BVRSN P.

Experience

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Aug 2008 - Mar 2009

  Intern

  • Air Quality Monitoring, Emission Inventory and Source Apportionment Study for Chennai area sponsored by Central Pollution Control Board• Spectrophotometry, Sonication and Fractional Distillation methods were used to measure concentration of pollutants in the sample. Annual and seasonal wind directions were characterized using WR Plots (available in Lakes Environmental Software) and validated with experimental data

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  Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

  Nov 2012 - Feb 2014

  Senior Research Associate

  • Modeling accelerated ageing and degradation of solid oxide fuel cells for characterizing life time and reliabilityof SOFC system◦ Developed micro kinetic model for sulfur poisoning on Ni based anodes catalyst◦ Implemented solvers for coupling kinetic model with fluid flow◦ Studied effect of moisture content on sulfur poisoning of Nickel (Published in ECS Journals)

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  Siemens Technology India

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2015

  Simulation Engineer

  • Modeling aero/thermo acoustic damping characteristics of HelmHoltz resonators for Gas Turbine (GT) applications ◦ Implemented 1D non-reflecting boundary conditions with specification of single harmonic and white noise perturbations ◦ Simulated acoustics behavior in HelmHoltz resonators using forced response approach using FSDFOAM solver implemented at Siemens ◦ implemented strategies to separate acoustic component from flow variables for compiling simulation results including method to characterize resonator configurations ◦ Invented pure vorticity based acoustic damper (Accepted internally for patent processing)• Modeling atomization of liquid jet in cross flow for GT applications ◦ Implemented new primary atomization model based on relative velocity between phases ◦ Customised OpenFOAM libraries to allow new parcels in simulation domine ◦ Identified critical parameters for tuning orthogonal and non-orthogonal injections• Benchmarking a new tabulated chemistry based combustion solver for predicting self-excited acoustic instabilities in GT technology ◦ Studied flame characteristics like flame length, lean blow off limit and lift of height with new tabulated chemistry method ◦ Determined flame transfer function for heat release and acoustics coupling• Modeling combustion for premixed bluff body stabilized flames ◦ Performed LES simulations and validated anti-symmetric and symmetric vortex formation phenomena of both non-reacting and reacting flows respectively ◦ Tested various numerical discretization schemes and validated with experimental data• Integrated Design Environment (IDE) tool for meshing and post-processing for less user intervention CFD environment ◦ Implemented Siemens custom advanced auto-meshing tool in C++ ◦ Implemented Siemens custom tool for runtime data processing and converting it into contour images• Implemented python module for the visualization of VOXEL data Show less

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  National Centre for Combustion Research & Development (NCCRD)

  Mar 2016 - Sept 2017

  Project Associate

  Modeling & simulation of lean premixed swirl stabilized burner in the collaboration with Technical University of Berlin(TUB), Germany∘ Implemented a novel higher order (8𝑡ℎ) overset based finite difference LES solver (ZERO modeling parameters) for simulating compressible reacting flows∘ Working through complete cycle of CFD analysis for swirl generator designed for flash back resistanceCombustion instability modeling for gas turbine combustors with multiple interacting flames in collaboration with Pratt & Whitney(PW), United States of AmericaAIM: To develop a high fidelity CFD based design tool for predicting instabilities in swirl combustor’s for gas turbine (GT) applications∘ CFD simulations are done for PW proprietary swirler∘ Validated with experimental results Show less

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  One of the oil company

  Oct 2017 - Dec 2019

  Computational Scientist

  Stratigraphy forward modeling