About

brief biography

I am currently a Physical Science Research Scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, working with Prof. Ali Mani and Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino. As a part of my work at Stanford, I have been involved in multiple projects. In my most recent work, I am using high-fidelity simulations of forced turbulence to learn reduced-order Reynolds Stress Models. I am also currently working on modeling compressible multiphase flows for the INSIEME project under the PSAAP III program at Stanford. In a separate project, I am developing multi-physics models and numerical methods for simulating multi-phase electrochemical systems that have applications in green hydrogen production. I recieved my PhD at Iowa State University co-majoring in Mechanical engineering and Applied Mathematics. I was co-advised by Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Dr. James Rossmanith. As a part of my PhD, I developed energy stable numerical methods to simulate two-phase flows using Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. I also have experience in development of tools to analyse and understand complex physical processes like multi-phase flows and turbulence.

Before joining Iowa State for my graduate work, I had a brief stint as a research associate in Dr. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar‘s group in Louisiana State University. There, I worked on energy transfer processes in multi-phase flows.

Education:

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

PhD with a co-major in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics [Aug 2016 – Aug 2021]

Dissertation: Energy stable numerical methods for interface resolved simulations of two-phase flows using Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations.
Graduate advisors: Prof. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Prof. James Rossmanith

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India

Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Technology [2011 – 2015]

Research Interests:

Multiphase flows
Finite Element Methods
Numerical Analysis
Turbulence
Multi-scale
analysis of stochastic processes

Awards and Achievements:

Finalist in the Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase at Super Computing ‘22 (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis). | [VIDEO]
Center for Turbulence Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University
The Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard (FMJH) and the Labex Mathématique Hadamard (LMH) Postdoctoral Fellowship at EM2C (CentraleSupélec) Paris.
Research Excellence Award from Iowa State Graduate College.
Teaching Excellence Award from Iowa State Graduate College.
Recipient of Dean’s fellowship from college of engineering at Iowa State University for incoming graduate students.
Won the Bal G. Joshi endowment award in recognition of innovative thinking, creativity and performance.
Won the Chemtech poster presentation competition, first among more than 500 participants.
Received the international travel grant of Department of Science and Technology, India to attend iTi 2014: Conference on turbulence (full financial support)