About

A bit about myself

I use numerical simulations to study fluid flows. My research interests include turbulent flows, convective flows ranging from engineering to geophysical flows, and high-performance computing. I am interested in building computational frameworks for science and engineering problems. Have a look at my research to learn more about it.

Starting May 2025, I have joined as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering within Ecole Centrale School of Engineering at the Mahindra University, Hyderbad, India. Before this, I was Project Scientist at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India from Aug 2024 to April 2025.

From Aug 2021 to Jul 2024, I worked as a Research Faculty at the Department of Applied Mathematics at CU Boulder (University of Colorado at Boulder). There, I was working with Prof. Keith Julien (deceased, April 2024) in collaboration with Prof. Edgar Knobloch (Physics Department, UC Berkeley) and Prof. Chang Liu (UConn).

From November 2020 to mid-August 2021, I was a Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India).

Before that, I was a Project Officer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. A. Sameen in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras. For my thesis, I studied breakdown in vortices with axial flows.

Education

• PhD Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
  Thesis title: Direct numerical simulation of axial vortex breakdown
• MS Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• BE The Aeronautical Society of India, New Delhi, India

Research experience

• Assistant Professor (May 2025 - Present)
  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engg., ECSE, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India
• Project Scientist I (Aug 2024 - April 2025)
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• Research faculty (Aug 2021 - Jul 2024)
  Department of Applied Mathematics, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2020 - Aug 2021)
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• Project Officer (Nov 2018 - Oct 2020)
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India
• Project Associate (Nov 2009 - Dec 2011)
  Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India

Collaborations

Below is a list of past and present collaborators (in the reverse chronology)

• Prof. Chang Liu (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Prof. Keith Julien (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

• Prof. Edgar Knobloch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Dr. Shesh Dhurandhar (IIT Madras, India)
• Dr. Vishnu Mohan (University of Liverpool, UK)

• Dr. R. Vishnu (OIST, Japan)

• Prof. Vinod Narayanan (IIT Gandhinagar, India)
• Prof. T. Jayachandran (IIT Madras, India)
• Prof. Manikandan Mathur (IIT Madras, India)
• Prof. A. Sameen (IIT Madras, India)