Anand Veeraragavan

Prof. Anand Veeraragavan's research interests are in supersonic combustion of hydrocarbons, hypersonic aerothermodynamics, advanced optical diagnostics for hypersonic flows and microcombustion based portable power. He is the Co-Director for UQ's Centre for Hypersonics. Since 2021, he is an Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, which is a Quartile 1 Journal in Aerospace Engineering (Scimago). Prof. Anand Veeraragavan joined the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering as a mechanical engineering lecturer in 2012. He was an Mid-Career Advance Queensland Research Fellow (2017-2020) awarded for conducting research in the project entitled Supersonic Combustion of Hydrocarbon Fuels for High-Mach-Number Axisymmetric Scramjets. Anand graduated with a B.Tech in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) in 2002. He obtained his MS (2006) and PhD (2009) degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland. His Doctoral research, which focused on understanding flame stabilization in microscale combustors, won the best thesis award in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. After his PhD, he took up a research appointment as a postdoctoral research associate in the Device Research Lab at MIT where he worked on thermophotovoltaics and nanofluid based volumetric solar absorbers. He next joined GE Energy as a combustion technologist in the US. At GE, he worked primarily on designing the next generation, land based, heavy duty, gas turbine engine combustors focusing on cost, operability, reliability and emissions and also completed his lean Six Sigma Greenbelt certification at GE. He is currently undertaking world-leading research in the field of hypersonics and supersonic combustion sponsored by Australian DST, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and U.S. Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD). This includes leading the Australian effort in prestigious projects such as ground testing and simulations in support of the Boundary Layer Transition/Turbulence (BOLT II) flight test sponsored by the AFOSR. Supersonic combustion of hydrocarbon fuels, Hypersonic aerothermodynamics, Optical diagnostics: PLIF for supersonic combustion, FLDI for hypersonic aerothermodynamics, high-speed schlieren, Micro-combustion driven power systems, Solar thermal and solar photovoltaic technology development, Hypersonics, High-speed Propulsion, Optical Diagnostics, Microcombustion, Solar Energy, Thermal Analysis/Modeling, Heat Exchangers, Modeling (CFD and Analytical), Energy Systems

[2026] Full-scale BOLT-1B experiments at flight-matched conditions in X3/R. Trudgian, Matthew A., Mee, David J., Stennett, Samuel J., Smith, Daniel R., Morgan, Richard G. and Veeraragavan, Anand (2026). Full-scale BOLT-1B experiments at flight-matched conditions in X3/R. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. doi: 10.2514/1.a36805 [2026] Evaluation of a distributed fuelling scheme for a Mach 8 axisymmetric scramjet using large eddy simulation. Mecklem, Sarah A., Curran, Damian, Landsberg, Will O. and Veeraragavan, Ananthanarayanan (2026). Evaluation of a distributed fuelling scheme for a Mach 8 axisymmetric scramjet using large eddy simulation. Aerospace Science and Technology, 172 111713. doi: 10.1016/j.ast.2026.111713 [2026] Numerical simulation of ethylene-fueled scramjet combustion within