SUMEET LULEKAR

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A Masters candidate with proven technical skills and expertise in Fluids and Thermal Sciences. Looking for a full-time opportunity, which will make the best use of my existing knowledge and experience as well as further my professional development in the industry EDUCATION

The State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA August,2016-August, 2018 Master of Science (M.S) Mechanical Engineering

Relevant coursework: High Performance Computing, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics I&II, Heat Transfer I&II, Turbulent Flows, Physical Fluid Dynamics, Heuristic Optimization, RAC (HVAC) Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India July,2012-May, 2016 Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Mechanical Engineering Relevant coursework: Refrigeration and air-conditioning, CAD applications, automobile engineering SKILLS

SOLIDWORKS, OpenFOAM, ANSYS- (fluent, ICEM, design modular), Star-ccm+, GD&T, Paraview, Tecplot, C, MATLAB, SHELL Scripting, MS Office suite, Cloud/Cluster Computing, Design Optimization WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, ADAMS lab at SUNY Buffalo, NY August, 2017-August, 2018

• Integrated disparate opensource libraries to automate-design & analysis cycle using parallel clusters

• Improved aerodynamic efficiency by 9% of bio-inspired shapes derived from shark-skin increasing

• Implemented automated post-processing scripts in batch mode for fast and efficient work flow Graduate Student Assistant, SUNY Buffalo, NY January, 2017-August, 2018

• Course: Introduction to MATLAB

• Counseled Professor with solution manual preparation, graded assignment and projects Intern, Experts Global Pvt Ltd, Aurangabad, India May, 2015-July, 2015

• Converted Basic Design Information and Requirements into working drawings

• Contributed to drafting standards and geometric, dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)

• Constructed and interpreted drawings; and monitor design support activity Intern, Siemens PLM, Pune, India December, 2014-February, 2015

• Calculated drag induced due to churning of the oil in a gearbox using CFD simulation in Star-ccm+

• Analyzed drag mechanism in the gearbox using post-processing scripts & prepared conclusion reports CERTIFICATION

SOLIDWORKS ASSOCIATE (CSWA) - Certificate ID: C-C6LS3AYK74 September, 2015 ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Passive Surface Flow Tailoring with Optimized Bio-Inspired Riblets on 3d-Airfoil (Thesis) May,2018

• Implemented adaptive model refinement to carefully invest computational resources for optimization

• Improved aerodynamic drag performance by 9% identifying potential design improvements Development of CFD Solver & Validation on Flow Over a Backward Facing Step May,2017

• Developed incompressible flow solver and performed benchmark validation

• Delivered better convergence by 46% implementing local time stepping and residual smoothening Parametric Modeling of Transducer Holder for Photoacoustic Imaging August,2017

• Utilized SOLIDWORKS to design transducer holders & Recommend modifications for design refinement using parameterized study

Optimization in Placement of AC unit(s) in a room for maximum cooling using CFD May,2016

• Explored effect of various diffuser geometries to obtain best thermal comfort

• Performed Design of Experiments (DOE) to generate samples for performance evaluation Experimental Study of Heat Pipes May,2016

• Demonstrated superiority of heat pipes over convectional heat transfer techniques

• Performance of heat pipes improved by 6% using different combinations of parameters PUBLICATIONS – (AS FIRST AUTHOR)

"CFD-based Analysis and Surrogate-based Optimization of Bio-inspired Surface Riblets for Aerodynamic Efficiency." In 2018 Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, p. 3107. 2018

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