Projects

1. Analysis of Internal waves and wake generated by a three-dimensional oceanic ridge.

(Guides : Prof. Sutanu Sarkar , Prof. Geno Pawlak, Masoud Jalali)

• Study of effect of Froude number on wake dynamics manifested by flow over a three-dimensional hill.

• Shear layer instability and vorticity generation mechanisms in topographies of different aspect ratio.

2. Internal wave generation due to tidal flow over a rough topography

(Guides : Prof. Sutanu Sarkar , Masoud Jalali)

• • Evaluation of turbulent kinetic energy and grid design for closure of TKE budget using Diablo.

  • Development of dynamic subgrid scale models for LES, designed to capture evolution of turbulence due to convective instability.

  • Study of energy distribution pathways of a convection-driven flow.

3. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Approach for Incompressible and Multiphase flows

(Guides : Prof. Prasad Patnaik , Prasanna Kumar)

• • Development of C++ code for solving Multiphase Dam-break, Bubble rise , Rayleigh Taylor Instability and Non-Boussinesq Lock Exchange problems.

  • Modelling Surface Tension using Continuum Surface Approach (CSF)

  • New algorithm for Free surface detection and Fluid Interface Normal Vector calculations

  • Parallelizing serial code using MPI and OpenMP for improving Computational efficiency.

4. Effect of Pressure Correction term on Interface sharpness

5. Turbulent flow over wavy channels

Research Internship as an SN Bose Scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

(Guides : Pratap Vanka , Leonardo Chammoro , Nicholas Tobin)

• • Study of the behaviour of turbulent flow over a double wave channel.

  • Generation of the flow domain and set up simulations in OpenFOAM using LES turbulence model.