Curriculum Vitae

Profile

As a CFD engineer, I have strong technical skills including coding languages such as C, C++, and Python, as well as software tools like OpenFOAM and ANSYS. I am completing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and have experience as a demonstrator, lab assistant, and intern in various research and industry settings. My research experience includes developing new continuum models for flow in porous media and modelling multi-layered fluid flows over structured substrates. I have excellent problem-solving and communication skills, as demonstrated through my role as a PhD student representative and in my past internship roles.

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering,  Heriot-Watt University, UK Sept 2018 – Present

M.Eng. Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani University, India Aug 2016 - May 2018

M.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics, BITS Pilani University, India Aug 2011 - May 2016

B.Eng. (Hons.) Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani University, India Aug 2011 - May 2016

Work experience

Energy Systems Development Intern - Turnbull & Scott, Edinburgh, UK
February 2023 – May 2023

• Developed heat transfer models for application in industrial tank storage systems.

• Designed heating equipment based on thorough assessment of customers requirements.
  
  

Scientific Sample Administrator  -  Scottish Water, Edinburgh, GB
June 2022 – October 2022

• Involved in registering and receiving a high volume of water sample from all over Scotland with strict turnaround times

• Ensured sampling data entry and work met the requirements of ISO17025 and DWTS standards.

• Investigated and resolved customer queries and carried out routine maintenance and calibration of equipment.
  
  

PhD Student Representative  -  Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, GB
June 2019 – June 2022

• Engaged with graduate students to understand and improve shortcomings in their research experience.

• Planned and arranged various team building activities for the research institute members.

• Liaised with other post-graduate representatives, institute faculty and administrative staff.

• Helped in kick-starting a mentoring scheme and a seminar series for PhD students in the institute.
  
  

Demonstrator
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, GB
September 2019 – May 2021

• Involved as a laboratory demonstrator for an under-graduate and a graduate course in Fluid Dynamics, helping  over 75 students map the practical lab session to theory taught in the course.

• Assisted in marking reports, collecting and communicating feedback to the course instructor.
  
  

Industrial  Trainee - Aditya Birla Chemicals Thailand Ltd, Bangkok
July 2015 – December 2015

• Worked on new product development activities and feasibility analysis for production of Sodium-Allyl Sulfonate  and Epoxidised Soybean Oil, considering the current and future market size.

• Setup a lab-scale Pilot plant for new product trials and explained areas of improvement for similar design to be  scaled up for a 10MT capacity reactor.

• Assisted the Technical Cell in redressing consumer complaints and follow up.
  
  

Research Intern -  Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India
May 2014 – July 2014

• Modelled and simulated using MATLAB, the liquid-liquid separation process of a Rotating Disc Contactor with  TBP/Dodecane/Nitric Acid System.

• Researched on empirical relations for drop size distributions and mass transfer coefficients, to improve the separation  process model.
  
  

Winter Intern -   Environmental Survey Laboratory, India
December 2013 – January 2014

• Sampled soil and water within 50km radius of a nuclear power plant.

• Studied radiological impact of a nuclear power plant was by testing the samples for radio nucleides (Cesium and Pottasium-40) using a HPGe Gamma Counter.
  
  

Summer Intern   - Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd, India
May 2014 – July 2014

• Worked with in-house simulator TRIFUZ, to achieve equilibrium for a nuclear reactor core working at 100% power.

• Analysed the reactor core configuration for over 600 Full Power Days at varying excess reactivities (4-12mk), and reported my findings.

Research Experience

Heriot-Watt University [ Ph.D. Dissertation ]
Title: New continuum paradigm to porous media flows
Nov 2018 – Present

• Designed new continuum flow model for flow in porous media, at both pore- and Darcy-scale using Korteweg-type compressible fluid flow equations.

• Developed and published computational model of the new flow equations as a solver application using OpenFOAM.

• Simulated compressible flow in micro- and nano-scale geometries to validate the model.
  
  

BITS Pilani University [ Master’s Thesis ]
Title: Modelling Multi-layered Fluid Flow Over Structured Substrates
Aug 2017 - May 2018

• Derived reduced-order models for a bilayer thin-film flow over substrates, using asymptotic approximations and  long wave theory.

• Scrutinized the dynamics of the system, by doing time-dependent computations of the resulting nonlinear equations.

• Analyzed the stability of the system by performing a linear stability analysis of the reduced-order equations.
  
  

BITS Pilani University [ Undergraduate Thesis ]
Title:  Process identification and parameter estimation for fermentation
Jan 2016 - May 2016

• Non-linear optimisation was used to find steady state solutions for a batch reactor system.

• Determined kinetics parameters (Arrhenius frequency factor and Activation Energy) by conducting fermentation  reaction of ethanol in laboratory at different temperatures.

• Developed hierarchical framework for identification and implementation of the process control model.

Conferences and Workshops

Sep, 2022: Presented research on micro- and nano-flows at the UK Fluid Dynamics Conference, Sheffield, UK

Jul, 2022: Presented research on modelling flows in microchannel at the 32nd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Seoul, South Korea.

Jul, 2021: Presented at 11th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Dynamics with emphasis on Multiphase and Complex Flow, Wessex Institute, UK.

Jan, 2019: Attended ARCHER:Hands-on Introduction to HPC course, Robert Gordon University,UK.

Jan, 2019: Attended workshop on Message-Passing Programming with MPI course- EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Nov, 2016: Attended workshop on Molecular Dynamics and Simulation with GROMACS, BITS-Pilani University, India

Dec, 2014: Presented research poster at 67 th annual session of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Panjab University, India