About Ashish Kumar
Ashish Kumar
Prof, ast resrch
Mining & Nuclear Engineering
226 McNutt Hall
Biography
Ashish R. Kumar, Ph.D., P.E. is an assistant research professor of mining engineering in the Department of Mining and Explosives Engineering . He teaches several graduate and undergraduate level mining engineering courses. He was previously a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Kentucky.
He has a progressive experience as an assistant manager of operations in a 20.0 MTPA surface mine captive to a 6,000 MW super-critical thermal power plant. His research interests include complex multi-phase CFD modeling, automation and control, mine ventilation and fire dynamics, aerosol transportation, sustainable operations, and extra-terrestrial mining. He serves on several sub-committees of the SME. He is a registered professional engineer in KY.
Research
Expertise areas
Multi-phase flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, Aerosol transportation, Dust filter design, Mine automation, Extra-terrestrial mining.
Publications
Publications from Scholars' Mine
- Scale modeling, PIV, and LES of blowing type airflow in a deep cut continuous coal mining section Mine ventilation, pp 65-74, CRC Press, 2021
- Laboratory determination of coal dust cleaning efficacy of a fibrous filter for flooded-bed dust scrubber Minerals 2021, 11(3), 295; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030295
- Designing, Modeling, and Laboratory Testing of a Non-clogging Impingement Type Filter for Mining Dust Scrubbers Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration volume 37, pages 1911–1918 (2020)
- Multi-phase computer modeling and laboratory study of dust capture by an inertial Vortecone scrubber International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
Volume 30, Issue 3, May 2020, Pages 287-291,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmst.2020.03.014 - Computational fluid dynamics modeling and laboratory analysis of aerosol particles' capture on thin swirling water film in a Vortecone Powder Technology
Volume 361, 1 February 2020, Pages 499-506,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2019.11.093
Awards and recognition
Awards
- Henry Krumb Lecturer Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
- Lewis and Elizabeth W. Young scholarship The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum
Engineers