Responsibilities include:

• Researching melting processes due to buoyancy-driven Rayleigh-Bénard convection in combination with rotational effects.
• Developed post-processing tools in Python to properly study interface morphologies and heat transfer rates for the melting process.
• Created memory-efficient visualization tools in Python to study the evolution of the melting process in 3D.

Responsibilities include:

• Guided students in grasping thermodynamic fundamentals essential to comprehending heat transfer, for successful experimentation.
• Demonstrated HVAC system and cooling tower experiments to teach Brayton cycle refrigeration system for 100 students.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessed and improved the applicability of stability theories for higher-order numerical methods using dispersive wave theory models for the structured cut-cell method.
• Performed optimization procedures to obtain novel set of high-order stable cut-cell stencils, for solving hyperbolic equations leveraging Mathematica and Python.
• Optimized large scale runs in Linux high-performance computing environments achieving accuracy of 8th order using C++.

Responsibilities include:

• Developed a structured gas-solid multiphase flow solver for static and moving interfaces in FORTRAN using volume-filtering.
• Benchmarked the solver under various test cases and achieved 99.3% accuracy compared to experimental and analytical results.
• Researched particle modulation on wall-bounded turbulence and achieved 20% drag reduction using Eulerian-Lagrangian methods.
• Post-processed data through temporal and spatial averaging to understand how vortical structutes increase or decrease drag.
• Conducted large-scale parallel simulations using Linux HPC resources.
• Mentored other undergraduate students on HPC techniques and CFD research (See CV for more information)
• Managed code development using GIT.

Responsibilities include:

• Extended the Volume-Filtered Immersed Boundary (VF-IB) method to the varying coefficient hyperbolic equation in order to be compared to the cut-cell approach developed at the lab.
• Ran supercomputing simulations using both approaches and performing error analysis for solution verification.
• Examined the effect of sub-grid scale terms produced as an artifact of the volume-filtering method for varying resolution.

Responsibilities include:

• Designed a liquid-liquid coaxial swirl injector for a rocket engine using large-eddy simulations under the CharLES platform.
• Manufactured the injector and tested it against simulation data through PIV techniques experimentally.
• Conducted thermal analysis on the entire engine assembly to stay within safe thermal ranges in order to prevent thermal runoff scenarios.

Responsibilities include:

• Created a rocketry club at Arizona State University to design and manufacture a rocket to reach the Kármán line (100km).
• Led a team of 10 students within the propulsion department to design a propulsion system.
• Performed thorough engineering analysis ranging from thermal, acoustic, flow and structural analysis on the rocket engine to keep it within safe engineering limits.

Responsibilities include:

• Supervised, graded and conducted lectures to a class larger than 50 students in 3-D CAD modeling using Solidworks.
• Created tutorial vidoes and conducted weekly recitations.

Responsibilities include:

• Conducted thermal analysis using ANSYS Fluent to mitigate thermal runoff scenarios within the high-speed braking system.
• Manufactured braking systems using CNC machines, Lathes, and other machinery according to design specifications.
• Performed vehicle stability and vibrational analysis using MATLAB to ensure system reliability and safety.
• Analyzed drag coefficient of the pod using CharLES to optimize aerodynamic performance for maximum speed.