• Established and manage the Engineering Simulations Group in the Water Heating Division• Guide an international team of computational researchers conducting research in the field of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, combustion, multiphase flow etc.

Research and Product Development of industrial combustion and flow systems for oil-gas and chemical industry .► Extensively use Star CCM+ to provide product development solutions through CFD analysis for improved aerodynamic and thermal performance of industrial combustion systems. ► Responsible for CFD analysis of Process Burners, Thermal Oxidizers and Flares, all accounting for more than $10 Million annually► Initiated a paradigm shift towards employing Machine Learning with high performance computing to minimize equipment testing.► Led the development of in-house Machine Learning models and used them for Emission analyses resulting in prediction errors less than 2.5 ppm (parts per million)► As part of Continuous Process Improvement, constituted an interdisciplinary team and revised the standard practices to improve efficiency of Burner design process ► Developed Radiation heat transfer measurement methodology using Infra-red Imaging for validating CFD models, resulting in increased temperature field modeling accuracy► Conduct 1-2 hr technical sessions for design engineers to educate them about theoretical concepts in fluid and thermal science

► Developed the first of its kind of numerical model to predict growth characteristics of nanoparticles in a combustion environment, resulting in 1 paper in the prestigious journal of the Combustion Institute and 3 other international conference proceedings» Published results show remarkable agreement between the simulation and experimental results» Developed a one way coupled Lagrangian scheme to simulate growth of nanorods involving drag and thermophoretic forces» Solved the General dynamic equation using Quadrature method of moments to model group characteristics of nanoparticles» - Developed surface oxidation model for Molybdenum precursor oxidation

► Developed 2 multiscale closure techniques for turbulent flow Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model using Bayesian recursive Kalman and Particle filters, producing 2 papers in prestigious journals» Results published in peer reviewed journals convincingly establish the enhanced multiscale coupling for reacting flows» Employed Linear eddy model (LEM) as a subgrid model for LES» Enhanced the multiscale coupling to include non-linear dynamic systems with Monte Carlo techniques using Particle filter» Compared results with conventional LES-LEM coupling schemes

► Provided leadership to a team of 4 engineers as the head of Production Engineering department, responsible for mechanical design procedures and customer feedback► Managed a team of 10+ technicians as the fabrication in-charge of commercial heat exchangers

► Research Assistant under Dr. J.P. Subrahmanyam (Head of Mechanical Dept. and NTPC Chair Professor)► Mathematical Simulation of Compression ignition engines to study the performance characteristics and to predict Equilibrium products and their properties after combustion of different fuels

► Research Fellow under Dr. R. Gnanamoorthy (Head of Machine Design Dept.)► Effect of Oil Jet Peening on the tribological properties of AA6063-T6 alloy