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Muthukumar Narayanaswamy

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PROFILE

Strong background in fluid mechanics with advanced degrees in engineering

Expertise in computational fluid dynamics, data and image analysis, mathematical modeling

Experience working on megaprojects, with high profile clients, and in multicultural team settings

Outstanding quantitative, analytical, problem solving, and programming skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills, and multitasking ability

EDUCATION

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE, MD

PhD and M.S.E in Civil Engineering 2002 2008

Dissertation: Developed a novel CFD ocean wave model by coupling an Eulerian Boussinesq model

to a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model of the Favre Averaged Navier-Stokes equations.

UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO OURENSE, SPAIN

Grupo de F sica de la Atmosfera y del Oceano May-Sep 2005

Collaborated with research groups in Spain and UK and released open-source wave model

SPHYSICS: http://wiki.manchester.ac.uk/sphysics/index.php/Main_Page

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE NEWARK, DE

Center for Applied Coastal Research (CACR) 1999-2002

Project: Analysis of turbulence induced by breaking waves using image processing of video data

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) KHARAGPUR, INDIA

B.Tech (Hons.) in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture 1995-1999

Thesis: Evaluation of wave forces on a cylinder using non-linear wave theories

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: FORTRAN77/90/95, C, Perl, SQL

Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Linux, Unix, SunSparc, Mac OSX

Software : Matlab, Paraview, Tecplot, Maple, Mathematica, Excel, Powerpoint, Word, LaTeX

CFD/Engineering Models: SPHYSICS, RANS-VOF Models, FUNWAVE, MIKE21, MIKE3,

FLUENT, ANSYS

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE, MD

Research Assistant 2002-2008

Developed software to determine wave heights from video data of laboratory sloshing experiments

Derived new reflective boundary conditions for the fully nonlinear Boussinesq equations

Developed a new boundary condition, incorporated a Moving Least Squares approach to SPHYSICS

Validated Boussinesq model and SPHYSICS using experimentdal data of sloshing in tanks

Developed a 1D Petrov-Galerkin Finite Element Model of the fully nonlinear Boussinesq equations

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE NEWARK, DE

Research Assistant 1999-2002

Conducted laboratory experiments using video data to study instabilities on the crest of breaking waves

Analyzed correlations between the topology of crest instabilities and incident wave forcing mechanisms

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR, INDIA

Undergraduate Research 1998-1999

Developed a numerical model to compute wave forces on a cylinder using nonlinear wave theories

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HALCROW INC. NEW YORK, NY

Project Engineer Jan-Oct 2009

Haifa New Marine Container Terminal, Israel, (Client : Israel Ports Development and Assets Co.)

Implemented a no-cost Volume-of-fluid model (RANS-VOF) for design optimization

Developed post-processing, visualization software for RANS-VOF model results using Paraview

Designed a novel laboratory technique to assess port downtime due to long waves

Prepared memos and presentations for submission to client

Australia-Pacific LNG Terminal, Australia, (Client : Bechtel/ConocoPhillips)

Generated a desktop wave hindcast of operational wind waves

Analyzed waves and current data obtained from the Teledyne-RDI Workhorse Sentinel ADCP

Conducted tidal analysis and prediction using the MIKE21 Tidal Analysis Toolbox

Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone, Abu Dhabi, UAE, (Client : Abu Dhabi Ports Company)

Performed numerical hydrodyamic modeling of an intake channel to a power plant, to assess

maintenance dredging intervals

Studied internal diffuser hydraulics for outfall designs to estimate pumping power requirements

Analyzed field data on currents, salinity, turbidity, waves and storms

Shell LNG Terminal, Dubai, UAE, (Client : Royal Dutch Shell)

Investigated relevant methodologies for pipeline scour analysis

Processed extreme currents data obtained from a MIKE3 hydrodynamic model

Shenzhen LNG Terminal, Shenzhen, China, (Client : PetroChina Co.)

Independent critical review of site selection reports

Falmouth Cruise Terminal, Falmouth, Jamaica, (Client : Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines)

Performed RANS-VOF numerical modeling to assess wave overtopping over a bulkhead

Acu Port Project, Brazil, (Client : Anglo Ferrous Brazil)

Estimated wave forces on the pier decks and supporting piles of an offshore iron/ore export trestle

SURFRIDER FOUNDATION SAN CLEMENTE, CA

Consultant Jun-Sep 2006

White paper to formulate erosion policy due to artificial surfing reefs (Cited in Nature (444), 997-999)

KVAERNER PROCESS (INDIA) PVT. LTD. BANGALORE, INDIA

Intern May - Aug 1998

Performed loadout, transportation and lifting analyses of a jacket platform using ANSYS ASAS

software

SELECT GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Fluid Mechanics and Engineering

Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Oceanic Turbulence and Mixing, Turbulence, Advanced Ocean

Hydrodynamics, Ocean Vehicles, Nonlinear Waves, Offshore Structural Design, Time Series Spectra,

Image Processing,

Applied Mathematics

Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Matrix Analysis, Foundations of Optimization, Probability and

Statistics, Introduction to Algorithms

Computational Methods

Finite Elements, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods for Multiscale Phenomena

BOOK CHAPTER

Dalrymple, R.A., M. Gomez-Gesteira, B.D. Rogers, A. Panizzo, S. Zuo, A.J.C. Crespo, G. Cuomo, M.

Narayanaswamy. "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Water Waves." Advances in Numerical

Simulation of Nonlinear Water Waves. World Scientific Press, 2008.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Narayanaswamy, M., Shi, F., Misra, S., and Schulte, R. Optimization of caisson breakwaters using a

2DV RANS-VOF model . 32th Intl. Conference on Coastal Engineering. (Submitted)

Dalrymple, R.A., B.D. Rogers, M. Narayanaswamy, S. Zou, M. Gomez-Gesteira, A.J.C. Crespo, A.

Panizzo, . "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Water Waves". Proc. 25th Intl Conf on Offshore

Mechanics and Artic Engineering.ASME (2007)

Narayanaswamy, M., J. Frandsen, and R.A. Dalrymple. "SPH Modeling of Forced Waves". SPHERIC

Second Intl. Workshop, Madrid, (2007)

Narayanaswamy, M., J. Frandsen, R.A. Dalrymple. "Experimental and Numerical Studies of Forced

Free Surface Waves". 30th Intl. Conference on Coastal Engineering. World Scientific Press (2006)

Narayanaswamy, M. and R.A. Dalrymple. "A Hybrid Boussinesq and SPH Model for Forced

Oscillations". Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurements and Analysis. ASCE (2005)

Narayanaswamy, M. and R.A. Dalrymple. "Earthquake Induced Wave Motions in Closed Water

Bodies". 29th Intl. Conference on Coastal Engineering. World Scientific Press (2004)

Narayanaswamy, M. and R.A. Dalrymple. "An Experimental Study of Surface Instabilities During

Wave Breaking". 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering. World Scientific Press (2002)

JOURNAL PAPERS (Accepted)

Narayanaswamy, M., Crespo A.J.C, Gomez-Gesteira M., and Dalrymple R.A. A hybrid Boussinesq-

SPH model for coastal wave propagation . Journal of Hydraulic Research, Vol 47, 2009

JOURNAL PAPERS (Submitted)

Narayanaswamy, M., J. Frandsen, R.A. Dalrymple. Numerical and Laboratory Experiments of

Sloshing Motions in Excited Tanks . Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

LEADERSHIP ROLES AND ACTIVITIES

Organized weekly seminar series, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Initiated departmental seminar series presented by graduate students, Johns Hopkins University

Founding Member and administrator, CACRNET, CACR, University of Delaware Alumni Network

Vice President, Technology Students Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur, 1998-1999

Member - American Society of Civil Engineers, Coasts, Ocean, Ports and Rivers Institute (ASCE)

Lecturer: Junior and senior courses in fluid mechanics, statics, dynamics, 2001-2007

AWARDS AND TEST SCORES

GRE TEST SCORES: Analytical 760/800, Quantitative 790/800, Verbal 720/800

Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Delaware, and Johns Hopkins University

Lecturer: Conducted junior and senior courses in fluid mechanics, statics, dynamics, 2001-2007

Top 1% amongst 2,00,000 students in the Joint Entrance Examination for admission to IIT s

Top 1% in the Math Olympiad competition organized by Mathematics Today

INTERESTS

Soccer (GRO League, Johns Hopkins University), Basketball (Varsity Team, IIT), Travel (road trip

covering 10,000 miles across the USA)

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