Ragini Acharya

Ragini Acharya is an associate professor in the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. With over a decade of experience in the aerospace and defense industry, she has been the principal investigator/coinvestigator on hypersonic and propulsion technologies, reacting flow modelling and computations, and uncertainty quantification method development. She coauthored two best-selling, graduate-level textbooks on turbulent and mulitphase combustion; wrote over 50 technical articles in peer-reviewed publications and technical conferences; and received numerous awards. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow, a member of the Advisory Board National Space and Missile Materials Symposium, and chair of the AIAA High-Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee. Dr. Ragini Acharya holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.