Engineer Engineering

Kumar Aanjaneya

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SUMMARY PhD student looking for entry-level, full time positions in the eld of thermo-

uid sciences. EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PhD, Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 4.00/4.00) January 2016 - January 2020 (Expected) Awards: Rackham Research Grant, Tom S. Rice Award Specialization: Combustion MSE, Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 3.95/4.00) September 2014 - December 2015 Awards: IAC Certi cate, IAC Student Research Award Concentration: Thermal & Fluid Sciences Manipal University, Manipal, India

BE, Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 9.81/10.00) July 2010 - May 2014 Awards: Honor of Merit, Department Award for Academic Excellence EXPERIENCE Simerics, Inc. May 2019 - August 2019

Project Engineer Intern Novi, MI

Performed numerical analysis on Variable-Displacement Vane Pumps, Torque Converters, Centrifugal Pumps, and other hydraulic devices

Identi ed unexpected software behavior and reported it to the development team Praxair, Inc. May 2018 - August 2018

R&D Intern Tonawanda, NY

Experimentally demonstrated the validity of numerically predicted performance for a syngas quench cooling system (multiphase

ow heat transfer)

Solved the problem of non-ignition in a nitrogen diluted environment Industrial Assessment Center (IAC)-UM November 2014 - March 2017 Energy Consultant & Student Lead Ann Arbor, MI

Consulted for manufacturing units of 21 medium-scale companies in the metal-forming, food-processing, automotive, and other sectors

Reduced energy consumption, costs, and pollutant emissions by 5% on an average

Reduced report return rates to an all-time low of 36.4% (previous best-50%) PROJECTS High Temperature Homogeneous Combustion

in Furnaces-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

January 2016 - Present

Experimentally analyzed a 91.7 kW (0.3 MMBtu/hr) furnace (temperature, gas analysis)

Designed and set-up experiments to measure soot content (via laser extinction) and its e ect on heat transfer (radiation) from the reaction zone

Employed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to study the in-furnace

ow and its impact on pollutant formation (using ANSYS FLUENT on an HPC cluster)

Explained the complex 3-d

ow within a jet driven furnace by decomposing it into well-understood canonical

ows

Gas-Fired Industrial Dryers-IAC, UM May 2015 - August 2015

Designed a gas red industrial dryer and optimized mixing to ensure a uniform temperature pro le

Mentored an undergraduate student for whom this was the Senior Design Project PAPERS \Radiation enhancement in industrial furnaces to reduce pollutants and increase e ciency" presented in the 9th US National Combustion Meeting (May 2015).

\Laser-Optical Investigation of Highly Radiative, High Temperature Homogeneous Combus- tion" presented in the 10th US National Combustion Meeting (April 2017).

\A Study to Investigate Pyrolysis of Wood Particles of Various Shapes and Sizes" presented in the 12th IAFSS Symposium and published in the proceedings (Fire Safety Journal). (June 2017).

\A numerical study of con ned turbulent jets to facilitate high-temperature Homogeneous Combustion with oxygen enrichment for industrial applications " (Under review). LEADERSHIP Tau Beta Pi: 7-term Distinguished Active

Graduate Cricket Club of UM: President

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