Nimisha Srivastava

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

About me

I am a fourth year doctoral scholar in the field aerospace propulsion at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. I have experience in developing multiphase CFD solvers, and I would like to diversify to multi-physics problems in the future.

My advisors are Prof. P. A. Ramakrishna and Prof. T. Jayachandran from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IITM Chennai.

Education

2019-

MS + PhD

9.4/10

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

2018-2014

B.Tech

7.74/10

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh

Work Experience

Aug 2019-

Research Scholar, IITM

As a research scholar at IITM, my work has been focussed around the development of 3-D multiphase solvers for problems involving flows containing particle-fluid systems. The major area of interest are problems dealing with solid rocket propulsion

Aug 2018- Jul 2019

CFD Support Engineer, Altair

As a CFD support engineer at Altair India Ltd. I was responsible for assisting academic customers with thier projects. I wrote theory guides to make CFD more accessible for new users and I was also heavily involved with quality assurance of the student version of the Altair software suite.

Dec 2016- Jun 2017

Research Intern, IITB

As an intern in IITB, I worked in the field of micro combustion. I conducted compuational analysis of the propogation of flames inside mesoscale tubes. A research paper derived from this work titled Numerical Investigations on Behaviour Bifurcation of Premixed Hydrogen-Air flames in Meso-scale Tubes was publised in Combustion Theory an Modelling in 2019.

Courses

Fundamentals of Combustion

Grade: 10/10

Mathematics for Aerospace Engineers

Grade: 9/10

Introduction to CFD

Grade: 9/10

Multiphase Problems in Aerospace Engineering

Grade: 10/10

Aerospace Propulsion

Grade: 10/10

Turbulence Modelling

Grade: 8/10

Numerical Simulation of Multiphysics Problems in Aerospace Engineering

Grade: 10/10

Compressible Fluid Flows

Grade: 9/10

Skills

Programming Languages

FORTRAN, C++

Commercial Software

Hypermesh, Ansys Fluent, MATLAB