I am an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Binghamton University. I received my Ph.D. degree from Lehigh University in 2018. In my Ph.D. work, I focused on the numerical simulations of a hydrokinetic turbine, translating blades, pump-turbine, and industrial-sized Francis turbine. I used Eulerian, Mixture, and Volume of Fluid (VOF) multiphase models with the RANS and LES turbulence models. The primary goal of my Ph.D. research was to investigate the dissolution of oxygen in the air to the water downstream of turbines to increase the dissolved oxygen level in the water for better aquatic quality. The effect of air injection on the power generation of the unit and pressure pulsation through the vortex suppression was investigated.

During my Postdoc at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), I mostly worked on large-eddy simulations of underwater blowouts (such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico) in different scenarios to reveal the droplet size distribution which directly affects the fate of oil droplets and becomes crucial for the countermeasures. In November 2019, I led large-scale oil jet experiments at the Ohmsett wave tank in Leonardo NJ to investigate the droplet size distribution and jet hydrodynamics. State-of-art measurement techniques including shadowgraph camera, Optical Laser diffraction instrument (LISST), ADVs, and fluorometers were used. I also worked on several experiments on a lab scale including the investigation of the flow regimes of water-air flow in a pipe and particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements in different-sized aspirator bottles to quantify the mixing in the bottles. Recently, I started to work on breaking wave simulations using the frequency sweep method.

I have published my work in high-ranking journals including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) and the International Journal of Multiphase Flow, and presented them at different national and international conferences.