Simulation Specialist Resume Example

• Redesigned the intake port for a large bore heavy duty marine engine which has been implemented in the field.
• Improved fuel-air mixing in combustion chamber by designing gas fueling nozzles and optimizing fueling strategy for several medium and large bore, marine and industrial engines.
• Successfully designed several PCPs and achieved up to 3% points improvement in engine brake thermal efficiency for various IC engines including high speed race engines, off-highway truck engines, marine engines, and industrial power generation engines.
• Formulated correlations and approximations for the thermal FEA simulations to accurately represent the heat transfer between the PCP and engine cylinder head. Using these correlations, the thermal FEA simulations could predict the surface temperatures of the various parts of the PCP to within 5 degrees Celsius accuracy.

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• Computer aided drawing (CAD) - Designed several 3-D CAD models including, but not limited to, electrolytic fuel cell casing, wind turbine blade, Tool head of a shaper, and plumber block.
• Fluid Mechanics - Analyzed supersonic flow over diamond-wedge airfoil to extract performance parameters like lift, drag and skin friction coefficients. Numerically analyzed the heat transfer characteristics of a flow past a heated cylinder. Used Ansys-Fluent to analyze steady, unsteady and turbulent flow over various objects including flow over a cylinder, a NACA 0012 airfoil, a wind turbine blade, and a backward facing step. Performed an experiment for the 2-D study of jets using Particle Image Velocimetry and Particle Laser Induced Fluorescence.
• Turbomachinery - Executed performance testing on turbines including Pelton wheel, Francis turbine and Kaplan turbine. Performed experiments to determine force developed by the impact of jets on vanes.
• Super-sonic gas nozzle design - Performed pressure drop calculations for a supersonic gas nozzle for gaseous fuel injection by performing simplified 1D calculations using results obtained from CFD. 
• Modeling and finite element analysis - Used Ansys to perform the structural FEA analysis of a pair of Forks for a standard Class II Fork lift carriage having a lifting capacity of 4000 Lbs. Recommended the design, dimensions and the material to be used for the fork, based on cost of manufacturing.

• Solid understanding of core engineering principles and engine combustion.
• Strong background in thermo-sciences (Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Heat Transfer).
• Proficient in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and thermal Finite Element Analysis (FEA).
• Keen interest in design, modeling and simulations.