Education

• Ph.D in Mathematical Analysis, Modelling and Applications — International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. (2022-2025)
• MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Major in Advanced Aerodynamics and Propulsion — ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France. (2018-2020)
• B.E. in Aeronautical Engineering — Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. (2014-2018)

Experience

• Towards Real-Time Digital Twins in Steelmaking: The Role of Reduced Order Methods in Continuous Casting Tundish Process (PhD Thesis) (Jan 2022 - June 2025)
  • mathLab, Mathematics area, SISSA; Industrial PhD in collaboration with Danieli & C. S.p.A. (OEM of Physical Plants and Equipment for Metal Industries)
  • Advisor: Prof. Gianluigi Rozza; Co-Advisor : Prof. Giovanni Stabile
  • Mathematical modelling of continuous casting tundish system.
  • Modelling of multiphase, species transport, heat transfer, buoyancy-driven & turbulent flow physics in the tundish.
  • Development of reduced order models (ROMs) of tundish metallurgical operations.
  • Reduced order methods for advection-dominated flows, inherently exhibiting non-linear solution manifolds.
  • Projection-based and Data-driven reduced order methods, Non-linear model order reduction, and Scientific Machine Learning.
• Visiting PhD candidate - Team MEMPHIS (July - Sept 2024)
  • INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest and IMB, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
  • Hosts: Dr. Tommaso Taddei and Prof. Angelo Iollo
  • Investigated registration methods for model reduction and worked on improving the registration procedure in our proposed NNsPOD-ROM methodology.
  • Visit was supported by ARIA - Accurate ROMs for Industrial Applications grant financed by H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 of the European Commission under Grant Agreement No 872442.
• Engine and Nacelle Multiphysics Simulations (Master Thesis) (April - Nov 2020)
  • AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, Toulouse, France
  • Advisor: Dr. Yannick Sommerer; Co-Advisor: Dr. Thomas Livebardon
  • Numerical simulations of the fire extinguishing system of the A350 XWB Rolls-Royce Engine fan zone.
  • Modelling of fire extinguishing agent jet spray, atomization, turbulence, and gaseous concentration evolution.
  • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in Discrete Phase Model (DPM), uncoupled and coupled DPM approaches for particle tracking, heat & mass transfer, species transport, and boundary conditions for discrete phase.
  • Sensitivity study on quantifying the influence of boundary conditions on fire extinguishing agent evolution.
• Aero-acoustic Predictions for Turbomachinery Applications (Research project) (Jan 2019 - March 2020)
  • DAEP - Department of Aerodynamics, Energy and Propulsion, ISAE SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
  • Assessment of the in-house Finite Volume LES code - CharLES^X for turbomachinery aero-acoustic applications.
  • Addressed the accuracy and stability of the solver, by performing benchmark test cases: isentropic convective vortex, cavity noise mechanisms – by exhibiting both aero-acoustic feedback loop and resonance.
• Analysis of Aircraft Environmental Control System (Bachelor thesis) (Dec 2017 - April 2018)
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
  • Advisor: Dr. G.S.V.L. Narasimham
  • Thermodynamic modelling of aircraft environmental control system (ECS).
  • Analyzing the performance of the ECS for different flight scenarios.
• Lead Aerodynamicist - TEAM ARION (SAE-INDIA Student Formula TEAM) (Oct 2017 - April 2018)
  • SAE-INDIA Student Club, NMIT, Bengaluru, India
  • Design and CFD simulations of 3D Air restrictor for Honda CBR 600cc V4 engine.
  • CFD simulations of airfoils for front and rear wing applications.
• Finite Element Analysis of Cubesat (Intern) (May - July 2018)
  • Center for Small Satellite Research, NMIT, Bengaluru, India
  • Designing of STUDSAT-2 satellite using sandwiched honeycomb structure.
  • Static structural analysis of sandwiched honeycomb structure of STUDSAT-2.
• Intern at Aircraft Division (June 2017)
  • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru, India
  • Industrial training on assembly of aircraft and manufacturing processes in the aircraft division.

Skills

• CFD codes: OpenFOAM, STAR-CCM+, Ansys – Fluent, CFX, Workbench
• CAD and Mesher: CATIA-V5, SolidWorks, ICEM-CFD, HyperWorks
• Post-processing: Paraview, Ensight
• Programming languages: Python, C++, Matlab, LaTeX, Fortran90
• Libraries: NumPy, SciPy, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch
• Dev Tools: VS Code, Git, GitHub
• Operating system: Linux, Microsoft Windows
• Soft Skills: Autonomy, Leadership, Team working, Communication, Flexibility