Mechanical Engineering Engineer

Peoria, Illinois +1-314-***-**** ******@***.***

ABHISHEK MALIK https://www.linkedin.com/pub/abhishek-malik/3b/63b/285

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a full time position to demonstrate my engineering and leadership skills in the field of Mechanical Engineering

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering (GPA: 3.83/4.00) May 2014

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Major Coursework: Compressible Flows, Fluid Mechanics(Introduction and advanced topics), Convective Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid

Dynamics, Turbulent Fluid Flow and Turbulence modeling

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (First Class) July 2012

Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, India

Major Coursework: IC Engines: Combustion and Emissions, Machine Designing, Production System and Process Planning

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

“Fundamentals of Control Systems – Gasoline” SAE Certificate of Mastery course October 2014

Received training on CAN Communications (J1939), Controls Systems and its application in Gasoline Engines

Calibrated and controlled a BOSCH throttle body and GM Ecotec 2.0L Engine based on Engine RPM as input

Developed a PID controller using MATLAB Simulink blocks employing throttle & engine plant models

Improved the performance of controller by employing techniques like anti-windup, gain scheduling & feed-forward

Validated the Control Model using HIL Simulation and controlled the Engine RPM with an accuracy of 95%

SKILLS

Technical Skills: CFD Modeling and Simulation, Turbulence Modeling, Heat Transfer Analysis, Thermodynamics

Software Skills: R, C++, FORTRAN, ABAQUS, STAR CCM+, MATLAB, ANSYS FLUENT, COMSOL, Python, GAMBIT, AutoCAD, CATIA, Fire

Simulator, Pro-E, ANSA, Simulink

WORK EXPERIENCE

Diesel Engine Performance Analyst, Large Engines Division, ATS c/o CATERPILLAR Tech Center March 2015-Present

Mosseville, Illinois

Responsible for testing of C3512 Locomotive Engine.

Worked closely with design and platform engineer to eliminate the root causes of failure

Provided a detailed, transparent test plan to be executed during the performance testing

Analyzed the effect of modifying engine parts on the performance of the engine.

Research Fellow, Building Energy Efficiency Group, Fraunhofer CSE October 2014-March 2015

Boston, Massachusetts

Compared the cooling effects of conventional and laminated solar panels by analyzing the yearly experimental data.

Developed an R code to analyze the heat flux and temperature variation data, highlighting the effects of convection.

Performed CFD simulations to model the heat transfer in an insulated attic of a hut, using COMSOL.

Validated the results with the experimental data and with the results of Building Simulation tool: AtticSim.

Modeled the heat transfer in an Attic due to leakage in HVAC Air duct using a C++ based thermal modeling code .

Intern, C.F.E.E.S. Labs at Defense Research and Development Organization December 2011-February 2012

New Delhi, India

CFD Analysis of Flow through Nozzle and Study of Fire Mist Interaction

Simulated flow through a Convergent Divergent Nozzle using FLUENT.

Used pressure based flow solver along with SST κ-ω turbulence model to capture wall turbulence due to separation

Predicted the location of shock wave and flow separation for varying mass flow rates with 92% accuracy.

Implemented flow visualization techniques to study Fire and Mist Interaction.

Simulated the convective eddies, generated due to interaction of plume with mist being s prinkled over the fire.

Validated the fire extinguishing time with the standard data set.

Peoria, Illinois +1-314-***-**** ******@***.***

ABHISHEK MALIK https://www.linkedin.com/pub/abhishek-malik/3b/63b/285

Intern, C.F.E.E.S. Labs at Defense Research and Development Organization May 2011- November 2011

New Delhi, India

CFD Analysis of Four-Stroke Diesel Engine

Simulated fluid flow in a 4 stroke Diesel Engine, under motoring conditions using dynamic meshing in FLUENT.

Investigated the mean flow behavior, turbulence intensity and frequency at varying Engine Speeds and Crank Angles.

Compared the performance of κ-ε and RNG κ-ε model, in predicting the mean flow properties.

Validated the data with hot wire anemometer technique results in literature.

Observed that intense and high frequency turbulence production occurred during the Induction stroke which started decaying during

compression and strongly grew during expansion stroke.

RESEARCH WORK EXPERIENCE

Blast wave driven mixing, Computational Multi Physics Group August 2013 – April 2014

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Studied the growth of Rayleigh Taylor Instability in transition regime, driven by a blast wave for Cylindrical Interface.

Implemented a DNS code to simulate the mixing problems, by varying the mode of perturbations.

Post processed the results in Tecplot & MATLAB to visualize the origin of turbulence to study the development of interface.

Determined the influence of amplitude of perturbation on nonlinear dynamics of instability growth and mode coupling.

CFD Solvers, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics February 2013 – November 2013

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Developed a Finite Volume CFD code in C++ and MATLAB to solve unsteady Navier Stokes Equation. Analyzed the stability and accuracy

of various spatial and time discretization schemes.

Extended the analysis to numerically solve a 2-D heat conduction equation

Modeled the physics of a lid driven cavity flow for varying Reynolds Number.

Formulated a Finite Volume CFD code in C++ and MATLAB to solve unsteady (2-D) Navier Stokes Equation for a lid driven cavity flow

using Fractional Step Method on a Staggered Grid.

Performed grid verification study to verify the order of accuracy and validated the results with reference computations.

Solved numerically, the vorticity stream function equations to simulate lid driven cavity flow.

Devised a Finite Difference CFD code in MATLAB and analyzed creeping and high speed flows.

Obtained vorticity stream function contours and theoretically examined the boundary layer structure of the flow near the wall s.

Study of Re-entry Vehicle at Mach 3 Conditions, Senior year thesis August 2011 - May 2012

Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi, India

Simulated and analyzed supersonic flow, over an inflatable space vehicle, re -entering Earth’s atmosphere using at Mach 3 Conditions

FLUENT 6.

Implemented gradient based adaptive meshing to capture shock waves and boundary layer to save computational time.

Obtained density contours at Mach 3 conditions and verified them with Schlieren photographs in literature.

Computed the ratio of downstream pressure and density to upstream value with 95% accuracy compared to theory.

External flow of Vehicle: August 2011 - May 2012

Used ANSA to do mesh of vehicle and its external flow volume,

Used Star CCM+ to add boundary condition and select physical model,

Ran simulation to get information like pressure and velocity vector about external flow of vehicle.

Created a movie of streamline.

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