Convective Heat Transfer, Experimental Heat transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer Enhancement, Infrared Thermography, Thermal Energy Storage, Transport in Porous media
Jan to May 2018, Senior Teaching Assistant | Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India (mentored by IIT Bombay)
Mar 2011 to Dec 2012, Assistant Professor | BVBCET, Hubli, India
July 2009 to June 2010, Research Intern (during M. Tech) | Computational and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics (CTFD) division, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru
Feb 2007 to May 2008, Graduate Engineer Trainee | Siemens VDO Automotive AG (presently Continental AG) R&D department, Bengaluru, India
Research Interests
Experimental investigation of Heat transfer and Fluid flow in Monodisperse and Bi-disperse Porous media.
Experimental study of Heat Transfer Enhancement using IR(Infra-Red) thermography technique in Porous media packed channels with fluid flows having higher Prandtl number.
Thermal Energy Storage (T.E.S) capability of channels with randomly packed particles and comparison with analytical solutions.
Experimental study of Fluid flow characteristics of Monodisperse Porous media.
Further intending to explore Granular flows, Understanding biological flows using the Porous media approach, Cooling of electronics equipment (passive methods) and Turbulent flows.
I am also interested to explore the application of CFD methods for getting insights on flow fields inside the porous media using commercially available / open source codes such as FLUENT / OPENFOAM etc. leading to numerical validation of the experimentally obtained results.
Awards & Fellowships
2013 to 2018 – Institute fellowship for Doctoral studies at IIT Bombay – MHRD, Govt. of India
2017 – Second prize for best Research Poster presentation at INTERPORE (International Porous Media): Flow and Transport in Porous Medias Symposium, IIT Delhi - INTERPORE
2009 – Sixth prize in quiz of “The High Flyer” a newsletter for engineering professionals, EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N. V)
2008 – Completed basics of German language course with 3rd highest score – Siemens VDO Automotive AG
2007 – Received “Kalpana-Best suggestion award” – Siemens VDO Automotive AG
2007– Successfully completed CCE-PROFICIENCE course “Innovative Product Development & Design Methods” – Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore
2006 – Received best final year project award in B.E for academic project- “Design and development of Seed Dibbler” – Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Engineering & Technology (SDM C.E.T) Alumni Association, Dharwad, Karnataka, India
