Mechanical Engineering Engineer

Balaji R Phone: +1-508-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

More than 12 years of experience in using simulation tools (CFD, FEA & DEM) for R&D and product development in automotive and heavy machinery industries.

Strong background in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, multiphase flows, turbo machinery and granular flows.

Work Closely with Product development engineers in India, Denmark & USA to prepare project plans, validate the designs and find out root causes of the issues and suggest new design concepts.

Manage CFD, FEA projects in Mineral Processing and distribute the work to fellow CFD and development Specialists for timely completion of the tasks.

Manage the optimum use of CFD Licenses and HPC Clusters and Schedule the tasks according the priorities.

Plan and identify the opportunities for using simulation tools during the development of new products and reduce time to market.

Showcase FLSmidth’s CFD capabilities in conferences and road shows.

Educational Qualifications:

* Master in Mechanical Engineering with 77.3% from Anna University, From 2002 – To 2004

* Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with 71.4% from Vellore Institute of Technology, From 1997 – To 2001

Computer Skills:

Application Software

oModelling : Solidworks, Pro-E, UGNX

oMeshing : Ansys Workbench, ICEM-CFD

oSolver : FLUENT, Ansys CFX, StarCCM+

oFEA Solver : Ansys

o1 D CFD : AMESim

Languages : C, C++, MATLAB

Operating Systems : Linux, Windows

Work Experience:

CFD Specialist Oct 2010 - Sep 2016

FLSmidth Private Limited, Chennai

Project Details:

Combustion simulations on the Mineral kiln burners and suggest design improvements for better combustion efficiency. Establish methods for predicting the correct temperature profiles while burning coal, pet coke and alternative fuels.

CFD Simulation on mineral separation equipments to visualize bubble distribution using the MUSIG models and predict bubble particle interactions using CEL expressions. Validate the CFD Results using Bench tests.

Managing the CFD Modeling for the worlds largest Flotation cells (600 m3) and new designs of rotors and stators used in Mineral separation at Robinson Minerals, USA.

CFD Simulation of Rotary Separator and Cyclones for particle separation and heat transfer.

Failure analysis of Damper and Kiln casing using combined heat transfer analysis and Structural stress evaluation. New designs are implemented in Cement plants.

Managing the development of Petcoke combustion incinerator for the Saudi calcined petroleum coke company, Waste combustion chamber for Rusal plant in Russia and Coal Combustion Kiln burner for Nickel Processing Kiln for Unca Puma in Chile.

SENIOR ENGINEER Oct 2007 - Oct 2010

Robert Bosch India, Bangalore

Project Details:

Development of low cost fuel injection system and actuators for diesel engines like Gensets and agriculture equipment. Involved in prototype development of concept actuator and testing with the Inline Fuel injection systems.

Develop 1-D/3-D simulation for the inline fuel injection system.

Flow analysis for spool valves, pumps and injectors. Suggested design changes and involved in creating new products.

Conjugate heat transfer analysis on Alternators and develop new designs for better cooling.

Involved in concept development of RPI Wall Boiling Model for Flex Start Fuel injector.

Lead, train and provide technical inputs to CFD Engineers for completing the tasks in stipulated time and quality.

HYDRAULIC DESIGN ENGINEER Dec 2005 - Oct 2007

KSB Tech Pvt. Limited, Pune

Project Details:

Development of Double Suction Centrifugal Pump, CFD simulation of impeller and cavitation modeling.

CFD Analysis on Nuclear Pumps for pump characteristics curves.

CFD Analysis on GIW slurry pumps for shear concentrations and erosion predictions.

Deputed to KSB AG, Frankenthal, Germany for 6 months for knowledge transfer and interactions with TUM, Munich on new CFD code, ‘Integrated Design System (IDS)’ for pumps. Validate the IDS code Developed at TUM, Munich and involve in creating procedures and best practices for the IDS code.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Jun 2004 - Dec 2005

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Analysis of Hydrogen Distribution & Mitigation in Nuclear Reactor Containment funded by BARC

Heat Transfer to Supercritical water flowing in tubes funded by BARC & BHEL Power project

Present the yearly Research progress in the TDPM proceedings at BARC and estimate the funding requirements for the upcoming years.

Academic Projects

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

Project Details:

Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis on Electrostatic Precipitators funded by BHEL, Ranipet.

Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of Exhaust Fans funded by BHEL, Ranipet.

Present the CFD results of ESP and Fan in Symposiums and Workshops at various Universities.

Publication:

1.Optimization of the hydraulic design of Thickener feedwells applying computational Fluid dynamics and experimental techniques.

- SME Annual Meeting 2012, Seattle, February 19, 2012.

2.Designing new rotors and stators for flotation cells using CFD

- SME Annual Meeting 2013, Denver, February 27, 2013

3.Lab-to-pilot scale evaluation of new rotors and stators for forced air flotation machines

-Procemin 2013, Santiago, Chile, October 18, 2013

Personal Details:

Nationality: Indian

Holding L2 Visa with EAD applied

Date of Birth: 10 JUNE 1980

Languages Known: English, Tamil, Hindi, German (Basic)

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