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I am a Graduate Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Birla Institute of Technology — MESRA, with a strong research focus on computational combustion, high-speed reacting flows, and data-driven modeling of complex thermochemical systems. My work lies at the intersection of physics-based solvers, chemical kinetics, turbulence–chemistry interaction, and scientific machine learning, with extensive use of HPC environments and open-source combustion frameworks.
🏃 I do compound movements and shuttling 🏸 to stay in shape 💪
My long-term goal is to develop robust, scalable, and physically interpretable reduced-order and surrogate models for reacting flow simulations, enabling faster design cycles and improved predictive fidelity for aerospace and energy applications.
Projects
A collection of combustion-related simulation projects implemented across OpenFOAM, Cantera, and Python. Covers DNS/LES of turbulent reacting flows, auto-ignition analysis, and backward-facing step (BFS) flame simulations — spanning skeletal chemistry mechanisms, solver configuration, and post-processing pipelines.
Simulation of subsonic-to-supersonic flow transition through a converging-diverging (CD) nozzle using MacCormack's explicit finite-difference method. Covers quasi-1D compressible flow equations, shock capturing, and Mach number distribution analysis across the nozzle geometry.
Conferences
We performed hot-gas trials on a custom-made swirl-stabilized and axial-injection based Liquid-Rocket-Engine at our Department's Liquid-Rocket-Test Firing Facility. The campaign achieved a 7.6% increase in specific impulse (Isp) and a close to 12% increase in characteristic velocity (C*) efficiency relative to the baseline configuration.
Engine geometry was constructed using CATIA, and all parametric data — including thrust traces, chamber pressure profiles, and efficiency curves — were plotted and analysed with OriginPro. Our work will be showcased at the HIGH-ENERGY-MATERIALS-CONFERENCE'2026 at DRDL's headquarters in Hyderabad on 29th April.
Hobbies
I like to listen to western music and, being a badminton aficionado, I also like to jog every morning to keep my oxygen levels high and soot levels (SocialMedia-Obssession-Over-Thinking) low.