Education

B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Goa Engineering College (University of Bombay) in 1984

M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Machine Design subjects, from VJTI (University of Bombay) in 1997 

Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2014

Professional Journey

I served as Associate Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa. Before that, I was Head of Department (Training) for 8 and ½ years and was Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering for 10 and ½ years at the Institute of Shipbuilding Technology (ISBT), Vasco. I have industry experience as Junior Engineer at Sesa Goa Ltd for about 3 years.

Research Interests

Fluid mechanics: Unsteady flows, boundary layer separation.

Conference Publications

• "Sphere rolling down an incline submerged in a liquid" - Presented at the 37th National and 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Madras (2010). Published in the conference proceedings edited by B. V. S. S. S. S. Prasad.

• Verekar, P. K., & Arakeri, J. H. (2010, December). Sphere rolling down an incline submerged in a liquid. In Proceedings of the 37th International and 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Vol. 1618, p. 19).

• "Visual study of unsteady flow past an unconstrained sphere resting on a horizontal plane" - Presented at the 37th National and 4th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, IIT Madras (2010). Published in the conference proceedings edited by B. V. S. S. S. S. Prasad.

Published Journal Paper

• "Three-dimensional flow separations on a rolling sphere" - Published in Sadhana, Volume 44, Issue 2 (2019).