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Research Experience:

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA

• Physical Science Research Scientist [Sept 2024 - Ongoing]
  Project supervisors: Prof. Ali Mani

Center for Turbulence Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA

• Postdoctoral Fellow [Aug 2021 - Aug 2024]
  Project supervisors: Prof. Ali Mani

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

• Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant [Aug 2016 – Aug 2021]
  Project supervisors: Prof. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Prof. James Rossmanith
  Title: Energy-Stable Finite Element Methods for the Simulation of Two-Phase flows using Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes Equations.
  • Developed energy stable numerical methods for two-phase flows with deformable interfaces using coupled thermodynamically consistent Navier-Stokes and Cahn Hilliard Equations (CHNS).
  • Deployed the CHNS numerical model on a massively parallel adaptive meshing framework Dendro

Synthetik Applied Technologies, Austin, Texas

• Research and Development Engineer [August ‘20 – December ‘20]
  Title: Numerical Simulations of highly energetic compressible flows using discontinuous Galerkin methods.
  • Develop discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for the simulation of highly energetic compressible flows.
  • Deploy the aforementioned methods in a parallel C++ library using mfem library as a backend.

Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

• Research Associate [Nov ‘15 – May ‘16]
  Project supervisors: Prof. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar
  Title: Energy transfer mechanisms in multi-phase flows
  • Investigated energy transfer mechanisms by analyzing triad interactions using helical mode decomposition in multiphase flows.
  • Developed a mathematical framework for quantifying energy transfers between length scales of turbulent multiphase flows.

CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, MH, India

• Research fellow [May ‘13 – Oct ‘14]
  Project supervisors: Dr. V. Ravi Kumar, Dr. B. D. Kulkarni
  Title: Investigations of relationships between spatial and temporal behaviour of multi-phase turbulent systems using wavelet transforms
  • Developed correlations between spatial and temporal behaviour of chemical process equipment, based on energy transfer mechanisms in spatial and temporal velocity data.
  • Verified the methodology using synthetic turbulent signals and images generated using infinitely divisible cascades.

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, MH, India

• Final year project – Department of Chemical Engineering [Dec ‘14 – May ‘15]
  Project supervisors: Dr. Channamallikarjun S. Mathpati, Dr. Ashwin W. Patwardhan
  Title: Simultaneous PIV-PLIF measurements of Marangoni convection for the case of drop rising in a channel

  • Performed high-fidelity experiments to measure velocities and concentrations in Marangoni flows using simultaneous Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Planar Laser Induced Flourenscence (PLIF).
  • Used Wavelet transforms based methodologies to quantify local mass transfer coefficients.

• Undergraduate student researcher – Department of Chemical Engineering Project supervisors: Dr. Channamallikarjun S. Mathpati, Dr. Ashwin W. Patwardhan
  Title: Heat transfer characteristics in turbulent boundary layers of pipe flows

  • Performed energy coupled large eddy simulations of turbulent pipe flows to obtain velocity and temperature statistics in the boundary layers.
  • Designed a methodology to obtain precise energy flux balances from large data obtained from the simulations.
  • Obtained precise energy balances in the boundary layers to aid in design for cooling systems which use high temperature coolants.

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Teaching Experience:

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

(Won Teaching Excellence Award for this work)

• Fall 2018: Graduate Teaching Assistant [August ‘18 – December ‘18]
  Course Instructor: Prof. Shankar Subramaniam
  Course: ME 436 Heat Transfer

  • Developed and delivered recitation sessions.
  • Conducted problem solving session tailored to student feedback.

• Spring 2019: Graduate Teaching Assistant [January ‘19 – May ‘19]
  Course Instructor: Prof. Travis R. Sippel
  Course: ME 436 Heat Transfer

  • Conducted problem solving session tailored to student feedback.
  • Graded exams and homework.

• Spring 2020: Graduate Teaching Assistant [January ‘20 – May ‘20]
  Course Instructor: Prof. Travis R. Sippel and Prof. Theodore Heindel
  Course: ME 436 Heat Transfer

  • Graded exams and homework and conducted feedback sessions.