Research Appointments
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA
Physical Science Research Scientist
September 2024 – Present
Supervisor: Prof. Ali Mani
- Develop Reynolds-stress-based turbulence closure models using high-fidelity direct numerical simulations.
- Develop computational frameworks for modeling compressible multiphase flows for the INSIEME project under the PSAAP-III program.
- Design scalable numerical methods and simulation tools for multiphysics flow systems on modern high-performance computing architectures.
Center for Turbulence Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA
CTR Postdoctoral Research Fellow
August 2021 – August 2024
Supervisor: Prof. Ali Mani
- Developed mathematical models and numerical frameworks for high-fidelity simulation of turbulent single- and multiphase flows.
- Developed computational models for electrochemical and electrokinetic multiphase transport systems.
- Performed high-fidelity simulations of reverse osmosis membrane desalination systems.
- Developed scalable numerical methods for massively parallel multiphase flow simulations.
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
August 2016 – August 2021
Supervisors: Prof. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian and Prof. James Rossmanith
Research title: Energy-Stable Finite Element Methods for the Simulation of Two-Phase Flows using Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes Equations
- Developed provably energy-stable numerical methods for multiphase flows with deformable interfaces.
- Implemented thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes solvers on massively parallel adaptive octree meshes using the Dendro framework.
- Developed scalable simulation tools for resolving interfacial dynamics in complex multiphase systems.
Synthetik Applied Technologies, Austin, Texas, USA
Research and Development Engineer
August 2020 – December 2020
- Developed discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for simulation of highly energetic compressible flows.
- Implemented parallel solvers in C++ using the MFEM finite element framework.
Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Research Associate
November 2015 – May 2016
Supervisor: Prof. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar
- Investigated inter-scale energy transfer mechanisms in turbulent multiphase flows.
- Developed mathematical frameworks for quantifying energy transfer between scales.
Teaching Experience
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA
Course Instructor
Winter 2024
Course: ME 300B / CME 204 — Partial Differential Equations in Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Graduate Teaching Assistant — ME 436 Heat Transfer
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020