picture credits Andreas Heddergott / TUM

Makrand A. Khanwale

Assistant Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics,
Technische Universität München
Photo credits: Andreas Heddergott / TUM


Research Appointments

Department of Engineering Physics and Computation, TUM school of Engineering and Design, Technische Universität München, München, DE

Assistant Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics
May 2026 – Present

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA

Physical Science Research Scientist
September 2024 – April 2026

Center for Turbulence Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA

CTR Postdoctoral Research Fellow
August 2021 – August 2024

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

Synthetik Applied Technologies, Austin, Texas, USA

Research and Development Engineer
August 2020 – December 2020

Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Research Associate
November 2015 – May 2016
Supervisor: Prof. Krishnaswamy Nandakumar


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