2019). Laminar Flame Speed Measurements from Chemiluminescence of OH* and CH* in CH4-, H2-, and C2H2-Air Flames.
researcher on
Principal Investigator2
Co-Principal Investigator3
awards and honors
- Associate Fellow conferred by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - (Reston, Virginia, United States) - This is ongoing. 2012
recent teaching activities
- MEEN315 Hnr-prin Of Thermodynamics Instructor
- MEEN315 Prin Of Thermodynamics Instructor
- MEEN404 Engineering Laboratory Instructor
- MEEN485 Directed Studies Instructor
- MEEN485 Directed Studies: In-ab Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Niemiec, Nicholas Anthony (2018-08). Advanced Laser Diagnostics for Characterization of Particle Flow Field and Chemical Species During Energetic Material Reactions. (Master's Thesis)
- Wang, Yejun (2018-08). ULTRASHORT-PULSE LASER TECHNIQUES FOR UNRAVELING CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN NEXT-GENERATION COMBUSTION SYSTEMS. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- O'Neil, Morgan Patrick (2017-05). Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Detecting Metal Particles Released from Energetic Reactions. (Master's Thesis)
Email
waruna.kulatilaka@tamu.edu
First Name
Waruna
Last Name
Kulatilaka
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Mechanical Engineering; 3123 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3123
USA