Manish Shridhar Nandanwar

**** ********** ***, ***. # * Morgantown, WV-26505, USA Contact: +1-720-***-**** (mobile)

Email id: acwt0s@r.postjobfree.com, acwt0s@r.postjobfree.com

Career objective

To develop a full time career as an expert in the field of reservoir engineering and flow assurance.

Education

PhD in Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University (August 2012 ? December 2016 expected) - CGPA: 3.97/4.00, Research Advisor: Dr. Brian Anderson

Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India (July 2006 ? May 2010)- CGPA: 3.70/4.00

Expertise

? Reservoir modeling and simulations, geo-mechanical modeling, wellbore modeling, code development

? Fluid dynamics, Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Thermodynamics, Mathematical modeling, Numerical methods

? Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) modeling and Simulations (Single phase/ Multiphase / Multispecies / Reactive Flow Applications)

Work Experience

Graduate Research Assistant at West Virginia University, WV, USA (August 2012 ? Present)

? Techno-economic assessment of hydrate reservoir systems in Alaska North Slope

? Developed a numerical wellbore simulator to model fluid and heat transfer in wellbore system

? Developed a combined code by coupling geothermal reservoir simulator 'TOUGH2' and numerical wellbore model with surface plant model GEOPHIRES

Project Engineer at TRIDIAGONAL SOLUTIONS Pvt. Ltd, India (July 2010 ? May 2012)

CFD modeling and simulations

? To study mixing processes, combustion, high mach number flows, cavitation phenomenon

Key Projects

? To model Methane combustion inside the chamber and analyze the velocity and temperature profiles all over chamber for Ador welding ltd.

? To study flow distribution through orifice assembly and ensure cavitation free flow for fast breeder nuclear reactor for nuclear majors in India

Presentations/Publications

? Nandanwar, M., Anderson, B. J., Collett, T., Zyrianova, M., 2015. Evaluation of gas production potential of hydrate deposits in Alaska North Slope using reservoir simulations. 2015 American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, California, 14-18 December (2015).

? Nandanwar, M. S., Anderson, B. J.: Coupled Reservoir, Wellbore and Surface Plant Simulations for Enhanced Geothermal Systems, Proceedings, Thirty-Ninth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2014).

? Gunjal, P.R., Nandanwar, M.S., Ranade, V.V., Pandey, G.K., Banerjee, I., Padmakumar, G., Rajan, K.K., Novel cone type orifices for controlling sodium flow in fuel core sub-assemblies: Conceptual design and CFD validation, CFD4NRS-4 workshop, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon (2012) (Note: Paper accepted for the presentation).

? Nandanwar, M., Anderson, B. J., Ajayi, T., Collett, T., Zyrianova, M., 2016. Evaluation of gas production potential of hydrate deposits in National Petroleum Alaska using numerical simulations. 2015 Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. (in press)

? Nandanwar, M., Anderson, B. J., 2016. A coupled wellbore-reservoir numerical simulator and its integration with techno-economic model GEOPHIRES for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. Geothermics. (Under review)

Skills

? Computer Languages: FORTRAN, Matlab

? Software: Petrasim, CMG STARS, Petrel, Fluent, Gambit, ANSYS CFD POST, OpenFOAM, Microsoft excel, Microsoft word, 4 years of experience with High Performance Computing Clusters.

Awards/Achievements

? Government of India Merit scholarship, 2006-2010

? Foundation for Excellence scholarship 2006

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