Contribute to business growth of engineering industry using my excellent communication/presentation skills and strong CFD/FEA experience in developing effective thermal management solutions for complex systems Ph.D., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. (GPA 3.82/4.00, GRE: 800Q, 670V) May 2014 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Specialization: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Project Management, High-Speed Fluid Dynamics, Material Thermal Response of Space Vehicle’s TPS, Structural Analysis, B. Tech., Mechanical Engineering. (GPA 7.85/10.00) May 2006 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India Applications: LabView, FLUENT, ANSYS, COMSOL, I-DEAS (NX), UniGraphics NX, GAMBIT, Pro-Engineer, SolidWorks, Tecplot, MATLAB, CHEMKIN, CANTERA, PETSc, HYPRE, multi-threading, HPC, GPU Computing: Java, C, C++, FORTRAN (77, 90, 95), UNIX shell programming, HTML, LATEX, MPI, OpenMP O/S: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL 6), MacOS X, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8 Research Scientist, SurfPlasma, Inc., Gainesville, FL May 2014 – Present
Developed 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for space vehicles in high-speed re-entry
Streamlined 3-D CFD tool performance by 800% and enhanced multi-processor solution efficiency
Coupled high-speed flow solver to material thermal response for actual flight and arc-jet experiments
Procured AFOSR funding for FY 2015-16 through technical proposals submitted to NASA & AFOSR
Supervised MS/PhD students for application of CFD tool to analysis of plasma and MHD physics Research Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug 2007 – May 2014
Saved 3000 man-hours in meshing by introducing high-order CFD to hypersonic ablative flow analysis
Modeled thermal response, decomposition and increase of porosity of TPS material with FEA code
Modeled pyrolysis gas generation, dynamics through porous media, and thermo-chemistry in CANTERA
Demonstrated 10% reduction in surface heating of space vehicle using plasma actuated flow control devices
Accelerated CFD tool’s performance from months to days by implementing solution on multi-core machines
Innovated highly resolved r-p adaptive shock capturing at 33% cost of h-p adaptive tool Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India Dec 2006 – July 2007
Maximized power generation by CFD of water jet impact on Pelton turbine using VOF method in FLUENT Project Management, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Mumbai, India June 2006 – Nov 2006
Planned and managed construction activities for installation of new FCC, Hydrocracker and distillation units
Coordinated with officers and contractor companies for smooth execution of expansion plan of oil refinery Summer Intern, Tata Motors Ltd., Passenger Car Business Unit, Pune, India May 2005 – Aug 2005
Enhanced shop’s productivity (by 10 %) and engine performance through work and gear distortion study Undergraduate Student, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Aug 2002 – May 2006
Designed and developed automated trunk packing tool in JAVA, with car trunk modeling in UG NX
Analyzed twin-tube shock absorbers’ performance for range of valve parameters using I-DEAS and FLUENT
Developed deterministic robot path planning tool in JAVA, using JAVA applets for visualization Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug 2007 – May 2014
Planned interactive sessions for Thermo-Fluids/Heats labs with 50 students, 6 hours per week for 3+ years
Developed guidelines for analysis of new refrigeration, pipe loss and fan performance experiments
Brainstormed innovative ideas in a team for improving students’ learning and insight Research Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug 2007 – May 2014
Supervised lab mates in applying self-developed CFD tool to plasma and Magnetohydrodynamics physics
Led research group in accelerating CFD tool performance by using parallel HYPRE and PETSc platforms
Presented and participated in AIAA/ASME conferences and 4thAF/SNL/NASA Ablation Workshop Coordinator & Organizer, Bhakti Yoga Club, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug 2008 – Present
Organized weekly interactive sessions on inter-personal skills development for UF students for 6+ years
Organized, directed and participated in “Dance & Drama” events publicized through social networking
Placed top 1% in India for examination conducted by IITs, for All India Rank of 580 out of 200,000 students
Placed top 1% in Delhi, India for Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) Exams in 2002 with rank 128 Bhatia, A., Roy, S. and Gosse, R., “Effect of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators on Non-Equilibrium Hypersonic flows”, Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 164904 Bhatia, A., Roy, S., and Gosse, R., “Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Flows in Thermo-Chemical Non- Equilibrium using R-P Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin”, Journal of Computational Physics, to be submitted Bhatia, A., Roy, S. and Gosse, R., “Pyrolysis Gas Flow in Thermally Ablating Media using Time-Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin Methods”, 49th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA 2011-145 Ankush Bhatia
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